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Rich '96: tennis player, fraternity member, Assembly president

By James M> Hunnicutt | November 7, 1995

In between two-hour practices and weekly intercollegiate competitions, most varsity athletes at the College barely find the time to attend classes, study, eat meals and sleep. Now try to imagine being a varsity athlete and the Student Assembly President, a job which many students say is a large enough time commitment in itself. But somehow Assembly President Jim Rich '96 is able to juggle his classwork and his presidency and still keep his spot as the number one seed on Dartmouth's tennis team. It is not unreasonable to think that all this power and prestige might go to Rich's head.

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Zinn talks about the impact of class politics

By Elysa Jacobs | November 7, 1995

Former Boston University History Professor Howard Zinn said yesterday that Americans continue to deny they live in a class-based society despite the fact that class issues have a major impact on the functions of government. "We have had mostly class legislation in the history of the United States," Zinn said.

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50 gather on Green to talk about suicides

By Michael Ross | November 7, 1995

About 50 students and administrators gathered beside the Senior Fence last night to participate in a candlelight vigil designed to help students cope with the three recent suicides in the Dartmouth community. College President James Freedman, Dean of the College Lee Pelton and Student Assembly President Jim Rich '96 each spoke briefly about issues raised by the recent suicides of Sarah Devens '96, Marcus Rice '94 and Phil Deloria '96. Freedman remarked that each person is somewhat of a mystery to others because of the barriers between our inner-selves and the people around us.

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Panel discusses pornography

By Robert Isaacs | November 6, 1995

Dartmouth students, College Provost Lee Bollinger, and adult film star and director Nina Hartley discussed pornography at a panel sponsored by the Dartmouth Film Society last night. The panel was part of this term's "Sex in the Cinema" series and was preceded by a showing of pornographic film and video excerpts. Defending her work, Hartley, a self-declared feminist, said she grew up in "an age when people were encouraging women to explore their sexuality." "I adhere to the credo that it's my body and I can do what I want," she said.

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Coleman '98 suffers lacerations, injuries

By Jeffrey Beyer | November 6, 1995

After being found in Russell-Sage residence hall early Saturday morning bleeding profusely, John Coleman '98 was taken to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and treated for various injuries, including a black eye and other facial lacerations. Coleman was released from the emergency room at about 4:30 a.m.

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D'Souza, Masters spar on racism: Students flock to hear conservative commentator and professor

By Neeta Raghavan | November 6, 1995

Government Professor Roger Masters and conservative scholar Dinesh D'Souza '83 squared off in a debate last night on whether or not racism was still a big problem in America. Speaking before a standing-room only crowd in 105 Dartmouth Hall, Masters argued that racism was still a big problem in this country, especially what he called "covert racism." Defining racism as "anything which will harm members of a specific out-group on the grounds of their supposed innate or natural inferiority," Masters said, "racism is a recurring problem in human affairs, it will never end." D'Souza -- a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington, D.C., and the author of the recently released book "The End of Racism" -- contended that racism, although still a problem in America, was not the main reason behind unequal achievements of black Americans. Instead, D'Souza said "black culture" was the main reason for the inequality in American society and, even if racism was ended today, this inequality would still exist. In his 20-minute opening statement, Masters said, "We have to understand the problem of racism as a potential problem as more or less ubiquitous particularly in any complex society such as our own." He outlined three types of racism that exist in American society today-- overt, covert, and intellectual racism. Masters defined overt racism as conscious, explicit and emotionally committed hostility to "them." Masters said although the problem of overt racism has evolved, it still exists and D'Souza does not understand its new dynamics. Masters gave the example of the reaction to the O.J.

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Alexander, on N. H. tour, gives Dartmouth speech

By Jacqueline Rose | November 6, 1995

Republican presidential hopeful Lamar Alexander told students on Friday that the New Hampshire primary in February is crucial because it will determine who will lead America into the next century. "The person who sits in the oval office in the entire first year of the 21st century will be nominated in New Hampshire," said Alexander, the former governor of Tennessee and the first presidential candidate to visit the College this fall. Speaking to a large crowd in Collis Common Ground, Alexander spoke about preparing America for the next century.

