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New Hampshire gets money to beat heat

By Rebecca Siegel | July 25, 1995

On Friday, President Clinton allocated $100 million for emergency home energy assistance to the 19 states that recently experienced extremely hot weather, according to a White House press release. New Hampshire received $313, 587, while the more hard-hit states such as Illinois and New York received $15,724,820 and $11,543,960 respectively. The Department of Health and Human Services distributed the money, which is authorized by the Low Income Home Energy Assistant Program. "This heat wave is an emergency that demands a response from the Federal Government to help ordinary Americans get through the summer," Clinton said, in the press release. "I am glad to be able to tell you that the Federal Government can help," Clinton continued. Clinton said federal law gives him the authority to provide more energy assistance to elderly and other low-income Americans in the even of a natural disaster. The money is used to pay cooling bills and to buy fans and air conditioners. The amount of money distributed to each state is based on the number of households in the State with income under 125 percent of the poverty level, the release said.

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Goldberg speaks on urban problems

By Carol Lee | July 21, 1995

Los Angeles Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg called for more government programs to help the poor. Goldberg, the first openly homosexual candidate to win office in the city,said more people should run for office with the honest intent of changing government in her speech titled, "Re-examining Race, Class & Gender in Urban America." "I'm the freest politician in America," she said, "because I don't care if I'm not reelected.

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New IDs bring no changes

By Colin Grey | July 21, 1995

This fall, the College will issue new IDs to students that will overhaul the way Dartmouth's Validine System works, but students probably will not be able to see the difference. The new IDs will have a different magnetic stripe that will allow the College to install a wider array of services than are currently possible. But they will appear, "just like the ones you have now, only the stripe is bigger," said William Barr, associate director of administrative services. The new strips could be used for new services, such as for laundry machines, but there are currently no such plans, Barr said. "That's certainly part of the options, but those need haven't been defined yet," Barr said. "It's to give us the platform with which we can broaden our current system," Barr added.

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Paul Danos envisions global future for Tuck

By Rebecca Siegel | July 21, 1995

The new dean of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration sat in his new, still in limbo after his move from Ann Arbor, Mich., and expressed his vision for the future of the number six business school in the country. Mild-mannered Paul Danos, proudly wearing a crisp Tuck polo shirt, said he is looking for Tuck to improve its networks among corporations and global markets. "Business is becoming more integrative and collaboratory," Danos said in an interview yesterday.

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Masters warns against technology

By Suzanne Lambert | July 21, 1995

In a speech Wednesday night, Government Professor Roger Masters warned of the dangers of abusing technology and called for members of both science and social science to work together on how science should be used. Projecting scenarios for the future, Masters warned the development of technology in spheres such as genetic engineering will force society to change nature however it wants, and society will move to change humans as well. Masters said the natural language of humans is in "nonverbal behavior that seems to be undecodeable." He said by nature the human species differs from other species, but also differs within. Masters warned the idea of human control of nature is a very dangerous one in modern society, which is "on the brink" of controlling nature, given the technology humans possess. One prospect Masters presented is the extinction of the human species.

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Dartmouth's Robinson Crusoe spends summer in wild

By Abigail Klingbeil | July 21, 1995

When Jim Hourdequin '97 recently hosted a dinner party outside the tent where he is living for the summer, his guests ate lettuce he had grown himself. And before long, more than just Hourdequin's dinner guests will be able to eat fresh, local, organically grown produce planted by him at Dartmouth's new organic farm, where he works. This summer, the biology major from West Hartford, Conn., is not taking classes, but pursuing what he loves, "be[ing] close to the woods and the mountains." And that means forsaking the dormitory lifestyle for the sake of his Robinson Crusoe-like existence in the wilderness. Although he says he does not spend much time in his tent, he does have the necessities of home.

