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Dorm vending to offer condoms

By Rebecca Siegel | September 21, 1994

Students will soon find condoms next to their candy and chips in dormitory vending machines in an effort to increase condom availability, Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco said. The College implemented this plan because of discussions with student representatives from Responsible AIDS Education at Dartmouth and the Student Assembly. "In the past few years a number of student groups have come to deans and administrators and asked that the College place condoms in residence halls for wider distribution," Turco said. "RAID made their case to the Student Assembly and the Student Assembly endorsed the wider distribution of condoms on campus and essentially petitioned for this," she said. RAID's roadshows, which are informational skits performed in College dorms, spread information about the importance of condoms in preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

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Hitting the books

By Amy Semet | September 21, 1994

Freshman Orientation Week concluded last night in a packed Leede Arena with a lecture by English professor William Cook on the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass." The Committee on the First-Year Experience and the orientation subcommittee revived the idea of a freshman lecture and reading for the Class of 1998. The College offered the freshman lecture a few years ago, but discontinued it because some faculty members did not feel prepared to give the book an adequate representation, according to Dean of Freshmen Peter Goldsmith. But this year administrators felt the freshman lecture would make orientation more academic. "The freshman lecture is an experience that '98s can share when they convene," Goldsmith said.

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Upperclasses barely affected by new ORC

By Jack Vaitayanonta | September 21, 1994

Despite the sweeping changes of the new curriculum and the distributive requirements beginning with the Class of 1998, the new course listings in the September 1994 Organizations, Regulations and Courses book will have little or no impact on the listings for upperclassmen. The College is essentially operating under two curriculum structures right now -- the new curriculum for freshmen and the old one for all other classes. But earlier fears of operating under overlapping structures would cause great confusion so far appear to be unfounded. Course descriptions listed in the ORC are followed by codes that tell how each course fulfills the different set of distributive requirements established for the new curriculum.

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Future housing examined

By Siobhan Gorman | September 21, 1994

The averted housing crisis of fall is resulting in the review of College policies that have allowed larger enrollments during the Fall term than other terms. During the summer the College's Enrollment Committee established an ad-hoc group of students, faculty and administrators that will begin work shortly to discuss permanent ways to alleviate the Fall term housing crunch.

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College slips through housing crisis

By David Hemmer | September 20, 1994

Despite a housing waitlist that peaked at 400 in May and remained at 278 in July, all students who remained on the list received campus housing due to changes in enrollement patterns and creative housing solutions by the College. During the summer, College administrators scrambled to find solutions to the second consecutive Fall housing crunch by housing students in faculty apartments and converted dormitory lounges and offering incentives to sophomores and juniors to change their enrollment patterns. "The waitlist was reduced through a variety of ways, some people found their own off campus housing, some people we were able to house, some people changed their enrollment pattern and decided to take the term off," said Bud Beatty, associate dean of Residential Life. Sixteen students were assigned to live in College-owned faculty apartments a short distance from campus.

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Lucky rescues unlikely in wild

By Colin Grey | September 20, 1994

Bjorn Kilburn '95, an experienced outdoors man and a trained Wilderness First Responder, said speed is imperative if you are going to successfully rescue a heart attack victim on the trail. "I don't know all that went on with professor Johnson's heart attack.

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Skits portray social issues

By Tim Fitzgibbons | September 20, 1994

Members of the Class of 1998 gathered Sunday night to watch the "Community at Dartmouth" presentation, a series of skits and narratives designed to introduce new students to some of the social issues present on the Dartmouth campus. The program was presented simultaneously at Spaulding Auditorium and at the Collis Center. A group of undergraduate advisors and other students presented skits dealing with issues of race, culture, eating disorders, rape, sexuality and diversity among Dartmouth students. The show included a number of fictional situations that one might be expected to find in college, including rape, alcohol abuse and homosexuality. Members of the Class of 1998 were required to attend the event. In the summer, a committee formed by the Freshman Office planned and organized the content of the two-and-a-half-hour show. One point of contention during the spring was how much time should be devoted to examining sexual assault on the Dartmouth campus.

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Johnson, CS prof, dead

By Maggie Fritz With Colin Grey | September 20, 1994

Computer Science Professor Donald Johnson, a brilliant scientist and the creator of Dartmouth's nationally respected computer science program, died September 10 while hiking Mount Cube near Orford, N.H.

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Welcomed by Dartmouth's wild side

By Kristen King | September 20, 1994

Most students arriving at an elite Ivy League institution for the first day of college expect to be greeted by advisers with books, maps and maybe a beer - not Tweedledee, Mickey Mouse and a cow. "It's not what I expected," Scott Rankin '98 said from his dorm room in the Fayerweather farm.

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Dartmouth ranks 8th again nationally

By Siobhan Gorman | September 20, 1994

For the second year in a row, Dartmouth ranked eighth in U.S. News and World Report's annual rating of national colleges and universities. Out of an overall score of 100, Dartmouth scored 95.4, 1.4 points behind seventh ranked California Institute of Technology.

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Housing incentives attract few students

By Scott Anthony | August 23, 1994

Only a handful of students have responded to a College-offered incentive plan to get more students to take Fall term off, leaving more than 100 students still without Fall term housing. Dean of the Faculty James Wright sent out a letter early last week saying any student enrolled for the fall or still on the wait list who agrees to change their Dartmouth plan to be off in the fall will receive half off their room rent for the next term they are on. These students will also receive a higher room priority numbers the next term they are on campus and will have the highest priority within their group for course selections. But as of 3 p.m.

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Donations establish record

By Alexander R. Edlich | August 23, 1994

The College topped last year's record for alumni donations by $500,000 in its annual fund drive this fiscal year. As of June 30, the Alumni Fund received more than $13.4 million in donations. Last year alumni donated $12.9 million, according to Jeff Sassorosi, the fund's senior associate director. "We are very, very pleased with this year's drive," he said. This year 48.6 percent of alumni gave to the fund, a decrease of about 8 percent from last year. But Sassorosi said they tallied alumni contribution figures differently this year. He said instead of giving alumni six to seven additional months to pay off their pledges and computing those pledges in the total numbers, this year they counted only "cash-in-hand" pledges.

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Art just a part of Shortridge

By Alexander R. Edlich | August 19, 1994

You can tell she is an artist. But it is not that she's clothed all in black in or discusses the newly anointed prince of the New York art clique; it is just that Kate Shortridge '96 has paint all over her pants, jacket and backpack. "I always bring the remnants of being an artist home with me," she said while walking across the Green yesterday afternoon.

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LaAlianza wants social space

By Scott Anthony | August 19, 1994

Latino students are asking the College to increase support for their community by giving it space on campus and an advisor. Executives of La Alianza Latina, the College's Latino student group, met with Provost Lee Bollinger, Director of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Mary Childers, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Fursternberg, Dean of the College Lee Pelton and Dean of the Faculty James Wright on Wednesday. Ramyar Rossoukh '96, La Alianza's secretary and former president, said he thinks Latino students need to have their own space for meetings and events. "The Latino community is the largest under-represented ethic community that doesn't have a space of its own," he said. Pablo Barrutia '96, La Alianza's treasurer said having some kind of space is "important for the future of La Alianza." The group currently has its meetings in the Collis Center. Although many Latino students live in and use La Casa, Rossoukh said La Casa's primary focus is as a Spanish affinity house.

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