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Skills Center helps students learn

By Erin Loback | October 3, 1995

For students finding college academics a problem, the Academic Skills Center sponsors a variety of programs providing academic assistance, including tutoring, aid for students with disabilities and mini-courses in learning skills. The goal of the Center is "to provide as many opportunities for students to learn the ways in which they can be successful" in academics, according to Carl Thum, director of the center. Students coming to college, "even a place like Dartmouth ... don't always have the skills and strategies necessary" to perform well at the college level, Thum said. For the second year in a row, the Center received a $10,000 grant from the Hewlett Foundation, which it will use to purchase up to six new videotapes about effective learning strategies. Students often start their searches for academic assistance by meeting with Thum or Academic Director Gail Zimmerman to discuss tutoring options.

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Panhell hopes to revitalize DG to add seventh sorority

By Amy Semet | October 3, 1995

The alternative Delta Gamma rush plan this term essentially is an attempt to revitalize the College's weakest sorority in hopes that the Panhellenic Council will be able to ask for the College's permission to create a seventh mainstream sorority. But although DG President Abbey Henderson '96 said the alternative rush program was a success, the numbers do not seem to be what the sorority hoped for. "We are in the process of offering bids to women who dropped out of rush or who did not receive bids," Henderson said.

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Sears calls for creation of new FSP

By Sara Zrike | October 3, 1995

Urging her audience to "not forget that differences do not mean division," English Professor Priscilla Sears said last night that she is committed to the creation of a Foreign Study Program within the Women's Studies Program. Sears made her statements at a discussion of her experiences at this summer's United Nations Conference on Women, which was held in Beijing, China.

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Many seniors leave swim test, PE, to last minute

By Yoona Park | October 2, 1995

With less than nine months before graduation, about 15 percent of the Class of 1996 has not completed their physical education requirement. Even though 160 seniors have either not taken three terms of physical education or not passed a 50-yard untimed swim test, Associate Director of Physical Education Ken Jones said the number actually has been declining the past five years. The seniors will not be allowed to graduate unless they complete their requirements by the spring, Jones said. Brian Giunta '96 is one credit short of fulfilling his PE requirement.

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Memorial service remembers Devens

By Jeffrey Beyer | October 2, 1995

In an emotional service filled with both laughter and tears, the College community yesterday celebrated and remembered Sarah Devens '96, who died this summer at the age of 21. Approximately 350 people, including family members, friends, teammates, coaches, College administrators and faculty and even casual acquaintances, filled Rollins Chapel to share prayers for and memories of Devens. College Chaplain Gwendolyn King, who led the service, said "Sarah, or Devil, as she was known affectionately around here, was a feisty member of the Class of 1996," in her opening reflections. "Today we want to thank God for her and to pay tribute for her life among us," she said.

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Fraternity rush ends, 200 men sink bids

By Michael Vasiliadis | October 2, 1995

As rush formally ended on Friday, approximately 200 men had committed to accept bids, about the same number as last year. Despite a similar number of men joining fraternities this year as last year, the number of bids accepted at many houses dropped significantly. "Numbers were down everywhere," said Thomas Slabaugh '96, Psi Upsilon fraternity's rush chair.

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Breeden attacks College's morals at farewell party

By Jeffrey Giuffrida | September 29, 1995

Departing Dean of the Tucker Foundation James Breeden attacked the moral values of the College's administration and blamed his departure on ethical differences between the College and the Tucker Foundation at a reception in his honor yesterday. About 40 people attended the reception in the Hanover Inn's Hayward Lounge. Breeden, an Episcopal minister and a longtime civil rights activist, announced his retirement as Dean of the Tucker Foundation at the end of March, effective at the end of August. In his address, he sharply criticized the administration for resisting the inclusion of spiritual values in the Dartmouth education. He said his responsibilities lay "not with the institution, but with what presides over it." Breeden said the dean of the Tucker Foundation is "the only administrative office where you can go against the Trustees without handing in your resignation first -- you hand it in later." He also said to have not spoken to College President James Freedman in nearly a year, and reported an angry conversation with Provost Lee Bollinger at about the same time he said he last spoke to Freedman. "I tried to talk to people about ... the fraternities and what exclusivity means, about administration confidentiality ... I'd like to think that's what the Dean of the Tucker Foundation is supposed to do," Breeden said. Breeden concluded his speech by comparing the administrators of Dartmouth to the violent youths of his hometown of Roxbury, Mass. "The kids have guns in Roxbury, the administrators at Dartmouth have equally dangerous tools," he said. In an interview with The Dartmouth shortly after the reception, Breeden attacked the College's position on divestment from companies that did business in South Africa in the mid-1980s. He accused the administration of "barely touching... and rarely consulting" Tucker Foundation resources during the divestment discussions.

