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Bollinger: Parkhurst's newest kid

By Amanda A. Amann | July 12, 1994

Lee Bollinger, who has been provost for a little more than a week now, is very much the new kid on the administrative block. Last week, the humidity had gotten to him so much that he contemplated climbing on a chair in his office to turn on a fan, before a secretary informed him that a light switch would do the trick. And just as Bollinger is still feeling his way around the office, he is also trying to get a sense of what Dartmouth and its provost position is all about. When asked about Bollinger's performance so far,College President James Freedman said, "Oh, I've just been delighted.

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Stewart '96 en route to full recovery

By David Hemmer | July 12, 1994

Jon Stewart '96, who fell out of a window at Alpha Delta fraternity in April, is resting at home in Ohio and said he will soon be fully recovered. After a seven-week stay at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Stewart was released on June 6. "I'm carrying on a pretty normal lifestyle," he said in a reccent telephone interview.

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Hanover blacked out

By Charley French | July 12, 1994

Hanover, West Lebanon and surrounding areas suffered a complete failure of electrical power Saturday night after a protective relay was struck by lightening, officials at Granite State Power Company said yesterday. Roughly half of the company's 5800 customers, including all College buildings, were without electricity from 11:07 p.m.

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Terp named new assistant dean

By Alexander R. Edlich | July 12, 1994

Dean of the College Lee Pelton recently appointed Janet Terp as assistant dean of the College for administration. Terp is the former acting director of public programs and campaign events at the College. The appointment comes after the resignation in May of former Associate Dean Barbara Strohbehn, who worked in the office for 12 years. Terp will assume some of Strohbehn's responsibilities and the rest will be divided among members of the Dean's Office, Pelton said. Terp, who served as assistant director of public programs, declined an offer in December to become the full-time director of public programs, she said. Pelton said Terp has a working knowledge of the College administration and how to interact with different offices and departments at Dartmouth, which were qualities he looked for in the job search. "She brings two things to the job," Pelton said.

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Validine Office to neighbor Topside

By David Hemmer | July 12, 1994

The area outside of Topside convenience store is currently under construction to allow for the conversion of the space into a new office for Validine. The Validine office, which dispenses College identification cards, is currently in the basement of Thayer Dining Hall. "We hope to have it done by the end of August," Associate Director of Dining Services Tucker Rossiter said. The construction, which began June 29, will not affect service at Topside, Rossiter said.

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Schutt '96 involved in motorcycle accident

By Alexander R. Edlich | July 12, 1994

Jackie Schutt '96 sustained a broken wrist, black eyes and multiple bruises Saturday evening when her motorcycle collided with a car turning in front of her on East Wheelock Street. Schutt said yesterday she is still in pain, but is resting and recovering.

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Color printing at Kiewit

By Ilana Davidi | July 12, 1994

Color printing arrived at the Kiewit Computation Center last Tuesday, allowing students to print color graphs, illustrations and other computer images at a small price. Although the center purchased the printer -- a $10,000 Tektronix Phaser 200i -- about a year ago, Kiewit officials just recently finished the printer's testing phase. Larry Levine, the College's director of computing, said Kiewit decided to purchase the printer because "there was not a good, central" means of color printing. He said town businesses charge more than Kiewit charges and their buildings are further away. Users pay $1 a page for color printouts and $2 a page for transparencies. According to Malcolm Brown, the director of academic computing, the cost helps to cover the price of "consumables" -- the special paper and ink used for the printer.

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Possible Demko successor to visit

By Scott Anthony | July 8, 1994

Three of the final candidates to replace Geography Professor George Demko, who recently completed his five-year term as director of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, will be on campus in the next three weeks. Associate Dean of Faculty George Wolford, who heads the search committee looking for Demko's replacement, said the short list is down to about five candidates. The committee has been looking since late February, Wolford said. Wolford said Jack Dovidio from Colgate University, Linda Fowler of Syracuse University and Ted MacDonald of Harvard are three of the five candidates for position.

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College loses lawsuit

By Alexander R. Edlich | July 8, 1994

A U.S. District Court judge is currently considering a jury recommendation that the College pay a former employee $60,000 because she was fired two years ago after she complained of discrimination while working at the Hanover Inn. A final decision on the punitive damages will not be made for one month, after both sides have submitted arguments responding to the recommendation. Catherine Whitcomb, of Hartland, Vt., filed a suit in Oct.

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Freedman leaves for three-week vacation

By Scott Anthony | July 8, 1994

College President James Freedman departs this morning for a three-week vacation in Cape Cod, Mass., leaving new Provost Lee Bollinger as acting president. Freedman said he usually goes on long weekends during the summer, but decided to take a longer vacation this year because "we thought this year it was important to get away, to store up on rest." Freedman was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in April and has completed four of his prescribed eight rounds of chemotherapy. "I'm excited just to have peace and quiet, and not to have the telephone ringing," he said.

