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Collis invaded by virtual pterodactyls

By Amanda Lawrence | October 25, 1994

Collis Common Ground was transformed into an outer space galaxy terrorized by giant, swooping pterodactyls yesterday -- at least for two people at a time. But to the crowd that gathered around the virtual reality video games, the most unusual feature of the room was the temporary addition of two large television screens, two big black podiums and game equipment that included large visors, belts and hand controllers for the participants in "Virtual Reality- Pterodactyl Terror" to wear. From 5 to 11 p.m., two people at a time stood on the platforms and played the three-minute game as spectators watched from large television screens.

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NY alums: College in cyperspace

By Alexander R. Edlich | October 24, 1994

NEW YORK, Oct. 22-- Forty-four years after computer pioneer John Kemeny became president of the College, Dartmouth graduates at the center of the "information superhighway" debated the technological opportunities the global network will provide. At a conference called "Vox Clamantis in Cyberspace: Life in the Information Age," technology leaders, including Cellular Communications Chair George Blumenthal '66 and Time Warner Inc. Executive Vice President Glenn Britt '71, told guests that the future of telephone-televisions and videos on demand will profoundly change the way society operates and the legal rules that govern information exchange. The two-day conference at New York's Rockefeller Plaza, was the fifth in a series produced by the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York City to inform and bring together alumni. "It is fascinating to watch how something that is so basic to society, like the First Amendment, nevertheless has trouble" applying its value to new technologies, College Provost Lee Bollinger told a crowd of 150 at a kickoff cocktail party Friday. "There's something about new technologies and communications that seem to befuddle us, even without basic values," he said. The information superhighway -- the media label for the network of satellites and wire backbone that will potentially link every home via computer -- is moving away from government-sponsorship and into commercialization and expansion. At the up-scale, uptown Rainbow Room, New York Alumni Association Co-President David Hodgson '78 said, "If the information age has a physical birthplace, my argument is, it's right here in New York City and the role Dartmouth has played in that birth is a very important one." The gala dinner preceded six seminars Saturday on subjects ranging from "Television and the Future of Democracy" to "The Future of Content: CD-ROM and Beyond" -- in which about 250 people participated, Alumni Association Co-President Carey Fiertz '79 said. The "Cashing in on Cable" discussion centered on the joint venture between telephone companies and cable television operators.

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Friends share memories of Brown '97

By Aran Toshav | October 24, 1994

Friends and family of Adam Brown '97 gathered yesterday in Rollins Chapel to remember the 19-year-old Dartmouth sophomore who unexpectedly died earlier this term. The memorial ceremony provided an opportunity for those who knew Brown to reflect on their memories of him and his time at the College.

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Wiesel attracts 1,100 to Holocaust speech

By Jason Casell | October 24, 1994

With a sense of personalized urgency, 68-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel placed the responsibility of keeping memories of the Holocaust alive on the students sitting in a capacity-filled Spaulding Auditorium last night. "What will I do when the last survivors are gone -- something I'm sure all survivors think about," Wiesel asked, emphasizing the fact that the Holocaust occurred about 50 years ago and the number of remaining survivors is declining. Wiesel said it is "our task to serve as the custodians of memory." Memory, he said, serves as a cathartic release for Holocaust survivors but also serves as the best hope to insure that history will not repeat itself. "Six million men, women and children perished in the tempest of fire and fury," Wiesel said.

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EPA officer calls for cooperation

By Sarah E. Greer | October 24, 1994

Environmental Protection Agency administrator William Yellowtail '69 emphasized in a speech Friday the necessity of education and partnership to confront the environmental challenges of the coming centuries. Yellowtail's address about environmental responsibility kicked off the Dartmouth Environmental Network's sixth annual Environmental Issues Symposium, which is designed to discuss environmental sustainability. "We are victims of our own ignorance of the environment," Yellowtail told the crowd of about 200 people in Dartmouth Hall. Yellowtail spoke of "the sacred trust," saying "before us, we have to keep this vision that all things are interrelated." An important aspect of this trust is engaging the community, he said.

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Seniors turn to bar scene

By Charles Davant | October 21, 1994

You could hear the drums in the Collis Center lobby, but to witness the succession of '95s making beer runs to the rhythm of the World Percussion Ensemble, you had to descend to the Lone Pine Tavern, where three or four friends sat talking around a table and listening to the entertainment. For many members of the Class of 1995, the transition to senior year is accompanied by a transition in their social lives. Bars such as the Lone Pine and Murphy's Tavern on Main Street provide '95s with an environment different from the fraternity basements many frequented over the past three years. "You can walk, you don't get crashed into when you turn around, and if you want to talk to people you don't have to scream," Bevin Jackson '95 said of Murphy's Tavern. "It doesn't smell bad -- and there are mostly '95s so I know the people there.

