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Dartspeak: The lingo of Dartmouth College

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Editor's note: While reading this vocabulary section, take everything with a grain of salt. Although people do use these words, this section is somewhat tounge-in-cheek, so take it as that. Beast -- The beer of choice in most fraternity basements because of its low cost.


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Ready, set, hike!

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A loud shrieking noise fills the air as an electric guitar, turned to full volume, accompanies the wild screams of "Five forty-five, five forty-five." The tired 'schmen roll over in their sleeping bags on the floor, rubbing their eyes and thinking, "What have I gotten myself into?" And so begins the first day of their Dartmouth Outing Club trips. This fall about 90 percent of the incoming Class of 1998 throws domestic life to the wind and brave the fierce but beautiful New Hampshire wilderness as they hike the highest mountains, canoe the raging rivers, mountain bike the roughest trails and scale the steepest cliffs that New Hampshire offers. Others take leisurely strolls through the woods on "sedentary" hiking trips, go horseback riding or paddle the slow waters on anything-but-stressful fishing excursions. But the trips have one thing in common -- they create a bond between the five to 15 freshmen on each trip that could last a lifetime. Freshmen lucky enough to arrive in Hanover by bus will be greeted by their leaders and the perpetually cheerful "Hanover crew" dancing the Salty Dog Rag. You will dine that night with your "trippies" and your leader.


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Dartmouth's mean green sports teams

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FALL TEAMS - Football 1993 RECORD: 7-3 overall, 6-1 Ivy League. PLAYERS TO WATCH: ILB Josh Bloom '95, OLB Hunter Buckner '94, DB Brian White '95, DT Ben Murphy '95, NG Zack Lehman '95, RB Pete Oberle '96, RB Ambrose Garcia '97, TE Abe Rife '96, WR David Shearer '95, WR Andre Grant '95. OUTLOOK: Memorial Field is the place to be on Saturday afternoons in the fall and with good reason.


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Who's who at Dartmouth

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While freshman probably do not know many people at the College yet, there are administrators they should be familiar with. In the administration buildings, there are a number of very public figures who are working at the top levels of management.


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SA continues work

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The Student Assembly is working to combat the College's Fall term housing shortage by creating a BlitzMail bulletin to help students find off-campus roommates. Summer Assembly President Grace Chionuma '96 said she is going to invite representatives from the Admissions Office, the Office of Residential Life and the Registrar to discuss the reasons for the housing shortage at the Assembly's next meeting. Chionuma said one problem is there is a lack of communication between the three offices and each one is blaming the other for the problem. She said ORL says "there's not much they can do," because of the limited physical space on campus.



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Palumbo '96 arrested

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Dan Palumbo '96 was arrested early Monday morning for underage drinking, after Hanover Police found him asleep on the floor of a friend's room in Topliff Hall. Palumbo, 20, said he and a friend split a six-pack of beer late Sunday night.


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Alumni return to study at College

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More than 200 alumni will visit Hanover in mid-August to study the "Riddles of Creation" and "Great Literature" as part of this year's Alumni College. The Alumni College, a program that allows alumni and parents to spend a week at Dartmouth studying a specific topic, is in its 31st year.


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More women than men support gays

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Women at Dartmouth are about twice as likely to accept homosexual behavior and to support gay, lesbian and bisexual political agendas than men, according to a recent survey gauging attitudes toward homosexuals. Of the 800 surveys evenly distributed last fall to randomly selected members in the four classes by the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Study Committee, 608 surveys were returned.


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Kiewit revokes man's network access

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The College recently suspended Ludwig Plutonium from the computer network for calling The New York Times, "The Jew York Times" in a message posted on an electronic bulletin board. Plutonium, a dishwasher at the Hanover Inn, is known around campus for his theory that the universe is made of plutonium atoms. The Kiewit Computational Center removed Plutonium's name from the Dartmouth Name Directory for 30 days. Plutonium, whose suspension is almost finished, was unable to use the College's electronic mail network or the Dartmouth College Information System Navigator and other programs that use the DND Directory. Plutonium said people complained after he posted a skit called "Neanderthal Park 2" on June 21 on the InterNet -- a computer bulletin board where millions of computers all over the world can browse various topics. Plutonium wrote, "Shown in this skit Mike Wallace as he uncovers the dirt of the black holes (BS for short) of 'The Jew York Times' for Tuesday, June 21, 1994." Plutonium wrote that the skit, which uses the CBS show "60 Minutes" as the background for an interview with the publisher of the New York City daily paper, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., is supposed to make fun of scientists and the "mathematic community." He said in an interview last night at Kiewit that he did not consider the reference to "The Jew York Times" anti-Semitic. Malcolm Brown, director of academic computing, said he would not comment on Plutonium's case.


