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Hutton to consider new meal plan

By Siobhan Gorman | January 6, 1995

The fate of a new College meal plan proposal will be decided within the next month. The proposal would charge students $70 a term to have a declining balance account, something for which students currently pay no extra fee. Vice President and Treasurer Lyn Hutton said Acting College President James Wright, Provost Lee Bollinger and the Dean of the College Lee Pelton will discuss the proposal in the next few weeks, and if they decide to implement the plan, the new rates will take effect next fall. A task force created to formulate a new plan to eliminate the freshmen punch system in November suggested the current plan that would require students to pay $400 a term for $330 in DBA. The task force prepared a second report supporting the initial proposal after the group held an open forum to discuss the new plan, said Tucker Rossiter, associate director of dining services. "After the [open] forum and my going to Assembly meetings, we were endorsing the plan again," Rossiter said.

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Fowler appointed Rocky head

By Rini Ghosh | January 6, 1995

A faculty panel yesterday approved Syracuse University Political Science Professor Linda Fowler's appointment as head of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences and as a tenured government professor. The Advisory Committee to the President met yesterday afternoon and decided to recommend Fowler's appointment to the College's Board of Trustees. Acting Dean of the Faculty Karen Wetterhahn, the agenda officer for the advisory committee, said Fowler accepted the College's appointment, effective this July 1. "The [College's Board of] Trustees will make the final decision, but I think she is such a strong candidate that everybody is delighted for her acceptance," she said. Fowler said from her home in Syracuse, N.Y.

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College picks first members of '99 class: 173 women and 161 men selected

By Sarah E. Greer | January 6, 1995

For the first time in its history, the College admitted more women early applicants than men this year. According to a profile of students admitted early, the College admitted 173 women and 161 men out of a pool of 1,281 early applicants. The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid compiled the profile. "It is noteworthy that for the first time the College admitted more female than male students," Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg said. This year's total of 173 women also represents the highest number of women applicants accepted early in the past five years. The larger number of women admitted early reflected the increase in the percentage of women who applied early to the College.

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SA to elect new vice president

By Siobhan Gorman | January 5, 1995

Early next week, the Student Assembly will hold an internal election to select a vice president to replace Rukmini Sichitiu '95, who took over as Assembly president when Danielle Moore '95 resigned in November. At this point, most Assembly members are reluctant to name themselves as candidates.

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Sculpture to reach old heights

By Aran Toshav | January 5, 1995

The 1995 Winter Carnival Council will attempt to break the pattern of lackluster snow sculptures by reviving a building method used more than 20 years ago that allowed for more elaborate designs. This year's planned sculpture of a wolf perched on a rock howling at the moon -- in fitting with the "Call of the Wild" theme -- will be constructed by packing snow around a frame made of wood and chicken wire, a technique used to build the towering sculptures of past decades. "Since the early '80s the snow sculpture has been built by packing down snow and building tiers," said Patricia Bankowski '95, who is in charge of building this year's snow sculpture. "When you build in tiers you have to go two inches in for every additional tier, and the process makes the sculpture seem more blocky." Bankowski said she researched the history of Winter Carnival looking for the reason why the tier technique replaced the frame technique. "It is only a rumor that the frame technique was abandoned because of safety reasons," Bankowski said.

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Fowler appointment awaits final approval

By Rini Ghosh | January 5, 1995

Syracuse University Political Science Professor Linda Fowler confirmed yesterday that she is likely to become the next head of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. "I have an offer from the Dean [of the Faculty] to be head of the Rockefeller Center with tenure in the government department, pending approval" by the Advisory Committee to the President, Fowler said in a telephone interview from Syracuse, N.Y. Fowler said if the committee, composed of senior faculty members and chaired by the College President, approves her appointment she will accept the five-year position and begin work on July 1. The Rockefeller Center has been without a head since Geography Professor George Demko decided not to apply for another five-year term last February. Assistant Dean of the Faculty George Wolford, who chaired the committee searching for a new head of the Rockefeller Center, said the advisory committee will likely meet this week and a decision on Fowler will "probably be finalized by Friday." In a typical decision the College's Board of Trustees makes a final offer based on the advisory committee's recommendations, according to Roxanne Waldner, the acting director for the Rockefeller Center. Fowler, who specializes in American public policy and the U.S.

