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Students' court arraignments held

By Jodi Priselac | March 1, 1996

James Gerhart '98 and Jeff Link '98 had arraignments scheduled for Feb. 27. Gerhart went to his arraignment and his charges which included stealing and fleeing custody were dropped, but Link did not attend his arraignment to address charges of vandalism. Link, who was charged with vandalism for writing racist slurs on the door of two Asian men in the Choates residence cluster earlier this term, did not go to his arraignment Wednesday at the Hanover Town Court. "I misunderstood my time," Link said.

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Sororities discuss role in Greek system

By Jeffrey Beyer | February 29, 1996

Approximately 150 members of the College's six sororities met at Sigma Delta sorority last night to address concerns they have about the Greek system as it currently exists and to come up with a plan of action on how to "redefine" it. The meeting was called by the presidents of the six sororities -- Cai Boldt '97 of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, Anne Jones '97 of Delta Delta Delta sorority, Emily Orzel '97 of Delta Gamma sorority, Kathryn Scharbach '97 of Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority, Emily Smith '97 of Sigma Delt and Joanna Whitley '97 of Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority. In an interview with The Dartmouth following the meeting last night, the six presidents, speaking as a unified group, said almost all the women who attended the meeting voiced a "strong demand for change" in the Greek system. The six presidents said there is a demand among the members of the sororities for change to happen "immediately." "It's not just people are talking.

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ORL unsure about housing waitlist

By Jacob Molland | February 29, 1996

The Office of Residential Life mailed out housing priority numbers to students at the beginning of this week, but Assistant Dean of Residential Life Bud Beatty said he is unsure whether the College will experience a housing crisis similar to last year's. Beatty said 3,776 students are enrolled for Fall term.

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College still debating library specifics

By David Kung | February 29, 1996

There are currently two construction projects being planned for the College's library system. The first is the construction of Berry Library and the second is the renovation of Webster Hall to hold Special Collections. The College still is deliberating the exact specifications and elements that will be included in the Berry Library addition to Baker Library. "We're not that far along in the process yet," College Librarian Margaret Otto said. John Crane, director of Library Administrative Services and the chair of the Library Building Committee, described the process as "currently in stage one." The first stage, Crane said, involves identifying and defining all elements that should be included in Berry Library. "A number of task forces and groups are looking at construction of Berry," Otto said.

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Students hold candlelight vigil

By Jacqueline Rose | February 29, 1996

Despite the frigid weather, about 150 students, mostly members of the College's Greek organizations, gathered on the Green to participate in last night's candlelight vigil for acceptance and understanding to express their concern about incidents of intolerance at Dartmouth. Sociology Professor Steven Cornish spoke first and led the candle-lighting ceremony, which was sponsored by Delta Delta Delta Sorority.

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College forms new classes for spring, fall

By Erin Loback | February 28, 1996

The College will offer its first courses examining the Asian-American experience, as well as a new course that looks at women's political activism. Assistant Dean of the Faculty Shiela Culbert said Dean of the Faculty Jim Wright authorized the creation of two Asian-American Studies courses for next fall. Culbert said the courses' contents will depend on which professors are chosen to teach them.

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New College conservative group formed

By Jean Blackerby | February 28, 1996

The College's Committee on Student Organizations has officially recognized Ivy Leaguers for Freedom, a newly formed conservative student organization. The organization already has chapters at Cornell University, Princeton University and Wellesley College. The group has two main goals, Chairman Michael New '97 said.

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Assembly passes two resolutions

By James M> Hunnicutt | February 28, 1996

The Student Assembly passed two resolutions last night, asking for extended dining hours at Home Plate, and the other allocating funds to subsidize bus tickets for students traveling to Boston and New York City. The Assembly also shot down four proposed amendments to its constitution.

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Parker talks on multiculturalism

By Erin Loback | February 28, 1996

Star Parker, an African-American writer, speaker and radio host, told about 30 students she does not think students should be forced to take multicultural classes, in a speech in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. She said she sees "no common merit in forcing multicultural studies." The speech was the first event sponsored by the new campus group Ivy Leaguers for Freedom, a conservative organization seeking to increase intellectualism on campus. Parker, who once received welfare from Aid for Families with Dependent Children and who has appeared on the television shows 20/20 and Larry King Live, is the founder of the Coalition on Urban Affairs, formed in response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Parker said multicultural studies should not be pushed on all students, "especially when they are taken to one-sided extremes." "We have stolen freedom from others in the name of freedom" in requiring students to take multicultural classes, she said.

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College may approve new minor

By Erica Thrall | February 28, 1996

The Committee on Instruction will review a proposal to create a new minor in public policy today, said Director of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences Linda Fowler.

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Favor discusses black culture and definition

By Sara Burch | February 28, 1996

English Professor Martin Favor told 13 students it is difficult to define "black culture," in a discussion last night in Casque and Gauntlet senior society's library. Favor spoke for a large portion of the discussion, which was sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Alpha Phi Alpha is a historically black fraternity. Favor, who also teaches African-American studies courses, said "I'm increasingly dubious about there being such a thing" as black culture. "It's nice to pin down 'What is black culture,'" Favor said.

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Students unsure about Dartmouth Experience plan's potential

By Jonathan A. Lee | February 27, 1996

Although several students support the goals Dean of the College Lee Pelton's Dartmouth Experience plan proposed, others expressed doubts about the plan's methods and its potential to meet its goals. The College will implement Pelton's supercluster proposal in the East Wheelock cluster this fall and will require $600,000 in renovations and improvements.

