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Speaker says bias is fading

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In a speech Wednesday afternoon, Colgate University Professor Jack Dovidio '73 said white people still discriminate against black people, although in different ways than in the past. Dovidio, a psychology professor, gave a speech called "Modern Racism: From Individual to Social Policy," to about 35 faculty members and students in the Hinman Forum of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Dovidio is one of the final candidates to replace George Demko as the Rockefeller Center Director. In his speech, he said recent statistics show an apparent decrease in white-on-black racism.


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Students discuss dating scene

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At a discussion about dating at Dartmouth Monday night, a group of students decided that the root of the problem with romantic relationships is BlitzMail. The discussion, led by Health Education Coordinator Gabrielle Lucke, combined exercises and interactions to discuss various aspects of dating. About 50 students attended the talk, titled "Can We Talk?


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Tubestock will be held this Saturday

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Tubestock is still scheduled for this weekend because of some frantic planning by members of the Class of 1996 after the event's host apparently called it off earlier this week. Though not all details have been finalized, Tubestock will be held on Saturday starting at 1 p.m.


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Macdonald speaks on a new world

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In a speech Monday afternoon, Theodore Macdonald urged social scientists to work together to try to better understand the problems of today's rapidly changing world. Macdonald, an anthropology professor who heads the Cultural Survival Center at Harvard University, gave a speech on "Doing Social Science in a Disorderly 'New World Order,' " to about 25 students and faculty in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. He said in the past, policy makers would scorn what anthropologists were saying about wars and other disputes. But now, those policy makers are listening more and more to those same anthropologists. "We are aware that we are dealing with a set of significant, but poorly understood actors," he said.


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College prepares for curriculum changes

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As Fall term draws near, the College is ironing out the kinks created by the its first major curriculum change in 40 years. The administration, Committee on Instruction, faculty and various other groups are now in the final stages of planning for next year before the course guide and members of the Class of 1998 arrive. The new curriculum requires students to take courses in 10 narrowly defined fields, including a multidisciplinary course, two lab sciences, a literature course, an arts course and a non-Western course.


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Marks: piping away

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As students walked out of Food Court yesterday, the distinct sounds of a bagpipe could be heard drifting out of the Old Dartmouth Cemetery. The music belonged to Josh Marks '96, a geography major who has become infamous around campus for his piping. Marks studied the bagpipe for six months when he was nine, but quit because he never practiced.


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CFSC works to improve reputation

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The Coed Fraternity Sorority Council is working on several programs and projects this summer to try to improve the Greek system's reputation on campus. CFSC Summer President Matt McGill '96, a brother in Chi Heorot fraternity, said the Greek system wants to show administrators, faculty and students that there are positive aspects to the system, and that the CFSC plans to work to fix some of the system's problems. McGill said the CFSC will sponsor "Greek Week" the first five days in August.


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'94s still hanging around campus

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Whether out of fear of entering the real world or just getting those few extra credits, members of the Class of 1994 are still hanging around after their "graduation" in June. Some "seniors," like Dawn Urbont '94, said they are staying around Hanover to ease the transition into the real world. "I'm kind of here to figure out what I'm going to be doing next," said Urbont, who plans to go into film or television production and is currently finishing up a film she started earlier this year. Another member of the Class of 1994, Heather Searles, is learning Swahili and researching graduate schools this summer.


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Weight, height affect earnings

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Obese 16-year-old girls and short 16 year-old-boys earn less money than others at the age of 23, according to a new survey of more than 10,000 British children by a pair of Dartmouth researchers. The study says important things about British and American society and how "appearance affects how you fare in the labor market" said Dr. James Sargent, a pediatrics professor at the Dartmouth Medical School, and one of the authors of the study. Sargent co-authored the study, published in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, with Economics Professor David Blanchflower. "The effects are very important just as people enter the labor market," Blanchflower told the Associated Press last Wednesday.


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College will look at alcohol policy

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Dean of the College Lee Pelton said the College plans to review Dartmouth's current alcohol policy next fall, a little more than a year after it went into effect. "It was our plan when we made these revisions that we'd have a review of the revisions after the first year," Pelton said.


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Foreign profs visit College

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Once again this summer, professors and students from across the globe are coming to Hanover to mingle with the sophomore class. For many years now, some College departments have sponsored a summer exchange program with universities that house College professors when they are participating in a Language Study Abroad and Foreign Study Programs. The exchange, which enables foreign students to study and take classes during the Summer term at Dartmouth, has been active in departments for close to 20 years, according to Religion Chair Robert Henricks. Organized by the individual departments -- independent of the Off-Campus Programs Office -- the foreign students and professors never formally meet the other exchange students. The foreign students are here to experience studying in America and at Dartmouth, said Richard Fitch, a student at the Divinity School in Edinburgh. He added that they do not get credit for their studies. The exchange enables the foreign students to meet more Americans, said Henry Woudhuysen, an English professor from the University College London. In his three weeks here, James Hall, an English student at the University College London said he observed that "Dartmouth has much better facilities than many of the universities in England." This results in "a real can-do, will-do atmosphere," he said. The combination of computers, the theaters, the library and the Hood Museum make Dartmouth's resources outstanding, said Matthew Tempest, also studying English at the University College London. Carole Hillenbrand, a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies in Edinburgh, is teaching about Islam in the College's philosophy department. She said Dartmouth students "talk more.


