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Professor lectures on Latinos in U.S. society
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Breeanne Clowdus
| May 6, 1994
Arturo Madrid, a humanities professor at Trinity University and lifelong activist for Latino causes, spoke last night about the ways in which Latinos are challenged in American Society today. His talk, titled "An American Metamorphosis:Chicanos/Latinos," was part of the "Voices of Diversity" series and attracted the largest turn out thus far in the series. History Professor Marysa Navarro introduced Madrid to an audience of about 50 people. The two professors were colleagues when Madrid was a Dartmouth professor between 1965 and 1970 and have remained good friends since then. Madrid explained that during the latter half of the 20th century, Latinos have been "demonized by American society as scabs and barbarians." Because of this fear-inducing demonization, he said, there has existed a "constant subversion of community to participate and become part of American Society." Madrid also addressed the issue of Latino diversity.
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Police, College turn bark to bite with dog rules
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Alexander R. Edlich
| May 5, 1994
The College and the town are beefing up regulations against dogs by banning canines living in College-owned houses and creating an animal control position. Beginning Summer term, pets will no longer be allowed in College-owned houses, Office of Residential Life Assistant Director Bernard Haskell said.
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Assembly organized series on Holocaust
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Maggie Fritz
| May 5, 1994
The Student Assembly is planning a speaker series for the end of the month to focus on the Holocaust. The series, set to run from May 24 to 30, was prompted by the movie "Schindler's List" and the College's History 16 class, Representing the Holocaust: History, Memory, and Survival, said Jessica Roberts '97, one of the event's organizers. The series will feature a keynote address by Holocaust expert James Young, a University of Massachusetts at Amherst professor. Young will speak on "Memories of the Holocaust" on May 24. Young "was recommended by Professor Leo Spitzer, a co-teacher of History 16 as an expert on the subject," Roberts said.
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Shawmut takes over
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Scott Anthony
| May 5, 1994
After receiving the go-ahead from the Federal Reserve Board last week, Shawmut National Corp. will purchase New Dartmouth Bank in June. New Dartmouth Bank, which has two of its 37 branches in Hanover, is the state's second largest bank and has $1.7 billion in assets. Shawmut, based in Boston, Mass.
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Education dept. will stay
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Colin Grey
| May 5, 1994
After more than a year of uncertainty, the Dean of Faculty Office has decided to keep the College's education department, but the department could evolve to take on a very different form. Last spring a review committee of senior professors recommended the department either be terminated or significantly restructured to be less pre-professional and more consistent with a liberal arts philosophy. A new committee consisting of seven professors will propose how to revamp the department's structure and curriculum. "They have finally come to the conclusion that education is important to Dartmouth and should stay as it has for 100 years," Acting Department Chair Robert Binswanger said. Although the senior faculty committee report has not been released, sources who have seen it said it cited internal strife as a reason to close the department down. Last October, the department submitted a response to the report, suggesting provisions for structural and organizational change. Students, professors and alumni have awaited the Dean of Faculty Office's word on the department's fate since that submission, but Associate Dean of Faculty George Wolford said the office was operating without a deadline. "You can only have delays if you have a timetable, and no one ever said that we have to reach a final decision ... by December 1st or March 1st or anytime," Wolford said.
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European economy discussed
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Timothy Fitzgibbons
| May 5, 1994
In the fourth annual Walter Picard Lecture yesterday, a German economics professor said European countries should pursue a policy of selective immigration. About 60 people gathered in the Hinman Forum of the Rockefeller Center yesterday afternoon to hear Klaus Zimmermann's speech, titled "European Migration and the Changing Economy." Zimmermann, the dean of the faculty of economics at the University of Munich, spoke on the economic impact of immigration to the major European powers, focusing on Germany and France. In the future, the aging of the general population and labor demand will force European states to continue to allow immigration, Zimmermann said. But he said the nations should follow a policy of 'selective immigration' by accepting skilled immigrants in order to fulfill their economic needs. Zimmermann examined several types of immigration into Germany: people of German descent returning to the country, people from other European Union nations immigrating to Germany, and people from outside the Union who come to the nation. Also examined in detail in his oration were the immigration policies of France, a country which he said was "neither prepared nor willing to become a multicultural society." While Zimmermann acknowledged that studies have shown immigration improves life in a community, he noted that studies have been conducted in North America and do not necessarily apply to the "less flexible" European nations. The results of immigration to Europe were "less predictable" than immigration to North America, he said. Despite increasing restrictions on immigration in European nations, since the end of World War II the higher birth rates of foreigners and the immigration of family members to European countries has undermined policies designed to decrease the number of people immigrating, he said. The speech was sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty and the W.P.
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Grad advisors in residence program are happy
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Michelle Mooradian
| May 4, 1994
As the Graduate Students in Residence Program nears the end of the first of its two pilot years, students have mixed opinions concerning the program's success and desirability. Responses have come from both extremes, ranging from some upperclass students who believe the program is a waste of time and money to many freshmen and employees of the Office of Residential Life who strongly support its continuation. "One of the biggest surprises has been the extreme positive response of our staff to the program," Assistant Dean of Residential Life Alison Keefe said. Graduates are pleased The five graduate advisors, who live in Mass Row, Butterfield/Russell Sage, RipWoodSmith, Wheeler/Richardson and East Wheelock clusters, have been happy with their experiences. "The past year has been very satisfying," said Len Wisniewski, a graduate advisor in Wheeler and computer science Ph.D.
