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Construction on new psychology building likely to start next spring

By Charles Davant | May 22, 1995

Construction on the new $19 million psychology building will likely start next spring according to officials from the Office of Facilities Planning. "If we start in spring of 1996, we hope to have the building open in the fall of 1997 or the winter of 1998," Assistant Director of Facilities Planning Reed Bergwall said. The still unnamed building will be built across from the site of the old Mary Hitchcock Hospital on Maynard Street, which will be demolished this summer. So far the College has not been able to find a major donor for the psychology building. Vice-President of Development and Alumni Relations Stan Colla said if someone donated 51 percent of the $19 million price tag, they would be able to name the facility. To make up for the shortfall, the College Board of Trustees decided to fund the building from the College's endowment, Director of Facilities Planning Gordon DeWitt told The Dartmouth in a previous interview. But despite problems finding a large donor, there have been several smaller donations to name various parts of the building, such as classrooms, Colla said. "As we get gifts to name portions of the building they will replace the money," from the endowment, he said.

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Society marks 75 years of community service

By Suparna Dutta | May 19, 1995

The Green Key Society, a group of 20 students dedicated to service to the College community, has evolved into a much different organization today than when it was founded 75 years ago. The Green Key Society was started when the Dartmouth football team visited the University of Washington and were impressed with the hospitality of the University's service organization, "Knights of the Hook." The "Knights" greeted the football team at the train station, provided transportation and guides, and introduced the players to women in the area.

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Party weekend just for students

By James M> Hunnicutt | May 19, 1995

The typical Green Key activities, such as weekend Greek parties and events on the Green, are not attractive to those who are not undergraduates at the College, making the weekend just like any other. Faculty, administrators, Dartmouth staff and townsfolk say Green Key Weekend means very little to them -- this weekend's events are for the students. "Green Key I've never quite hooked into," Biology professor Jonathan Rothblatt said.

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Spring party weekends common around the Ivy League

By Michael Posey | May 19, 1995

Throughout the Ivy League and other prestigious New England colleges, the arrival of spring is celebrated in a similar way to the College's annual Green Key Weekend. Most colleges and universities around the country and all of the Ivy League schools, with the exception of Harvard University, host some kind of spring celebration usually designed to act as a diversion from impending finals. Princeton University features several events during the Spring which help to bolster school spirit.Communiversity Day, P-Parties, and Spring Fling are among their most recent spring parties. Communiversity Day, which was held on Earth Day, is a day for town residents and students.Stores along the college's main street closed in order to celebrate the events.Vendors and booths selling odds-and-ends (mostly art) sponsored the day, according to Colette Curran, a sophmore. The P-Party headlined the band Toad the Wet Sprocket. Spring Fling also featured area bands including Naildriver, Too much Joy, and Dead Serious.The event was sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Government. Although many officials at other schools noted the involvement of drinking and Greek events during their own respective spring festivities, many of the area's collegiate spring weekends have championed activist issues such as AIDS and environmental causes. Columbia's annual spring festival is a huge event for its students.

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College, town prepare for Green Key

By Nathaniel Leclery | May 19, 1995

With Green Key Weekend upon us, the College and the town of Hanover have been preparing for an expected increase in activities and large inflow of people. According to Rebel Roberts, Safety and Security crime prevention officer, there is often a significant increase in the numbers of people on campus. "It depends on what's happening on campus and on other variables such as the weather and what's going on at other campuses," Roberts said. During Green Key there will be an increase in the number of Safety and Security personnel. "Student Activity organizations ask for personnel for their special events so we will have additional personnel available for Green Key," Roberts said. Safety and Security also takes other precautions for Green Key, including posting bulletins in residential clusters explaining the dangers that often accompany a large weekend. "We usually have an increase in incidents," Roberts said. Two years ago, Safety and Security reported eleven cases of inebriety, five of alcohol possession by a minor and three cases of disorderly conduct. Last year, ........dont have these numbers yet b/c safety and security hasnt gotten back to me. The Hanover Police Department also takes certain precautions for Green Key.

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Green Key & Mom

By Rachel R. Gilliar | May 19, 1995

What's a Green Key?That's what my mother said when I told her I was writing for the special Green Key Weekend issue of The Dartmouth. Of course, when she first said it I responded with something to the effect of "What are you TALKING about!?" because for some reason that pre-teen, infantile impatience still pops out every so often when I speak to the adults who gave birth to me or conceived me. Besides, you can't just admit that you have no clue what Green Key is when you are writing an article on it, especially to a parent who has unwittingly pointed this out. So it wasn't until I got off the phone with Mom that I began to contemplate the idea of what Green Key Weekend is.

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Melnyczuk awards writing prizes

By Aditya Dutt | May 19, 1995

Author Askold Melnyczuk and English professor Tom Sleigh presented the 13th annual writing prizes to 12 students last night in the Wren Room of Sanborn House. Melnyczuk, described by Sleigh as a "post-war, post-industrial, history-laden Orpheus" read chapters from his latest work, "Necessity." He is also the author of another work titled "What is Told," his first novel. After the reading, Melnyczuk presented seven awards.

