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College mourns loss of Israeli leader

By Aaron Lisman | November 8, 1995

Members of the Dartmouth community last night mourned the death of Yitzak Rabin, the prime minister of Israel who was assassinated on Saturday. A diverse group of students and administrators took their turns at the podium in Rollins Chapel to pay Rabin their respect with songs, prayers and remembrances. About 400 mourners, including students, faculty, staff, administrators and Hanover residents gathered to remember Rabin.

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Sig Ep, Theta receive Greek award

By Jennifer Chon | November 8, 1995

Coed Fraternity Sorority Council President Matt Raben '96 and Assistant Dean of Residential Life Deb Reinders last night presented the third annual 15 Webster Avenue Award to the sisters of Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority and the brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. The 15 Webster Avenue Award goes to the Greek organization whose proposal for community service is judged to be the most worthy of a $2,000 grant from the 15 Webster Avenue Fund. Sig Ep and Theta submitted a proposal to "work together in order to provide greater service to the surrounding communities" by building a jungle gym for the Family Place, a non-profit, parent-child center located in White River Junction, Vt. The committee that decides the award is comprised of Raben, Reinders, Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco, a member from each Greek sub-council and a member of the Greek Advisory Group. Suzanne Leonard '96, Theta's service chair, submitted the proposal to the committee.

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CYRK executives speak

By Lillie Ng | November 8, 1995

Executives of CYRK Inc., a $400 million public promotional products company, told students about the trials and tribulations of starting a new company in a discussion last night at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. The company, which is based in Gloucester, Mass., designs, manufactures and delivers promotional products to companies, according to Gregory Shlopak, the founder, chairman and chief executive. After showing a short video explaining "What is CYRK," Shlopak went on to describe how he started his own company. While teaching in the marine biology department of a women's junior college in Pennsylvania, Shlopak said he became interested in investing in a distribution company. Shlopak said he always had a desire to start his own business. After facing several successes and set-backs, he started CYRK in 1975 as a screen-printing business that produced t-shirts and other products with brand name logos, he said. "It was difficult finding a good niche in a new business and being competitive in an easy-entry business such as the screen-printing business," Shlopak said. The company was struggling at first, but soon developed a good reputation, a fine network and good relations with people in the industry, Shlopak said. "Success will be determined by your relationships with people in the business," Shlopak said.

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Four years later; senior interviewers reverse role

By Michael Posey | November 8, 1995

For Carmen Harden '96 and Natalyn Nails '96, asking eager high school students questions like "What have you tried and failed at?" is a daily routine. Harden and Nails are two of the College's 16 senior interviewers, who work part-time as the student liaisons for the College's extensive admissions team, interviewing about 12 to 15 prospective students each week. In addition to the 16 part-time interviewers the College employees during the regular school year, the admissions office hires five students to serve as full-time senior interviewers over the summer. Nails said she worked as a full-time interviewer last summer. "The full-time position involved more than just interviewing prospective candidates," Nails said.

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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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