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Opulauoho sees bright future for Student Assembly

By Jack Vaitayanonta | July 26, 1995

Students on campus always have something good to say about Kelii Opulauoho '96, proven by his landslide victory in the student assembly vice presidential election this spring. Opulauoho was elected vice-president of the Student Assembly by 44 percent of the vote.

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Take some advice, you clueless 'shmen

By Tim Fitzgibbons | July 26, 1995

Your first academic year at the College can be a difficult thing, but in order to counter general first-year inexperience, the administration has set up an extensive system of advising to help you pick and choose your courses. The most important person in the system is the faculty advisor. Since the fall of 1990, all students have been assigned to a member of the faculty who assists in course selection and general academic planning, said Dean of Freshmen Peter Goldsmith. Students receive their assignment when they arrive on campus. Generally, efforts are made to match students with teachers in their area of academic interest, Goldsmith said. Due to a large number of students who plan to major in the sciences when they first arrive in Hanover, students planning to major in biology, chemistry and other similar fields may not receive an advisor in their academic concentration. The students are required to meet with their advisors at least twice: once during orientation to select fall courses, and again at the end of the Fall term to choose winter classes. After that, "the frequency of meetings is up to the individual student," Goldsmith said. Other resources exist in the advising system besides faculty advisors. Undergraduate advisors and class deans can also serve as valuable resources for advice about classes and choosing a major. "The deans are always available to students to talk about course choices," Goldsmith said. Undergraduate Advisors "have an official function in the academic advising system," he said.

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The answer is Professor Nichols

By Charles Davant | July 26, 1995

Government Professor Tom Nichols is a strange man. Fluent in four languages, an accomplished Sovietologist and five-time champion on the television game show Jeopardy!, he says he is proudest of his graduation from college. "Where I come from, that is a significant accomplishment," he said. Nichols, who comes from a working class Massachusetts family, said his second language, Greek, came easily, since he is one-half Greek.

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Bill Cook inspires passion

By Charles Davant | July 26, 1995

English Department Chair Bill Cook's office in Sanborn House is smaller than you might expect. Subdued wooden shelves and colorful African murals cling to the ancient walls, and the tables and floor are lost in piles of dusty books. The clumsy disarray is both scholarly and unconventional, like Cook himself. One of the strangest professors at Dartmouth, Cook is also one of the most popular. "Probably because of my good looks," Cook joked, his grin exposing two rows of flashing teeth and raising the gray lassos of his trademark mustache.

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Students search for good study space

By Colin Grey | July 26, 1995

Three weeks into their first term at the College, freshman will run into one of the most puzzling quandaries of their Dartmouth career: where to study for midterms. The options are endless, but one could easily run into the danger of wandering aimlessly from locale to locale in search of the just the right atmosphere to kick your cerebellum into gear. A good start would be the Tower Room at the top of Baker Library.

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Dartmouth echoes with music from Cloutier '98

By Charles Davant | July 26, 1995

You may not see a lot of Clarice Cloutier '98 when you come to Dartmouth -- but you will probably hear her. An award winning student of Russian who last saw the inside of a classroom in fifth grade, Cloutier is also the principal violinist in the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, a violinist in the Honors Quartet and a fiddler in the Wild Rovers, a traditional Irish folk band. And though she said in her usual, off-hand fashion that she is a typical Dartmouth student, for once, Cloutier may be wrong. She was in fourth grade when her parents approached her with the idea of stopping her classroom education and replacing it with "private tutoring," as she likes to call it. "We talked about it for a year," she said.

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Dartmouth athletic teams are open to all freshmen

By Karen Rose | July 26, 1995

For students not recruited to a Big Green athletic team, there are still many ways to get involved in Dartmouth sports, most of which are not as difficult as you might think. "For anyone who wants the opportunity to try-out, that chance is given to them," Associate Director of Athletics Jo Ann Harper said. Although most of Dartmouth's teams are primarily recruited, all teams consist of some walk-ons, Harper said.

