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Storm hits Dartmouth

By Maggie Fritz | July 27, 1995

Damage wreaked by yesterday's storm will cost the College somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000 to repair, Associate Director of Facilities Operations and Management John Gratiot estimated yesterday. During the storm, several trees and branches fell and some water damage was sustained, but "nothing horribly severe" occurred, Gratiot said. Parked cars were hit by fallen trees and branches at a number of locations on campus, Gratiot said.

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Lamm speaks on age- old challenges

By Jason Casell | July 27, 1995

With his sleeves rolled up and sweat glistening from his brow, Montgomery Fellow Richard Lamm looked ready to start work on solving the problems facing an aging American society. Lamm delivered a speech titled "The Challenge of an Aging Society: Infinite Needs, Finite Resources" to a capacity crowd of over 130 people in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences Tuesday night. "Two demographic patterns endlessly haunt me -- the changing ethnic composition ... and the absolutely staggering change in the average age in the United States," Lamm said. According to Lamm, who serves as the director of the Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues at the University of Denver, the average American's life expectancy has increased by 29 years since 1900, at the rate of three months per year. Only Sweden and Norway have elderly populations proportionally as great as the United States, Lamm said. Referring to himself as a "reformed politician," the former three-term governor of Colorado addressed his topic with a sense of humor that kept the crowd laughing intermittently throughout his speech. Lamm said the fastest growing population in the United States is people more than 100 years old. "Willard Scott gets 400 letters a week," Lamm said, referring to the Today show weatherman who announces birthdays of people turning 100 on the television program. Citing statistics on transparency slides, Lamm said the United States spends 11 times more on people over the age of 65 than on children. "Leona Helmsley is on Medicare, and 30 percent of children have never seen a dentist," Lamm said. Lamm said ethical considerations make choosing what to do with the elderly a difficult process. "What do you do with a 90-year-old with a heart condition dying in a nursing home?" he asked.

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Today's marijuana puts users in greater danger

By Rebecca Siegel | July 27, 1995

Many health-conscious Dartmouth students will be concerned to hear new studies have proven marijuana to be more dangerous than previously believed. Director of College Health Services Dr. Jack Turco said today's marijuana is much stronger than it once was and is often laced with crack and cocaine. "People form opinions about marijuana based on their experience with it 20 years ago," he said.

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Sophomore parents come to campus

By Amy Semet | July 27, 1995

It's time to clean your room and do your dirty laundry. Your parents are coming to town. This weekend, the 1997 class council will sponsor Sophomore Family Weekend.

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Pelton appoints new budget director

By Maggie Fritz | July 27, 1995

Richard Heck will replace Matthew McManness as executive officer in the Dean of the College's office in mid-August. Heck has worked as the director of the budget at Colgate University for the past 16 years. As executive officer, Heck will oversee "budget and financial matters that pertain specifically to the Dean of the College's office,"Assistant Dean of the College Janet Terp said. These areas include residential life, student life and athletics, Terp said.

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Jim Rich '96 calls for unity in SA

By Abigail Klingbeil | July 26, 1995

Most freshmen students will get their first glimpse of Student Assembly President Jim Rich '96 as he delivers a speech at convocation. Rich said he hopes to"give a perspective of Dartmouth from an upperclassmen who has maybe seen and experienced some of the things they are about to experience." But he already has some advice for incoming first-year students: "Be involved actively in making Dartmouth a better place because it's small enough that every student can make a difference." This is advice Rich himself seems to have followed. Rich's experiences at the College range from being captain of the men's tennis team to a member of the Committee on Standards. And then Rich, a government major from Bedford, N.H., ran in the spring for Assembly President, using the slogan, "Not for the right, not for the left -- for Dartmouth." He won with 32% of the vote. "Be open to participate in all sorts of different activities at Dartmouth -- both academic and extra-curricular."Rich added. "Get to meet as many people as you can and to really engross yourself in this place because you only have four years to experience it," he added. He said although he would never have chosen another college, he recognizes there are things at Dartmouth that need changing.

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Hooked on silicone: Computers dominate students' lives

By Mary Ellen Moore | July 26, 1995

After arriving on campus, freshmen will have their eyes opened to a whole new world: BlitzMail. During orientation, freshmen will get their computers, lug them back to their rooms and figure out how to plug them in, and then forget about their telephones as soon as they log on to the College's electronic-mail network. Over the ensuing weeks, first year students will constantly battle the urge to sign on to a computer every five minutes to see if they have received any "blitzes." Because computers are everywhere on campus, students will not suffer from BlitzMail withdrawal.

