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Faculty backs COI plan

By James M> Hunnicutt | January 31, 1995

Several faculty members voiced their support of a Committee on Instruction proposal that would allow students to drop a course without permission up until the last two weeks of a term. "I'm favorable to it," Mathematics Department Chair Kenneth Bogart said. Bogart said such a policy would not affect Grade Point Averages or be abused by students because the College already has guidelines restricting how often students can have terms with two courses. Registrar Thomas Bickel suggested the proposal to the COI last term.

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Winter Carnival will start Feb. 9: Even without snow, Kennedy says Carnival still will be exciting

By Karen Rose | January 31, 1995

With or without snow, this year's Winter Carnival will kick off on Thursday, Feb. 9 with ski races and the traditional opening ceremonies. This year's theme is "Call of the Wild," and despite the lack of snow, the Carnival Council and the Programming Board have been busy planning an activity-filled weekend. Events range from the traditional opening ceremonies to slalom races on the Dartmouth Skiway. The Carnival Council, co-chaired by Tamara Busch '95 and Timothy Chow '96 has been working on building the sculpture, creating t-shirts and posters and planning the opening ceremonies. "We always try to select a theme that gets the most campus excitement," Busch said. Dartmouth's Winter Carnival is the nation's oldest collegiate weekend and has been an annual tradition in Hanover since 1911. According to Programming Coordinator Linda Kennedy, Dartmouth students have participated in activities such as the ski races, opening ceremonies and a formal since the first few Carnivals. The Carnival begins on Thursday with the Citizen's Classic Cross Country Nordic ski race and a dance in Collis Common Ground. The weekend will officially start Thursday at 7:00 p.m.

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International Office director to leave

By Jonathan Zimmerman | January 31, 1995

Director of the International Office and International Student Advisor Judy Mackenzie is leaving Dartmouth at the end of Spring term. Mackenzie has been head of the International Office since its founding in 1987.

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Meningitis often strikes colleges

By Caroline Kerner | January 27, 1995

Spinal meningitis, a potentially-deadly infection that often strikes on college campuses and recently appeared at Dartmouth, is an inflammation of the membrane around the brain and the spinal cord that is transmitted through droplets in the air. Slade Ellis '98 is currently in Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in serious condition with spinal meningitis. The two main types of meningitis are viral and bacterial. The viral strain is short-lived and usually benign, but bacterial meningitis can be fatal if not quickly treated with antibiotics.

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Students hold rally

By Rini Ghosh | January 27, 1995

Eleven members of "Students for a United Dartmouth" led a rally in front of Collis last night to protest some of the proposals in the "Report on the First-Year Experience." The 15-minute gathering included four speeches in opposition to the report and attracted about 15 students. The students then went to a "town meeting" led by Dean of the College Lee Pelton to discuss the first-year report. "We're just a bunch of concerned students who are out here to get our voices heard on this important issue," CUAD President Bill Hall '96 said. The report's recommendations include the creation of primarily- freshman residence halls in which students would live on the same hall as other students from their freshmen seminars. Members of Students for a United Dartmouth said they primarily object to the concept of grouping all freshmen together in residence halls. In his speech, Hall addressed his two main objections to the report.

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Ellis '98 recovering

By Breeanne Clowdus And Charles Davant | January 27, 1995

Freshman Slade Ellis regained consciousness and was taken off of a respirator yesterday, following his hospitalization for spinal meningitis two days ago. He remains at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, but doctors upgraded his condition from critical to serious. "It's a dramatic recovery," Director of College Health Services Jack Turco said.

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COCO criticizes proposal

By Charles Davant | January 26, 1995

A memo released by the Committee of Class Officers yesterday criticized proposals in the report by the Committee on the First-Year Experience to create all-freshmen dorms and to group students by their freshman seminar selection. But members of the committee, which is made up of the presidents and vice president of the four classes, still say they still support the gist of the report. The group met with Dean of the College Lee Pelton, who chaired the Committee on the First-Year Experience, Tuesday to discuss the report that suggests ways to increase intellectualism in the first-year and interaction between faculty and students. According to Class of 1996 Vice President Tom Caputo, COCO's memo is "not a 'position paper' of how we feel," but "a memo of concerns and opinions." He said the group wants to work with Pelton to achieve some of Pelton's goals. Among other things, the First-Year Report suggests that all freshmen live in three residential clusters -- the River Cluster, the Choates and the "BEMA Cluster," which would include Wheeler, Richardson and the Fayerweathers. Senior Faculty members would live close to or in the clusters. Instead of necessarily having all-freshmen dorms, COCO suggested that the College could increase the desirability of certain clusters "by adding programs for students," Class of 1995 Vice President Hosea Harvey said. For instance, senior faculty members could still live in clusters without the clusters being all freshmen.

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