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Ceremony takes strange turns over the years

By Siobhan Gorman | June 12, 1994

The College's 224th Commencement ceremony is part of a long tradition of graduation festivities that includes famous speakers, drunkards, jugglers and crazy alumni antics. The ceremony has evolved since the first one in 1771, in which there were four graduates, including Eleazar Wheelock's son, said Director of Public Programs Barbara Whipple. Those students spent only a year at the College after attending Yale University for three years. The August 28th ceremony, located where Reed Hall is now, included orations in Latin and English and began and concluded with a prayer, according to a Commencement history written by College Professor Lane Childs '06. In celebration of the event, John Wentworth, then-governor of New Hampshire, provided rum to be served on the Green with roasted ox, Whipple said.

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Seniors pledge gifts

By Jack Vaitayanonta | June 12, 1994

More than half of this year's graduating class pledged money to the Senior Gifts Program, for a total of $95,326. The Program began in 1980 as a way to introduce recent graduates to the Alumni Fund, which raises money annually from alumni, Mitch Jacobs '94, an Alumni Fund intern said. Each year's senior gift is pooled with other alumni classes' contributions to the Alumni Fund, which pays close to 20 percent of the College's operating costs, including professors' salaries, facilities maintenance and financial aid. Although, fewer people, about 55 percent of the class, donated this year than in past years, individual donors gave more on the average. The Class of 1993 raised $93,684.

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Seniors choose off-beat careers

By Colin Grey | June 12, 1994

Seniors must for one year live the everyday nightmare of facing the benign question "What are you doing after graduation?" and having no answer. While some students have known the answer to this question since watching their first L.A.

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Time for reflection

By David Herszenhorn | June 12, 1994

Newspaper stories about graduation ceremonies focus on the events that happen on stage. In The New York Times tomorrow, the story about Dartmouth's 1994 Commencement will report the number of graduating students.

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Scholars will study in Germany

By Alexander R. Edlich | June 12, 1994

Seniors Russell Martin and Marion Shonn will be heading to Germany after graduation on Fulbright scholarships to do research in engineering and biology, respectively. Martin, an engineering major from Birmingham, Ala.

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At last, a graduation ceremony

By Bob Miller | June 12, 1994

Cincinnati, OH -- The Class of 1944 returned to Hanover this weekend for its "Commencement That Never Was." Back in June of 1944 there was no Commencement at Dartmouth. And for good reason. Most of the intended honorees were not there.They were in Normandy, Saipan, Italy or Burma; on the high seas, in the wild blue yonder or and in fox holes far, far away from Hanover. The class had been together for less than 16 months when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, shortly after which the class was completely broken up because so many members went off to serve in World War II. But this weekend, as they celebrate their 50th class reunion and lead the Class of 1994 in its Commencement procession, surviving members of the Class of 1944 will hold their own Commencement. During a class banquet on Saturday, Richard Morse '44 who gave the valedictory address at the 1946 Dartmouth Commencement, reviewed his remarks in light of events since. Then, at the conclusion of the evening, Leonard Rieser -- a member of the Class of 1944 and provost of the College from 1967-82 -- donned his academic robes and presented to outgoing Class President William Hale a certificate signed by Dartmouth President James Freedman.

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Boyer remembered

By Amanda A. Amann | June 12, 1994

Friends and family of Daniel Boyer '94 took time to remember him this week. Boyer, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on October 26, 1993, was awarded a posthumous degree.

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Chionuma voted down

By Maggie Fritz | May 20, 1994

After more than eight hours of meetings, the Student Assembly's nominations committee remains unable to agree whether it will grant membership to Grace Chionuma' 96, who was appointed summer Assembly president two days ago. Chionum, appointed by President-elect Danielle Moore '95 and Vice President-elect Rukmini Sichitiu '95, must be a member of the Assembly to become its summer leader. The nominations committee, which approves Assembly membership and is chaired by Sichitiu, narrowed a field of nine applicants for the position of at-large member to two, one being Chionuma. The vacancy was created when Sichitiu was elected both vice president and at-large member of next year's Assembly. Sichitiu said the nominations committee decided not to release the name of the second candidate. There are four voting members on the committee: Brooke Brightly '95, Meredith Epstein '97, Nina Nho '97 and Sichitiu.

