News

Epstein says glass ceiling exists

By David Hemmer | August 11, 1994

City University of New York Sociology Professor Cynthia Epstein said yesterday although women have made progress penetrating the ranks of large law firms, many are stranded at the level of associate partner or what she called "non-equity partners." Epstein, who is one of the finalists to succeed George Demko as Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences director, addressed a crowd of 40 in the 1902 Room of the Rockefeller Center.

---

News

Police question Theta Delt

By Alexander R. Edlich | August 11, 1994

Hanover Police officers are questioning and fingerprinting Theta Delta Chi fraternity brothers in their investigation of the break-in at Thayer Dining Hall two weeks ago. Police Chief Nick Giaccone said the police actions are "normal procedures" and that Theta Delt is the starting point for the investigation. Theta Delt Summer President Matt Bush '96 said the police contacted members in the house to question them.

---

News

DOC picks leaders

By Maneesh Shrivastav | August 9, 1994

The Dartmouth Outing Club has successfully increased the diversity of its freshman trip leaders, according to Gen Kanai '95, director of the D.O.C.

---

News

Missing sophomore summer

By Scott Anthony | August 9, 1994

While most of the Class of 1996 was enjoying a leisurely afternoon floating down the Connecticut River during Tubestock two weeks ago, Sara McKinstry '96 was in Sturbridge, Mass.

---

News

Koop Institute gets $91,000

By Alexander R. Edlich | August 9, 1994

The Corporation for National Service recently gave $91,000 to the C. Everett Koop Institute at the Dartmouth Medical School to support a program that allows medical students to teach children at local schools. The program, Partners in Health Education, has operated as a pilot program for the past two years. Dr. Joseph O'Donnell, an associate dean for student affairs at the medical school and one of the project's directors, said the grant will help continue the innovative approach to doctor-patient relations. O'Donnell said C.

---

News

College to study housing situation

By David Hemmer | August 9, 1994

A College committee that looks at issues related to the Dartmouth Plan will recommend today that a committee of administrators, faculty and students study the Fall-term housing shortage. The recommendations, which remain subject to formal approval this morning from the enrollment committee, came out of a meeting yesterday afternoon, said Dean of the Faculty James Wright, who chairs the enrollment committee. Registrar Thomas Bickel, who is on the enrollment committee, said he expects the new committee to have its recommendations ready by November. But the committee's recommendations will not provide a solution to the immediate problem of the more than 180 people who still remain without housing for the Fall term. "I certainly am sympathetic with them," Wright said.

---

News

Alumni return to study creation myths

By Christopher Kao | August 9, 1994

During the next two weeks, alumni and others with close ties to the College will be returning to very familiar surroundings &emdash; the classroom. As part of this year's Alumni College, about 160 people are in Hanover this week to study cosmology and creation myths and another group of about 95 will come up next week to study literary works, such as "The Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad and "The Tempest," by William Shakespeare. The 31-year-old Alumni College program allows alumni and parents and relatives of Dartmouth students to spend a week in Hanover studying a specific topic taught by several professors. The participants in the program come for a variety of reasons. David Wrisley '67, whose daughter Katherine is a '95, said he came to this week's program because he received the flyer and was interested in the topic. Wrisley added that he and his wife enjoy spending time in Hanover. "We love to come back to Hanover," he said.

---

News

Instructional, Computing services merge

By Scott Anthony | August 9, 1994

The Office of Instructional Services and Computing Services recently merged to streamline planning for the next generation of classrooms and teaching. Deputy Provost Bruce Pipes, a key figure in the merger, said he does not expect there to be any big, short-term changes because of the merger. "This is the kind of merger that is planning for the future," Pipes said. The merger, which occurred in the beginning of July, was a result of Instructional Services increasingly being asked to do things related with computers, Instructional Services Director Mike Beahan said. "More and more, what people want is computer-based," he said.