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Students get psyched for Tubestock river festivities

By Maggie Fritz | July 21, 1995

By mid-afternoon tomorrow the Connecticut River will have turned into a sea of rubber and floating bodies. As they make their way along the river, students floating on inner tubes will listen to live music, imbibe legal and illegal drinks and spend a day of fun in the sun. Xantha Bruso '97 said she is definitely excited about what has been called the "ultimate event of the summer." "It's going to be a really good time to see everyone out in the river having fun," said Bruso, who lives on the Connecticut in the house colloquially known as the "River Ranch." Although Tubestock has become a summer term tradition at Dartmouth, the College and Tubestock are in no way related. The day-long party is thrown by Rich "Boomer" Akerboom '80, who began the tradition when he held a party for his friends on the river back in 1987. At the original event, Akerboom, now an environmental engineer, played with his band on the deck of his house -- the "River Ranch" -- while friends watched from the river. Around 200 students attended the first tubestock, Akerboom previously told The Dartmouth. According to Akerboom, the event soon caught on.

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College samples new recycling bins

By Chung-Mei Lee | July 21, 1995

This summer Dartmouth Recycles!, the College's programto promote recycling, could soon place 12 new recycling bins in the hallways of Mass Row at a cost of about $5,000. The move could get the College's recycling agenda back on track for the first time in two years by taking bins out of dormitory basements and placing them closer to students' doors, Director of Dartmouth Recycles!

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CFS programming standards win approval, go into effect

By Maggie Fritz | July 19, 1995

Dean of the College Lee Pelton has approved a new set of programming standards for the Coed Fraternity Sorority system. The new standards, which were adopted by the CFS system this term, are more detailed and more demanding than former programming standards, according to Assistant Dean of Residential Life Deb Reinders. Under the new standards, houses must hold programming events in each of three areas: membership development, Dartmouth community involvement and community service/philanthropy. Each house must hold four membership development events, designed to benefit the individual members of its house, with a total attendance of at least 65 percent. A minimum of three Dartmouth Community Involvement events must be organized, including one initiated by the house, one co-sponsored with another CFS organization, one sponsored with a College organization or a residence hall, as well as two open events. Finally, each house must hold two community service projects per term.

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Professor Bill Cook returns from Russia

By Chung-Mei Lee | July 19, 1995

English Department Chair Bill Cook recently returned from a three-week trip to Russia where he attended a series of seminars on teaching English literature around the world. The well-liked English professor said he was struck by the growing popularity of English as a major and minor in Eastern European countries because of increasing contact with Western countries. "I found a lot of people speaking English or wanting to learn how," Cook said."In some cases, children begin learning English as early as third grade." For three weeks, Cook was one of several professors from around the world who met in Moscow, Novgorod, Tver and St.

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Classy exhibits draw students to Museum

By Mary Ellen Moore | July 19, 1995

Following through on its mission to incorporate art exhibitions into the Dartmouth curriculum, the Hood Museum is offering hands-on experience in two classes this summer. A primary goal of the Hood Museum is to showcase works of art that correspond with Dartmouth's curriculum. "It's a good way to get kids into the Hood Museum," Bill Drekhoff '97 said."I know I don't get in there too much but I always enjoy it." "It's almost an advertisement for the museum," Drekhoff said, who must go to the museum for a classics course he is taking this summer. "I think it is an excellent, very imaginative use of the Hood Museum," Classics Professor James Tatum said.

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Longtime assistant to presidents dies of cancer

By Rebecca Siegel | July 19, 1995

Ruth Carol LaBombard, who served as secretary and assistant to four College presidents between 1961 to 1989, died of cancer Sunday at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

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College undergoes summer facelift

By Maggie Fritz | July 19, 1995

While most of the College slows to a crawl during the summer months, the offices of Facilities, Operations and Management and Facilities Planning actually speed up. "It's our one opportunity to dig into the ground and so we do it," said John Gratiot, associate director of Facilities, Operations and Management. Gratiot said while his office undertakes many projects year-round, many of the larger projects occur in the summer. For example, one of the outside projects many students may have noticed is the re-roofing of Dartmouth Hall. The scaffolding is part of the effort to re-roof the building on three sides.

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KDE asks police to investigate

By Rini Ghosh | July 19, 1995

Kappa Delta Epsilon yesterday filed a complaint with the Hanover Police hoping to recover the sorority's summer slush fund, approximately $600 in cash stolen a week ago. Summer KDE President Gretchen Lanka '97 said sisters at first waited to see if anyone would come forward and confess after discovering the money was missing from the room of KDE summer social chair Lynn Thacher '97. But by yesterday, KDE sisters had waited long enough.

