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Trustees to meet this weekend

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While most visitors to the College this weekend will be content just watching the Commencement ceremonies, the College's Board of Trustees has its own agenda in mind. The Trustee's annual June meeting, its last of the academic year, is sure to have important ramifications on the future of Dartmouth. Commencement 1995 will be the main focus of the meeting, College Spokesman Alex Huppe said. The final recommendations from the Committee on the First-Year Experience report, will be up for approval at the meeting, Huppe said. Dean of the College Lee Pelton, who chaired the committee last year, released his final recommendations to the College community in May. The recommendations propose that one primarily freshman dorm have a Senior Faculty Associate, who will live near the residence hall and a dean who will advise members of the cluster. The recommendations suggest the cluster have a programming budget between $20,000 and $30,000, significantly larger than the programming budgets of other clusters. The proposal also calls for an overhaul of freshman orientation and a review of student housing needs to see if the College needs to add more beds. Also over this weekend, the Trustees will consider changes to the plans for the Center for Jewish Life, Huppe said. The Trustees will also finalize the budgets for the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and the Thayer School of Engineering Huppe said the Trustees will be asked to give approval to two endowed chairs in addition to various appointments related to the tenure and emeritus status of members of the Board of Overseers and Board of Visitors. Trustee Ann Fritz Hackett '76 will be honored at a luncheon this weekend for her service to the College as a Trustee for more than 10 years. Chief Executive Officer of Simon and Schuster Publishing Jonathan Newcomb '68 who, after this meeting, will replace Fritz Hackett on the Board, was invited to the meeting.


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Seniors celebrate during Class Week

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The members of the Class of 1995 will commemorate the culmination of their Dartmouth experiences this weekend, rounding out a week of senior activities and celebrations. "It has taken all spring term to prepare for this week," co-Chair of the Senior Week committee Michelle Webb '95 said. Heading the committee, Webb and David Gonzalez '95 decided which activities would be included in this year's schedule. "Anyone who wanted to be involved in planning could," Senior Class President Alyse Kornfeld said. Senior week began Tuesday with roller-skating at Lake View, Senior 'Tails and a dance in Collis Commonground. Festivities continued on Wednesday with an air ball on Tuck Drive and a coffee house at the Dartmouth Outing Club house featuring Jud Caswell '94. Thursday's events were held at Storr's Pond where a dinner catered by Blood's Seafood was also offered.


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World War II separated men of Class of 1945

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The Class of 1945, one of three classes never to have a formal Commencement ceremony, returns to the College this weekend for its 50th reunion. Sent all around the globe by the call to serve their country in World War II, the men of the Class of 1945 only spent a few months together in Hanover before many of them left Dartmouth to join the armed forces. The Class of 1945 holds the unenviable distinction of losing more men in the war than any other Dartmouth class -- 24 of its members never returned from the war. This weekend, the Class of 1945 returns to renew old friendships, many of which were broken in December of 1941 by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. For some, it will be just another weekend.


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Past valedictorians find celebrity fades quickly after graduation

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While being named valedictorian is the highest honor the College can bestow on a graduate, the instant celebrity fades quickly, according to three former valedictorians. Kamala Dansinghani '94, Ally Jeddy '93 and Henry Spindler '92 all said they were honored to speak at Commencement, but that the title has affected them only in subtle ways. Dansinghani, who graduated from the College with eight academic citations and a perfect grade point average of 4.0, said one effect of graduating first in her class was she "felt a little more confident coming" to Harvard Medical School. "It is the same thing as Dartmouth.


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Class of '95: a history in numbers

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The Dartmouth Class of 1995 began, as all classes here do, in a flurry of numbers written on an application sitting on the desks of admissions officers in early 1991 -- there were SATs and ACTs and GPAs and more. Since then, the students have hopefully gotten past those numbers, but still the numbers remain.





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College prepares for press onslaught

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Students hoping to make newspaper headlines after graduation may have their dreams come true a little early, as myriad journalists plan on attending this year's Commencement ceremony June 11 to capture President Bill Clinton's speech. "We are planning for 250 [journalists]," said College spokesman Alex Huppe. Huppe said 75 journalists will comprise the White House press core, which will include representatives from all of the major daily newspapers, while the rest will be from local, regional and other areas. Television reporters will also be present, Huppe said.


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Council on Computing picks freshman computer package

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The Council on Computing will recommend that incoming freshmen buy a Power Macintosh this year, a significant upgrade from the Quadra 605 it recommended to the Class of 1998. The council decided to recommend the computer, a yet unreleased Power Macintosh, at its meeting last Thursday. Council members said yesterday they could not comment on specifics of the package because Apple Computer, Inc. has not publicly disclosed details about the computer. "I can't tell you the details," said Chemistry Professor John Winn, who chairs the council.



