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Party ends in arrest

By Colin Grey | May 2, 1994

Hanover Police and an ambulance from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center responded to a call from Safety and Security officers to assist an intoxicated woman at a sorority party Friday night. The ambulance was called at about 11:30 p.m.

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Senator tells GOP to soften its image

By Tom O'Shea | May 2, 1994

Republican Sen. Arlen Specter spoke Friday about the need to broaden his party's support base and to tone down the ultra-conservatism that divided the party at its 1992 convention. The Pennsylvanian senator opened his speech, "Agenda for Voters 18-28," with an optimistic statement, saying that, contrary to economic indicators, "the prospect is present to enjoy a life that is more prosperous, more satisfying and more secure than the generations before." He said the principles on which the Republican Party is based will lead the way to this greater prosperity and a "better tomorrow." Specter said the divisiveness of the 1992 Houston convention is not indicative of the Republican Party.

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Programming Board grows in members, importance

By Scott Anthony | May 2, 1994

A sold-out Tribe Called Quest concert Friday. A jam-packed Steven Wright comedy show Saturday. A Sunday Red Sox game in Boston that 50 Dartmouth students attended.

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Water discolored today

By Alexander R. Edlich | May 2, 1994

The Hanover Water Company will begin its annual flushing of the town's water mains today, causing harmless water discoloration. Facilities, Operations and Management Utilities Engineer Stephen Mischissin said the company, which supplies water to the entire town of Hanover, will generate high velocities in the main pipes to wash out any accumulated rust. He said the routine flushing would result in brown-tinted water that still would be potable.

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Novak discusses multiculturalism

By Jack Vaitayanonta | April 29, 1994

Renowned theologian and author Michael Novak discussed how the global community will have to deal with multiculturalism in the next century in a lecture last night titled "How NOT to Do Multiculturalism - and How to Do It." Novak's speech was part of the Rockefeller Center's annual Brooks Family Lecture. He said the subject of multiculturalism is "one of the powerful realities of the world" that attacks the fallicies of many of the ideals upon which the United States was built. Novak said while many praise the Age of Enlightenment as a "new paradigm of understanding," it promoted a faulty method of argument.

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'96 to run for House

By Colin Grey | April 29, 1994

Justin Heather '96 officially announced yesterday that he will run for a seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in next fall's state elections. By drumming up support among Dartmouth students and encouraging them to vote, Heather, a Republican, said he believes he can win one of the four seats up for grabs on November 8. "I feel that enough students are interested in politics that I will have a good chance at winning," Heather said.

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Future of war debated

By Michael Weinberg | April 29, 1994

Historian and author Hardy McNeil shared his wisdom about the evolution of war and power-relations and speculated about conflict in the post-Cold War era in a speech yesterday afternoon. McNeil, despite disclaiming his ability to predict the future, offered two alternative historical models as a replacement of the nation-state system that enabled massive powers like Napoleon to conquer Europe. Introduced as a "mega-historian" by Martin Sherwin, director of the John Dickey Center for International Understanding, McNeil began his lecture, "The Future of War," by briefly tracing the history of warfare. McNeil said the development of "recent warfare" dates back to the nation-state system, which emerged in 1650 and reached its climax with World War II. But the traditional sources of community authority that enabled the rise of massive powers are "wearing out" and need to be replaced by larger or smaller peace-keeping institutions than currently exist, McNeil said. McNeil said the ideology behind the United Nations as a "world-wide intervention toward peace" is similar to the large-scale nature of the Holy Roman Empire. But the lack of central authority which doomed the Empire will limit the effectiveness of the United Nations unless it is given the power of taxation, McNeil said.

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Parents visit College

By Maggie Fritz | April 29, 1994

Around 2,000 freshmen parents will visit this weekend to check up on their kids and experience a little bit of Dartmouth for themselves. Campus tours, an information fair, seminars, a cabaret night and a hike are among the events planned to entertain parents during the weekend. "It's going to be exciting to see it all come together," said Kerri Apblett '97, co-chair of the committee organizing the weekend.

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Will to Excel hits $329 M

By Keith Lavigne | April 29, 1994

The College's Will to Excel capital campaign received 77.6 percent of its $425 million target, and may very well surpass its goals. So far, the campaign has received $329 million in gifts in the three years after the campaign began. The Will to Excel campaign is a five year endeavor to raise funding for the College.

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Network to change

By Alexander R. Edlich | April 28, 1994

The Budget Office is considering a $2.8 million upgrade of the College's computer network, which would dramatically increase the speed of electronic transmissions across campus. The proposal involves converting Dartmouth's LocalTalk network to Ethernet, a system of wiring that allows for faster and more direct communication between computers. A report submitted by Director of Computing Larry Levine to the Provost's Office in January calls for the first major upgrade of Dartmouth's network since it was installed 10 years ago. Levine said the network, which links all dormitory rooms to the campus' mainframe and mail servers, would run "at worst three to four times faster and at best many tens of times faster," after the conversion. Interim Provost Bruce Pipes said the proposal will be submitted to the Board of Trustees during its June meeting and that it will have a high priority.

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Senior executives elected

By Rebecca Siegel | April 28, 1994

The Class of 1994 recently elected 21 seniors to the Senior Executive Committee. The committee acts primarily as a liaison between the class and the Alumni Council after graduation. Jen Suhie was elected class president and current Class President Dan Garodnick will serve as alumni councilor.

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Ivy League assemblies gather, Epstein '97 elected secretary

By Maggie Fritz | April 28, 1994

Meredith Epstein '97 was elected secretary of the Ivy Council, a discussion-and-action group made up of student government members from the eight Ivy League schools. Seven members of Dartmouth's Student Assembly traveled to Cornell University two weeks ago for a three-day meeting, where the elections took place.