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Chionuma: a campus activist

By Elizabeth Nolan | July 8, 1994

Grace Chionuma '96 certainly was not a shoe-in for the job. She readily admits as much: "This is the last thing I thought I'd be doing sophomore summer." Before she even took office, she was engulfed by controversy. But such is life when you are selected to be president of the Student Assembly, even if it is only for the Summer term. At the time of her appointment, Chionuma was not a member of the Assembly.

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Police continue investigation

By Alexander R. Edlich | July 8, 1994

A sales slip found at the Old Dartmouth Cemetery took Hanover Police to a local store in search of the vandals who caused about $10,000 worth of damage to tombstones in the early morning hours on June 23. Police say the vandals had a party and then overturned 13 headstones, destroying five. Hanover Police Detective Rick Paulsen said last night that he questioned a clerk at Stinson's Village Store yesterday about the sales receipt. Paulsen said he suspected the beer was bought at Stinson's, but added that the clerk was unsure if the beer was actually purchased from the store. Paulsen said the clerk gave the police the tape made by the store's video camera the night before the vandalism. But police discovered yesterday that the camera had not been functioning and the tape was blank, Paulsen said. On Tuesday, Hanover Police Sergeant Chris O'Connor said the police discovered the sales receipt for beer in a brown bag found on the knoll at the graveyard. The knoll was littered with cigarettes and empty beer cans, O'Connor said.

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Tuck dean search committee forms

By Alexander R. Edlich | July 8, 1994

Deputy Provost Bruce Pipes recently appointed members to a 10-person search committee to find a new dean for the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. The creation of the committee, which has not yet met, follows the appointment of former Tuck Dean Colin Blaydon as the interim director. Edward Fox resigned as dean of the Tuck School when he was denied a second four-year term after what administration members called a standard review. Business Administration Professor Robert Hansen will lead the committee composed of six Tuck professors, three members of the school's Board of Overseers and one undergraduate professor. Besides Hansen, the committee members include Tuck Overseers Jim Allwin, Phil Benton and Jack Byrne, Economics Professor Steve Venti and Business Management Professor Frederick Webster. Tuck professors Karla Bourland, Vijay Govindarajan, Kevin Maloney and Clyde Stickney are also on the committee. "The committee is very good, very solid," Hansen said last night.

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Summer Assembly kicks off

By Scott Anthony | July 6, 1994

The Student Assembly met for the first time last Friday to set up its agenda and committee structure for the summer. Summer Assembly President Grace Chionuma '96 told about 10 people at the meeting that the Assembly's big goal over the summer would be to get things done. "The purpose of Summer Assembly is for the most part project-oriented," Chionuma said.

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Hersh selected to head counseling

By Alexander R. Edlich | July 6, 1994

The College appointed Dr. Jeffrey Hersh as the director of counseling and human development, after conducting a nationwide search. Hersh is the former head of the mental health division at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Director of College Health Services John Turco announced the appointment yesterday after a search committee, created at the end of spring, presented a list of candidates. As director of counseling and human development, Hersh will oversee a counseling staff that advises Dartmouth students and also acts as an intermediary between the staff and the department of psychiatry at the Dartmouth Medical School, Turco said. Turco said Hersh, who started yesterday part-time and will start full-time Sept.

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278 waiting on fall housing list

By Justin Steinman | July 6, 1994

The College may not be able to house more than 150 students for the 1994 Fall term, Housing Assignments Administrator Lynn Rosenblum said yesterday. Only 145 students canceled their cluster assignment by the June 8 deadline, leaving 278 students on the College housing waitlist. "We were a little disappointed with the number of cancellations," Rosenblum said.

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Alumnus to get fourth star

By Justin Steinman | July 6, 1994

President Bill Clinton nominated Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas Moorman '62 for his fourth star and a promotion to vice chief of staff of the Air Force. Moorman said he is awaiting confirmation of his appointment, which he expects to come before the end of July. Moorman is currently vice-commander of the Air Force Space Command, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo. The general said he found out about the nomination while on a plane to Vandenberg Air Force base in California. "General Merril McPeak, the Air Force chief of staff, called me on May 3," Moorman said in a telephone interview from the Colorado Springs air base.

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Trustee search begins

By Alexander R. Edlich | July 6, 1994

The College's Alumni Council recently began a search to replace College Trustee Anne Fritz-Hackett.

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Professors cancel the Women Studies survey

By Alicia Jennings | July 6, 1994

The Women's Studies program canceled plans last term for a survey to study diversity in Dartmouth classrooms after the program's directors decided the survey would not provide accurate information. The survey, scheduled to be given last winter, was funded by the Bildner Endowment.

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Encyclopedia on line

By Alexander R. Edlich | July 6, 1994

Dartmouth has added the Encyclopedia Brittanica to the growing number of databases and resources students can access over the College's network. The College is one of the testing sights for the 15th edition of the encyclopedia around the United States.