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Dean Goldsmith has high expectations for this year's freshman class

By Maggie Fritz | July 26, 1995

Knowing Dean of Freshmen Peter Goldsmith began his career as a camp counselor might make it a little easier for incoming students to approach their class dean for help. Goldsmith, who has been dean of freshmen at Dartmouth for the past two years, said he developed the basis of his philosophy about young people during the summers he worked as a camp counselor as a young man. "In that time I developed an approach to young people, which presupposed that most of the time they would behave as responsible, mature human beings," Goldsmith said.

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The history of Dartmouth: rich, colorful, controversial

By Tim Fitzgibbons | July 26, 1995

As the nation's ninth oldest college, Dartmouth is older than the United States itself. During its long and rich history, the College has produced countless generations of people who were significant actors in the nation's development, but it has not avoided controversy along the way. Officially, the story of Dartmouth College begins Dec.

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Dartmouth's image: intellectual haven or party school?

By Rini Ghosh | July 26, 1995

Two students wrote a letter to the editor of The Dartmouth this spring complaining about the newspaper's use of the phrase "white, Greek and politically moderate" to describe the majority of the student body. The letter voiced the concerns of the growing number of students on campus who do not fit into those categories and are contributing to Dartmouth's changing image. "If there is a preponderant image of Dartmouth, then it is a positive one," College spokesman Roland Adams said. Dartmouth's image has been transformed from an all-male, mostly white institution to a coeducational institution that is balanced ethnically, Adams said. Incoming students derive their images of Dartmouth from many different sources, one of which is the news media, Adams said. But much of the media attention focused on the College over the years has been negative. The worst and most damaging perceptions of the College have been detailed in "Rolling Stone" magazine, explored by television shows like "20/20" and discussed in "Time" magazine. "There are different images of Dartmouth that are presented through the news media," Adams said. The news portrays Dartmouth either as an intellectual institution or a party school, but can also show neutral images of the College, he said. "I would hope that the kind of student selected for Dartmouth ... is intelligent enough to make" his or her own decision of Dartmouth, not one based on the news media, Adams added. But gave at least one example of where the media has recently presented a very positive image of the College. A New York Times article focused on the role of Dartmouth and Stanford University in setting exemplary grading standards that other institutions are attempting to implement. "This is an elite academic institution," Adams said.

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Keeping the 'Art' in Dartmouth

By Mary Ellen Moore | July 26, 1995

The artistic community at Dartmouth is small in size but large in stature. From a hands-on jewelry making studio to the murals by Jose Clemente Orozco in the Reserve Corridor, the College is brimming with artistic opportunities. "The College has placed a major amount of energy and commitment into developing a Dartmouth experience that goes far beyond the mere academic world we live in," said Erling Heistad, who runs the Claflin Jewelry Studio in the basement of the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts. The College also offers a studio art major, which includes classes in architecture, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. "[The studio art department] is getting stronger and stronger even as the minutes tick," Kirsten Stromberg '94 a studio art major said.

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College social scene keeps chugging along

By Rebecca Siegel | July 26, 1995

Many people think Dartmouth's remote location precludes any sort of active social life, yet a wide range of social options are thriving in this sleepy New England town. With 16 fraternities and six sororities, including two historically black sororities and two historically black fraternities, much of campus social life revolves around Greek parties. In addition to single-sex organizations, Dartmouth has three coeducational Greek Houses and two undergraduate societies, which include men and women in their membership. Much to the chagrin of the administration, many of these shin-digs do have the tendency to resemble "Animal House" -- a 1960s movie based on Dartmouth's Alpha Delta fraternity.

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DOC trips introduce students to the wilderness and each other

By Jason Casell | July 26, 1995

Dartmouth students do not usually start life as a freshman but as a "trippee." Spending three days of your life climbing, canoeing, hiking, dancing and getting to know one another in the wilderness of New Hampshire provides most students their first glimpse of Dartmouth. Beginning in August, more than 90 percent of the Class of 1999 will leave their domestic habits behind and plunge into the wilderness. Almost 1,000 freshmen have signed up for outing club trips with more applications coming in daily, according to Freshmen Trips Coordinator Heather Halstead '96. The Dartmouth Outing Club, the largest student organization on campus, plans trips for incoming freshmen as a way for students to become more familiar with each other and their surroundings before freshman orientation begins. The DOC offers eight different alternatives for the nine sections of trips, starting Aug.

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