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Spring party weekends common around the Ivy League

By Michael Posey | May 19, 1995

Throughout the Ivy League and other prestigious New England colleges, the arrival of spring is celebrated in a similar way to the College's annual Green Key Weekend. Most colleges and universities around the country and all of the Ivy League schools, with the exception of Harvard University, host some kind of spring celebration usually designed to act as a diversion from impending finals. Princeton University features several events during the Spring which help to bolster school spirit.Communiversity Day, P-Parties, and Spring Fling are among their most recent spring parties. Communiversity Day, which was held on Earth Day, is a day for town residents and students.Stores along the college's main street closed in order to celebrate the events.Vendors and booths selling odds-and-ends (mostly art) sponsored the day, according to Colette Curran, a sophmore. The P-Party headlined the band Toad the Wet Sprocket. Spring Fling also featured area bands including Naildriver, Too much Joy, and Dead Serious.The event was sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Government. Although many officials at other schools noted the involvement of drinking and Greek events during their own respective spring festivities, many of the area's collegiate spring weekends have championed activist issues such as AIDS and environmental causes. Columbia's annual spring festival is a huge event for its students.

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College, town prepare for Green Key

By Nathaniel Leclery | May 19, 1995

With Green Key Weekend upon us, the College and the town of Hanover have been preparing for an expected increase in activities and large inflow of people. According to Rebel Roberts, Safety and Security crime prevention officer, there is often a significant increase in the numbers of people on campus. "It depends on what's happening on campus and on other variables such as the weather and what's going on at other campuses," Roberts said. During Green Key there will be an increase in the number of Safety and Security personnel. "Student Activity organizations ask for personnel for their special events so we will have additional personnel available for Green Key," Roberts said. Safety and Security also takes other precautions for Green Key, including posting bulletins in residential clusters explaining the dangers that often accompany a large weekend. "We usually have an increase in incidents," Roberts said. Two years ago, Safety and Security reported eleven cases of inebriety, five of alcohol possession by a minor and three cases of disorderly conduct. Last year, ........dont have these numbers yet b/c safety and security hasnt gotten back to me. The Hanover Police Department also takes certain precautions for Green Key.

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Green Key & Mom

By Rachel R. Gilliar | May 19, 1995

What's a Green Key?That's what my mother said when I told her I was writing for the special Green Key Weekend issue of The Dartmouth. Of course, when she first said it I responded with something to the effect of "What are you TALKING about!?" because for some reason that pre-teen, infantile impatience still pops out every so often when I speak to the adults who gave birth to me or conceived me. Besides, you can't just admit that you have no clue what Green Key is when you are writing an article on it, especially to a parent who has unwittingly pointed this out. So it wasn't until I got off the phone with Mom that I began to contemplate the idea of what Green Key Weekend is.

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Melnyczuk awards writing prizes

By Aditya Dutt | May 19, 1995

Author Askold Melnyczuk and English professor Tom Sleigh presented the 13th annual writing prizes to 12 students last night in the Wren Room of Sanborn House. Melnyczuk, described by Sleigh as a "post-war, post-industrial, history-laden Orpheus" read chapters from his latest work, "Necessity." He is also the author of another work titled "What is Told," his first novel. After the reading, Melnyczuk presented seven awards.

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Harvard Archvies presents film festival

By Aditya Dutt | May 19, 1995

Employing color, form and rhythm, avant-garde filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Bruce Posner will present a compilation of 15 hand-crafted films that attest to the depth of expression rarely found in 35 mm filmmaking. As a part of the Harvard Film Archive, the presentation titled "Spirit Stream Storm" has received rave reviews nationwide for its exuberance, sensuality and energy. Art New England billed it as "a stimulating rush, invigorating as a sensual experience and laudable love-fest for the tactile pleasures of celluloid at the end of its century of dominance." "Spirit Stream Storm" is organized into three sections of films that are separated by musical interludes, which add an auditory component to go hand-in-hand with the films. Along with Brakhages hand-painted gems and Posner's mesmerizing collages, tonight's 94- minute presentation also features artists such as Charles and Ray Eames, Kurt Kren, Sergei Paradjanov, Amanda Katz, Jose Antonio Sistiaga and Thierry Vincens. "Spirit Stream Storm" will be shown in the Loew Auditorium at the Hood Museum of Art. Ticket information is available through the Loew box office.