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Alpha Chi discusses pledge skit

By Charles Davant | February 27, 1996

About 250 students crammed into Brace Commons last night to hear officers of Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity read from what members of the audience called a racist and sexist script, which new members of the house wrote and acted out in November. Members of the house decided to release the document to the public on the recommendation of Dean of the College Lee Pelton, according to Matt Richardson '97, Alpha Chi's president. Richardson said he did not know a copy of the script existed until two weeks ago, when he heard Pelton had received a copy anonymously.

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Bright seeks to advance discourse on Latino culture: In June, Bright will end her two-year term as a Mellon professor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

By Michelle Gregg | February 27, 1996

Posted on the door of Mellon Professor Brenda Bright's office, along with her office hours, is a sign patterned after a graffiti-style mural in Los Angeles which espouses her own personal philosophy: "Study your CULTURE and learn to be proud of it." For Bright, who said she takes pride in "understanding how culture works and in working to make it better," the sign affirms her belief that people should study their own cultures. Bright, who will leave the College in June when her Mellon professorship expires, said she has been especially delighted to be teaching at the College because she has been able to teach Latin American and Caribbean Studies, her area of expertise. "It's not always the case that anthropologists get to teach their specialty.

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Professors encourage action against racism

By Erin Loback | February 27, 1996

Several College professors encouraged students to take organized political action against racism at a panel discussion sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity last night in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. The professors said Dartmouth students should follow the example of students at the University of Michigan, who responded to racial incidents in the spring of 1987 through "effective political organization," according to Sociology Professor Steven Cornish. Approximately 60 students attended the panel discussion, which featured Cornish, Sociology Professor Misagh Parsa and Drama Professor Victor Walker. As background for the discussion, representatives from Alpha Phi Alpha showed a movie titled "Racism 101," which chronicled incidents of racism at Michigan in 1987 and Dartmouth in 1982 and 1983. The movie showed the University of Michigan "torn by racial strife" in the spring of 1987 when a student called the campus radio station and told racist jokes about African-Americans. Two weeks earlier, a student had slipped a racist flyer under the door of a meeting of African-American women. In the film, Michigan students said people were labeling these occurrences as "isolated incidents," but such events were taking place on campuses across the country. As a response to these incidents, African-American students at Michigan formed the Black Action Movement to unite and protest for change. BAM gave the administration five days to consider its demands, which called for an immediate granting of tenure for African-American professors, money for a black student union and more black enrollment. BAM flew the Rev.

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Freedman discusses race issues

By Jaime M. Bedrin | February 27, 1996

About 25 people gathered at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity last night for a fireside chat, where College President James Freedman discussed race relations, both through his personal experiences throughout his life and during his time at the College. Freedman began the discussion by examining his own experiences with race relations since his childhood in New Hampshire. "Very few of us talk about our own lives when discussing life," Freedman said. Growing up in Manchester, Freedman recalled that despite a large number of diverse ethnic groups in his town, there were no African-American families or any Asian-American families. The first time Freedman ever met an African-American was when his parents took him on a trip to Boston, he said. Without a television, Freedman lacked almost all exposure to African-Americans while growing up in New Hampshire, something that left his generation very ignorant of race relations in the country, he said. Things did not change that much for Freedman when he attended Harvard University, as in his class of 1,157 there were no women, and just one African-American and one Asian-American student. A few years later, at Yale Law School, Freedman's class of 170 had just seven women and two African-American students. It was not until he clerked for Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American justice to sit on the United States Supreme Court, that Freedman said he finally learned about African-American life. Freedman also discussed his career as a professor and as dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where he worked for 18 years. Even at Penn, one of the renowned law schools in the country, there were still no black faculty members in 1964, Freedman said. When the discussion was opened up for questions, many asked Freedman about the recent decision by the California Board of Regents to discontinue affirmative action.

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Students distribute flyer

By Charles Davant | February 27, 1996

A group of about 35 unidentified students delivered a flyer to residence halls Sunday night, which made allegations against fraternities and individual students for allegedly racist, sexist and violent behavior. The double-sided one-page flyer, titled "The Shit You Don't Hear About," included the text of an allegedly racist and sexist poem read at Beta Theta Pi fraternity during Summer term. One of the group's members, a female '97 who asked to remain anonymous, said the group is composed of the same students who dumped manure on the lawns of Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity and Beta last week.

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Students receive oratory awards

By Cindy H. Jwo | February 27, 1996

Monica Oberkofler '96 took first place yesterday afternoon in the annual Barge Oratorical Contest for seniors for her account of how ordinary German men became perpetrators of Nazi war crimes, and Eric Paley '98 won the Class of 1866 Oratorical Contest for sophomores and juniors with his speech encouraging citizens to challenge the injustices arising in America. Both contests, which have been annual events at Dartmouth since the turn of the century, were held in Dartmouth Hall. More than 40 students listened to the orations of seven finalists, who addressed issues ranging from the recent racial incidents that have occurred on campus to how American foreign policy should be developed. The Benjamin F.

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SASH strengthens relations with students

By Sara Burch | February 27, 1996

The College's Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment committee, created in 1987, is working to strengthen its relationship with students and to address a more varied list of concerns. "The College had very few policies and very little coordination" in 1987, Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Director Mary Childers said.

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