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Palaeopitus chooses members

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Palaeopitus, an organization of senior campus leaders who advise the College President and Dean of the College, selected new members and announced revisions to its constitution Sunday night. The new members include juniors Panhellenic Council President Dani Brune, Junior Class President Brendan Doherty, President's Office Intern Monica Oberkofler, Coed Fraternity Sorority Council President Matt Raben, Student Assembly President Jim Rich and President of The Dartmouth Justin Steinman. This year's delegation also includes four ex-officio organizational representatives: former La Alianza President Ramyar Cruz, former Afro-American Society Vice President Shakari Cameron, Cassie Ehrenberg, who works for the Women's Resource Center, and Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance member Matt Silvia. According to Palaeopitus' new constitution, the group's purpose is "to encourage working harmony among the various campus organizations, facilitate communication between undergraduates and the College administration and to promote the welfare of Dartmouth and protect her good name." Claire Unis '95, a member of Palaeopitus, said the members removed a clause from the constitution that stated an additional purpose, "to preserve the customs and traditions of Dartmouth." "We felt it was not an appropriate charge for us to keep," Unis said. This year's members also changed the guidelines for selecting new members. Candice Jimerson '95, Spring term chair of Palaeopitus, said four ex-officio positions were added from two categories. "We added two from ethnic and affinity groups and two from larger group organizations such as the Women's Resource Center, the Dartmouth Outing Club, religious organizations or DaGLO," now the DRA, Jimerson said. "We made these changes because previously the ex-officio positions always included someone from AAm, and it was thought to be unfair to have this while the other ethnic groups were growing in numbers," she said. "And we also changed it so that the members do not have to be the president of their organization, but active members who have shown leadership abilities," she said. Jimerson said Palaeopitus also added a group of "at-large" members: Ping-Ann Addo, John Barros, Eran BenDavid '97, Lisa Cain-Perkins, Grace Chionuma, Tim Cross, Kirsten Doolittle, Sue Kim and Federico Rivera '95. Jimerson said the "at-large" members do not necessarily represent one organization but were selected based on overall leadership activities around campus.


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Hosea Harvey '95, man of many roles, leaves his mark

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For Hosea Harvey '95, the defining moment of his Dartmouth career came late in his freshman year. On May 6, 1992, more than 500 members of the College community gathered on the Green to display outrage at the verdict in the Rodney King trial and the subsequent riots in Los Angeles.


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The Dartmouth Review carries the banner of conservatism

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Although one of its founders never thought it would last this long, The Dartmouth Review, an off-campus conservative weekly that has sparked innumerable controversies on campus, celebrated its fifteenth anniversary this spring. From the numerous clashes with College presidents to attacks on Dartmouth administrators and professors, The Review has created a clear image and identity for itself since its founding in 1980 and has become, for better or for worse, a part of Dartmouth's culture. The early years Four conservative Dartmouth students -- Greg Fossedal '81, Gordon Haff '81, Benjamin Hart '81 and Michael "Keeney" Jones '82 founded The Review in the spring of 1980. Although all four are considered The Review's founders, according to Haff the paper was Fossedal's brainchild. Fossedal was the editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth before resigning due to a clash with the paper's editorial board.


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ORL has small wait-list

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One year after the College narrowly avoided a potentially massive housing crisis, there are only 96 students on the wait-list for Fall term housing, according to Director of Housing Services Lynn Rosenblum. When housing assignments came out about two weeks ago, 132 students were on the wait-list, Rosenblum said. "Things look good," she said, but added she is not sure if every student who is on the wait-list will be able to get housing this fall. Rosenblum said it is hard to predict whether there will be a housing crunch. "This is my third year here, and there has been a wait-list every fall," she said.



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Bollinger finishes first year as provost

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Taking over in a time of transition for the College, Provost Lee Bollinger said he has now settled into his job and feels that he accomplished many important things in his first year in office. Immediately thrown into dean searches and campus development plans upon his arrival from Michigan Law School last fall, Bollinger has had the opportunity to deal with a number of important issues that will affect the College's future. According to Bollinger, one of his most formidable tasks was finding new deans for the Thayer School of Engineering and the top-ranked Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Bollinger said helping to select Elsa Garmire as Thayer's new dean and Paul Danos as the new dean of the Tuck School marked the highlight of his first year at the College. "The qualities they bring to the positions and the responses of the various constituencies we're concerned with make those decisions all the more outstanding," Bollinger said. Bollinger said he also found the campus expansion project very satisfying. "Planning for the development on the north side of campus, I feel, is one of the most important projects for Dartmouth College," Bollinger said. He said helping to develop the structure and form of the Northpart of campus, particularly the new psychology building and Berry Library, has been "exhilarating." But aside from these satisfying and rewarding experiences of the past year, Bollinger said he has also faced many challenges like trying to balance the College's budget for the fiscal years 1996 and 1997.



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Kemp, McKeown to go on three-year missions

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While most members of the Class of 1998 will return to the College this fall to face crowded housing conditions and long wait lists for classes, freshmen Jason Kemp and Morgan McKeown will be in the Philippines and Argentina. But Kemp and McKeown will not be on vacation.


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Former Playboy models bare their souls, reveal reasons behind decisions

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Playboy Magazine recently visited Dartmouth in search of models for their 1995 "Women of the Ivy League," sparking much protest on campus and debate over the women in America today. Although three College coeds decided to pose for the magazine, they perhaps should have talked to former College students who posed for the magazine, one of whom says she now regrets her decision to pose, and two women who say posing has had little effect on their lives. Sharon Cowan '78 posed for Playboy's 1979 Women of the Ivy League pictorial during her senior year at the College. She said she made her decision "on a whim," adding she initially saw the "decision as something quite personal and not really of much importance." "Why shouldn't I indulge the whim, pocket this extra cash, have some fun and have something to tell my grandchildren about," she said. But 16 years after her moment in the pages of one of America's most famous magazines, Cowan, who now works in Rome as a United Nations officer, said she regrets following that whim. "Absolutely.