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Harvard Archvies presents film festival

By Aditya Dutt | May 19, 1995

Employing color, form and rhythm, avant-garde filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Bruce Posner will present a compilation of 15 hand-crafted films that attest to the depth of expression rarely found in 35 mm filmmaking. As a part of the Harvard Film Archive, the presentation titled "Spirit Stream Storm" has received rave reviews nationwide for its exuberance, sensuality and energy. Art New England billed it as "a stimulating rush, invigorating as a sensual experience and laudable love-fest for the tactile pleasures of celluloid at the end of its century of dominance." "Spirit Stream Storm" is organized into three sections of films that are separated by musical interludes, which add an auditory component to go hand-in-hand with the films. Along with Brakhages hand-painted gems and Posner's mesmerizing collages, tonight's 94- minute presentation also features artists such as Charles and Ray Eames, Kurt Kren, Sergei Paradjanov, Amanda Katz, Jose Antonio Sistiaga and Thierry Vincens. "Spirit Stream Storm" will be shown in the Loew Auditorium at the Hood Museum of Art. Ticket information is available through the Loew box office.

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Class of '61 to donate a statute of Frost

By Jacqueline Rose | May 18, 1995

Even though famous American poet Robert Frost never graduated from the College, he will soon become a permanent fixture on Dartmouth's campus. The Class of 1961 will donate a life-size statue of Frost, who enrolled as a member of the Class of 1896, to the College, English Department Chair William Cook said. Cook said he met yesterday with American sculptor George Lundeen, J.

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Students wonder if reform will work

While most people agree the Student Assembly External Review Committee's recommendations are a step in the right direction, the one thing they say the recommendations cannot change is human nature. Even if the new "Undergraduate Council" is approved -- which is certainly not guaranteed -- students say reform will not succeed unless the council attracts members who are dedicated to representing and serving students. The committee's final report, released Tuesday, calls for changes in the Assembly's representation, structure and election procedures to make student government more accountable, responsible and unified. Some of the committee's major recommendations include: having presidential and vice presidential candidates run on a ticket, creating seven new vice presidents -- appointed by the president -- to oversee committees, limiting membership to 50 students, having each class select eight representatives and having one-third of the membership be appointed. "Yes, the Student Assembly has a lot of structural problems and yes, hopefully this report will be able to solve them," former Assembly member and Conservative Union At Dartmouth President Bill Hall '96 said. "But the Student Assembly's biggest problem is not with the structure of the Assembly, it is with the people involved in it," he said. And that is the essence of the problem -- it is easy to change the Assembly's name, it is not too difficult to change the Assembly's structure but it is very difficult to change the people who have created the problems in the Assembly during the last several years. "I do not think the Assembly can be reformed unless the people on the Assembly are absolutely dedicated to serving the student body and not serving individual needs," former Assembly member Jim Brennan '96 said. Class of 1995 Vice President Hosea Harvey, who chaired the reform committee, said the very nature of the new Undergraduate Council will "invigorate" students and motivate them to work for the benefit of all students. Harvey said underlying the organization's name change is a new philosophy that will change the dynamics of the body. But Hall said student government needs more than a new philosophy.

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Dole's campaign adviser denounces Bill Clinton

By Caroline Timbers | May 18, 1995

Conservative political strategist Floyd Brown denounced President Bill Clinton as ineffective and said his administration has been scarred by the criminal probes he and other members of his administration have faced. "He promised us clean government," Brown said.

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Asgard may become an undergraduate society

By Jacqueline Rose | May 18, 1995

Asgard, a student group dedicated to providing nonalcoholic programming, is thinking about becoming the College's third undergraduate society, according to Keith Lavigne '95, a former executive officer for the group. A task force co-chaired by Emily Jones '95 and Health Services Director Dr. Jack Turco to comprehensively evaluate alcohol at the College will recommend that Asgard become an undergraduate society, Lavigne said. Although most of Asgard's officers declined to comment about the organization's future, Lavigne said Asgard held a special meeting Tuesday night to discuss the fate of the meeting. At the meeting "we were trying to put together something to tell the task force," he said.

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Alien experts to speak on Sunday

By Karen Rose | May 18, 1995

Two of the world's leading experts on extraterrestrials will speak at the College this Sunday. Bestselling author and worldwide authority on the "crop-circle phenomenon" Colin Andrews, along with Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist John Mack will speak at a day-long program beginning at noon in Cook Auditorium. Mack is a psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School and has investigated about 100 cases of supposed extraterrestrial abduction through interviews and the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness to explore his clients' accounts. He is the author of "The Alchemy of Survival," "Nightmares and Human Conflict" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Prince of Our Disorder." "Around 1965, Mack was seeing patients who really believed they were crazy because they were having these hallucinations," said Martin Hussey, a local resident who is organizing the conference.

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