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Cause of illness remains mystery

By Maggie Fritz | January 5, 1995

A meeting yesterday between College Health Services officials yielded no new information about the cause of the mysterious illness that swept the campus at the end of last term. More than 100 students were affected by the illness that still has yet to be identified. "There really wasn't anything new to come out of [the] meeting," said Dr. Nield Mercer, assistant director for clinical affairs for College Health Services. Mercer said Health Services, the New Hampshire Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga.

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Wright takes over as acting president

By Maggie Fritz | January 4, 1995

As Acting College President James Wright settled into his new office yesterday, he received a phone call from the man he is filling in for -- College President James Freedman -- who called to wish Wright luck on his first day on the job. Wright, acting president until Freedman returns from his six-month sabbatical in June, said yesterday as he reviewed the day's hectic schedule, "I have had a full day of appointments and have not had a chance to reflect" on the new position. But Wright, sitting behind his new desk on the second floor of Parkhurst Hall, said the position is not completely different from his usual position as Dean of the Faculty. His basic tasks of taking care of administrative details and meeting with members of the Dartmouth community were "the same in Wentworth [Hall] as they are in Parkhurst," he said, except that "all the discussions I have had [as Acting President] have dealt with different topics and with people from different areas of the College." Although Freedman called Wright yesterday morning, Wright said the two will not be talking too often during the next six months. College Spokesman Alex Huppe said Freedman "will only be called if there is no other option ... the general plan is to keep him as free as possible from obligations." In an earlier interview with The Dartmouth, Wright said he will not make any policy decisions or decisions that will have lasting effects on the College without consulting Freedman. Wright said he enjoyed his first day on the job. "The people I have met with have been pleasant, supportive and encouraging," he said. Wright said Freedman will return to the College for a short period in the near future, but will then return to Boston where he has an office at Harvard Law School for the next six months.

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Amtrak may take Montrealer off White River tracks

By Colin Grey | January 4, 1995

Dartmouth students may soon lose the option of taking the train to and from the College if Amtrak follows through on its plan to eliminate the Montrealer train line on April 1. Despite local efforts to save the train in Vermont, Amtrak maintains it cannot keep the line unless state governments foot the bill. "If the states want to pick up the costs, we will be willing to listen," Amtrak Public Affairs Spokesman Steven Taub said. But New Hampshire Transportation Commissioner Charles O'Leary said the train's cancellation seems imminent. "It's pretty clear to me that Amtrak is in a fairly tenuous situation and could only be convinced if the full operating costs [of the Montrealer] were picked up by the benefiting states," O'Leary said. "I don't think it likely that all routes Amtrak has decided to cancel can be saved by a ground swell of local initiative unless that ground swell comes cash in hand," he said. The elimination of the Montrealer, the only train that stops at the White River Junction, Vt.

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New phone system now online

By Amy Semet | January 4, 1995

The College added a wide variety of new features to student telephones over winter break including call-waiting, last-number redial and automatic callback. The new telephone system, installed by the Office of Telephone Services on Dec, 16, also eliminates the crosstalk problems of the old telephone service. Director of Administrative Services Marcia Colligan said the switch to a new telephone system went well considering the size of the change. As part of the switch-over, the prefix for student phone numbers was changed from "640" to "646" and students with numbers in the "4000" series changed to "7000" with the last three digits remaining the same. According to Colligan, phone numbers from "5000" to "5099" were also changed.

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Girmay's appeal is denied by N.H. court

By Maggie Fritz | January 4, 1995

New Hampshire's Supreme Court last Friday upheld the conviction of an Ethiopian man found guilty of hacking to death two Dartmouth graduate students. Haile Selassie Girmay murdered physics graduate student Selamawit Tsehaye, who was Girmay's former fiancee, and her roommate Trhas Berhe with an ax in their Hanover apartment in June 1991. Girmay pleaded insanity at his trial but was still convicted in March 1993 and sentenced to mandatory life in prison without parole. Girmay, who was studying in Sweden, killed the women on a visit to Hanover after Tsehaye rejected his marriage proposal. When police arrived at the murder scene, minutes after the killings, Girmay shook an officer's hand and told him, "I killed them.