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Class of '61 to donate a statute of Frost

By Jacqueline Rose | May 18, 1995

Even though famous American poet Robert Frost never graduated from the College, he will soon become a permanent fixture on Dartmouth's campus. The Class of 1961 will donate a life-size statue of Frost, who enrolled as a member of the Class of 1896, to the College, English Department Chair William Cook said. Cook said he met yesterday with American sculptor George Lundeen, J.

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Students wonder if reform will work

While most people agree the Student Assembly External Review Committee's recommendations are a step in the right direction, the one thing they say the recommendations cannot change is human nature. Even if the new "Undergraduate Council" is approved -- which is certainly not guaranteed -- students say reform will not succeed unless the council attracts members who are dedicated to representing and serving students. The committee's final report, released Tuesday, calls for changes in the Assembly's representation, structure and election procedures to make student government more accountable, responsible and unified. Some of the committee's major recommendations include: having presidential and vice presidential candidates run on a ticket, creating seven new vice presidents -- appointed by the president -- to oversee committees, limiting membership to 50 students, having each class select eight representatives and having one-third of the membership be appointed. "Yes, the Student Assembly has a lot of structural problems and yes, hopefully this report will be able to solve them," former Assembly member and Conservative Union At Dartmouth President Bill Hall '96 said. "But the Student Assembly's biggest problem is not with the structure of the Assembly, it is with the people involved in it," he said. And that is the essence of the problem -- it is easy to change the Assembly's name, it is not too difficult to change the Assembly's structure but it is very difficult to change the people who have created the problems in the Assembly during the last several years. "I do not think the Assembly can be reformed unless the people on the Assembly are absolutely dedicated to serving the student body and not serving individual needs," former Assembly member Jim Brennan '96 said. Class of 1995 Vice President Hosea Harvey, who chaired the reform committee, said the very nature of the new Undergraduate Council will "invigorate" students and motivate them to work for the benefit of all students. Harvey said underlying the organization's name change is a new philosophy that will change the dynamics of the body. But Hall said student government needs more than a new philosophy.

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Dole's campaign adviser denounces Bill Clinton

By Caroline Timbers | May 18, 1995

Conservative political strategist Floyd Brown denounced President Bill Clinton as ineffective and said his administration has been scarred by the criminal probes he and other members of his administration have faced. "He promised us clean government," Brown said.

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Asgard may become an undergraduate society

By Jacqueline Rose | May 18, 1995

Asgard, a student group dedicated to providing nonalcoholic programming, is thinking about becoming the College's third undergraduate society, according to Keith Lavigne '95, a former executive officer for the group. A task force co-chaired by Emily Jones '95 and Health Services Director Dr. Jack Turco to comprehensively evaluate alcohol at the College will recommend that Asgard become an undergraduate society, Lavigne said. Although most of Asgard's officers declined to comment about the organization's future, Lavigne said Asgard held a special meeting Tuesday night to discuss the fate of the meeting. At the meeting "we were trying to put together something to tell the task force," he said.

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Alien experts to speak on Sunday

By Karen Rose | May 18, 1995

Two of the world's leading experts on extraterrestrials will speak at the College this Sunday. Bestselling author and worldwide authority on the "crop-circle phenomenon" Colin Andrews, along with Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist John Mack will speak at a day-long program beginning at noon in Cook Auditorium. Mack is a psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School and has investigated about 100 cases of supposed extraterrestrial abduction through interviews and the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness to explore his clients' accounts. He is the author of "The Alchemy of Survival," "Nightmares and Human Conflict" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Prince of Our Disorder." "Around 1965, Mack was seeing patients who really believed they were crazy because they were having these hallucinations," said Martin Hussey, a local resident who is organizing the conference.

