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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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All students become campers during sophomore summer

By Siobhan Gorman | July 7, 1995

"Welcome to Camp Dartmouth," Government Professor Chris Joyner told his International Law class at the beginning of the term. With all the diversions the term has to offer, students may find it difficult to convince themselves they are still at school this summer. Sophomore Jen Jones said she has found more time to go down to the river or to play tennis than she would normally have. "It's been ingrained into our heads that summer is supposed to be fun," Jones said.

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Sherwin speaks on his work as a historian

By Mary Ellen Moore | July 7, 1995

Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding Martin Sherwin spoke to students on Wednesday about his life, his work as a historian and his involvement with the current Enola Gay controversy. In his speech at the first summer meeting of Voices, a club formed last term to facilitate personal interaction and discussion between students and faculty, Sherwin cautioned students about their life choices. "It is very important to think about your life in an evolutionary way," he said.

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Students find COS difficult to navigate

By Colin Grey | July 5, 1995

Two student groups recently filed reports recommending the College provide students with more information on how to file charges with the COS -- which tries not only sexual abuse cases, but also cases involving plagiarism and theft, among other issues. Currently, four College documents give information relating to sexual abuse: the Student Handbook, a pamphlet on the COS, another on sexual abuse, and a letter on how to file a sexual abuse complaint put out by the COS. Many administrators feel these four documents are enough.

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Departments undergo review

By Aran Toshav | July 5, 1995

External review committees recently completed evaluations of the chemistry, French and Italian, German, government and Spanish and Portuguese departments. The results of the reviews, which are part of an on-going, four-year-old evaluation process to evaluate College departments, may be made public when all departments have been reviewed, former Dean of the Faculty Karen Wetterhahn said. Associate Dean of the Faculty in the Social Sciences George Wolford said the College has finished reviewing all the science and social science departments.

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Secret of biological clock found

By Maggie Fritz | July 5, 1995

Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School have moved one step closer to understanding the human biological clock. Through their research, Professor Jay Dunlap, Research Associate Professor Jennifer Loros and Research Associate Susan Crosthwaite discovered the working of the mechanism that enables living organisms to synchronize their internal daily cycles with the earth's rhythm of sunrise and sunset. By studying a simple organism called Neurospora, the researchers found that short bursts of light cause an increase in the gene product that regulates the body's internal pacemaker, resetting the organism's clock according to the time of day. While researchers have long known the effects of light and other time-cues on the behavior of plants and animals, this discovery is perhaps the first step in directly connecting the effects of light to a genetic component of the biological clock, according to a College press release. Several molecular clock components are now known and some researchers believe that all the biological clock's intricate workings will be mapped out within the next decade. "This is a molecular model that may hold true for all organisms," Loros said in a recent College press release.

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Summer Montgomery Fellows visit, lecture

By Maggie Fritz | July 5, 1995

Richard Lamm, a former three-term governor of Colorado and Director of the University of Denver's Center for Public Policy, has returned to the College this summer for his second term as a Montgomery Fellow. Lamm's wife Dorothy, a social and political activist and 16-year Denver Post columnist, will also be a Montgomery Fellow this term. Richard Lamm last served as a Montgomery Fellow for six months in 1987. As part of their current fellowship, the two will each give public lectures, visit classes and meet students. Dorothy Lamm will lecture on "The Road from Cairo to Beijing: Population Pressures/Women Power (The Crucial Connection)" on July 13. On July 25, Richard Lamm will speak about "The Challenges of an Aging Society: Infinite Needs, Finite Resources." Prior to being elected governor of Colorado in 1975, Richard Lamm served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1966-1974.He was an attorney and professor of law at the University of Denver. Richard Lamm has also served appointments at the University of Colorado, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of New Orleans and the University of California Medical School, San Francisco. Lamm has been called "one of the new breed of political analysts" who argues that the challenge of the 1990s is to meet new public needs with an ever limited pool of resources, according to a College press release. The author of five books, Lamm was named one of Time magazine's "200 Young Leaders of America" and in 1993 was awarded the American Humanist Associations "Humanist of the Year" award. Dorothy Lamm has been in many lines of work.

