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Lightfoot '92 commits suicide

By James M> Hunnicutt | January 17, 1996

Anthony Lightfoot '92 was found dead the morning of Jan. 12 in a skyscraper in Seattle, Wash. Bill McClury of the Seattle Medical Examiner's Office said Lightfoot, 25, shot himself in the head with a rifle. Lightfoot was not enrolled at the College at the time. McClury said a security guard found Lightfoot's body in Seattle's tallest edifice, the Columbia Tower Building, at 12:45 the morning of Jan.

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Racial slurs scrawled on door in Choates

By Jeffrey Beyer | January 17, 1996

Safety and Security and the Hanover Police Department are combining their efforts in their search for the person who wrote a series of racial slurs on the door of a room occupied by two Asian students on the first floor of Little Hall. College Proctor Bob McEwen, who said he is heavily involved in the investigation, said the racial slurs were written "sometime either late Sunday night or early Monday morning," and that the two victims, Jon Jun '98 and Michael Yoo '98, reported the incident to Safety and Security early Monday afternoon. Jun said the racial slurs included a variety of derogatory phrases, including "chink" and "bastard." The racial slurs were written on the door itself and on the victims' name tags which were taped to the door, McEwen said. Pat Murray '98, the Undergraduate Advisor on the first floor of Little, said he hung the name tags on all the doors on the floor at the beginning of the year to identify the inhabitants of each room on the floor.

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Assembly establishes office hours

By David Kung | January 17, 1996

The Student Assembly passed three resolutions, including the one that established its office hours and a bill which would open dialogue with the Hinman Post Office regarding its recent decision to stop delivery of Federal Express packages, at its meeting last night. The Assembly announced the opening of daily office hours in the Student Assembly's Office in 211G Collis.

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Armstrong '97 elected IFC president

By Michael A> Posey | January 17, 1996

Michael Armstrong '97, a brother of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, was recently elected president of the Interfraternity Council. Five new officers were elected late last week to fill spots on the 1996-1997 IFC directorate. The new officers include Vice President Steven Sugarman '97, Secretary and Treasurer Arvidas Remeza '98, Rush Chair Peter Hasenkamp '98, Social and Programming Chair Mark Zanatta '97.

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Tuck School offers mentor experience to undergraduates

By David Kung | January 17, 1996

For Dartmouth undergraduate students seeking career advice, summer employment or internships the Tuck-Dartmouth Career Mentor Program may be an new avenue to explore. The newly revamped program, also known as the Tuck-Dartmouth Liaison Program, provides programming and information for students interested in business-related fields. Several programs have evolved out of the desire of students at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration to aid the undergraduates of Dartmouth, Interim Director of Career Services Kathryn Hutchinson said. "The first are career panels at the beginning of freshman year," she said.

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Poll shows Forbes' support rising in NH

By Jacqueline Rose | January 16, 1996

While Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kansas, continues his lead in the race for the GOP nomination, Steve Forbes is gaining rapidly, according to the latest WMUR-Dartmouth College poll of people likely to vote in the New Hampshire primary. If the primary were held today, 37 percent of the 512 likely republicans polled said they would vote for Dole.

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College events commemorate King

By Erik Tanouye | January 16, 1996

In his keynote address for the College's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day yesterday, Stanford University History Professor Clayborne Carson said King should be honored as a leader whose message still has relevance today-- not as an outdated historical figure. Later in the evening, several faculty members and students gave a performance which enacted many writings by and about King. In his speech titled "Martin Luther King Jr.

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Proposal's Solutions Promising

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | January 16, 1996

The housing proposals released Thursday by the Office of Residential Life could go far in solving the College's recent housing problems. For the past few years, the College has experienced a housing crunch, which for the last two years could more aptly be described as a housing crisis.

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Mrs. Ou to retire from serving at DMS

By David Kung | January 16, 1996

Cynthia Ou will be stepping down as the sole food provider at the Dartmouth Medical School in June amidst her claims that she is being forced to involuntarily retire. But Medical School officials say they did not know Ou was upset about having to leave. Ou has been serving her Chinese food in the Kellogg cafeteria of the medical school since June 4, 1973. Since 1973, she has served more than a million meals to students, staff and faculty of the Dartmouth Medical School and College, according to a medical school memo. On the 23rd anniversary of her opening in the Medical School, Ou will serve her last meal there. Ou's imminent departure has precipitated opposition from various faculty in the Medical School and at the College. Inge Brown, assistant director of the Humanities Resources/Language Resource Center, has started a petition to keep Ou at the Medical School for two more years. Brown said she started the petition because she "sensed anger and resentment when Mrs. Ou explained that she was leaving." "She has many loyal patrons," Math Professor Robert Norman said.

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High-tech interviewing available

By Jessica Jacob | January 15, 1996

Soon it will be possible for Dartmouth students to be interviewed by potential employers around the world -- without ever leaving Hanover. A video conferencing system donated by Proctor and Gamble Corporation, known as Viewnet, will allow employers and candidates to converse face to face from thousands of miles away. Prospective employees from the College, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and the Thayer School of Engineering will all have access to the system. The system, which was installed at the Tuck School in December, "looks like a computer with a camera and speakers," said Kathryn Hutchinson, the interim director of Career Services.