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Student injured at Tubestock

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Kishan Putta '96 was struck by an outboard motor boat propeller on Saturday afternoon at Tubestock, sustaining a deep gash and bone chips in his left foot and minor wounds in his right foot. Other than Putta's injury, the Tubestock weekend was relatively trouble free.


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DMS researchers funded by tobacco companies

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Although some researchers question the ethics behind accepting money from tobacco companies and the American Medical Association "strongly discourages" it, two Dartmouth researchers say it is just a matter of "personal choice." "Whether one feels comfortable or uncomfortable about accepting money from a foundation associated with tobacco smoke, and all the bad things and bad press associated with that, seems to me a very personal decision," Constance Brinckerhoff, associate dean for science and professor of medicine and biochemistry at the Dartmouth Medical School told the Associated Press Monday. Brinckerhoff and Aaron Barchowsky, assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology, are both conducting studies funded by the council on Tobacco Research. The council is a private organization supported by the major American tobacco companies. Out of the DMS' $40 million research budget, $185,000 comes from the council. In recent months, the tobacco industry has come under fire from the government and the Food and Drug Administration over the possible falsification and concealment of nicotine research. The effect of the highly publicized Congressional investigations has led to examinations of research money provided by the tobacco companies.


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'96 families coming

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More than 800 parents, relatives and friends of sophomores will flood Hanover this weekend for two days of organized activities. Sophomore Family Weekend officially begins on Thursday when 70 family members will stay at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge for "a night of ghost stories and square dancing," according to the schedule. The weekend, planned by members of the Class of 1996, is for family members to "get a flavor for the Sophomore summer and the Dartmouth experience, and have a great time with their ninety-sixes," said Class Vice President Tom Caputo, one of the organizers. "We are certainly excited we have an unprecedented number of parents, family members and friends attending the weekend," he said. Class President Brendan Doherty, Leslie Jennings '96 and Christopher Marston '96 were the other members of the committee formed in the beginning of the Winter term. "We have had a ton of fun putting it together with the people," Caputo said.


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Three arrested

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Early Thursday morning, Hanover Police picked up three underage, non-Dartmouth students and charged them with unlawful possession, Giaccone said. Giaccone said the police are currently investigating Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Sigma Delta sorority in connection with the arrest. "Sigma Delta is aware of the incident.


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Classroom will have interactive computers

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The College hopes to complete construction on its first completely integrated audiovisual and computerized classroom by the start of Fall term 1994, according to Malcolm Brown, director of academic computing at the College. Dartmouth Hall Room 217 will be transformed into a teaching facility capable of displaying both multimedia and traditional audiovisual materials, according to an article written by Brown in Interface, the Dartmouth Computing Services magazine. "We are building the first classroom in the arts and sciences at the College to integrate both digital and traditional media capabilities," Brown said in an interview yesterday. "A number of classrooms have overheads and a number of classrooms have projectors for computer screens, but there are no classrooms with both types of projections," he said. "We have great ambitions for this new classroom," Brown added.


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Leavitt '50 elected alumni president

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Joel Leavitt '50, a former president of a consumer products company, recently took over as president of the College's Alumni Council after being elected by the 105-member group. On July 1, Leavitt replaced Curtis Welling '68 at the helm of the governing body of the College's alumni. The council elected Otho Kerr '79, a vice president at Deutche Bank Securities in New York City, president-elect.



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Jocks wins appointment

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The College's Native American and religion departments recently appointed Christopher Jocks, a Native American dissertation fellow, to be an assistant professor. Pending the approval of his dissertation, "Ideals of Relationship in the Interpretation of Longhouse Traditions at Kahnawake," Jocks will become the third tenure-track Native American professor at the College. "We're very pleased to have him," Native American Studies Program Chair Sergei Kan said.


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A glimpse of Green

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This weekend, the Alumni Affairs Office is bringing a small group of Dartmouth-affiliated people to Hanover to educate them about the current state of the College. The Horizons Program, started in 1962, invites people such as alumni, former College employees and current students' parents to participate in a three-day program, Public Programs Director Barbara Whipple said. This weekend, about 30 "alumni and friends" will attend the program, she said. "We've had usually three [programs] a year and as many as six a year to foster support and understanding for the College," Whipple said.