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Assistant ORL Dean Keefe to leave College

By Jason Casell | July 19, 1995

Assistant Dean of Residential Life Alison Keefe last Friday announced she is leaving the College to become the new assistant director of residential life at Salem State College in Salem, Mass. Keefe, who has worked at Dartmouth for five years overseeing academic affinity and special interest programs, as well as senior and undergraduate societies, will leave town on Aug.

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State rejects UPNE tax-exempt claim

By Steve Johnson | July 19, 1995

The New Hampshire State Board of Tax and Land Appeals last week denied an application for tax-exempt status submitted by University Press of New England, the Dartmouth-run printing press located in Lebanon. Assistant Provost Bruce Pipes said he has not decided whether or not to appeal the decision, since he only received the full legal documents Monday, but he added the College was "concerned" the decision might affect other Dartmouth operations' tax status. Meanwhile, Pipes said he does not expect the decision to influence the press' operations. The press is a nonprofit organization, which publishes books by scholars of both its member and nonmember schools, according to Pipes. For several decades a Hanover warehouse contained the press, but two years ago the size of its operation necessitated its relocation to Lebanon. This move brought with it a substantially higher tax bill which Tom Johnson, the press' associate director of operations, estimated at $17,000 for last year.

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Lamm warns of population growth

By Tim Fitzgibbons | July 17, 1995

Montgomery Fellow Dottie Lamm spoke about the connection between slowing population growth and empowering women to an overflow crowd in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences Thursday night. A columnist for the Denver Post since 1979, Lamm served as a delegate to the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo last fall. In her speech, she warned the world's population is growing considerably faster than ever before, saying, "We are living at a time that is totally unprecedented." Environmental degradation and high global unemployment have changed the focus of the population problem, she said.

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Turco will work with MADD on council

By Amy Semet | July 17, 1995

Director of Health Services Dr. Jack Turco will soon begin work with the national chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving on forming a new "youth council." If MADD goes ahead with the council, Turco would then play a role in examining the organization's position on youth drinking. "I hope MADD can target under 21-year-olds and influence them not to drink and drive and to try to minimize abusive drinking," Turco said. The national chapter of MADD will convene two meetings to decide whether they should form a youth council soon, Turco said. Director of Health Resources Gabrielle Lucke said it is "exciting" for Dartmouth to be represented on the national level. "It is important that MADD have input from a college health professional," Lucke said.

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Slush money stolen from KDE

By Rini Ghosh | July 17, 1995

Kappa Delta Epsilon lost its summer slush fund last week when someone stole $600 from the sorority's social chair's room, according to an electronic-mail message summer KDE President Gretchen Lanka '97 sent to other Greek house presidents last week. "Our slush fund envelope was stolen out of [sophomore KDE sister] Lynn Thacher's room sometime today," Lanka wrote last Wednesday. A "slush fund" is the money Greek houses collect from their members to purchase alcohol. "I don't mean to accuse anyone, but it most likely happened within the Greek system, so I wanted to come to you and ask about it," Lanka wrote. In another electronic-mail message sent yesterday to The Dartmouth, Lanka said KDE has contacted the Department of Safety and Security "and will take further measures as we see fit." Safety and Security Sergeant Harley Bettis said he will only begin investigating the case if the house decides not to take the incident to the Hanover Police. Hanover Police said yesterday they had no information on the case. "The house as a whole is coping very well.

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Asgard sits on status

By Rini Ghosh | July 17, 1995

Asgard will wait until after the Alchohol Task Force releases its final report in August to decide whether it will become an undergraduate society, according to Asgard's summer liaison with the Office of Residential Life Padraic Malinowski '97. Asgard, a student group providing nonalcoholic programming, will explore the option of becoming the College's third undergraduate society if the task force makes such a recommendation, Malinowski said. Dean of the College Lee Pelton created the task force, which was chaired by Head of the College's Health Service Dr. Jack Turco and Emily Jones '95, to examine the problems caused by alcohol at the College. Malinowski said the group will take no action towards becoming an undergraduate society in the summer and currently has "no plans at all for this." The two main benefits to becoming an undergraduate society are gaining a physical plant and more sources offunding, Malinowski said. An undergraduate society is similar to a Greek organization with no rush or pledge period.