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Lightfoot '92 faces psychological testing

By Rini Ghosh | August 14, 1995

A federal judge has ordered Anthony Lightfoot '92 to undergo psychiatric evaluation at a Butner, N.C., facility in order to determine his mental state and his competence to stand trial. Magistrate Judge William Barry also placed Lightfoot in the custody of the U.S.

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Beta poem sparks discussion

By Jason Casell | August 14, 1995

Brothers of Beta Theta Pi fraternity met last night with several women to discuss an allegedly racially and sexually offensive poem that was read aloud at one of the fraternity's weekly meetings and was written by a Beta brother. According to women who had seen the poem, it contained derogatory comments about women, specifically Native American women and referred to specific Dartmouth women, including one by name. At a meeting with Sigma Delta sisters, female members of Native Americans at Dartmouth and several other women at Kappa Chi Kappa fraternity, the Beta brothers privately apologized for the incident. Beta Summer President Tom Macejko '97 last night confirmed the apology, but would not confirm the existence of the poem.

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DHMC program receives award

By Siobhan Gorman | August 14, 1995

Following an extensive application process, the Diabetes Education Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center recently received the American Diabetes Association Certificate of Recognition. Since education is such an integral part of diabetes treatment, the Diabetes Center has always incorporated an element of education into its program, said Dr. Lee Witters, chief of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the DHMC. The Diabetes Center's education program includes one-on-one education, support groups, video tapes and mailings, Witters said. "A lot of the education is built into patients' visits," Witters said.

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Keyes speaks on 'urban saints'

By Aran Toshav | August 10, 1995

Langley Keyes, an expert on urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told stories of urban "saints" armed with networking skills who were able to remove drugs from several inner city housing developments. Keyes spoke before an audience of about 70 people in 105 Dartmouth Hall, as part of the Master's of Arts and Liberal Studies summer symposium.

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Huppe to leave College for Harvard

By Rebecca Siegel | August 10, 1995

Alex Huppe, director of the CollegeNews Service for the past ten years, this week was named director of public affairs at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "I am very honored to have been selected," Huppe said.

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Cisneros speaks on urban decay

By Jason Casell | August 10, 1995

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros blamed the Republican-controlled Congress last night for impeding the progress his agency has made in handling the crises in America's cities. "The progress we have made and our hopes for continuing that progress in American cities and metropolitan areas are in jeopardy today because of actions taken in the House of Representatives," he said in a speech to a capacity crowd of more than 140 people in Room 3 of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. "The House, which has finished action on its appropriations bills for this year, cuts urban programs across the board and cuts them deeply," he said. Cisneros said the budget for HUD has been slashed by 27 percent from $26 billion to $19.4 billion for the next fiscal year. "These cuts threaten to undercut what President Clinton is trying to do," he said. "On this beautiful campus amid the lush, green woods of New Hampshire on this bright, warm summer evening, the issues facing America's most troubled urban areas may seem remote," Cisneros said. "But in 1995, the future of our large cities and the great metropolitan areas which they anchor depend in no small part on Americans in settings just like this to understand America's urban problem," Cisneros said. He said the dilemmas facing urban areas are a result of three factors. "America's cities face a crisis of severe poverty, a crisis of high unemployment and erosion of the job base and a crisis of social isolation." Cisneros cited statistics from his recent travels across the country to illustrate the severity of the urban housing crisis. According to Cisneros, 25 years ago 3.8 million people lived in the poorest neighborhoods in the largest 94 U.S.

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Greek Week begins

By Misti Johnson | August 10, 1995

Greek Week, a united effort by the Dartmouth Greek system and other organizations to benefit the Dartmouth community and Upper Valley charities, will begin tomorrow. Greek and co-ed houses as well as dorms and other organizations will sponsor events throughout the nine-day-long festival. The events are non-alcoholic and open to the public.

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Assault groups convene

By Colin Grey | August 10, 1995

Students and administrators held a two-hour meeting today to discuss campus sexual abuse issues, ultimately calling for a new committee to address mediation and sexual abuse adviser training in abuse cases. Eight College officials met yesterday with six students, who have worked since the spring to come up with recommendations for dealing with various campus sexual abuse issues. Dean of the College Lee Pelton said the meeting resulted in tentative plans to form a committee this fall to discuss the training of advisors who work on sexual abuse cases.

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Cisneros will speak

By Colin Grey | August 8, 1995

Henry Cisneros, the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, will come to Dartmouth tomorrow to discuss the effects of Congress' 1996 budget on the President's national urban policy. Cisneros will appear as part of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies summer symposium on "Contemporary Issues in Urban America" tomorrow at 7 p.m.

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Garrod analyzes Dartmouth success

By Mary Ellen Moore | August 8, 1995

In the first speech of a lecture series sponsored by the Programming Board, Education Professor Andrew Garrod said women at Dartmouth are more satisfied with relationships and friendships than are Dartmouth men, who find greater satisfaction academically. Garrod revealed the results of his four-year study of 88 Dartmouth students from the Class of 1993 to a packed crowd of 100 students in Collis Common Ground last night.

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Peace vigil held for Hiroshima

By Rini Ghosh | August 8, 1995

Thirteen lighted candles flickered messages of peace across the Green Sunday night. The small group of people fanning the flames were participating in a candlelight peace vigil, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Margaret Bragg of Hanover said she organized the vigil because she felt something should be done to mark the importance of the event. As the candles slowly melted into pools of wax, the participants recited poems, sang songs, shared their feelings or just watched the night grow darker in silence. Bragg started the reminiscences by relating an anecdote about her visit as a college student to the Hiroshima peace park. When an elderly Japanese women discovered that Bragg and a friend meant to visit the park, she was so happy she actually gave them cab fare, Bragg said. "She was grateful that Americans had come ... to keep the memory alive," she said. Zamira Ha '97, the only student present until two others appeared at the end of the vigil, said Hiroshima is "something you just can't ignore," in an interview with The Dartmouth last night. Physicians for Social Responsibility hosted another vigil to commemorate Hiroshima Friday morning on Ledyard Bridge, which Ha attended. She said the main participants were a few Dartmouth students and members of the group, and they held up cards with words such as "Hiroshima," "50 Years Ago" and "Never Again" to remind people about the bombing. She said her knowledge of the event is based only on historical facts. "Given the distance that I have from the event, I can't even begin to touch on what sentiments would accompany the event," Ha said. Peace continues "to exist as an ideal," she said.

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House kills Solomon amendment

By Rini Ghosh | August 4, 1995

The U.S. House of Representatives defeated an appropriations bill amendment last night that would have regulated college appropriations to some student groups at all colleges and universities that receive federal funding. Proposed by Rep.

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Summer coaxes students to 'famous' houses off'campus

By Jason Casell | August 4, 1995

If you see a cat aimlessly wandering the streets of Hanover, call someone at the "Happy Home." Nesta, the name given to the cat that used to live at the house behind the Lodge, is just one of many unusual aspects of this legendary off-campus dwelling. "Nesta was kicked out of Hanover," said Justin Sandler '97, one of four sophomores living in the "Happy Home" this summer.

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College assesses affirmative action

By Tim Fitzgibbons | August 4, 1995

If recent events in the education community are any indication, Americans are beginning to question affirmative action as an educational and a social policy -- thirty years after it was instituted. Last month, the Board of Regents of the University of California voted to eliminate their affirmative action program for admissions and hiring. The University system had aimed to reflect the ethnic makeup of the state of California.

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