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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.

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College sends students' bills home to parents

By Siobhan Gorman | July 17, 1995

Starting this fall, the College will automatically send student account bills to students' permanent addresses instead of through Hinman mail. Associate Controller Jim Seidensticker said the change should ease the number of students unable to register at the beginning of a term because of unpaid bills, as well as the number of late charges assessed to students. "Students have asked us to send the bills to their home addresses anyway," Seidensticker said.

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Brennan '96 joins Gingrich on MTV

By Elizabeth Fuller | July 17, 1995

"Personable" is how Jim Brennan '96 described Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., after appearing on MTV with the firebrand Speaker of the House. Brennan was one of six college-aged panelists who chatted with Gingrich about current political issues on the national music television network on Thursday night. At the outset, MTV wrongly labeled Brennan as a student from "Dartmouth University," causing many undergraduates at the College who watched the program to groan in disappointment. Brennan asked one of the first questions inquiring about the speaker's plans to balance the federal budget. "During the commercial breaks we talked about things like old television shows," Brennan said. "I asked him if he liked Hawaii 5-O, and then we talked about Jack Lord for ten minutes," he said. Brennan identified himself as the "most Republican" of the panelists and described the appearance as "a very interesting time." The 50-minute segment, called "Newt: Raw,"provided an opportunity for Gingrich, a potential presidential contender for 1996, to talk about his political views in front of a younger audience, where he often receives his lowest approval ratings. "I think [Gingrich] probably got points for making the appearance to talk with younger folks about current issues of interest to them," Brennan said. Issues discussed during the program included women's reproductive rights, welfare reform and proposed cuts in student loans. The other panelists, introduced by their first names and occupations only, included a painter from Virginia, a single mother on welfare from California, a writer for "Wired" magazine from San Francisco, a law school student from Chicago and a medical student from Kentucky.

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College mourns Devens

By Colin Grey | July 17, 1995

More than 250 people gathered Thursday in Rollins Chapel to remember Sarah Devens '96, the three-sport athlete who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound one week ago today. In an informal ceremony that lasted more than an hour, administrators, alumni, coaches, professors and students exchanged stories about the outgoing and energetic Devens, a star player on the women's field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse teams. "It was a mixture of tears and laughter," said assistant women's lacrosse coach Marianne Bocock. After the discussion, attendees walked in a candlelight procession to the Bema, where they formed a circle and blew out their candles in turn after making comments about Devens. "I thought it was a very fitting service," said women's field hockey coach Julie Dayton.

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Summer brings house members closer together

By Aran Toshav | July 13, 1995

The College's Greek system is no exception to the unofficial mandate that students must bond with their class during sophomore summer. "It's a lot like camp -- sometimes it is absolutely juvenile," said Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity summer President Matt Richardson '97.

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Devens' death ruled a suicide

By Justin Steinman | July 13, 1995

Essex Police Inspector Donald Wolfe said yesterday the Massachusetts state medical examiner has ruled the death of Sarah Devens '96a suicide. Devens, a three-sport varsity athlete at the College, shot herself Monday afternoon at her home in Essex, Mass.

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Dash speaks on teen parents

By Tim Fitzgibbons | July 13, 1995

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Leon Dash said permissiveness and lack of education are responsible for high teen pregnancy rates in inner-city American in a speech yesterday afternoon. Dash addressed possible reasons for the high numbers of children who become parents to an audience of about 60 people in 105 Dartmouth Hall. He spent 17 months living in the Washington Highlands section of the District of Columbia, one of the city's poorest sections, conducting interviews with area residents for several weeks to learn inner-city teenagers' motives for having children so early. "Girls out here know all about birth control," one teenage girl told Dash in an interview.

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Student's death stuns the College

By Colin Grey | July 13, 1995

Alumni Gymnasium, perhaps the place where Sarah Devens '96 felt most at home, was somber yesterday as coaches, friends and fellow players continued to cope with the star athlete's tragic death. Devens, who was a three-year starter on the Dartmouth varsity women's field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse teams, committed suicide in her Essex, Mass., home Monday afternoon. "There's just so many memories of Sarah around the gym," women's lacrosse coach Amy Patton said yesterday.

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College offers counseling

By Maggie Fritz | July 12, 1995

On a campus as small as Dartmouth, tragedies like the apparent suicide of Sarah Devens '96 can have a strong impact on the lives of many students. "Anytime a person takes his life, it has an effect on the surrounding community and the people who know the person," Dean of the College Lee Pelton said.

