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Professors' pay varies by dept.

By Siobhan Gorman | April 4, 1994

Market forces are responsible for discrepancies between professors' salaries in different departments at the College according to James Wright, dean of the faculty. "We pay competitive market salaries for these faculty - and there can be some variation among fields, largely based on supply of faculty and how the competition is defined," Wright said.

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Fagell drops out

By Scott Anthony | April 1, 1994

Steve Fagell '95 said yesterday he will not run for Student Assembly vice president because he is no longer interested in the position. "Basically, I've just sort of decided to pursue other opportunities," Fagell said.

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Group opposes changes to bridge

By David Hemmer | April 1, 1994

Friends of the Ledyard Bridge, a group of area residents, held a public meeting last night to discuss its opposition to a planned replacement bridge that will double the bridge's current width to 68 feet. Although State Transportation Commissioner Charles O'Leary told the Valley News the $10-million plan was "settled," members of the group said last night they would fight the changes at the federal level if the state would not listen. Group members, who spoke to about 75 area residents at the Howe Public Library, said they believe the new bridge will create serious traffic problems in Hanover as well as damage the aesthetics of the area. "The proposed plan trashes both states," said Deborah Boettiger, one of the group's founders, who is from Norwich, Vt., located across Ledyard Bridge from Hanover. The new bridge will have a lane running in each direction, a 16-foot median down the center and a sidewalk and bicycle path on both sides.

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Tumor to be removed

By Maggie Fritz and Maggie Fritz | April 1, 1994

According to medical experts the surgery on College President James Freedman Monday will reveal one of three types of tumors. None of Freedman's personal doctors could be reached to comment specifically about his condition but several urologists familiar with testicular tumors described the implications of discovering a tumor and the possible methods of treatment. Dr. David Rudnick, a resident specializing in urological surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, where Freedman will be treated, said a patient with a testicular tumor undergoes a standard procedure to remove the tumor and identify its type. The tumor may be harmless or may be evidence of one of two different types of cancer. A testicular tumor "is an abnormal growth within the testicle generally found by the patient as a lump," said Dr. Ann Gormley, a urologist at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Once the tumor is removed, Rudnick said pathologists will conduct tests to determine whether it is cancerous. If the tumor is benign - classified as harmless - a patient can expect full recovery, Rudnick said. But Rudnick and other doctors said most testicular tumors are malignant. A cancerous tumor could mean a patient is suffering from testicular cancer, a disease of the reproductive cells.

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Freedman to undergo surgery

By Scott Anthony | April 1, 1994

College President James Freedman will undergo surgery on Monday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to remove a testicular tumor. Doctors said the surgery is standard procedure and will determine if the president has cancer. Freedman is expected to be released from the hospital the next day, according to a prepared College statement.

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Baehr: media influences kids

By Siobhan Gorman | April 1, 1994

Fifty percent of violent acts and 15,000 murders annually have been proven to be influenced by television programs, said Ted Baehr '69, head of the Christian Film and Television Commission, in a speech in the Collis Common Ground last night. By the age of 17, an average child will have seen 200,000 to 400,000 sexual acts and 100,000 to 200,000 acts of violence, Baehr told the group of about 50 people. Baehr said his commission lobbies the media to decrease the influence of sex and violence in television shows and movies in order to protect children. He said the group tries to persuade television and movie producers to make their shows more family oriented, but does not believe in censoring the programs. By definition, "only the government can censor," he said.

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Eateries: put it out

By Amy Semet | April 1, 1994

Starting today, Jesse's Restaurant and Tavern, Molly's Balloon Ltd. and Lui Lui will no longer allow their patrons to smoke and, since Wednesday, the Dirt Cowboy Cafe has prohibited smoking before 5 p.m. Mark Milowsky, the president of Jesse's, Molly's and Lui Lui, said he implemented the non-smoking policy because of health concerns of customers and employees. "We have been thinking of changing our policy for a number of years," Milowsky said.

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SA candidates pledge positive campaigning

By Scott Anthony | March 31, 1994

Kenji Sugahara '95 urged Student Assembly presidential and vice presidential candidates last night to avoid the negative campaign tactics that plagued the last two elections. Sugahara arranged the meeting at the beginning of this week in an effort to focus the campaign more on issues than on dirty politics and squabbling.

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'Manet and His Time' flaunts Impressionist work

By Susan Zieger | March 31, 1994

"Manet and His Time," the dazzling exhibit which opened this week at the Hood Museum, flaunts three important Impressionist paintings surrounded by gems from the Hood's permanent collection. Richard Rand, the Hood's Curator of European Art, assembled the exhibit with art history Professor John Jacobus' senior seminar on Impressionism in mind. "It's a really good example of the Museum working with the academic departments," Rand said. Instead of viewing Manet's work and its influences on Impressionists as a springboard toward modernism, Rand's critical approach deals with its subject matter.

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'94 comes on down for Price is Right

By Jack Vaitayanonta | March 31, 1994

"Dave Rinehart '95, come on doowwn!" He was the latest Dartmouth contestant on "The Price is Right" game show, in which he won a trip for six days and six nights to Australia in the Check-Out game. The win was the highlight of a Spring break trip packed with celebrity encounters and almost-on-the-air exposure for 12 members of the Aires, one of Dartmouth's a cappella singing groups. Rinehart was in the audience with the other members of the Aires, who spent the break in California on a singing tour, when he was called.

