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Pelton outlines his proposal

By Aaron Lisman | February 19, 1996

At its Winter term meeting this weekend, the College's Board of Trustees voted to implement the Dartmouth Experience proposal, set forward by Dean of the College Lee Pelton. Under the plan, the East Wheelock cluster will undergo a $600,000 renovation this summer and will be outfitted with a resident professor, a "cluster dean," a snack bar and a $25,000 programming budget by Fall term. Pelton said he hopes the plan, which is the realization of the recommendations of the Committee on the First-Year Experience that Pelton created and chaired, will result in the "marriage of intellectual and social life" at Dartmouth.Pelton said success in the East Wheelock cluster may lead to similar renovations in other Dartmouth residence hall clusters. "We intend to evaluate this initial step after a couple of years, and if it is judged a success, to replicate it in other clusters," he said. Pelton said he expects 50 percent of the cluster's 235 residents to be freshmen and that upperclassmen are an important component of the project. Pelton said students will be able to request to live in the new cluster when they apply for housing.

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Board of Trustees to meet this weekend

By Karen Rose | February 16, 1996

The College's Board of Trustees will meet with College President James Freedman, officers of the College, students and faculty at its annual Winter term meeting, which begins today. "This is the traditional meeting at which tuition rates are set," College Spokesman Roland Adams said. The Trustees will also examine the proposals from the Committee on the First-Year Experience -- the Dartmouth Experience proposal. Dean of the College Lee Pelton said, "I am asking [the Trustees] to approve the project, the funding and the funding source for the project." On May 5, the Committee on the First-Year Experience, which Pelton created and chaired to examine the first-year experience at the College, recommended the creation of a mixed-class residency cluster. The cluster would include a faculty associate, additional dining and social facilities and an increased programming budget, according to the report. If the Trustees approve the proposal, construction of the residence halls will begin in the fall of 1996, Pelton said. The meetings will run throughout today and conclude on Saturday with a breakfast with students.

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Pollitt denounces right-wing feminism

By Jacqueline Rose | February 16, 1996

Katha Pollitt, an associate editor of The Nation, said there is no such thing as a right-wing feminist and spoke out against the concept of right-wing feminism, in her speech last night titled, "Can You Be a 'Right Wing Feminist'?" "You can be a right-wing feminist as long as you don't give either term a lot of thought," Pollitt said. More than 100 people gathered in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences to hear the speech which was part of a series of events exploring the meaning of feminism sponsored by the Women's Resource Center. Pollitt blamed the media for the inflated popularity of right-wing feminism, which she termed "anti-feminism." She said this form of feminism manifests itself in four forms. First, these feminists claim the women's movement has already achieved success. Expounding upon this view, she said, women already have the right to vote--"what more do women want?

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Drug investigation will continue

By Erin Loback | February 16, 1996

No arrests will be made in connection with a drug investigation of members of Bones Gate fraternity until evidence confiscated by the police is sent to a forensics lab to be analyzed, Detective Sergeant Frank Moran of Hanover Police said. The forensics tests will take four to six weeks, Moran said yesterday. Hanover Police found and seized evidence of potentially illegal substances during a fire alarm inspection at the fraternity house last Thursday. Moran said he plans to send the exhibits to a forensics lab early next week for tests to determine if the substances found are controlled drugs, Moran said.

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Radio covers N.H. Primary

By Jeffrey Giuffrida | February 16, 1996

It's not everyday that a Dartmouth student witnesses a near-brawl at a rally for presidential candidate Pat Buchanan -- but a member of the Dartmouth Election Network did. The student-operated Dartmouth Election Network, which is broadcast by the College's two radio stations, transmits primary coverage to dozens of radio stations across the country. "It's an interesting way to kill a Friday afternoon," said Kate Buhrmaster '97, the Election Network reporter who covered the Buchanan rally. She said there was "nearly a brawl" between Christian activists supporting Buchanan and a Jewish man, who questioned Buchanan's support for school prayer. Buhrmaster said she also covered GOP Candidate Bob Dole's Dartmouth visit in addition to New Hampshire appearances by President Bill Clinton and Elizabeth Dole for the Election Network. Broadcast by WDCR and WFRD, the Election Network has covered campaign events across the state for months. "We're the only station, period, that has 200 people on its election night staff," said Election Network Executive Producer Sabrina Serrantino '95.

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Students talk about Greek diversity issues

By Erin Loback | February 16, 1996

Sigma Nu fraternity sponsored a community discussion last night itled "Race Issues, Diversity and the Greek system" to talk about the way the Greek system relates to minority groups on campus and to the Dartmouth community in general. About 30 students participated in the discussion moderated by College Christian Chaplain Gwendolyn King and Director of Health Resources Gabrielle Lucke. King and Lucke began the discussion by creating a list of ideas students think of when they think of the Greek system.