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Dartmouth applications will be on the Internet

By Carol Lee | July 11, 1995

Prospective students will no longer have to hassle with typewriters and correction fluid because they will soon have the option of applying to the College through the Internet. "An application on the World Wide Web for the Class of 2000 will be up and running next year," said Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg. Furstenberg said the Office of Admissions plans to put a free electronic application and viewbook on the Web as an alternative to the traditional paper application. The College is not trying to attract particular groups of students with this new method, but as time goes on, "probably fairly bright, computer-literate" students will be active Internet users, Furstenberg said. Furstenberg said "it will make a huge difference with international students," because the traditional mail system takes more time and is less reliable than the Internet. "When the form is completed the applicant can send the application to the web server, " said Computer Resource Center Manager Andy Williams.

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DDS cuts back summer services

By Rini Ghosh | July 11, 1995

Studentsunhappy with campus dining facilities' shortened summer hours, the new meal plan and food price increases should not expect their problems to be addressed in the near future. "I cannot come up with a solution that would be perfect for all of our students," Director of College Dining Services Pete Napolitano said. "We cannot keep facilities open and staffed" with only 1,000 students on campus, he said, adding that besides extending Food Court's closing time one hour, DDS has maintained the same hours of operation for the past two summers. This term, prices for food items have increased an average of two to three percent, Napolitano said. Even with limited hours and rises in costs , DDS always loses money over the summer, College Vice President and Treasurer Lyn Hutton said. But Napolitano and Hutton's words do little to assuage students who say they are getting gypped. Melissa McBean '97 described the new hours as difficult, while Sarah Nolan '97 said they were "ridiculous." We are "paying the same amount of money and getting one-third of the service," Nolan said.

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Campers spend summer learning, eating grilled cheese

By Tim Fitzgibbons | July 11, 1995

It's 6:30 p.m. on Monday night. While most Dartmouth students are enjoying a relaxing dinner at a half-empty Food Court or still hanging out at the docks, 16-year-old Burdie Renik is in the Bissell-Cohen connecting tunnel of the Choates dormitory cluster, barely breathing. She is in the midst of delivering a rapid argument about why the United States should change its foreign policy toward China as part of preparation for next year's high school debate tournaments. Renik, from Berkeley, Calif., is at Dartmouth with about 60 other high-school students as part of one of the two debate camps that operate in the Choates during the summer. In many ways, the campers may be working harder than undergraduates. The camps operate on a fairly rigorous schedule, at least by Dartmouth standards.Days begin at about 8:30 a.m.

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Freedman opens cancer center

By Siobhan Gorman | July 11, 1995

College President James Freedman called for more cancer research at the dedication of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center's new home. In his first speech since his return from a six-month sabbatical, Freedman traced the origins of cancer and society's attitude toward the disease to illustrate the significance of the NCCC's work. "This is a plea, at a moment of unprecedented scientific opportunity, for attending to the quality of national life and to the health of millions of American citizens," he said.

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Robinson Hall will begin renovations

By Rebecca Siegel | July 7, 1995

The College will begin its $2.4 million renovation of Robinson Hall on August 6 and anticipates the project will be completed by August 1, 1996, according to Assistant Director of Facilities Planning Jack Wilson. The renovations, primarily planned to make the building handicapped accessible, will be divided into two phases. Demolition and construction is scheduled to be completed by March 6, when reconstruction at the front of the first, second, and third floors of the building will begin. The Dartmouth Outing Club and the Forensics Union will be housed in Sherman House, across from the former Mary Hitchcock Hospital, until the second phase of the renovations are complete.

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Campaign reaches original $425M goal

By Jason Casell | July 7, 1995

The College's Will to Excel capital campaign has surpassed its original goal of $425 million with less than one year to go before it ends, according to Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations Stan Colla. Last October, the directors of the campaign decided to increase the goal of the campaign from $425 million to $500 million. While official figures for the end of the fiscal year have not yet been compiled, Colla estimated the total donations now stand at $427 million. "We will be in excess of $80 million for the this fiscal year," Colla said.

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Panhell, IFC elect officers

By Rini Ghosh And Aran Toshav | July 7, 1995

Sophomores Jessica Russo and Jason DiMarino were elected summer presidents of the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils, respectively. Geoffrey Garinger '97, an Alpha Delta fraternity brother, was last night elected vice-president of the IFC, the governing body of the College's fraternities. Members of Panhell,the self-governing body of the College's sororities, elected Epsilon Kappa Theta sister Marcie Handler '97 as summer vice-president. DiMarino, a member of Sigma PhiEpsilon fraternity, said the council has three goals for the summer. The first goal is to make members feel a sense of belonging to the Greek system, as well as their own house.

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