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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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UMass swimmer dies at meet

By Amy Hatch | January 11, 1996

University of Massachusetts swimmer, Greg Menton, 20, died at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center last night after suffering a heart attack at Alumni Gym. According to Dartmouth's men's swimming Coach Jim Wilson, Menton had just finished third in the 100 yard freestyle event in the Dartmouth-UMass swim meet, when he sat next to his coach and said he felt tired. Wilson said one more race was held before UMass Coach Russ Yarworth shouted across the pool to call 911. "I looked over to the bench and Greg was falling," Wilson said.

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College will seek new Latino Studies professor

By Cindy H. Jwo | January 11, 1996

In response to the efforts of students and faculty to make Latino Studies a permanent part of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program, the College will be offering a tenure track Latino Studies position. "We're going for a national search.

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Assault panel calls for understanding

By Elizabeth Tedesco | January 11, 1996

If everyone were to make a commitment to better understand sexual assault, "we can clean up the environment for assault survivors", Kerry Rochford, a counselor and training advocate for the Women's Support Services of Claremont, told the audience at a panel discussion last night. The panel discussion, "How to Support Survivors of Sexual Assault; Emotionally and Medically," was held at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Rochford-Hague addressed the "myths" concerning commonly accepted views of the circumstances surrounding sexual assault, while encouraging a more realistic understanding of a victim's reaction. "Myths are what determine attitudes and attitudes effect what kind of treatment a person gets," she said. The myths include the notion that rape is motivated by sex alone, that it is usually committed by strangers in dark alleys, and that a woman who "follows all the rules" cannot be raped, Rochford-Hague said. Rochford-Hague said, "You're far more likely to be assaulted by some one you know: by somebody you live with, your friend, your boyfriend, someone you dated." The key to such situations is respect, according to Rochford-Hague. "If you're in a relationship and you're getting mixed messages, it means 'stop and talk about it' not 'let me manipulate you until I get what I want,'" she said. The panelists said people also assume women often lie about being raped. Jennifer Trembley, an emergency room nurse and organizer of the Sexual Assault Response Team Seminars at Valley Regional Hospital, described sexual assault as it relates to health professionals. According to Trembley's statistics, women who report being sexually assaulted are lying less than two percent of the time. Many of these myths encourage "self-blame," she said. "I always tell the women that there is nothing you may have done to deserve being raped," said Trembley.

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SA sets down it's agenda for the winter

By James M> Hunnicutt | January 10, 1996

Student Assembly President Jim Rich '96 said Winter term will be "a continuation" of what was started in the fall, as the Assembly yesterday released its agenda for the term. The scheduled unveiling of the on-line course guide on Jan.

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Pipes plans to leave after winter term

By Jeffrey Beyer | January 10, 1996

Deputy Provost Bruce Pipes will leave the College at the end of Winter term to accept the position of vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. Provost Lee Bollinger said he has not yet formed a search committee. "I'm going to send around a memo asking for nominees [for the search committee]," Bollinger said.

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SA holds first meeting of the winter

By James M> Hunnicutt | January 10, 1996

At its first meeting of the term last night, the Student Assembly unanimously passed a resolution that would continue the Assembly's funding of undergraduate publications. The resolution continued the existence of the $2,500 Undergraduate Publications Fund, which helps finance several College-recognized publications. This fund supports publications like the Sports Weekly and the Stonefence Review. Brian Neff '99 said the goal of the fund is to help fledgling publications succeed because, "We really feel that enhances the Dartmouth community." Neff co-sponsored the measure with Brandi Kenner '98 and Vice President of Student Life Della Bennett '96. This year will be the last time the Assembly sponsors the publication fund, said Assembly President Jim Rich '96, because it lies beyond the scope of the Assembly. Rich said the Assembly will divert the $2,500 fund back to the Committee on Student Organizations, which will fund undergraduate publications in the future. COSO finances all student organizations, including the Assembly.

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Arctic conference held at the College

By Arvidas Remeza | January 10, 1996

Just as Dartmouth students were taking their final exams and preparing to return home for winter break, the world's leading experts on arctic exploration gathered at Dartmouth for a conference. The purpose of the conference was "scientific planning," said Government Professor Oran Young, who attended it. The participants "first set priorities for arctic research and then discussed the scientific and implementation methods," he said. Countries represented at the conference included Canada, China, Finland, Japan, the United States, Norway, Russia and Sweden, said Julia Wright, the director of arctic conferences for the Dickey Foundation. With such a broad representation of countries, the College recruited Russian and Chinese-speaking Dartmouth students to help organize and translate at the conference Young described the symposium as an "opportunity to advance [his] interest in the study of the interaction between the biological and human systems." The keynote speakers were Canada's ambassador to the Circumpolar North, Dr. Dimitri Zotov of the Russian delegation to the conference and representatives of Vice President Al Gore's National Science Foundation. The conference consisted of "general meetings, working group meetings and keynote addresses," Wright said. "There were 10 working groups which focused on a broad range of issues including the effects of ultraviolet light in the arctic, mass balance of ice sheets, and sustainable development of indigenous people and natural resources" Wright said. The reports from the working groups are scheduled to be printed in March. The College has designed special displays to commemorate the conference. "A sled used by [Commodore] Peary, which was used to reach the North Pole, a Kayak from the Dartmouth Special Collections and clothing" are displayed in the rotunda of the Hopkins Center, Wright said. A second exhibit commemorating the conference is in the hallway of Special Collections in Baker library, which "displays the achievements of Lincoln Ellsworth, a turn-of-the-century explorer of the Arctic." The conference was co-hosted by Dartmouth and the U.S.

