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Thru-hikers go from Maine to Georgia, make pit-stop with DOC

By Rebecca Sullivan | July 25, 1995

For a night, a day, or maybe several days, hundreds of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers with fictitious names like "Pair O' Aces" and "Fly" will look out over the Green, do their laundry in town and sleep at Foley House in a real bed. But for the greater part of six months, their lives are vastly different than those of Dartmouth students. "Hiking the trail leaves you a lot of space where you don't have to deal with material things," Pair O' Aces said.

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Exchange students marvel at summer atmosphere

By Chung-Mei Lee | July 25, 1995

Exchange students at Dartmouth this summer say they cannot believe Dartmouth's laid-back atmosphere. "As a summer retreat, Hanover is excellent," said Michael Brett, an exchange student from University College London. "It's hard to study when there are so many ways to waste time," he explained.

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Class Dean Teoby Gomez reaches out to 1997 class

By Siobhan Gorman | July 25, 1995

An avid traveler, music lover and football fan, Class of 1997 Dean Teoby Gomez has eclectic interests that go far beyond his office in Parkhurst administration building. Outside Parkhurst A Cuban native, who moved to Chicago at the age of six, Gomez still has a strong appetite for travel both domestically and internationally. He said his favorite trip of all time was when he visited Nairobi and Kenya last summer. "Africa was just so different from anything I had expected," he said.

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Students play safe at Tubestock

By Tim Fitzgibbons | July 25, 1995

More than 1,000 students, alumni and community members gathered in the water Saturday for Tubestock, Hanover's annual floating party on the Connecticut River. Hundreds of students, some sober and some not, participated in the festivities this year, frolicking in the river just north of the Ledyard Bridge and jumping off the porch of the house on the Connecticut known as the "River Ranch." Students who attended the event, a tradition that started in 1987, seemed pleased with their experience. Sarah Marone '97 said she felt the event actually lived up to its hype, probably due to the good weather. "It was fun," she said.

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Car rolls over on highway

By Rebecca Siegel | July 25, 1995

Four Dartmouth students were hospitalized Friday night after their car sped out of control and rolled onto a median, according to a Vermont State Police press release. Zaira Zafra '98 is currently listed in satisfactory condition at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center after she was treated for cuts to her face. The driver, Shephathiah Gordon '98, and the two other passengers Peter Sperger '98 and Ximena Arata '98 were treated at the DHMC and released, according to a hospital spokeswoman. In a telephone interview from her home in New York yesterday, Gordon said no one in the car had been drinking.

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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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