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Dorm life: a smooth transition so far

By Karen Rose | September 28, 1995

For many freshmen, coming to Dartmouth is an intimidating experience. And one of the most difficult parts of the transition from high school to college is adjusting to a completely new living environment -- the abrupt change from living in a house or apartment to living in a room in a residence hall. Freshmen must adjust to living with new roommates and without their parents, their siblings and even their pets. Director of Counseling and Human Development Jeffrey Hersh said freshmen are thrown into a whole new living situation, which requires a good deal of adjustment. Students gain more independence, form new relations and must learn to make decisions for themselves as they move from home into residence halls, he said. Life in a residence hall involves making new friends and interacting more intimately in a diverse group, which can be very challenging. "Students must learn how to relate to people without having support from home readily available," Hersh said. "First-year students are thrown into a learning-group situation which offers the challenge of learning how to be neighborly while at the same time being sensitive to your own needs," he said. Although each member of the Class of 1999 has their own individual experience with residential life at Dartmouth, together the class must learn to survive without parental influence and all of the comforts of home. Hannah Alldredge '99 said her room in 101 Massachusetts Hall is "the best room on campus with the most central location." "It is right when you walk in the door -- we don't have to walk up any steps or anything," Alldredge said.

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'99s raise questions over hat sale

By Jennifer Prusik | September 28, 1995

Several freshmen say they are upset after purchasing $12 hard hats from members of some club sports teams because they thought every member of the Class of 1999 had to own a hat if they wanted to work on the Homecoming bonfire. Associate Director of Physical Education Ken Jones said the three club teams working on selling the hats -- the cheerleaders, the water polo team and the scuba club --have sold more than 400 hard hats to freshmen.

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Safety and Security encourages students to use walking escorts

By Allison K. Hoffman | September 28, 1995

Dartmouth students who use Safety and Security's student-run driving escort service to escape the frigid cold are the targets of a new campaign publicizing walking escorts. Although the green cars and vans that canvas the campus throughout the day and night are often considered the best travel option for students heading home alone, Safety and Security will suggest that students who call for an escort use the walking escort program. "It started out as a walking program," College Proctor Bob McEwen said.

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Anthropology professor presumed dead at sea

By James M> Hunnicutt | September 28, 1995

Rick Condon, an anthropology professor due to be a visiting professor at Dartmouth during Winter and Spring terms, was lost at sea three weeks ago and is now presumed dead, according to Oran Young, the director of the Dickey Center Arctic Studies Institute. The small ship that Condon and eight companions were traveling on became lost in the Bering Sea, which is located between Alaska and Russia, and all nine are now considered deceased, Young said. Condon taught anthropology at the University of Arkansas and was the editor of Arctic Anthropology, a major anthropological journal, said Gail Osherenko, senior fellow at the Arctic Studies Institute. Condon was supposed to arrive in Hanover on Dec.

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Women depicterd in new light

By Jennifer Parkinson | September 27, 1995

Sarah Johnston '97 will soon distribute several hundred free copies of "Women of the Ivy League," a literary and artistic publication produced by Ivy League women in response to a recent Playboy magazine pictorial of the same name. Johnston, who spearheaded anti-Playboy protests at Dartmouth last spring, said she will leave the magazines in high-traffic areas like the Collis Student Center and Thayer Dining Hall. The October Playboy issue featured photographs of 26 Ivy League women in various states of undress, including two Dartmouth undergraduates.

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