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Rich '96 joins SA race

By Maggie Fritz | February 28, 1995

Jim Rich '96 yesterday announced his intention to run for Student Assembly president next term. Rich is the fourth to declare his candidacy along with Jim Brennan, Brandon del Pozo and Phil Ferrera. "In the three years I've been here, the Student Assembly has failed to provide a coherent voice for students in the school," Rich said.

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Panelists discuss Asian identity

By Tim Fitzgibbons | February 28, 1995

A panel of five students discussed the Asian-American experience in relation to cultural identity, stereotypes and interracial relations at a forum last night. More than 40 students attended the program titled "What it Means to be Yellow: Exploring Asian-American Identity" in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Panel member Kenji Sugahara '95 said ethnicity plays a secondary role in his life.

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Freshmen hustle to find off-campus housing

By Michelle Kraemer | February 27, 1995

With the release of housing priority numbers for the 1995-96 academic year, members of the Class of 1998 said they are concerned about where they will live next year, while some freshmen expressed their anger with the new system. The Office of Residential Life is taking steps to ease the freshmen's concerns, but Associate Dean of Residential Life Bud Beatty said, "there is no way anybody can predict who will and will not get housing.

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Dartmouth's search for social equity continues after 23 years

By Breeanne Clowdus | February 27, 1995

There are few topics at Dartmouth that can stir up as much passion as the question of gender equity and the Greek system. At a school where fraternity parties dominate the social scene, meaning parties are inherently on men's "turf," some women say it is difficult to find their own social space on campus. And the issue of whether women are equal members of the campus social scene still remains unresolved after 23 years of coeducation. In the near future, the College must face even more controversial issues, including whether there should be more sororities and whether those new sororities' houses should replace fraternity houses. And of course, always hovering in the background of all these discussions is the larger issue of whether it is best for the College to continue having a single-sex social system. Greek sex equity With 15 fraternities, six sororities, three coed fraternities, two coed undergraduate societies, two historically black fraternities and one historically black sorority on campus, there seems to be no doubt that women at Dartmouth have fewer social options than men -- especially in the Greek system. "The Greek system does not reflect sex equity in terms of actual resources available to men and women students," Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco said.

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SA execs condemn ORL housing policy

By Michael Posey | February 27, 1995

The Student Assembly Executive Committee passed three resolutions last night, including one asking the Office of Residential Life to completely redraw housing numbers or to offer services helping sophomores find a place to live. The Executive Committee also passed resolutions calling for the College's Board of Trustees to lobby against Congress' proposed financial aid cuts and another resolution condemning mandatory vehicle registration for students. All three resolutions will be presented to the general Assembly at Tuesday night's meeting. Assembly Vice President John Honovich '97 sponsored a resolution demanding ORL take action to fix problems with the new housing plan, which Honovich's resolution says inherently discriminates against sophomores. Under this plan, Class of 1998 members would be the last group to receive housing.

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DaGLO to hold discussion today

By Colin Grey | February 27, 1995

The Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Organization will hold an open forum this afternoon to address issues surrounding an anti-homosexual flier it received in its Hinman Box two weeks ago. The forum will take place at 4 p.m.

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Capital campaign nears $400M

By David Pichler | February 24, 1995

The College's Will to Excel capital campaign has raised $396 million as of the end of January and is fast approaching its goal of $500 million by June 1996, according to Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations Stan Colla. The campaign has now raised 79.2 percent of its goal in about 76.4 percent of the time. Last October, the directors of the campaign increased its goal from $425 million to $500 million.

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Meyer speaks on assisted suicide

By Mary Ellen Moore | February 24, 1995

William Meyer, a Connecticut man convicted of second-degree manslaughter for helping his terminally-ill father commit suicide, defended his decision in a panel discussion last night. Yesterday's discussion, titled "Compassion -- or Murder: When is Assisted Suicide Homicide?" in 105 Dartmouth Hall was attended by about 75 people. At his father's request, Meyer fixed a plastic bag over his father's head with rubber bands and held his father's hands away from the bag so he would not remove it before the large dose of sedatives he had ingested took effect. "My immediate response was to talk him out of it," Meyer said.

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Moore details regulations

By Rebecca Siegel | February 24, 1995

Director of Student Activities Tim Moore told a small group of potential candidates the guidelines for next term's student elections. "Election guidelines are designed to facilitate the election process," Moore said.