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Students lend a hand

By Jeffrey Beyer | October 21, 1994

Approximately 300 people will build, clean, cook and paint as part of eight community service projects tomorrow during Make a Difference Day. Angela Lee '95, one of the organizers, said a few changes have been made to the program in the past week and that it is not too late for students to become involved. The Youth-in-Action Community Supper Saturday night will be chaired by Audra Rudys '95 and Brian Wall '95.

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Campus remembers Brown '97 Sunday

By Marisa Howe | October 21, 1994

A memorial service for Adam Brown '97 will be held Sunday in Rollins Chapel at 2:30 p.m. A reception will follow the ceremony. Rabbi Daniel Siegel will officiate the service.

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Holocaust speech sells out

By Marisa Howe | October 21, 1994

All 500 advanced student and faculty tickets for Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel's speech on "The Assault on Memory" were gone by noon yesterday, but 200 more tickets will be distributed before the speech Sunday. Tickets, which are being distributed for free, became available to professors and students yesterday at 9 a.m. The speech, which will take place at 8:30 p.m.

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Environmental symposium moves to campus

By Dave Lelesi | October 21, 1994

The sixth annual Environmental Issues Symposium will take place on campus this weekend so participants can focus primarily on how to make the College environmentally sustainable. The symposium, taking place for the first time on campus, will provide workshops for participants to develop their own ideas on how to achieve a self-contained environment. The workshops are a new addition to the symposium. Miranda Johnson '97, the event's co-organizer, said in the past the symposiums were more informational than practical. The workshops have been divided into six design groups -- land and water stewardship, material cycle, energy and architecture, transportation, measuring sustainability and education on sustainability. Each group will be headed by a diverse group conprised of either an administrator or professor, an alumnus and a student. After meeting in the design groups, members will write a report recommending how the environment can be improved.

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Rocky recommends Fowler

By Maggie Fritz | October 21, 1994

The search committee for a new head of the Rockefeller Center for Social Sciences extended an informal offer to Syracuse University Political Science Professor Linda Fowler. Fowler, who specializes in American public policy and the U.S.

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Trustees vote to up goal

By Rebecca Siegel | October 20, 1994

The Board of Trustees voted unanimously to increase the goal of the Will to Excel capital campaign from $425 million to $500 million, the College announced yesterday. The increase is a recognition of the campaign's overall success and an attempt to secure funding for portions of the campaign that are lagging behind in money raised so far. The campaign is still scheduled to conclude in June 1996. National Campaign Chair and College Trustee Richard Page said he could "pretty comfortably" predict that the $425 million would be raised by this May or June, if the campaign continues at its current pace. But the $425 million would leave the College with several unfulfilled ambitions because the campaign received unexpected gifts for projects that were not originally on the campaign's list of objectives and because several categories of the campaign have already exceeded their goals, Page said. Money from the $425 million goal divided into five categories: Arts and Sciences ($203 million); the Amos Tuck School of Business ($27 million); the Thayer School of Engineering ($12 million); the Dartmouth Medical School ($58 million); and the general College ($125 million). The five-year Will to Excel campaign, which began three years ago, had raised 367.5 million as of Sept.

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Ed. dept. works to improve problems

By David Hemmer | October 20, 1994

More than a year and a half after a faculty review committee recommended terminating the education department, College administrators still have not officially decided the department's future but the program appears to be here to stay. "My clear understanding is that the administration has said there will be education and education will be maintained as part of the Dartmouth course offerings," Education Department Chair Robert Binswanger said.

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Aid includes free tickets

By Micheal Posey | October 20, 1994

Students receiving financial aid can obtain free tickets to several events at the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts this term, but only a limited number of tickets are available. The free tickets are made possible by a $1,000 donation from the Class of 1951, working in cooperation with the Hop and the Financial Aid Office. The idea stemmed from a long history of class projects implemented by the Class of '51, including a variety of cultural activities since 1987. In previous years, the Class of '51 has given football tickets to employees of Dartmouth Dining Services and custodial staff and hosted them at evening programs in the Hop. "The Class of '51 approached us with the idea and many students have already received tickets," said Kenneth Jefferies '94, the Hop's promotion and marketing coordinator. Students can pick up an application in the Financial Aid Office, pick four events from a list of 10 and return the form to the Hopkins Center Box Office. "Tickets are limited and we are about 75-80 percent sold out of what we have set aside to do," Jeffries said. The events include the Barbary Coast, the World Music Percussion Ensemble, and seven other student-led performances, including last weekend's Fall Fling. "The theme of our class has always been to the nurture the relationship between the College, the community, and our class," said Class Representative Bob Hustek.