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The Class of 1999: Not all birds of a feather

By Rini Ghosh | July 26, 1995

Wearing spotless Dartmouth caps and smelling of home-laundered clothes, members of the Class of 1999 may look very similar as they arrive for their freshmen trips, but this seeming uniformity is just a thin disguise, covering up a wild array of pre-college experiences. According to information compiled by Senior Associate Director of Admissions Maria Laskaris, incoming students have accomplished many extraordinary feats. People who are worried about how incoming students will make it around the bonfire 99 times for the annual Homecoming tradition can breathe a sigh of relief when they learn of the exceptional athletic accomplishments of some students. One freshman was a discus thrower in the first Junior Olympics, while another won a gold medal for skiing in the 1994 Parolympics for the handicapped. Another member of the Class of 1999 participated on the Junior Olympic volleyball team, while someone else showed a talent for freestyle skiing by receiving a national rank. A gold medal graced the neck of a student who competed in the biathlon event of the Empire State Games and someone flexed his or her muscles the right way to become a state champion for power-lifting. A student has also been a national team captain for soccer. The rhythmic talents of the class also stand out, as students can perform Galician dance, Greek dance, Indian dance and Irish dance.

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Opulauoho sees bright future for Student Assembly

By Jack Vaitayanonta | July 26, 1995

Students on campus always have something good to say about Kelii Opulauoho '96, proven by his landslide victory in the student assembly vice presidential election this spring. Opulauoho was elected vice-president of the Student Assembly by 44 percent of the vote.

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Take some advice, you clueless 'shmen

By Tim Fitzgibbons | July 26, 1995

Your first academic year at the College can be a difficult thing, but in order to counter general first-year inexperience, the administration has set up an extensive system of advising to help you pick and choose your courses. The most important person in the system is the faculty advisor. Since the fall of 1990, all students have been assigned to a member of the faculty who assists in course selection and general academic planning, said Dean of Freshmen Peter Goldsmith. Students receive their assignment when they arrive on campus. Generally, efforts are made to match students with teachers in their area of academic interest, Goldsmith said. Due to a large number of students who plan to major in the sciences when they first arrive in Hanover, students planning to major in biology, chemistry and other similar fields may not receive an advisor in their academic concentration. The students are required to meet with their advisors at least twice: once during orientation to select fall courses, and again at the end of the Fall term to choose winter classes. After that, "the frequency of meetings is up to the individual student," Goldsmith said. Other resources exist in the advising system besides faculty advisors. Undergraduate advisors and class deans can also serve as valuable resources for advice about classes and choosing a major. "The deans are always available to students to talk about course choices," Goldsmith said. Undergraduate Advisors "have an official function in the academic advising system," he said.

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The answer is Professor Nichols

By Charles Davant | July 26, 1995

Government Professor Tom Nichols is a strange man. Fluent in four languages, an accomplished Sovietologist and five-time champion on the television game show Jeopardy!, he says he is proudest of his graduation from college. "Where I come from, that is a significant accomplishment," he said. Nichols, who comes from a working class Massachusetts family, said his second language, Greek, came easily, since he is one-half Greek.

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Bill Cook inspires passion

By Charles Davant | July 26, 1995

English Department Chair Bill Cook's office in Sanborn House is smaller than you might expect. Subdued wooden shelves and colorful African murals cling to the ancient walls, and the tables and floor are lost in piles of dusty books. The clumsy disarray is both scholarly and unconventional, like Cook himself. One of the strangest professors at Dartmouth, Cook is also one of the most popular. "Probably because of my good looks," Cook joked, his grin exposing two rows of flashing teeth and raising the gray lassos of his trademark mustache.

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Students search for good study space

By Colin Grey | July 26, 1995

Three weeks into their first term at the College, freshman will run into one of the most puzzling quandaries of their Dartmouth career: where to study for midterms. The options are endless, but one could easily run into the danger of wandering aimlessly from locale to locale in search of the just the right atmosphere to kick your cerebellum into gear. A good start would be the Tower Room at the top of Baker Library.

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Dartmouth echoes with music from Cloutier '98

By Charles Davant | July 26, 1995

You may not see a lot of Clarice Cloutier '98 when you come to Dartmouth -- but you will probably hear her. An award winning student of Russian who last saw the inside of a classroom in fifth grade, Cloutier is also the principal violinist in the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, a violinist in the Honors Quartet and a fiddler in the Wild Rovers, a traditional Irish folk band. And though she said in her usual, off-hand fashion that she is a typical Dartmouth student, for once, Cloutier may be wrong. She was in fourth grade when her parents approached her with the idea of stopping her classroom education and replacing it with "private tutoring," as she likes to call it. "We talked about it for a year," she said.

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Dartmouth athletic teams are open to all freshmen

By Karen Rose | July 26, 1995

For students not recruited to a Big Green athletic team, there are still many ways to get involved in Dartmouth sports, most of which are not as difficult as you might think. "For anyone who wants the opportunity to try-out, that chance is given to them," Associate Director of Athletics Jo Ann Harper said. Although most of Dartmouth's teams are primarily recruited, all teams consist of some walk-ons, Harper said.

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Dean Goldsmith has high expectations for this year's freshman class

By Maggie Fritz | July 26, 1995

Knowing Dean of Freshmen Peter Goldsmith began his career as a camp counselor might make it a little easier for incoming students to approach their class dean for help. Goldsmith, who has been dean of freshmen at Dartmouth for the past two years, said he developed the basis of his philosophy about young people during the summers he worked as a camp counselor as a young man. "In that time I developed an approach to young people, which presupposed that most of the time they would behave as responsible, mature human beings," Goldsmith said.

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