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'96 Class forms list for Symposium: Gingrich, Mandela, Turner on invite list for speakers

By Michael Ross | May 17, 1995

Although the 1996 Senior Symposium is about a year away, the 1996 Class Council already has a list of potential speakers for the event, which will be titled "They Said It Couldn't Be Done." Leslie Jennings '96, a member of the Class Council, said it will invite prominent figures from entertainment, politics, sports and numerous other fields to speak about their extraordinary achievements that were once thought impossible. She said the 1996 Class Council will mail letters to about 20 "first-round" speaker choices on June 1. The crew from the Apollo 11 moon landing, Roger Bannister, the first person to run a four-minute mile, Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., South African President Nelson Mandela and Cable News Network founder Ted Turner are among the council's top choices, Jennings said. Class of 1996 Vice President Tom Caputo acknowledged it is not likely that many of these speakers will actually come to the College, but said the symposium will still be successful with less famous speakers. "The beauty of the topic is that there are a lot of lesser known names that have great stories," he said. Caputo said the council will meet Fall term to review the responses and determine if more speakers need to be invited. Jennings said the council is also hoping to expand the symposium. "We'd like to make the symposium an event and not just a speakers series," she said. Despite the difficulties inherent in attracting well-known achievers, Caputo said the council decided to avoid giving money to the speakers, although it will pay for travel expenses and lodging.

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Officials say Career Services is well equipped despite departure, leave

By Jason Casell | May 17, 1995

Although the head of Career Services is leaving the College in August and one of its other top administrators is on medical leave, officials say the office remains well equipped to serve the needs of Dartmouth students. Career Services Director William Wright-Swadel will leave Dartmouth in August to become director of Career Services at Harvard University and Assistant Career Services Director Susan Wright has been on a leave of absence this term while undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. Wright handles graduate student advising and Wright-Swadel said Career Services has continued to run graduate advising programs during Wright's absence, but has not hired an interim replacement for her. "We've been using other staff in the office and a number of faculty members have been providing coverage," he said. Wright's husband, Acting College President James Wright, acknowledged his wife's treatment has been difficult, but said she is doing well enough to return to the College next term. "She will be back this summer," Wright said.

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Review committee suggests radical overhaul of SA

By James M> Hunnicutt | May 17, 1995

A committee charged with reforming the Student Assembly released its final report yesterday, calling for a new "Undergraduate Council" to replace the current Assembly. The Student Assembly External Review Committee presented its 24-page report to the Assembly last night.

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Women give views on Dartmouth

By Jacqueline Rose | May 17, 1995

Last night, six senior women spoke about their different perspectives of life at the College to about 100 people in 105 Dartmouth Hall. Jen Collins '94, a computer science major and co-chair of the Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Organization, said being DaGLO's co-chair has had a heavy influence on her Dartmouth experience. Being co-chair of DaGLO is "hard and rewarding in small and incredible ways," Collins said.

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Sherwin may testify on 'Enola Gay'

By James M> Hunnicutt | May 17, 1995

History Professor Martin Sherwin may testify before the Senate this week on what he calls the "blatant censorship" of a Smithsonian Institution exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of America dropping the atomic bomb in Japan. Sherwin, also the director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, has been at the forefront of the controversy over the so-called "Enola Gay" exhibit.

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Chairs discuss faculty complaints

By Jeffrey Beyer | May 16, 1995

The College Faculty's Committee of Chairs, at their meeting yesterday afternoon, remained divided over a proposal to codify the procedure for handling grievances against faculty members. The COC, which is composed of the chairs of all of the College's departments and academic programs, debated the proposal at its meeting last month but reached no conclusion. Currently, the College's procedure for handling complaints against faculty members is not explicitly stated.

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