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Toni Morrison: Breaking down boundaries of convention

By Michael Posey | February 10, 1995

Contemplative. Absorbing. Mesmerizing. These adjectives are just some of the few used to describe the often complex and highly structured works of Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison, one of the most preeminent African-American novelists today. Morrison has penned a number of prominent works, including "Sula," "Beloved," and "Jazz" and is among the greatest of contemporary women writers of any color. Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio to parents Ramah and George on February 18, 1931.

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Ski team hosts Carnival

By Jennifer Wulff | February 10, 1995

Winter Carnival at Dartmouth is one of the most exciting weekends of the year. It attracts visitors from all over the country and for 85 years has been a bright point in what is usually a cold and bleak winter. Many people do not realize that the reason the Dartmouth Carnival takes place is the ski races.

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Tri-Delta pleads no contest to alcohol charges, fined $5,000

By David Pichler | February 9, 1995

Delta Delta Delta sorority pleaded no contest yesterday to two felony counts of serving alcohol to a minor and was sentenced to a $5,000 fine, $4,000 of which will be deferred for two years, and 500 hours of community service. Tri-Delta entered a "nolo contendere" plea at Grafton County Superior Court to charges stemming from an incident last spring, said Tri-Delta President Jessica Duda '96. When a defendant enters a plea of no contest, or "nolo contendere," it means he or she is not admitting guilt but is stating they will offer no defense. The defendant is then subject to being judged guilty and punished as if he or she had pleaded guilty or had been convicted. No individuals were charged with any crime.

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Sugahara wants to reform SA

By Jackie Rose | February 9, 1995

Kenji Sugahara '95, a former Student Assembly member, will soon introduce a plan to completely overhaul the Assembly. Under Sugahara's plan, the Assembly would have a student-elected president overseeing two independent, separate groups -- one dedicated to student services and the other to campus issues. "This is not a motion to abolish Assembly.

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Dragon may move to new location

By Mary Ellen Moore | February 9, 1995

A Hanover neighborhood association might force the College to change its plans to move the Dragon senior society to an empty lot behind Delta Delta Delta sorority. The College needs to move Dragon, which is currently on Elm Street next to Bradley and Gerry Halls, to expand Baker Library, and the Town of Hanover had already approved the move. But the Occom Ridge Neighborhood Association protested the move in Grafton County Superior Court, and now Director of Facilities Planning Gordie DeWitt said the College is looking into moving Dragon near Delta Gamma sorority. DeWitt said the College's Board of Trustees approved the new location this past weekend because the College would like to complete the move by next fall. Although the College does not have a specific deadline for the move, College Real Estate Director Paul Olsen said, "We want to move ahead." "We feel like we owe the Dragon the ability to know when they will be relocated," he said.

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SA toys with idea of reform

By Siobhan Gorman | February 8, 1995

After discussing its ongoing quest to replace Webster Hall and passing a bylaw amendment, the Student Assembly toyed with the idea of forming a committee to restructure the Assembly at its meeting last night.

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Applications rise four percent

By Michael Posey | February 8, 1995

The number of regular applications for the Class of 1999 grew about four percent from last year, marking the fifth consecutive year of applicant pool growth, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Fustenburg. As of yesterday, the number of applicants has grown from 9,522 to 9,920 since last year, according to Admissions Office statistics. Although the total number of minority applicants stayed about the same as last year, the number of African-Americans applying dropped about 12.7 percent, from 411 to 359.

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Dana Meadows: author, farmer, journalist, professor

By Neil Desai | February 7, 1995

"It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the rest of the world for not getting it ... The point has to be made patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day," Dana Meadows wrote in 1972. Meadows, an environmental studies professor at the College, certainly lives by her own credo. Twenty-three years after writing the controversial best-selling book titled "The Limits to Growth," the professor, author, journalist, biophysicist and farmer continues her work by challenging subconscious beliefs that shape our models of thinking, called paradigms. Meadows has lived on a communal organic farm in Plainfield since she first came to Dartmouth in 1972.

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College tops Ivies with number of alcohol arrests

By James M> Hunnicutt | February 7, 1995

Dartmouth had the highest number of liquor law violation arrests in the Ivy League this year with 106, up from 33 the year before, according to a report printed in last week's Chronicle of Higher Education. By comparison, Cornell University had eight arrests for liquor law violations, Harvard University had two, the University of Pennsylvania had one and Princeton, Yale, Columbia and Brown Universities had none. The Chronicle article surveyed crime statistics at 796 American colleges and universities. College Proctor Robert McEwen said the increase in underaged drinking and public intoxication arrests could be due to better enforcement, rather than more incidents of possession. "I think students are drinking less overall, but there's more binge drinking," he said. This term, Safety and Security has encountered fewer inebriated students but has seen higher than average blood alcohol levels, McEwen said.

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Winter wolf being built

By Amanda Lawrence | February 7, 1995

Even though there now is enough snow to complete the traditional Winter Carnival sculpture on the center of the Green, there still is a chance the sculpture will not be completed. Patricia Bankowski '95, who is in charge of building this year's sculpture, said if enough students do not come out to help construct the sculpture, it will not be finished in time for Carnival. "I do have some concerns about the timing of the snow sculpture," she wrote in an electronic mail message.

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