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Reports of genital warts exaggerated

By Michael Posey | February 24, 1995

Women's Health Program Manager Jan Sundnas said reports of cases of genital warts on campus have been exaggerated by students. According to a pamphlet published by the American College Health Association, genital warts are a kind of lesion caused by human papillomavirus, or HPV. Genital warts can be found on the shaft or head of a man's penis or on a woman's vagina, vulva or cervix, the pamphlet stated.

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Three juniors will run for SA president

By Maggie Fritz | February 24, 1995

Three students have announced their plans to run for Student Assembly president next term. Juniors Jim Brennan, Brandon del Pozo and Phil Ferrera have all thrown their hats into the presidential ring. Brennan, the runner-up in last year's presidential election, said he wants to increase the Assembly's credibility by increasing campus respect for the body. "The Student Assembly has been ineffective in the past year and has been the three years I've been at Dartmouth," Brennan said. Brennan, who was on the Assembly over the summer, said he wants to focus on student needs.

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Societies tap members

By Jeffrey Beyer | February 23, 1995

The College's six senior societies tapped and inducted new members this weekend. Phoenix and Cobra are the secret women's societies, and the secret men's societies are Sphinx and Dragon. The College also has two open coed senior societies -- Casque and Gauntlet and Fire and Skoal. Members of senior societies nominate or "tap" members of the junior class for entrance into the society.

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Student charged with wiretapping

By Rebecca Siegel | February 23, 1995

Hanover Police arrested Kimberly Akers, a student at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, yesterday afternoon for allegedly placing two voice-activated tape recorders on a telephone in a Hanover apartment without the owner's consent. Akers is charged with two counts of interception of oral and wire communications. Both charges are Class B felonies. Akers declined to comment on her arrest. According to a press release, Hanover Police investigated the apartment after the victim located one of the recording devices. Akers was released on $1,000 bail and her court date was set for April 12. Possible penalties for a Class B felony include jail time of one to seven years and any other sentence a judge deems appropriate.

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Kritzman speaks on French

By Karen Rose | February 23, 1995

Chair of the Comparative Literature Department and French Professor Lawrence Kritzman said it is necessary to rethink the way French is taught at the college level in a speech before a faculty-dominated audience yesterday. Kritzman gave his speech, entitled "Identity Crises: France, Culture, and the Idea of the Nation," in a filled auditorium in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Rather than speaking about his new book, "Horizons of Despair," Kritzman said he preferred to talk on a subject that has dominated his intellectual life: the study of French. "My greatest pleasures are the nurturances I have received from my students," he said. Kritzman said France is currently undergoing an identity crises.

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Students still feel safe despite recent incidents

By James M> Hunnicutt | February 23, 1995

Although the College has weathered several incidents of trespassing and alleged sexual assault in the last two terms, most students still say they feel safe on campus because of Dartmouth's small size and isolated location. Last term, a student in French residence hall awoke with an unidentified man on top of her in her bed, with the light turned off and a condom wrapper on the floor. Over Winter Carnival weekend, a women in Morton Hall reported an alleged sexual assault and six other students in the East Wheelock cluster reported intruders in their rooms. "It hasn't changed my mind about safety," said James Jung '98, who lives in Morton.

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Matthews talks of 'new world order'

By David Pichler | February 22, 1995

The much heralded "new world order" does exist, at least according to Jessica Tuchman Matthews, who spoke last night to nearly 200 people in Dartmouth Hall. Matthews, who is visiting Dartmouth this week as a Montgomery Fellow, spoke 40 minutes on the current state of world politics in a lecture titled "Old States and New Actors: the Shape of the World of New Politics." Matthews is a columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In her speech, Matthews said the world as it has existed for the last 50 years was an aberration. She said the cold war concerns of national security that once dominated global attention are taking a backstage to new situations on the world stage, making the "nation-state" a less important player in international affairs. "We are on the threshold of a new era in international affairs," she said. She cited some impressive statistics to back her claim. "Our species has caused more change in the planet in the last 50 years than it had in the previous 8,000," she said. Matthews highlighted the recent boom in information technology -- the oft-invoked "Information Superhighway" -- as a major reason for the decreased importance of the nation-state. "The main weapon in the Tienanmen Square uprising was the fax machine, and the first targets of both the '91 and '93 attempted coups in Russia were television stations," she said, emphasizing her point. The increased prominence of multi-national corporations has contributed to the creation of a more global environment, she said.

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