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Rich '96 rebuffed over SA application process

By James M> Hunnicutt | May 10, 1995

Student Assembly President-elect Jim Rich '96 last night addressed the Assembly about his plans to seek applications from members of the Class of 1997 for the positions of chair and vice chair of the Summer Assembly. But Rich was challenged by several Assembly members when he announced his intention to open the application process up to the entire Class of 1997. After Rich said "I'll run an ad in [The Dartmouth] to open it to the entire '97 class," Assembly President Rukmini Sichitiu '95, Stacie Steinberger '98 and other Assembly members quickly spoke out against his proposal because it apparently violates the Assembly's constitution. Sichitiu said the Summer Assembly chair and vice chair must be selected from either this year's or next year's elected Assembly. After acknowledging the correction, Rich said he would instead contact only sophomore members of both Assemblies about filling out applications. "My goal was to make this process fair," Rich said.

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Voice-mail may be offered

By Jennifer Whetsell | May 10, 1995

As part of a new telephone system Dartmouth installed at the end of Fall term, the College may offer students voice-mail service starting this fall. Director of Administrative Services Marcia Colligan said, "We ... hope to be able to make [voice mail] available in the fall." Voice mail is a feature that allows callers to leave messages at a central electronic storage location.

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Interest in science expands at Dartmouth

By Neil Desai | May 10, 1995

As nationwide interest in biotechnology fields and medical school grows, the interest in science-related fields at the College has also increased dramatically in recent years. "I think science interest has increased because society is becoming more technically based and run," physics major Chadwick Cook '95 said.

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Lightfoot '92 still detained

By Rini Ghosh | May 10, 1995

Three week after federal officials took Anthony Lightfoot '92 into custody as a suspect in the case of a hate letter sent to the treasurer of the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association, Lightfoot still has not been arrested or formally charged with the offense. A clerk in the U.

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DG, in rush overhaul, tries to gain members

By David Pichler | May 10, 1995

In an attempt to draw new members into its organization, Delta Gamma sorority is allowing up to 30 freshman women to forego formal Greek house rush next fall by committing to join the house now. DG President Abbey Henderson '96 sent a letter to all women in the Class of 1998 this week, saying the house is offering them "a unique opportunity to join a sorority without going through the formal rush process this fall." The letter was also signed by Panhellenic Council President Dani Brune '96 and Panhell Vice President Jess Drolet '96.

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Defying stereotypes, photographer returns

By Jack Vaitayanonta | May 9, 1995

As students marched on the Green and chanted anti-Playboy slogans yesterday, they probably imagined a seedy, unshaven man with greasy hair, gold chains and chest hair protruding from a tacky disco-era shirt, snapping away with his camera at some helpless Dartmouth coed. But Playboy photographer David Mecey said he is just a regular sensitive guy.

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After scaled-down report is released, students react

By Maggie Fritz | May 9, 1995

Students received the final recommendations of the Committee on the First-Year Experience with a mixture of disappointment and relief yesterday. In a report released to the College community yesterday, Dean of the College Lee Pelton drastically scaled down the committee's original proposals.

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Students protest Playboy arrival

By Jack Vaitayanonta | May 9, 1995

As photographers from Playboy Magazine interviewed Dartmouth women yesterday at the Hanover Inn, about 35 students marched around the Green and rallied outside The Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts to protest the magazine's visit. Playboy photographer David Mecey and two assistants arrived in Hanover Sunday to interview women interested in posing for the magazine's upcoming "Women of the Ivy League" pictorial that will be published in the October issue. Mecey said he conducted preliminary interviews with nine women yesterday and will speak with another four today at the Hanover Inn.

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Dedicated to battling sexual assault, Veto '93 helps women

By Allison K. Hoffman | May 9, 1995

When asked to imagine someone who dedicates her life to battling sexual assault, most would imagine a woman ready to use a sword of harsh words and armor of emotional withdrawal to fight male violence. Liza Veto '93, assistant coordinator of the College's Sexual Awareness and Abuse Program, with her warm smile and welcoming personality, in no way resembles this stereotype.

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D-Plan made coeducation possible in 1972

By Jacqueline Rose | May 9, 1995

College students often grumble about the problems that the Dartmouth-Plan causes in their lives: long separations from significant others, a lack of stability in housing and the destruction of the community at the College. But when the College adopted the D-Plan in 1971, the program was actually seen as the solution to a rather difficult problem the College faced at the time. When the College finally decided it was ready to take the plunge and become fully coeducational in the early 1970s, it faced a dilemma: how to admit 1,000 female students without building new facilities or decreasing the number of male students at the College. The D-Plan solved this dilemma by creating a year-round academic calendar that included a summer quarter, which maximized the usage of the College's facilities.