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Hot water off tonight for 6 hours

By David Hemmer | October 20, 1994

A complete steam outage will deprive the entire campus of heating and hot water for about six hour tonight to allow for repairs to the power plant. The work will begin tonight at 11:30 and last until 6:30 tomorrow morning, according to College Utilities Engineer Stephen Mischissin. The complete steam outage is necessary so the College can repair the power plant on the main feedwater system before cold weather sets in. Mischissin said the outage should cause no problems unless the weather tonight is extremely cold. But the National Weather Service forecast calls for temperatures to stay above 50 degrees tonight.

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Skits address AIDS, alcohol, sex

By Breeanne Clowdus | October 19, 1994

"We're not here to tell you not to drink," said Bob Keene, a member of The Improbable Players of Boston, which performed a number of skits in which alcohol and drugs play a part in decision making and behavior. Keene is one of two actors who performed for hundreds of Greek sorority and fraternity pledges last night at the second of three mandatory events presented by the Coed, Fraternity and Sorority Council as part of the "New Member Series." The performance began rather unconventionally with Gabrielle Lucke, the College's Health Educator, being ran off stage by Keene, who said that the audience was "tired of hearing the same old speech about alcohol abuse.

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Assembly grants membership, but only this time

By Siobhan Gorman | October 19, 1994

From now on, student's attendance at Summer term Student Assembly meetings will not count toward Assembly membership, the Assembly's Committee on Procedure reported at last night's general meeting. But for the four students who went to three consecutive meetings this Summer, their attendance will count toward membership, said Assembly Treasurer John Honovich '97, who chaired the committee. Two weeks ago, the Assembly passed a motion by Kishan Putta '96 to form a the committee to look at the appointments of Lischa Barrett '95, Shakari Cameron '96, Sue Kim '96 and Nada Payne '96. Assembly President Danielle Moore '95 said she is glad the issue is settled.

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Administrators try to incorporate teaching

By Siobhan Gorman | October 19, 1994

Teaching requires a great time commitment -- often too much of a commitment when combined with the duties of being a College administrator. But for some administrators the desire to teach overrides the time management difficulties. Four of the College's top administrators -- College President James Freedman, Provost Lee Bollinger, Dean of Faculty James Wright and Dean of the College Lee Pelton -- hold faculty appointments, but only Bollinger and Pelton have taught classes while serving in their current positions. While Bollinger and Pelton said their love of teaching prompted them to create time to return to the classroom, Wright said he and Freedman travel too much to be effective teachers. Bollinger is currently teaching a class in the government department about freedom of speech and the press and Pelton will teach an English course on the rise of English Gothic novels this spring. Wright distinguished between two kinds of faculty appointments -- those retained by faculty members after they are promoted to administrative positions and those given to administrators who are also academics. Wright said faculty appointments are done through the Dean of Faculty Office but are initiated by either the department or the administrator. Keeping in touch Bollinger, a specialist on the First Amendment, said he teaches to stay connected with the College. "I think it's valuable to be a regular member of the institution and to continue to do what faculty do -- to teach and to write," he said.

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KDE drops pledge period

By Hanita Sawhney | October 19, 1994

Hoping to spark change in the Greek System, Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority recently created the New Woman Program, designed to enhance members' individuality. "If the Greek system is going to stay around here, it'll have to change," said Georgina Gemmill '96, KDE president. Under the guidelines of the new program, KDE will no longer have a pledge period; members will join as full sisters, Gemmill said. The New Woman Program is divided into three areas designed to enhance a particular part of the new sister's personal development -- specifically self development, sisterhood and the larger Dartmouth community. The New Woman Program is based on Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity's Balanced Male Program.

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Villar puts Hispanic literature on Internet

By Kate Armstrong | October 19, 1994

Working in his spare time during the past 10 years, Luis Villar, the humanities and social sciences reference biographer, has compiled the first on-line database of Hispanic literature. The database, which is in Spanish and available internationally over the Internet, contains the poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th century Mexican nun widely considered to be the first great poet of the New World. "I do things just because I like to," Villar said.

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