---

News

Telephone numbers now public

By Alexander R. Edlich | August 9, 1994

The Dean of the College Office recently began giving out students' phone numbers to be people who request it from the office. Though the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 allowed universities to release student telephone numbers, the College previously did not disclose them because it thought doing so would invade students' privacy, Assistant Dean of the College Teoby Gomez said. The office is currently allowed to release information on a student's major, awards received, address, extracurricular activities and degrees. Gomez said students can request that the office not give their personal information out.

---

News

Police end investigation

By Scott Anthony | August 5, 1994

Hanover Police after investigating Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Sigma Delta sorority will not file any charges against the houses. Hanover Police Detective Rick Paulsen said the police are currently investigating several other Greek houses, but declined to name them. In the SAE and Sigma Delt case, police were looking into the arrests of three underaged, non-Dartmouth students on July 21 for possession of alcohol. Paulsen said the investigation is closed because of "the unavailability of the witnesses." He said three students arrested are now "all over the country" and it is too much of a hassle to have them return to Hanover. "Basically this case is going to be closed because the county attorney is not going to fly them up here," he said. Sigma Delt President Lauren Currie '96 said Sigma Delt would continue to comply with state and College alcohol guidelines. Paulsen said he expected the town to file charges against at least one of the "other" houses within the next two months.

---

News

ORL: First time housing denied

By David Hemmer | August 5, 1994

For the first time in Dartmouth's history, the College has turned away on-time applicants for on-campus housing, and there are few other housing options in Hanover. Due to the housing shortage and grim outlook for getting pulled off the waiting list, students may now have to change their Dartmouth Plans because they will have nowhere to live in the fall. The Office of Residential Life last week wrote to about 200 students tell them they would not receive College housing for Fall term. "For the first time, we cannot house all students who wish to reside on-campus for a Fall term," Associate Dean of Residential Life Bud Beatty wrote in the letter.

---

News

Office of Speech may be closed

By Alicia Jennings | August 5, 1994

This fall, a faculty committee will consider the future of the Office of Speech because the pro-gram's lone professor is retiring. Of the two professors teaching the program's three courses this past year, Goodwin Berquist retired at the end of the Spring term and William Brown is set to step down at the end of this coming winter, according to Mary Jean Green, associate dean of the faculty for Humanities. The committee, which will be formed by the Dean of the Faculty Office, will make its recommendations to Dean of Faculty James Wright by the end of the winter. The office is consulting with various faculty members this summer, Green said, including retired Professor Merelyn Reeve and former Speech Department Chair Herbert James. The Board of Trustees approved a faculty vote in June1979, which dissolved the Speech Department, but continued offering speech courses. Since then, speech courses have operated under the Office of Speech. Though Green said the Dean of the Faculty Office can not predict what the faculty committee will recommend, she said possible options include hiring new professors, dissolving the office or incorporating it into another department. "I'm sure a variety of options will be considered," Green said.

---

News

Tremaine to leave

By Alexander R. Edlich | August 5, 1994

Phyllis Tremaine, who has successfully handled the Amos Tuck School of Business Admin-istration's $35-million capital campaign, will leave soon to become the director of development at the University of Indiana Business School. Tremaine, who is Tuck's director of development and has been there for six years, said she will start her new job on Sept.

---

News

Government needs reform

By Alexander R. Edlich | August 5, 1994

But speaker says it is not easy to reinvent government Paul Light, a professor at the University of Minnesota, said in a speech Wednesday afternoon that the American government may need more, not less, reform. Speaking on "Surviving Reinvention: The Hunt for Reform in Government" to an audience of 25 in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, Light said the federal bureaucracy has gotten thicker in the last few decades and that it resists change. He said the problem of this "thickening" is not one of costs but one of "diffusion of accountability." Light, one of the final candidates to succeed the center's former director, George Demko, said "past reforms leave a remarkable residue that has an incredible effect on reform." Of 35 policy reforms recently instituted in Minnesota, 40 percent perished or were ineffective, Light said. The research came from the Surviving Innovation Project, a group that Light heads that does research into reforming and improving governments. Light cited the group's study as proof that many policy reforms and reinvention of governments do not last because of insufficient funding or political pressure. Light added that often new administrations do not fully overhaul the bureaucratic hierarchy when instituting new reforms. "Within the administration, from regime to regime, it fails to kill off reforms of former occupants of whatever regime was in play," he said. In the past 50 years, Light said, there has been an increased infusion of fear into government which has created a situation where "bureaucrats don't take action and don't take risks." He said the "residue" of former reforms undermine new ones.