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Women's studies FSP may be in Africa

By Erin Loback | January 10, 1996

The steering committee of the Women's Studies Program is researching the possibility of adding a Foreign Study Program in Africa to the department, English professor Priscilla Sears said. She said it was too early to tell whether an FSP will be created, but that the steering committee is "committed to exploring the possibility" of establishing an FSP in the next few years. Sears said she would like to see the FSP offered this fall, but a start in fall of 1997 is more likely. Should it be established, the program will focus on the concepts of gender and "how they are manifested in institutions of other cultures," Sears said. Sears said the committee is looking for a city in an English-speaking country to hold the Women's Studies FSP, "most likely in a place where there is not already a Dartmouth program." Melissa McCollum '96, who is working with Sears to establish a Women's Studies FSP, said the committee would prefer to offer the FSP somewhere in Africa. Sears said the FSP will have a mutual aid provision so that students who participate will be expected to tell local women about women's advancements in the United States. While no one has committed to help fund the FSP, Sears said the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, the Dickey Center and Hewlett Grants have all expressed interest in it. McCollum said the students she talked to are especially interested in a program in Africa. Sears said she sent an inquiry to all students enrolled in Women's Studies courses to gauge the interest for such an FSP.

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New England's big chill here to stay

By Charles Davant | January 10, 1996

Last week's abnormally heavy snowfall and cold temperatures are likely to persist for the next few weeks, meteorologists say. This year's unusually severe winter weather has put economic strains on the College. Paul Clark, a meteorologist for Weather Services Corp.

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Baxter alleges Tuck asked her to falsify data

By Jacqueline Rose | January 10, 1996

The former assistant director of Career Services at the Amos Tuck School of business has filed a lawsuit against the College, claiming she was fired for refusing to falsify the job placement data used in national rankings, such as the survey published by U.S.

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Thayer will hold lecture series on the environment

By Jeffrey Giuffrida | January 10, 1996

Starting today, experts from companies like 3M Corporation and Bavarian Motor Works will visit the Thayer School of Engineering as part of Thayer's environmental engineering lecture series. While open to the public, the lecture series is part of the Engineering 179: Topics in Environmental Science and Engineering, a graduate level seminar taught by Professor Benoit Cushman-Roisin and Robert Collier, a visiting lecturer in the Engineering department. Blade's lecture is the first of five lectures which will take place on Wednesday afternoons this term. Cushman-Roisin said the aim of the lecture series is not to focus on developing safeguards like smokestack filters to remedy existing technology, but to bring about changes in the way new technologies are designed. Karen Blade, an AT&T representative, will kick off the series with a discussion of recent developments in the field of industrial ecology. After Blade's lecture today, Peter Jack of Spruce Falls, Inc., a Canadian pulp and paper company, will speak on Jan.

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Man charged with Hop attacks

By Charles Davant | January 9, 1996

Hanover Police have charged Sea'mus Morrissey, 18, from White River Junction, Vt. with allegedly attacking and beating two Dartmouth students near the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts in November. Morrissey, who was charged with simple assault on Dec.

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Students take out aggressions on desks

By Karen Rose | January 9, 1996

The Reserve Corridor in Baker Library, home of Jose Clemente Orozco's famous mural, is also home to some less-renowned works of art. The 13 tables in the Reserve Corridor are covered with myriad colorful and expressive graffiti including song lyrics, notes, caricatures and intricate sketches. Over the years, students have used the table tops to express nearly everything and the desks are covered with countless doodles and messages. A large portion of the graffiti refers to Greek life at the College, and every house ranging from Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity to Zeta Psi fraternity is represented on the tables. David Ford '97 said he really does not mind the graffiti.

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Course focuses on modern gay life

By James M> Hunnicutt | January 9, 1996

The beginning of the new year has brought many new changes to the College including the introduction of a new College course, Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Studies. Religion Professor Susan Ackerman and History Professor Annelise Orleck team teach the interdisciplinary course, which Ackerman said covers a wide range of material related to homosexuals throughout history. Ackerman said the course combines history and literature to present a picture of "not just what's happening historically, but also what they were creating." The course will move along a historical trajectory, and students have already studied topics relating to ancient Greece and the Bible, Ackerman said.

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References to go on-line: ORC, Assembly course guide to be available

By David Kung | January 9, 1996

Taking advantage of the College's computer resources, the Student Assembly and the Golden Key Honor Society have put together an on-line version of the Assembly's Course Guide. Meanwhile, in the bowels of the Kiewit Computation Center, the College is working to translate the Organization, Regulations, and Courses book into a computer medium. The Assembly's guide is an evaluation of 56 classes at the College that discusses specific courses and features approval ratings of different aspects of the courses based on student surveys. Costing the Assembly 17 percent of the price of its printed counterpart, the guide is scheduled to appear on the College's World Wide Web page on Jan.

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Assembly ends 'meticulous' term

January 8, 1996

After a slow start, the Student Assembly managed to end Fall term free of the infighting customary to past Assemblies and also accomplished several of its goals -- the most significant being a request of the administration to revamp advising policies. "The [Assembly's] leadership has made a decision to work together," said Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia.

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