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Comet hits Jupiter

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Dartmouth professors at the College's Shattuck Observatory watched through a telescope fruitlessly as a comet smashed into Jupiter late Saturday night and exploded, creating a hole half the size of the Earth. North America is one of the worst places to see the spectacular "celestial fireworks" caused by the collision of a comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9, and Jupiter. Astronomy Professor Richard Fesen said the impact of the first of 21 comet pieces was hidden by overcast skies Saturday night. Two parts of the comet, which are made of ice, smashed into the atmosphere this weekend.


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Woman injured in Hop

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A woman modeling for an art class fell from a table Thursday afternoon, sustaining a bruised brain, fractured skull and the loss of hearing in her left ear. The Hanover Fire Department took Rebecca Wheeler, 23, from The Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center at 3:14 p.m., College Spokeswoman Karthryn Clark said yesterday. Wheeler, who was posing for an intermediate modeling class, is not a student at the College. "I was on a platform covered with a sheet.


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Med school receives $1.35 million grant

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Dartmouth Medical School recently received a $1.35 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to fund a plan aimed at increasing the number of general practitioners. The program, called the Generalist Physician Initiative, will try to recruit, train and retain general practitioners for the Northern New England area, said Dr. Rosemary Orgren, co-director of DMS' generalist education office. DMS Dean Andrew Wallace is the chair of the Generalist Physician Initiative Steering Committee which played an integral role in the development of the Initiative. The plan will provide funding for recruitment of students with an interest in general medicine, educational programs for residents about general medicine and support for current general practitioners, Orgren said. General practitioners, or primary care physicians, include pediatricians and family practitioners.


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Professor Mook hires flunking students

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Physics Professor Delo Mook is hiring his former students to help rewrite his introductory textbook and redesign his entry level courses in an ambitious attempt to help struggling students understand physics. Mook, who is on a one-year sabbatical until the 1995 Fall term, thought up the plan during the past year. The idea developed when he asked a few students to write essays on concepts that were difficult for them to grasp.


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Interim director appointed

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John Sirois '91, former assistant director of admissions, was named acting director of the Native American Program last week. On Monday, Sirois took over the position left vacant by the resignation of the former director Leisha Connors at the end of May. Connors resigned after only eight months on the job, citing "personal reasons" as the cause for her departure. Sirois will serve as acting director during the search for a permanent director for the Program.


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Group looks at Social Issues Night

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A committee formed by the Freshman Office last month is currently working to plan the program for next fall's Social Issues Night for first-year students. The creation of the committee came after a disagreement in the spring between the Freshman Office and the Student Assembly Sexual Assault Task Force over how much time would be spent on sexual assault during the two-and-a-half-hour presentation, Summer Assembly President Grace Chionuma '96 said last night. During Freshman Week, all incoming students must attend Social Issues Night, which presents campus issues such as homophobia, alcoholism, sexism and sexual assault. Chionuma, who is the former co-chair of the task force, said she was "beyond upset" and felt "betrayed" by Dean of Freshmen Peter Goldsmith because he reneged on an agreement to give sexual assault and abuse an hour time slot during the presentation. She said Goldsmith promised Co-Coordinator of Sexual Assault and Abuse Issues Danielle Moore '95 the slot last Fall term but at the end of the Spring term he "reversed his decision." Moore said after discussion, an agreement was reached with Goldsmith and Associate Dean of Freshman Tony Tillman on June 1 to form the committee to let students decide what issues will be discussed. Alexis Sainz '96, the current chair of the task force, said the group suggested the committee in the spring after the "disagreement." Goldsmith said there was no battle, but that the creation was "an agreement reached after lengthy conversation." He said yesterday, "The decision how to allocate time will be made by students and it will not involve administrators." He said last night he was pleased with the work of the committee. The committee, lead by Tillman, is composed of students, administrators and faculty, and is open to all students. Tillman, who is on vacation, could not be reached yesterday for comment. Sainz said the Freshman Office is "restructuring Social Issues Night" and that she is optimistic that the committee will give sexual assault issues an appropriate presentation time. Chionuma said, "I believe the people will see the importance of the issue and that the students will decide on an hour for sexual assault issues." But Chionuma said she believes the committee will improve the overall event. Though the task force and the committee are separate, Sainz said many task force members, who meet 30 minutes before the committee meets, are taking part in the planning. Last year the task force battled with then-Dean of Freshmen Diana Beaudoin over how much of the presentation would be devoted to sexual assault during the Social Issues Night for the Class of 1997. The group had requested a separate program for those issues and then negotiated with the administration to get an hour slot.



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Clinton may vacation in New Hampshire

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President Bill Clinton may vacation on southern New Hampshire's Squam Lake before heading to Martha's Vineyard for at least a week in August. According to a July 7 Boston Globe report, a senior White House official, travelling with Clinton on his trip to Europe, said the President may spend a few days in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, possibly on "Golden Pond." The official did not specify whether he was referring to Squam Lake where the movie "On Golden Pond" was filmed. The College owns the Minary Center on Squam Lake. When asked about the President's rumored vacation plans, College spokesman, Alex Hupp e , said, "I have not heard that, but it would be an ideal place.


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'96s find way to altar

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After dating for a little more than a term, two '96s, a brother at Beta Theta Pi fraternity and a sister at Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority, were married Tuesday around 5:15 p.m. Both confirmed the marriage occurred in telephone interviews yesterday afternoon, but were reluctant to provide specific details. "It's just kind of perfect," the groom said.