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Tucker starts new multicultural project

By Neil Desai | February 15, 1996

The Tucker Foundation recently unveiled a new multicultural project, the aim of which is to expose area public school children to cultural education. The whole idea is "experimental education," said Volunteer Coordinator for the Tucker Foundation Erin Murphy. Murphy said Dartmouth Community Services approached three schools during the fall and persuaded them to co-sponsor the project and its grant proposal. Students can volunteer in three local elementary schools -- Ray, Thetford and Lyme -- and suggest their own ideas about incorporating cultural education in the school curriculum, Murphy said. The schools "are so enthusiastic about it and eager to get the Dartmouth students in their schools," Murphy said. "Students can come in and bring poetry, music or just talk about their personal experiences," Unai Montes-Irueste '98 said. He said the program works by trying to negotiate a compromise with the teacher's curriculum to fit in projects of their own. "Right now we are throwing ideas around from which we will have a basis for a prototype upon which to build," he said. "Children are very curious and they want to study and examine things," he said.

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DDS initiates dialogue with students on services

By Michael A> Posey | February 15, 1996

In an effort to increase student input in programming and on-campus dining changes, Dartmouth Dining Services has begun a series of roundtable discussions designed to initiate dialogue between DDS officials and students. Held in the Tindle Lounge of Thayer Dining Hall, the discussions are catered and attended by randomly selected undergraduates and several DDS employees. "Roundtable discussions were started to get in touch with our customers," said Pete Napolitano, director of the College's Dining Services. Initiated to pool student input on projects already developed or in progress, the focus of the roundtable discussions have recently changed to concentrate on programming and on-campus dining changes which are in development. "We've used the roundtable discussions in the past for students to comment on already developed programs," Napolitano said. "We wanted to find out how we were and where our customers wanted us to precede," he said. DDS "is taking a look at what we are doing and what we have done ... in order to enhance changes to traditional meal plan," Napolitano said.

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New radio service allows clearer sound

By Christopher Chang | February 15, 1996

A new piece of equipment recently installed in the offices of the Dartmouth News Service now allows members of the College community to be interviewed on the radio from anywhere in the country with crisp, clean audio accuracy. The new technology, an Integrated Services Data Network setup, makes it sound to radio listeners as if the interviewer and source are sitting in the same room as one another -- despite the fact they could be on opposite sides of the country. Before the ISDN facility was added on Jan.

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CFS begins its effort to discuss Greek diversity

By Neil Desai | February 14, 1996

Last November, Calvin Daniels '96, intern for Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco, presented a proposal to campus leaders calling for more diverse programming within the Greek system and efforts are now underway to follow the proposal. The proposal suggested the Coed Fraternity Sorority System invite a "well-respected, and already proven effective speaker to the College to address the community and the CFS leadership in particular" and to hold a panel discussion for CFS presidents and programming chairs. Daniels said the goal of the proposal, titled "Effective Diversity Programming in the Coed Fraternity Sorority System," is to give members of the CFS a better understanding of effective diversity programming. Turco said the proposal "is an excellent one." She said it addresses the stated goals of the Bildner Endowment, which are to foster the study of human and intergroup relations and to help individuals understand the nature of bigotry, discrimination and to reduce prejudice. CFS executive officers spent a day last month in a workshop with an expert on diversity and the Coed Fraternity and Sorority Council is now planning a panel discussion for sometime this term to discuss race relations, Daniels said. Individual houses are also addressing the call for more diverse programming through a series of events. A report published by the Committee on Diversity and Community at Dartmouth in 1993 noted that CFS organizations, as well as many other student organizations, need to play a more active role in supporting diversity. The committee's report stated that CFS organizations on any campus reinforce values and affinities that, among other things, often conflict with pluralism -- not because of any conscious intent but because they reinforce the most "superficial affinities." Turco said the CFS system has programming goals each year and has increased the number of programs related to diversity over time. "There had been concerns from students that occasionally there are re programming opportunities might not have their intended impact.

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Senior charaged with criminal threatening

By Jeffrey Giuffrida | February 14, 1996

The Hanover Police Department arrested a Dartmouth senior Monday evening and charged him with four counts of criminal threatening. Sung Noh , is "currently in our custody," said the arresting officer, Hanover Police Detective Sergeant Frank Moran . According to a press release issued by Hanover Police, Noh allegedly "threatened to commit homicide against four individuals who are acquaintances of his during a social gathering" late Saturday evening at a student's off-campus apartment. Hanover Police declined to name the alleged victims. Noh was placed in the Grafton County Jail Monday evening when he was found unable to pay $10,000 bail.

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Assembly discusses diversity committee

By James M> Hunnicutt | February 14, 1996

Student Assembly President Jim Rich '96 last night discussed the status of the Assembly's proposal for the administration to support a committee addressing concerns of campus diversity. At its meeting, the Assembly also discussed the results of a student survey it took earlier in the term and passed a resolution that modified the Assembly's bylaws. Last week, the Assembly passed a resolution asking Dean of the College Lee Pelton to form a committee to address diversity, in response to recent campus incidents.