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Fowler speaks on public polling

By Carolyn Wachsman | November 3, 1995

Linda Fowler, the director of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, discussed concerns about election polls for the upcoming New Hampshire primary in an informal lecture at the Rockefeller Center last night. Although Fowler enthusiastically referred to herself as the official "College pollster," her lecture focused on skepticism of the usefulness of polls as an information source for the public.

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Ledyard Bridge project is overbudget

By Erica Thrall | November 3, 1995

Despite the fact that the lowest bid on construction of the new Ledyard Bridge is still $2.3 million more than an earlier New Hampshire Transportation Department estimate, construction could begin this spring. Midway Excavators submitted the lowest bid, $11.2 million, and an additional $1.1 million will be necessary to purchase land.

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Rainbow Alliance plans response to rash of 'homophobic' activity

By Jacqueline Rose | November 3, 1995

The Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance last night discussed how to address a recent rash of what they term "homophobic attacks" directed at residents of Lord residence hall, the most recent of which occurred early Wednesday morning. "At two o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, I was awakened by yelling and people throwing dirt at my first-floor window," said a woman, who did not wish to be named. The woman, who is a member of the alliance, said the dirt broke the screen of her window, where a Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance flag hangs. "I was really shaken up," she said.

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Tri-Kap defends name change

By Erin Loback | November 2, 1995

At a panel discussion last night, members and supporters of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity defended the house's recent decision to change its name, which angered some students because of the name's association with the Ku Klux Klan. The panel discussion, titled 'What's in a name?" was sponsored by Palaeopitus, a group of senior leaders who advise the College President and the Dean of the College.

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Viral meningitis afflicts two students, employee

By Jacob Molland | November 2, 1995

Just nine months after two Dartmouth students were struck with the potentially fatal spinal meningitis disease, meningitis is back at Dartmouth -- but in a much less dangerous form. The virus, now afflicting one College employee and two students, has returned in a viral form not nearly as threatening as the bacterial strain seen last winter, according to Assistant Director of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Dr. Nield Mercer. Viral meningitis is "not much harder on the body than the typical fever," Mercer said. He said viral and bacterial meningitis have no biological connection, and the presence of viral meningitis does not mean there is a threat of another bacterial outbreak. Last January, a female freshman was diagnosed with the meningococcus bacteria, which can lead to spinal meningitis.

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Minority fellows work on dissertations

By Jennifer Chon | November 2, 1995

Four minority graduate students in the last year of their research are at the College serving as fellows, receiving extensive support from the College as they work on their dissertations. Robert Clyne and Demetrius Eudell '89 are Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellows, Kevin Connelly is the Native American Dissertation Fellow and Nancy Mirabal is the Latino Dissertation Fellow. The fellowships were created to increase the number of minorities in the academic pipeline.

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Assembly shuts doors for grant discussion

By James M> Hunnicutt | November 1, 1995

In an unusual move, the Student Assembly closed its weekly meeting to the public last night to discuss whether or not to co-sponsor a professor's proposal to the Bildner Endowment. The Assembly has not closed its weekly general Assembly meeting in several years, but Assembly leaders said there was no intention to be secretive. "There are no hidden motives," Assembly spokesman Scott Rowekamp '97.

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Panels to be installed

By Neil Desai | November 1, 1995

The College began to install solar energy panels on the roof of Murdough Hall on Monday, changing its original plan to put the panels on the roof of the Kiewit Computation Center. Until early Monday morning, Dartmouth planned to place the photovoltaic panels on Kiewit's roof based on the recommendation of students who took Environmental Studies 50 last winter. But due to "access reasons," the College decided to change the location of the panels to Murdough Hall, Environmental Studies Professor Doug Bolger said.

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With Canada remaining intact, students are happy

By Karen Rose | November 1, 1995

Quebec's decision Monday not to secede from Canada is a landmark for Canadians, and Canadian students at Dartmouth said they are generally pleased with the results of the vote. "It is awesome that Quebec is not going to secede," said David Rapson '99, who comes from Nova Scotia.

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