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'98 class complete

By Michele Taylor | May 20, 1994

The 15 additional students who have enrolled in the Class of 1998 since the May 1 response deadline increased the percentage of minorities but did not affect the class's gender ratio. Next year's freshman class will include 48.4 percent women, the highest ever in Dartmouth history. The class will consist of 24.3 percent minority students, which represents nearly a 1 percent increase since the Admissions Office's reply deadline.

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Dowding '94 receives $5,000 Luce fellowship

By Scott Thomas | May 20, 1994

Christina Dowding '94 recently received a $5,000 fellowship awarded by the Thayer School of Engineering to encourage women to pursue engineering careers by helping to fund their graduate education. Dowding plans to work with several other students this summer to design a bridge leading to Stoddard Cabin on Dartmouth's 27,000-acre Second College Grant.

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Rape image in the media

By Jason Casell | May 20, 1994

Columbia School of Journalism Professor Helen Benedict said in a speech last night that covering rape crimes is an essential duty of the press. Benedict delivered a speech titled "Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes" to more than 50 people in Carpenter Hall.

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Funds for gay studies approved

By Breeanne Clowdus | May 20, 1994

After five years of planning and waiting, the first gay and lesbian studies course will be offered Winter term 1996. The course, titled "Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Studies," will introduce students to the contemporary debates and historical conceptions about homosexuality in western culture and the struggles of gay and lesbians to achieve recognition and rights. The course will also examine the formation of gay and lesbian communities as well as the impact of the AIDS crisis on gay and lesbian political activism. "The course will have both an overarching historical structure as well as a humanities effort to document homosexuality and its evolution through film, literature and religion," Religion Professor Susan Ackerman said.

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Murray speaks of new white underclass

By Paul Hung | May 20, 1994

Welfare expert and author Charles Murray warned about how widespread illegitimacy has led to an emerging white underclass which will have dire social implications. Murray, who is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, spoke to about 50 people in 105 Dartmouth Hall last night in a speech postponed from Winter Term. Citing statistics from 1991, Murray said 22 percent of all white births are out of wedlock.

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Earle leaves College to get PhD

By Colin Grey | May 20, 1994

After five years counselling sexual assault victims and educating the College community about sexual assault, Heather Earle will leave Dartmouth to pursue her doctorate in counselling psychology at the University of Wisconsin. "They've been great years.

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Students discuss gender and race

By Michele Taylor | May 19, 1994

A program last night titled "Representing Ourselves: An Open Discussion of Gender, Race, and Self-Definition" gave Dartmouth students the chance to openly discuss gender and racial related issues in an interactive and comfortable setting. The program was moderated by Colleen Jones, a professor at Suffolk University, and John Norman, an education professor at Middlebury College in Vermont.

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Two new student publications form

By Maggie Fritz | May 19, 1994

The first issues of two new campus publications are expected to appear before the end of this term. The Forum, a non-ideological publication open to contributions from all students and a women's literary magazine, which has yet to be named, were created to fill a gap in the area of student publications, according to their founders. "We saw there was a niche that wasn't being filled," John Honovich '97, co-founder of The Forum, said.

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Chionuma '96 picked as SA summer prez

By Maggie Fritz | May 19, 1994

Student Assembly President-elect Danielle Moore '95 and Vice President-elect Rukmini Sichitui '95 last night appointed Grace Chionuma '96 as president and Jesse Russell '96 as vice president of the summer Assembly. But Chionuma's appointment is contigent upon her acceptance by the nominations committee as a general member of the Assembly.

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