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Gramm confirms his Friday visit to College

By Karen Rose | January 15, 1996

Manchester--On a bus ride to the Hopkinton Town Hall, Republican presidential candidate Senator Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said the issues of the 1996 campaign have a direct impact on the lives of college students. "The issues we [the candidates] are debating will impact on the quality of your life [as college students] and you need to be involved in that debate," Gramm said. Gramm will be coming to Dartmouth this Friday where he will deliver a speech in Collis Common Ground. Members of the Conservative Union at Dartmouth traveled to Manchester yesterday to attend a speech Gramm gave to the New Hampshire Gun Owners and the Presidential Forum and sponsored by the National Rifle Association. "We wanted to see Gramm and the other candidates," said Mark Cicirelli '96, CUAD vice president. Most of the 20 students who participated in the trip were not Gramm supporters. "CUAD does not endorse any one candidate," Cicirelli said.

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Dole may visit the College Saturday

By Jeffrey Beyer | January 15, 1996

Senator Bob Dole, R-Kansas, the current front-runner for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1996, will visit Alpha Delta fraternity this Saturday to kick off Music Television's "Choose or Lose" effort, according to an electronic-mail message widely circulated last week by the Conservative Union at Dartmouth. But representatives in the Dole for President New Hampshire office declined to confirm the report. According to the e-mail message, Dole will attend a private reception hosted by AD at approximately 9:45 a.m., and will then give a "speech to the public on AD's front lawn" at approximately 10:30 or 11:00 a.m. Following the speech, Dole will kick off a "Neighbor to Neighbor" statewide campaign in Hanover, according to the e-mail message. The "Choose or Lose" campaign is an effort by MTV to mobilize young citizens to register and vote in the 1996 presidential primaries and general election. But AD President Andrew Bernasconi '97 said, "As far as I know, [Dole's visit] is scheduled, but it's subject to change at any time." Reports that Dole will visit the College on Saturday have been circulating across campus since early last week, and the visit has been advertised by organizations such as CUAD and the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Rockefeller Center Director Linda Fowler said Senator Dole was invited to the College mostly through the efforts of Students for Dole, an organization formed and led by Porter Montgomery '96. Montgomery is also a brother in AD. Fowler said the Rockefeller Center has offered to publicize the event and to help plan something more structured, should members of AD or Students for Dole ask for help. Tina Exarhos, the vice president of communications for MTV, would not confirm the report, but said, "We are definitely in discussions with Senator Dole" regarding MTV's "Choose or Lose" campaign.

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Russo '97 elected Panhell president

By Erik Tanouye | January 15, 1996

Jess Russo '97 was elected the new president of the Panhellenic Council Thursday night and Marcie Handler '97 was elected vice president. Russo previously served as the Panhell president during the summer.

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Jelin speaks on gender equality in Latin America

By Neeta Raghavan | January 15, 1996

Elizabeth Jelin, a professor of sociology at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, said women in Central and South America need to work to gain true equality with men in a speech on Friday. Jelin gave her speech, titled "Democracy and Citizenship in Latin America: A Gender Perspective," to about 20 people in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Jelin first examined the history of citizenship in Latin America, particularly noting how the definition of "citizenship" has changed over time with respect to human rights and changing forms of government. Jelin said the break-up of totalitarian governments in South and Central America has meant that citizenship in these countries has evolved to include human rights. Jelin said "democratic practices had to be learned after authoritarianism" and there is a distinct difference between "a legal definition of human rights and practices." In particular, Jelin stressed that citizenship is "always in construction and transformation" and "to have full citizenship implies a process of empowerment in the political and social scenario of society." She noted the difference in the meaning of "citizenship" for men and women in Latin America. In order to achieve this "empowerment," Jelin said women in Latin America have had to battle against "domestic and sexual violence, [for] reproductive rights, and [against] the reluctance of society to allow women to enter the public domain." Jelin said often in Central and South American countries women do not receive the same treatment as men.

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Winter fraternity rush numbers much lower

By Jeffrey Giuffrida | January 15, 1996

Reversing a two-year trend, the number of men choosing to rush fraternities this winter noticeably decreased from last year. While the majority of eligible men choose to rush fraternities in the fall, some choose to wait until winter before rushing or sinking their bids. "It [winter rush] wasn't too big," Sigma Nu fraternity President Brian Hickey '97 said.

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Martin Luther King Jr. events begin

By Michael A> Posey | January 12, 1996

The College will commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday this with a series of activities and speakers, from today through Monday, in honor of the late civil rights leader. The festivities will culminate Monday night with the East Coast premiere of "Passages of Martin Luther King", a dramatic presentation written by Clayborne Carson, a Stanford University historian, and directed and produced by Victor Walker, a drama professor at the College. The cast is comprised of many Dartmouth notables. Director of Alumni Relations Nelson Armstrong will play Martin Luther King Jr.

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Freeman '97 is new CFSC president

By Erin Loback | January 12, 1996

Newly elected Coed Fraternity Sorority Council President Jim Freeman '97 pledged to continue strengthening the Greek system while working to eliminate its shortcomings.

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Publisher speaks of operating small press

By Erica Thrall | January 12, 1996

Publisher Donald Kornblum, who started the Toothpaste Press in 1970 while he was a student at the University of Iowa, spoke about his experiences operating a small publishing company last night. A small audience of local publishers and other interested people gathered in the Special Collections room of Baker Library to listen to Kornblum's speech "Wake Up and Print the Coffee, 25 Years in Small Press Publishing," which he gave as part of the College's Book Arts Program. The Toothpaste Press was just the beginning for this award-winning publisher. Kornblum outlined his journey from aspiring poet to award-winning publisher and illustrated his experiences with amusing anecdotes from his experiences throughout years of publishing. Kornblum said he decided to enter the publishing field when he wanted to print his own poems. He showed his poems to the publisher of a poetry magazine who said, "You know I always thought poetry should be as difficult to break into as the Longshoreman's Union." With a $35 press he found in an auction house, Kornblum was able to start the Toothpaste Press.

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