---

News

Rwanda forum held

By Kate Forbes | August 5, 1994

Five speakers at a lunch-time forum on Rwanda yesterday said political upheaval in the East African country is often ignored by the Western media as a reason for the slaughter of nearly one million people. More than 50 Dartmouth community members attended the forum on the terrace of the Collis Center. Government Professor Gene Lyons, who also directs the Dickey Center's United Nations Institute, mediated the forum. He began the forum by listing the three things that would be discussed: the Rwandan land and people, the obligation of the interHe said there are two elements of the tragedy: the genocide of the Tutsi people and the two million refuges fearfully remaining in Zaire while an indeterminate number still exist inside the country. "We need to arrange conditions in some sense so that people who are outside will feel safe in coming home," he said, "at the same time emphasizing that as an African problem, it's the Africans who are going to solve it." Kasfir said the crisis was not caused by an on-going ethnic quarrel between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes.

---

News

Ryan Carey: a 'progressive'leader?

By Yvonne Chiu | August 5, 1994

Maybe it's because Zeta Psi Summer President Ryan Carey '96 is called a "progressive Greek leader" that he felt compelled to voluntarily explain why a picture of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model was on his wall. "That was bequeathed to me by my older brother," Carey said matter-of-factly. But these are the days when Greek and non-Greek imply pro-Greek and anti-Greek.

---

News

Carnival tomorrow

By T. Anne Tamaroff | August 5, 1994

The Programming Board will sponsor this year's Summer Carnival tomorrow from 1 p.m. to 4 on the Green. With the way this summer has been going, the event's title, "Hot and Sticky" is appropriate enough. Since the start of the term, the Programming Board's Summer Carnival Committee has been planning the event.

---

News

Network to change

By Justin Steinman | August 3, 1994

Students living in New Hampshire Hall, and the Fayerweathers and Choates dormitory clusters will be able to connect more easily to a new high-speed wire to acess electronic mail and other network services by the start of Fall term. Larry Levine, the College's director of computing services, said installation of the new wires &emdash; called Ethernet &emdash; in the Fayerweathers and the Choates that is going on now should be completed by September. Currently, students can have Kiewit run Ethernet wires through walls into their rooms for $125.

---

News

Tours offer glimpse of campus life

By Scott Anthony | August 3, 1994

During the course of the summer, more than 4,000 bright-eyed 16- and 17-year-old students will get their first glimpse of the College through Admissions Office tours. Groups of prospective applicants eagerly gather at McNutt Hall and then are led on a planned route around campus by student tour guides. Anywhere from 10 to 30 students go on each tour, which last a little more than an hour. On the tour, high-schoolers get a glimpse of Dartmouth life as they look at Baker Library, dormitories and The Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts. Officials in the Admissions Office say response to the tours is overwhelmingly positive. Many prospective students and parents say they like the tours because tour guides are trained not to just rattle-off facts and give Dartmouth history. "We really try to not be focused on history and just plain facts," Assistant Admissions Director Michele Hernandez said.

---

News

College to accept Common Application

By Christopher Kao | August 3, 1994

Starting in the fall of 1995, the College will accept the Common Application, a standard form used by more than 130 universities nation-wide, in an attempt to reach more high-school students and to make the admissions process more "egalitarian." The Common Application includes a personal section, a school report section and a teacher evaluation which an applicant can fill out once, photocopy and send to any of the 137 schools that accept the form. Mostly smaller, less-competitive schools use the form, but schools which accept the application, like Duke University and Amherst, Swarthmore, Wesleyan and Williams Colleges, directly compete with Dartmouth for students. Dartmouth is the second Ivy League school to announce it will accept the standard form.

---