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Thayer students make 'ElecTruck'

By Siobhan Gorman and Siobhan Gorman | April 28, 1994

Five students from the Thayer School of Engineering just finished converting a 1982 Chevy S-10 pickup truck they rescued from a junkyard into a battery-powered "ElecTruck," for the Hanover Police Department to use as a parking enforcement vehicle. In a ceremony Monday morning, Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering Charles Hutchinson handed over the keys to the electrically-powered truck to Hanover Town Manager Clifford Vermilya. Former Hanover Police Chief Kurt Schimke, who died in January, had requested an electric vehicle for this purpose from Thayer students. The ElecTruck is an "example of close cooperation between the town and the College," Vermilya said. Doug Fraser, a research engineer at Thayer and faculty advisor to the students working on the project, said, "It's sort of ideal because the truck is sitting for so much of the time." After each eight-hour charge, which costs about $1.50, the truck is capable of traveling for more than 60 miles. The project was part of an advanced engineering course, Design Methodology and Project Initiation, on which Thayer students Brian Hannon, Laura Iwan, Owen Donnelley, Peter Barrette and David Cramer spent approximately 2,000 hours. "The project was a little bit bigger than average," Hannon said. The idea for the project came out of the efforts of the solar racing team, he said. He said the project took six months to complete.

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Jewish minor set

By Rebecca Siegel | April 27, 1994

The Committee on Instruction passed last week a proposal to institute a new multi-disciplinary Jewish studies minor in the fall. The six-course minor will include three required courses from the Asian studies program and the religion department and allow students to take three others from the history, government and comparative literature departments chosen in consultation with an advisor. The required courses include Religion 6, Introduction to Judaism, one of two Hebrew literature courses in the Asian studies department and a third course in either religion or Hebrew literature. The idea for a Jewish studies minor emerged out of the formation of the Jewish Faculty and Staff Association more than one year ago, said the Association's coordinator Andrew Friedland, an environmental studies professor. The Association then formed a steering committee that developed the proposal submitted to the COI last week. "Our goal is to [encourage] those students interested in pursuing the minor to do so.

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Heyman discusses endangered species

By Breeanne Clowdus | April 27, 1994

Ira Heyman, counselor to the U.S. Department of the Interior and a former chair of the College's Board of Trustees, spoke yesterday about the politics surrounding the fight to save endangered species. Heyman was part of a panel discussion titled, "Endangered Species: Politics, Ecosystems and Economics," sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program and held in Rockefeller Center. Heyman is a member of a committee within the Department of the Interior that is pushing for re-authorization of the Endangered Species Act. Heyman began yesterday's discussion by summarizing problems with the act and his proposed solutions. "It doesn't matter what system we have, we're going to lose species," Heyman said.

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Freshmen may be first-year

By Keith Lavigne | April 27, 1994

Two committees looking for ways to improve the freshman experience will recommend that the College change the name of the Freshmen Office to the Office of First-Year Students. The Intellectual Life and Orientation sub-committees of the Committee on the First-Year Experience will suggest the change in a report they plan to release at the end of the term. "It looks that parts of the Committee on the First-Year Experience will recommend the change," Dean of Freshmen Peter Goldsmith said. Goldsmith chairs the Orientation sub-committee and is a member of the Intellectual Life sub-committee. The First-Year Committee, chaired by Dean of the College Lee Pelton, is also considering creating freshmen residence halls. Goldsmith said the potential name change is a result of changing times and changing attitudes but is not a response to an overwhelming campus-wide concern.

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Three from Dartmouth named Rockefeller scholars

By Tracy Deangelis | April 27, 1994

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund named David Gonzalez '95, Candice Jimerson '95 and Cresencia Spencer '95 as 1994 Minority Teaching Fellows, an award that earns each recipient a stipend of up to $18,000. The three recipients are among 26 undergraduates from 16 schools nationwide selected by the organization.

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Pilot talks on Hydro-Quebec

By Colin Grey | April 27, 1994

Last night Gilbert Pilot, a spokesperson for the Innu Native Americans in northern Quebec, spoke about their resistance to the building of a hydro-electric dam near their homeland. Pilot arrived 40 minutes late to Rockefeller Center, after a hurried drive from Amherst College through last night's rain, he said. Without using notes or removing his jacket, he delivered a speech to about 13 people, outlining his people's efforts to combat Hydro-Quebec's continued exploitation of Innu territory. "Our homeland is our culture, our language, because we can name every tree, every lake, every fish in our language," he said.

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Nicols speaks on living with AIDS

By Rebecca Siegel | April 26, 1994

Henry Nicols, a 20-year-old hemophiliac with AIDS, and his sister Jennifer discussed the social implications of living with AIDS in Collis Common Ground last night. About 200 people, mostly women, turned out to hear the speech titled "Living with AIDS." "Many people our age think AIDS is only a problem for gay men or IV drug users - they are wrong," Henry said. "I did nothing to deserve AIDS.

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French Conference Funded

By Daisy I. Alpert | April 26, 1994

French professor Lawrence Kritzman recently received close to $100,000 in grants from the French Embassy and contributions from American colleges and universities to sponsor an annual conference on French cultural studies. The five-week conference, called the Edouard Morot-Sir Institute for French Cultural Studies, is the first of its kind. French professors from prestigious academic institutions such as Williams College, Brandeis University and Cornell University will also attend the Institute, which will be held at Dartmouth June 28 through July 27. Kritzman said he believes the Institute "will help make French a stronger discipline in the next century." The invited scholars will examine the theme "Culture and Memory in France." The Institute is sponsored by the Committee for the Future of French Studies, which Kritzman founded in early 1991.