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Class Officers meet over weekend

By Jeffrey Beyer | May 8, 1995

Approximately 450 alumni from more than 70 classes came to Hanover this weekend for Class Officers' Weekend, where they shared ideas and common problems and listened to a speech by Acting College President James Wright. The annual weekend, which is organized by the Alumni Relations Office, provides an opportunity to teach the new class officers from the senior class about their responsibilities and to train them for their officer positions, according to Jan Bent, the acting associate director of alumni relations. In addition, this weekend provided the first opportunity for the majority of the alumni to meet Nelson Armstrong, the new director of alumni relations, Bent said. Various meetings and panel discussions were held throughout the weekend, including meetings of the various officer associations.

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AAm asks Hunter to defend himself

By Jeffrey Beyer | May 8, 1995

Afro-American Society President James Hunter '95 has come under fire within the AAm for what members have deemed his failure to address allegations made against him in recent weeks by The Dartmouth Review, an off-campus conservative weekly. The Review has alleged Hunter was found innocent of sexual abuse in a Committee on Standards hearing earlier this year.

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New magazine to feature work by minority students

By Mary Ellen Moore | May 5, 1995

Attempting to fill what they see as a void of expression on campus, a group of students is starting a new literary magazine to showcase the work of minority students. "This magazine is open to all Dartmouth students but especially to encourage, show and highlight the writings of students of color," said Jen Daniel '97, who is the editor of the new magazine, which is titled Snapshots of Color. "It is a forum to allow them to express themselves when they wouldn't have been able to otherwise," Daniel said. She said the magazine will include all types of artwork: poetry, short stories, drawings, photography and autobiographies. "I think it's something that will be beneficial to the whole Dartmouth community.

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Allison speaks on her life as a lesbian

By Caroline Timbers | May 5, 1995

Dorothy Allison, a renowned author of lesbian literature, read excerpts from her soon-to-be published novel, "Two or Three Things I Know for Sure," and related her writing to her personal experience to about 75 people last night. In her books, Allison uses themes that relate to her own life: growing up poor, female and lesbian, and having to deal with dysfunctional familial relationships. "Sometimes the stories you don't tell people are the things you need to tell people," said Allison, who is perhaps best known for her book "Bastard Out of Carolina." She spoke about the role of the working class in American society and described it as the "grease that runs the machine." Allison said she objected to the perception of women in the working class as "wide-hipped baby machines ... predestined." Allison also spoke of the negative influence society has on female relationships.

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Pelton to announce administrators

By Alicia Jennings | May 5, 1995

Dean of the College Lee Pelton said he will soon announce the College's plans to address concerns presented by two minority groups that have asked the College for additional support and resources on campus. Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Organization co-Chair Earl Plante '94 said Winter term that the College tentatively planned to hire two new administrators, one to advise the gay, lesbian and bisexual community and one to advise the Latino community. Pelton said yesterday he would not comment on how the College plans to address the needs of the two communities, but said he would use existing resources to address their needs. "Our policy will be to, as a matter of principle, support all students for them to achieve their potential," he said. "Any decisions on this issue in particular will be made with this in mind," he said.

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Women writers will meet for conference

By Meg Thurlow | May 4, 1995

This weekend ten contemporary women authors will visit the College for a writers' conference titled, "Books and Other Acts: Contemporary Women Writers and Social Change." Dorothy Allison, Toni Cade Bambara, Esther Broner, Cherrie Moraga, Grace Paley, Dolores Prida, Ninotchka Rosca, Leslie Marmon Silko, Meredith Tax and Paule Marshall will all be on campus this week discussing their work. The writers plan to read from their works and initiate debates on "the questions facing women writers today," according to a press release. "The conference focuses on the very heart of a liberal arts education: How do the books we read help us understand, face or change the problems in our increasingly polarized society?" Diana Taylor, Spanish and comparative literature professor. "I feel that since the 1960s, women writers in the United States have been at the forefront of this inquiry," Taylor said. Taylor is also the coordinator of the Institute for Women and Social Change, an organization formed by Dartmouth faculty to address the role of women in current social issues. The Institute is sponsoring the conference that will examine "the relationship between women's political commitments and their artistic practice," the release stated. Women's Resource Center Director Giavanna Munafo said the conference is important especially "for a campus like this one, with its outstanding academic and intellectual climate, to recognize that creative action and political action can be fruitfully aligned." In the introduction of her book "Long Walks and Intimate Talks," Paley raises many of the issues that will be discussed at the conference. "We hoped that our work would, by its happiness and sadness, demonstrate against militarists, racists, earth poisoners, women haters, all those destroyers of our days," Paley wrote.

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