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Sports Store to open on Main St.

By Kristen King | March 31, 1994

Subterra Sports, a new sporting goods store specializing in practical outdoor equipment and men's casual clothing, will open in the basement of the New Dartmouth Bank building in early May. Jay Campion, who owns the new store and the bank building, said it will be a "sporting goods convenience store" and will carry the "nuts and bolts" of sports equipment and clothing. Although the Dartmouth Co-op has a sporting goods department, it specializes in racquet sports, camping and skiing equipment.

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College admits more '98 women than men

By Timothy Fitzgibbons | March 30, 1994

For the first time in its history, the College accepted more women than men into its freshman class. On Friday, 2,150 acceptance letters - 1,076 to women and 1,074 to men - will be mailed to students, who were selected from 9,524 applicants. This year's applicant pool was 10.9 percent larger than last year's, said Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg. Usually about 50 percent of accepted students matriculate, Furstenberg said.

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SA drafts report backing ROTC

By Maggie Fritz | March 30, 1994

A draft of a Student Assembly report to the Board of Trustees argues the Reserve Officer Training Corps program does not violate the College's Principle of Community and Principle of Equal Opportunity. The 13-page preliminary report also cites student opinion polls supporting the ROTC program as another reason why the program should continue. The Board of Trustees is scheduled to vote on the future of the ROTC program at their Spring meeting, which will take place during the weekend of April 15. In 1991, the Trustees announced that Dartmouth would discontinue ROTC if the military's ban on homosexuals was not lifted by April 1993 because it violated the College's Principle of Community and Principle of Equal Opportunity.

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Assembly sets goals

By Maggie Fritz | March 30, 1994

Working under the guidelines of a new constitution, the Student Assembly began the term last night by discussing both the status of old projects and plans for the rest of the academic year. The Assembly hopes to publish an academic advising guide this term to provide students with information about where to turn for their specific advising needs. The discussion series on the Coed Fraternity Sorority system that the Assembly began in the fall will conclude this term. Members are also working on a report about the D-plan, which they hope to present to the Board of Trustees at its April meeting. Assembly President Nicole Artzer '94 said the report will show "that there are so many balances back and forth that it needs to be examined by a serious committee." The 28-page revised constitution, which was formally adopted on the final day of classes last term, is more detailed than the previous document and provided more information about the specific duties of the various Assembly officers. The new constitution also increases the number of general student representatives from 21 to 24 and gives more flexibility to the Assembly in determining the functions of its standing committees. But the new constitution still contains some ambiguities the Assembly did not resolve, said Tim Rodenberger '95, chair of the Constitutional Committee. "There were one or two changes that I would liked to have seen to the constitution," Rodenberger said.

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Gonzalez '95 leaves race

By Scott Anthony | March 30, 1994

David Gonzalez '95 said yesterday he is dropping out of the Student Assembly presidential race because he feels the position is not worth the time commitment. "I had a list of pros and cons in front of me and I decided it wasn't worth it," he said.

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Vandewalle testifies on Algeria

By Scott Anthony | March 29, 1994

Government Professor Dirk Vandewalle recently testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the dangerous political situation in Algeria, where he said 40 to 50 people are killed weekly. Vandewalle was one of four people scheduled to testify on what course of action the United States should pursue in Algeria, which has been on the brink of civil war since a military regime ascended to power in January of 1992. Ambassador to Egypt Robert Paltrow, a professor from Johns Hopkins University and a professor from Haverford College also testified on Algeria's current political climate. In Vandewalle's five-page testimony, which he presented last Wednesday, he said Algeria is in a virtual state of civil war between the current government and Islamists. "Both sides ... are armed and increasingly organized specifically to target their opposition," he said.

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DOC selects leaders

By David Hemmer | March 29, 1994

Amy Barnhorst '95, the Dartmouth Outing Club's new president, and Todd Parment '95, the new vice president, said they want to make the club more unified in its promotion of outdoor education and leadership. Barnhorst, who replaced Mark Giordono '94, and Parment, who succeeded Wyatt Oswald '94, started their year-long tenures at the beginning of this term. The DOC is the umbrella organization that coordinates Cabin and Trail, Environmental Studies, Winter Sports and several outdoor clubs, such as Bait and Bullet, Biathlon, Cycling, Ledyard Canoe, Mountaineering, Riding, Trap and Skeet and Snow Boarding. Both new leaders enter their positions with extensive experience in the DOC and goals to make the different divisions within the club more unified. "I want to try to bring out a more unified club spirit so that - rather than being opposing faction of kayakers, rock climbers and backpackers - the club is a more coherent group of people who share a diverse interest in a variety of activities and work together to make things happen," Barnhorst said. Through his new position, Parment said he hopes to broaden his own experience and to create stronger ties between the many divisions of the Outing Club. While conceding the divisions have many different purposes, Parment said he thinks "there is a lot that the different groups could offer each other." Barnhorst, who became involved with the DOC her freshman year, was the co-chair of the Mountaineering Club.

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