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Dean analyzes health care

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He walked like a warrior, greeting people who had come to meet him, flashing his handsome smile, appearing strong and happy despite the historic losses his party suffered in last week's midterm elections. Vermont Governor Howard Dean, a democrat, gave a prognosis of the future of health care legislation in the new political order in which the republican tide washed away many of his colleagues. But Dean is still standing as one of the most popular democrats, garnering more than 70 percent of the vote in Vermont's gubernatorial race. Dean delivered his talk, titled "The Future of Health Care," last night in the Hinman Forum of the Nelson A.


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Nichols out in final round

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Running out of all the right questions, Government Professor Tom Nichols said he played his last game of "Jeopardy!" "I'm turning in my jersey," he said. His Oct.



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Montero speaks of Spain's changes

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Spanish author and journalist Rosa Montero said Spain is currently in "No man's land," in between what it once was and what it wants to become. "I fear that we have the worst of both worlds," said Montero, the keynote speaker in this weekend's symposium on Spain. Montero said the recent history of Spain is more fascinating than the history of any other European country because of rapid transformation in Spanish culture and society.


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Finn pleads not guilty to drug charges

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Mathematics lecturer John Finn '69 and his son pleaded not guilty on charges of cultivating marijuana at an arraignment yesterday in Orange County District Court, Deputy Clerk Dean Martin said. Finn said he and the three people he lives with -- including his son and wife -- are charged with allegedly growing about 198 marijuana plants on their property. Under Vermont statutes, such an offense is a felony punishable by 15 years in prison or a fine of $500,000 or both, Vermont State Police Trooper Rod Hall said. Finn said police arrived at his home in Thetford, Vt.


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Hunger awareness

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With a flurry of activities sponsored by various campus organizations, Students Fighting Hunger kicked off the annual Hunger Awareness Week to combat poverty and homelessness in the Upper Valley. The organizers of the week -- Kim Barry '95, Charlotte Hanley '95, Kenrick Leung '95, Amy McLean '96 and Jun Tsutsumi '96 -- have been planning the week's events since the end of this summer. Students Fighting Hunger has between 15 to 20 core members but Leung said nearly 10 times that many people get involved with Hunger Awareness Week.


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N.H. rabies shots soar after kitten diagnosed

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The recent death of a rabid kitten in a Concord pet store has rekindled the public's interest in rabies, a disease that has become more prevalent throughout the state. Approximately 600 people who had handled the kitten received rabies vaccinations in the panic that followed the incident. Since then, media coverage on rabies has also increased. In 1992, the number of rabies cases in New Hampshire rose from three or four cases per year to 10 cases in three months, creating an epidemic that is still spreading through the state, said Steve Tomajczyk, a public information officer for the N.H.



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Davis stabs U.S. policies

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Professor Angela Davis of the University of California, Santa Cruz blasted U.S. welfare, immigration and crime policies in a speech Saturday night delivered to a packed audience in Webster Hall. Straying away from her anticipated topic of "Examining Laws of Oppressions: Rethinking the U.S.


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Nichols on 'Jeopardy!'

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Government Professor Tom Nichols will make his seventh appearance on the television game show "Jeopardy!" tonight. Nichols is competing in the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions, a two-week event in which all five-time winners from the past season vie for the $100,000 grand prize. So far Nichols' winnings from the show total $57,680. The show will air at 7 p.m.



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Findings on alcohol

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Caucasians drink five times more alcohol than any other ethnic group at Dartmouth, according to a survey about campus alcohol use that focused on ethnic/racial differentiation. The survey, conducted last spring by the Health Resources Department, also found males consume an average of 11.3 drinks per week while females consume an average of 3.7. Binge drinking -- defined as the consumption of five or more drinks in one sitting -- has decreased.


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Panelists discuss ethical dilemmas of AIDS virus

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Lee Works created a moment of palpable emotion among the more than 80 students who attended a panel discussion on AIDS Friday afternoon when he told them of the day he found out he was infected with the HIV virus. Seven years ago, Works had just moved into a new apartment, but he never unpacked, he said. "When I found out I was infected I spent four days sitting in the middle of a hardwood floor just thinking about what I was going to do with my life," Works said. Works and four other doctors presented a variety of clinical and ethical issues related to AIDS, but did not offer any easy answers during a panel held in 105 Dartmouth Hall. Mark Siegler, director of the department of clinical ethics at the University of Chicago Hospital, led the discussion. Also participating were Jim Bernat, professor of medicine and director of clinical ethics at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Jeff Parsonnet, an infectious disease specialist at DHMC; and Ethics Professor Bernie Gert. Parsonnet said DHMC has seven staff members who deal mostly with people infected with HIV. "We tend to think that in this quiet little part of the world this is not that big of a problem, but we are currently following 100 to 150 cases," of HIV positive patients, Parsonnet said. The panel also discussed the problems of treatment drugs and their prices.