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DOC offers summertime adventure

By Abigail Klingbeil | July 5, 1995

For some students lying out in the sun on the docks is just not enough. For those who need a little bit more adventure in their lives, the Dartmouth Outing Club makes having fun in the sun infinitely easier. The DOC's Ledyard Canoe Club offers students many opportunities to enjoy the vast resources of the Connecticut River. Kathryn Scharbach, '97, a member of the club since the end of Spring term, said "yesterday was the first day I hadn't been out in the river" this term. Mary Hollendoner '98, Ledyard's summer director, said the club is popular in the summer because "instead of just swimming or sunbathing which gets boring after a while, [students] want to take out boats to do something more fun." Hollendoner said the "majority of our business is canoe rental." A student can rent a canoe or two kayaks for $5 per hour or $15 per day during the week and $25 per day during the weekend, she said.

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Library proposals finalized

By Rebecca Siegel | July 5, 1995

The Task Force on the Library of the 21st Century released its recommendations late last term for the new Berry Library, part of a $50 million building and renovations project, which is scheduled to be constructed by the year 2000. The new library is part of the College's north campus expansion plans and will be built adjacent to Baker Library. The task force's recommendations stressed emerging technological advances and the College's responsibility to create integrated space for faculty, staff and students to best take advantage of the College's facilities. Some of the technological advances which the task force cited as being integral to the future of the College include scanners, color printers and photocopiers, high-resolution monitors and microtext readers -- all of which will be available in Berry Library. Since College President James Freedman created the task force in October 1993, its members have worked to determine what would be the best course for the future of the College's library facilities. Freedman asked the 19-member task force, composed of administrators, faculty and students "to think creatively about Dartmouth's library of the future, considering the needs of students, faculty, and others in relation to the impact of electronic information on the library user," the report states. The basic goals for Berry Library, as developed by the task force, include its construction in coordination with the renovation of Baker Library, so as to create two integrated and functional buildings. In its recommendations, the task force stressedthe importance of storing printed information, which would be available to users seeking specific books and articles. The task force also recommended expanding study spaces with access to the printed material and the technological resources.

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Students to create Hindu group

By Colin Grey | July 5, 1995

Sophomores Geeta Bahl and Amitabh Chibber saidthey hope to get a new Hindu student group up-and-running by the end of the summer. Although Chibber said few of the College's Hindu students are deeply religious, this group would allow those students to explore their faith in ways that Milan, the Southeast Asian students organization, does not allow because of its broader focus. "When living at home it is very easy to take parents' religious rituals for granted, and a few of us realized last year that we didn't all just have similar memories -- we also missed the presence of religious worship here at school," Bahl and Chibber wrote Friday in an electronic-mail message seeking student interest. Chibber emphasized the group is only beginning.

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Students work with prison inmates

By Jason Casell | July 5, 1995

While many Dartmouth students are spending hot summer days sunbathing by the docks, others are dedicating their free time to tutoring prison inmates in the Upper Valley as part of the Tucker Foundation's Prison Project. "Part of the importance of tutoring is showing the inmates how most law-abiding citizens live," said Matt Clavel '97, the student coordinator for the Prison Project this term. Clavel, who has been a part of the Prison Project since his freshman year, said the crimes of inmates vary, but students should not be deceived by the appearances of the prisoners. "A lot of them are hard to recognize -- they wouldn't strike you as different," Clavel said.

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CFSC elects summer officers

By Amy Semet | July 3, 1995

The Coed Fraternity and Sorority Council elected its summer officers last week. Theta Delta Chi fraternity member James Freeman '97 will serve as CFSC president. "I am exceedingly pleased to have a hand in the maintenance and possible improvement of the Greek system for the summer," Freeman said. Freeman said that the CFSCwill work on the issues such as the creation of a new sorority and Greek education programs for fall rush. "We have been asked by year-long [CFSC] President Matt Raben '96 to begin to orchestrate the Greek and rush education programs for the fall," Freeman said. "Issues such as the creation of a new sorority are definitely a concern to our class and will certainly be on our agenda, although any sort of final decision will rest on the shoulders of the year-long CFSC," Freeman continued. Freeman said the CFSC will also plan a Greek week, "similar to the one that occurred last summer." "But many issues that will likely become prominent this term will probably stem from the presidents of the individual houses who bring their members' concerns to the CFSC," Freeman said. Bryan Diederich '97, a member of Zeta Psi fraternity, was elected Vice President. "As VP, my primary job deals with judicial affairs within the CFSC system," Diederich said.

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