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College approves Morocco FSP

By Jack Vaitayanonta | January 4, 1995

Last month, the College approved and guaranteed funding for a Foreign Study Program in Fez, Morocco for a one-year trial period in the Fall term. James Wright, then Dean of Faculty, notified Dale Eickelman, anthropology professor and Asian studies program co-chair, on Dec.

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College investigates outbreak

By Maggie Fritz | January 4, 1995

College health officials will meet today to discuss the mysterious illness that swept the campus at the end of last term, afflicting more than 100 Dartmouth students just before final examinations. Dr. Nield Mercer, assistant director for clinical affairs for College Health Services, said although the illness has yet to be publicly identified, Health Services Director Dr. Jack Turco will meet with his staff this morning to discuss the investigation into the sickness. The most common symptoms of the illness experienced by students were nausea and vomiting, according to Mercer. Health Services and the New Hampshire Department of Health launched investigations into the illness after the outbreak occurred during the first week of December. Both organizations sent out electronic mail questionnaires to students who had said they were ill that asked students to recall what they had eaten up to three days prior to the outbreak and asked them to list their symptoms. The New Hampshire Public Health Service also took blood samples from both sick and healthy students during the outbreak and two weeks after, Mercer said. The illness struck Matthew Silvia '96 at 3 a.m.

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Ehrmann dies at 86

By Aran Toshav | January 4, 1995

Government Professor Emeritus Henry Ehrmann, a legal scholar, author and journalist, died of heart failure on Dec.

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Harvard president, fatigued, takes leave of absence

By Rebecca Siegel | January 4, 1995

A victim of the high-stress life of a major university president, Harvard University President Neil Rudenstine announced in early December that he will be taking an indefinite leave of absence due to physical exhaustion. Doctors and Harvard officials believe that Rudenstine's condition could be due to the amount of stress involved in running Harvard's $2.1 billion capital campaign that started in May, 1994, the largest fund-raiser ever conducted by a university. At the beginning of the campaign, Rudenstine, who has been president since 1991, stated his goal was to raise $1 million per day.

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Reinvestment in S. Africa yields unclear results

By Anne Renna | November 23, 1994

One year after the Board of Trustees decided to lift its ban on investing in South Africa, College financial officers say it is virtually impossible to determine what effect this decision has had on the College's earnings. The officers attribute this to the nature of the College's investments, which have only involved investments in companies conducting businesses in South Africa and not direct investment in the country itself. Last November, the Board voted to rescind a 1989 ban on investment in South Africa, closing the final chapter in a decade-long controversy that sparked some of the largest student protests in the College's history and contributed to the resignation of former College President David McLaughlin. The ban was instituted to protest the South African government's apartheid policies. But College Vice President and Treasurer Lyn Hutton said the decision has had little impact on the College's investment strategies except to increase the number of investment opportunities. "From an investment point of view, it increased the number of companies we could look at; it gave us more options," Hutton said. Director of Investments Jon King said the decision to divest was more important symbolically than economically. "From a political and social point of view, the decision to divest was an important one," King said.

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Women assess leadership

By Jack Vaitayanonta | November 23, 1994

The recent controversy surrounding the resignation of Student Assembly President Danielle Moore '95 has sparked debate about whether Dartmouth students need to rethink how it treats their women leaders. In speaking to about six other student women leaders on campus, the prevailing sentiments were supportive of Moore's decision to resign but opinions were divided on whether she was justified in doing so. Most of the women interviewed said there are ample opportunities for women at the College to be as great leaders as they want. Freshman Class President Randi Barnes said she feels her gender has not been problematic as proven by the mere fact she has a leadership position. "I have found that, here at Dartmouth, anyone has the ability to lead ... I do not feel that sex, race or background is an obstacle to be overcome in attaining such status," Barnes said. Sabrina Serrantino '95, the news director at WDCR and WFRD radio stations and chair of the government department student steering committee, echoed Barnes' sentiments. "I'm skeptical that sexism is prevalent on this campus.

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UFC determines funds

By Micheal Posey | November 23, 1994

The Undergraduate Finance Committee decided last week to allocate roughly the same amount as last year to each of the nine campus-wide programming organizations funded by the $35-per-term student activities fee. The allocations came in the form of a recommendation to Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia, who was in charge of the UFC's proceedings, about how to split up the $430,000 that will be collected this year in activities fees.

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