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Some students turn to matchmaking this Valentine's Day

By Robert Isaacs | February 14, 1996

Dating at the College often seems nonexistent, but April Whitescarver '96 has, for the past two years, crusaded to change students' attitudes toward the social ritual. Every Valentine's Day since 1994, Whitescarver has arranged dates between men and women at the College. This year, she said she has matched up 50 to 60 men and women as dates for Valentine's Day, Whitescarver said. Although the matchmaking is purely for fun, "there is a philosophy behind it -- combating the social scene here," Whitescarver said. "Dartmouth's social scene is less than desirable," she said.

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Beta to host Greek programming

By Jeffrey Beyer | February 14, 1996

Although officers of Beta Theta Pi fraternity have said the house is beginning to plan programming events to address racism and sexism in the Greek system, administrators said they have not been in recent contact with the fraternity and are unaware of Beta's plans. In November, officers at Beta said the house would hold a number of events during Winter term, after Dean of the College Lee Pelton sent them a public letter at the beginning of last term calling for them to "develop bona fide, authentic and ongoing events" in light of the discovery of a controversial poem in August. The poem, written and read by a Beta brother at one of the house's weekly meetings over Summer term, was allegedly racist and sexist, and triggered an angry response from a small group of women on campus who had read the poem or excerpts from it. Some of the concerned women were members of Native Americans at Dartmouth and Sigma Delta sorority and these women called a meeting in mid-August, with Beta brothers, where they asked the brothers to privately apologize for the incident. The poem has recently resurfaced in students' discussions of the recent incidences of hate speech on campus. Beta President Chris Adamson '97 said Beta plans to invite two speakers to address racial and gender issues some time later this month. The Beta house was also the site of last night's Freshmen Outreach Program, an educational program created by Sexual Awareness through Greek Education. The program, conducted by members of SAGE, was designed to present freshmen with an honest portrayal of both the positive aspects of the Greek system and areas needing improvement, according to a CFSC press release. Adamson said the two speakers will appear at the house as part of the College's Greek Weekend from Feb.

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Mexico FSP, LSA change locations

By Erin Loback | February 14, 1996

Both the Spanish Foreign Study Program and the Spanish Language Study Abroad Program will be changing location next year, said Lia Schwartz, acting chair of the Spanish department. Instead of being in Puebla, Mexico next winter, the Spanish FSP will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the spring of 1997. Starting next Winter term, the Spanish LSA will be in Puebla instead of Queretaro, Mexico. The LSA will continue to be offered in alternate springs, as well as each winter, said Peter Armstrong, exchange coordinator for Off-Campus Programs. "Nothing will change radically" about either program, Schwartz said. Schwartz said Buenos Aires is a culturally dense city with more than eight million people and has more to offer for an FSP than Puebla. She added the only difference for students is that the readings may change for the course taken prior to departure on the FSP.

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Republicans discuss abortion platform

By Aimee Whitenack | February 14, 1996

John Rankin, president of the Theological Education Institute and Ann Stone, national director of Republicans for Choice, discussed the GOP's current platform on abortion in a debate last night. Rankin, focusing on political issues, took the affirmative position regarding "Should the Republican Party Keep Its Pro-Life Plank?" while Stone, who emphasized theological issues, argued against it. The debate ended in a draw. Rankin and Stone will most likely never agree, said Government Professor Tom Nichols, who was moderating the debate. The two Republican speakers said they recognized the need for change within the GOP platform regarding its antiabortion stance.

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Some professors put classes on to the Net

By Erin Loback | February 14, 1996

Many Dartmouth courses actively integrate computers into the curriculum by creating on-line tutorials and World Wide Web sites for students, but professors still prefer personal interactions with students, and said on-line tutorials are no substitute for class time. A Brown University study tried to examine the possibility of replacing classes with computer sessions, but it met with inconclusive results, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. While many professors at Dartmouth utilize computer technology and software as supplements to their courses, Math department Chair James Baumgartner said it is "not in any sense a substitute for what goes on in the classroom." Chemistry Professor Michael Walters, who is teaching organic chemistry this term, said the chemistry department does not use tutorial programs as a major component of its lecture courses, and he does not "foresee it in the future." Walters said while Dartmouth does not have anything now in the way of special tutorials in organic chemistry, it does have "lots of software on Public that students can use on their own computers." MacSqualor is a program that helps students identify unknown substances, a task commonly done in class laboratories.

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SAGE lectures '99s on the Greek system

By Jake Molland | February 14, 1996

Sexual Awareness through Greek Education and the Coed Fraternity Sorority Council co-sponsored the Greek system's first step of the new Freshmen Outreach Program last night in a meeting to inform members of the Class of 1999 about the Greek system. Three panelists, Jess Adelman '96, Dani Brune '96, and Grier Laughlin '96 spoke about life in the Greek system to fewer than ten freshman women, although all members of the Class of 1999 were invited. Jen Hill '97, co-chair of SAGE, said Outreach is an attempt to lessen division on campus between freshman and upperclassmen. She said, in an interview with The Dartmouth before the meeting, the main point of last night's meeting was to discuss sexual awareness and gender issues. The panelists focused on interaction between freshmen and upperclassmen and other facets of the Greek system, such as common stereotypes and negative misconceptions surrounding fraternity and sorority houses. "There aren't opportunities for freshman and upperclassmen to exchange ideas," Hill said.

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