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Students form investment group
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Ahsan Rahim
| May 4, 1994
Two enterprising undergraduates recently created an investment group that allows students to pool their money so they can invest in the stock market. The purpose of the group, called Performance Investing, is "to provide people who would ordinarily not be able to invest, from lack of sufficient capital, an opportunity to invest in the stock market and gain valuable investment experience," said Omar Lari '96, co-founder and chair of the group. "This organization will allow investors to pool their money and invest in a diversified portfolio, thus lowering the risk premium" said Sanjay Natarajan '96, the other co-founder and the group's chief financial officer. The group, which was originally named The Dartmouth Investment Group, was renamed Performance Investing at the advice of Sean Gorman, associate counsel for the College, to make it clear that the group has nothing to do with Dartmouth. The group is similar to a mutual fund in the sense that investors pool their money, Lari said.
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China conference begins
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Maggie Fritz
| May 4, 1994
To recognize the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, the College is hosting a three-day conference that begins today called "The Future of Democracy in China." The conference will feature several panel discussions and a keynote address by Liu Binyan, an author, journalist and political activist, tomorrow night from 8 to 10 p.m.
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'97 arrested for nudity
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Alexander R. Edlich
| May 4, 1994
A scavenger hunt organized by four residential clusters went awry early Tuesday morning when a freshman participant was caught with his pants down. Hanover Police arrested Timothy O'Leary '97 outside 5 Rope Ferry Road after receiving a report from Safety and Security about a "man with no pants or underwear," a police spokesman said. O'Leary said he stood outside partially naked to get 100 points for the scavenger hunt.
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New class advised to by Quads
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Alexander R. Edlich
| May 4, 1994
A draft of a letter that incoming freshmen will receive this summer recommends students purchase a computer that is twice as fast as the one suggested for the Class of 1997. The Council on Computing will recommend an Apple Macintosh Quadra 605 with a 14-inch color monitor and an extended keyboard as the recommended computer package for 1994-95. Chemistry Professor John Winn, who chairs the council, said the package costs $1,405, according to current Apple price lists. Last year, the council recommended the Macintosh LCIII, a low-end computer driven by Motorola's 68LC030 processor.
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Govy prof witnesses history being made
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Siobhan Gorman
| May 4, 1994
Although Nelson Mandela declared victory in South Africa's first all-race presidential election two nights ago, Government Professor Nelson Kasfir said the outcome was obvious since March, when he visited the country. Kasfir traveled to South Africa after he finished teaching on the Foreign Studies Program in Kenya to spend time with leaders of the African National Congress, who he said were experiencing some of the pre-election tensions. "Things started happening in the sense of history being made in front of you," Kasfir said. Kasfir, who stayed in South Africa from March 11-25, said he had never visited South Africa before "because it supported a regime that I disapproved of." Kasfir said he stayed with friends who are high senior officials in the ANC and visited Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. He said Mandela's victory was not a surprise, but that many South Africans were apprehensive about potentially violent side effects. "The people we met were puzzled about how they were going to get through it all.
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Mt. Wash hiker plummets to death
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Amy Semet
| May 4, 1994
Cheryl Weingarten, a senior honors student at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., plunged to her death when she fell into a 70-foot-deep chasm Sunday at Tuckerman's Ravine on Mount Washington. Many Dartmouth students, on their own or on trips with the Dartmouth Outing Club, travel to Mount Washington for skiing and mountaineering.
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Alumni survey released
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Rebecca Siegel
| May 3, 1994
Dartmouth's first comprehensive scientific alumni survey was released last week, reporting an overall satisfaction with the College by alumni. Twelve-hundred of the College's 47,000 alumni were interviewed by the PSC International researching firm in December and January of this year.
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ORL puts floor plans on network
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David Hemmer
| May 3, 1994
A new HyperCard stack containing the floor plans for College residence halls was put onto the Public File Server this week by the Office of Residential Life. The plans should simplify the room assignment process for Fall term and eliminate problems created by students who would cheat by marking their desired rooms as reserved for freshmen so nobody else would request them. After Fall term cluster assignments are made, students file a second application for specific rooms within their assigned clusters.
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Hanover honors oldest couple
By
Rini Ghosh
| May 3, 1994
Orton Hicks '21, the College's first vice president, and his wife Lois shared the honor of receiving the Boston Post Cane yesterday afternoon, signifying they are Hanover's oldest residents. The couple was given a Boston Post Cane, one of the 700 original canes presented to New England towns in 1906 by the publishers of the Boston Post newspaper. Lois Hicks, 95, was born in 1899 and Orton Hicks, 94, was born in 1900.
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Chairs discuss CDCD
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Scott Anthony
| May 3, 1994
The chairs of the academic departments and programs met yesterday to discuss revisions to the academic honor principle and to consider recommendations made last term by the Committee on Diversity and Community at Dartmouth. College President James Freedman asked department heads how they felt about the CDCD report's two major recommendations: the creation of a senior-level administrator to coordinate efforts to manage diversity and the formation of a committee to evaluate the Greek system's effect on diversity and community. Before the discussion, Freedman said he did not think creating another senior-level position would help the College manage diversity. "The breadth of that responsibility is just so wide that I think you're almost dooming that person to failure," Freedman said.
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No speaker announced
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Maggie Fritz
| May 3, 1994
Less than six weeks away from Commencement, the College has yet to announce the Commencement speaker. Commencement ceremonies will take place Sunday, June 12. The speaker is chosen each year by the Council on Honorary Degrees.
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April, May bring allergies
By
Shana Fruehan
| May 3, 1994
The small, green buds which have begun to appear on trees around campus signal the start of more than spring for some students.