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Executives ask Honovich to step down

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At a meeting last night, eight of the 12 members of the Student Assembly's Executive Committee asked Secretary John Honovich '97 to resign -- calling his demeanor "reprehensible" -- but Honovich said he will not step down. Both Honovich and the eight members who signed a letter calling for his resignation said they will try to cooperate and not allow the rift dividing the Assembly to widen. The letter stated Honovich has acted to promote his own interests and has consistently caused "infighting, confrontation, unproductivity, a poor public image, and has run counter to the expectations of the student body we are expected to serve efficiently and honorably." Among these, it said Honovich disrupted Assembly meetings and used his "powers and positions to promote what is thought by the below signed to be your own personal interests." The signatories said Honovich consistently raised his voice at meetings and made jokes, sometimes of a mean-spirited nature, during General Assembly and Committee meetings. Calling the letter "disgusting," Honovich said it was driven by "petty disagreements" between him and other members of the Executive Committee. He said he will not resign since he has acted solely for the sake of students and "because everything that I've done has been to get students involved and it's never been to undermine this Assembly," he said. The signatories said their action follows a term during which Honovich has impeded the Assembly's operation and is not related solely to last week's incident. Last week Honovich sent a BlitzMail message with the names of members who voted to defeat a motion for a student-wide referendum on the proposed meal plan.


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SA fighting spills out over BlitzMail

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Angered by Student Assembly's vote Tuesday against holding a student referendum on proposed meal plan changes, Assembly Secretary John Honovich '97 sent BlitzMail messages to several hundred students, spurring them to protest. Honovich's message urged students to voice their concerns over Tuesday night's outcome to Assembly President Danielle Moore '95 and Vice President Rukmini Sichitiu '95. In his message, Honovich accused Moore, Sichitiu and other Assembly members who voted against the motion of denying their constituency a voice. He wrote, "Members, including the Vice-President and President, claimed that students could not understand the content or the effects of the resolution in order to vote intelligibly.


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Panel disdusses election

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A five-member panel discussed last night what went wrong for the Democrats in Tuesday's election and what is in store for both parties in the wake of huge Republican gains in Congress and governors' mansions. The discussion, titled "Who's in Charge?


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Ivy presidents seek link between race, job choice

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The Council of Ivy League Presidents conducted a survey of Dartmouth seniors yesterday in an effort to examine the implications of racial and ethnic differences on career choices. The council decided to undertake the project, titled "The Minority Pipeline into Ph.D.


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Alcohol policy: discouraging calls for help?

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Differences between the College's alcohol policy and the Hanover Police Department's legal responsibilities could affect the way students seek medical assistance when they or their friends become intoxicated. Dartmouth's alcohol policy contains what is commonly known as the "Good Samaritan Clause," which is designed to encourage students to seek professional help for their intoxicated peers by exonerating all parties from alcohol-related College discipline. "When a student or organization assists an intoxicated individual in procuring the assistance of Safety and Security, local or state police, and/or medical professionals, neither ... [party] will be subject to formal College disciplinary action for (1) being intoxicated, or (2) having provided that person alcohol," the Student Handbook states. Although the policy is grounded in a concern for student health, there are two factors that seem to discourage students from taking advantage of it; students treated by the College infirmary are charged for these services and a call for an ambulance brings in the Hanover Police and leads to an arrest. The police are required to enforce the state's alcohol laws and may initiate investigations following requests for ambulance assistance, Hanover Police Chief Nick Giaccone said. Police separate from policy Giaccone said the police do not follow the "Good Samaritan" policy.


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Trustees explain function

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Three members of the College's Board of Trustees answered questions from students yesterday on topics ranging from alcohol and the Greek system to the way in which the Board hears student opinions. About 50 students attended yesterday's hour-and-a-half forum, which featured Chairman of the Board E.


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CUaD protests freshmen dorms

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The Conservative Union at Dartmouth collected more than 500 student signatures on a petition against the proposal to institute all-freshman dormitories. In its report last spring, the Committee on the First-Year Experience recommended the College convert three dormitory clusters into "Senior Faculty Fellow Clusters" consisting of freshmen, undergraduate advisors and one faculty member per cluster. "We welcome proposals but at the same time, there has to be discussion afterwards, and we're against this one," said CUaD member Andrew Bender '96, who organized the petition. Jim Brennan '96, CUaD's acting co-president, explained the group's motivation to sponsor the petition.