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Service gives facts over network

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The Dartmouth library system has begun a service that allows computer network users to make information requests to reference librarians from their computers. Humanities and Social Science Reference Bibliographer Cynthia Pawlek developed the service in conjunction with Computing Services.


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Trustees vote to continue ROTC

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The Board of Trustees voted over the weekend to keep the Army's Reserve Officer Training Corps, but admitted the program discriminates against homosexuals. The Trustees' statement, released Saturday, said the Board wished to preserve the opportunity for students to participate in ROTC but also pledged to work to change the military's policy toward homosexuals. By keeping the program, the Board overrode recommendations by the faculty and College President James Freedman to eliminate ROTC because of its discriminatory policies. But the Board's statement supported their claim that the military's current policy concerning homosexuals is still discriminatory. "The so-called 'don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue' policy enacted by Congress in 1993 places Dartmouth and other institutions of higher education in an unacceptable situation," the Trustees wrote in their two-page statement.


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Students to protest ROTC

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Students angry at the Board of Trustees' decision to continue the Reserve Officer Training Corps will lead a demonstration outside of Parkhurst Administration building at 12:30 p.m.



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Rhinehart '95 upstaged by special news report

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Just before Dave Rinehart '95 was to place his winning bid on a $900 prize package of a doormat and pair of lamps on the Price is Right last Thursday, President Bill Clinton broke into the broadcast with a special news report. Rinehart won a six-day trip to Australia in the Check-out game while the President told of the United States mistakenly shooting down two of its own helicopters over Iraq. Viewers never saw Rinehart on the show again. Rinehart, who filmed the show during a Spring Break trip with the Aires a capella group, is now in Germany on a Foreign Study Program and could not be reached for comment. "Indeed he had won a number of outstanding things," said David Rinehart, Dave's father, in a phone interview.


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Stewart '96 in intensive care

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Jonathon Stewart '96 remained in serious but stable condition last night in the intensive care unit at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center after falling from an Alpha Delta fraternity window early Saturday morning. Stewart is being treated at DHMC for injuries to his chest, back and spleen, Cathy Dalton, an administrative coordinator at DHMC, said.



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Campus divided over decision

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A wave of emotion rolled across the campus following the Board of Trustees' decision to keep the Army's Reserve Officer Training Corps program. The Trustees' statement, released Saturday afternoon, shocked and angered homosexuals at the College. Religion Professor Susan Ackerman, a former co-convener of the Coalition for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns, said the decision further alienates the homosexual community and it sends a message to them that they are "not as important." Bart Bingenheimer '94 said he thought it was a "sure bet" the Board would vote to eliminate the program.


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DDS changes deliveries

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After less than a week in operation, significant changes have been made to increase efficiency in Food Court's new late night delivery service. The program, which began Apr.


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Kelley leaves after 27 years as trainer

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After serving as the College's head trainer since 1967, Fred Kelley has taken a long-term disability leave effective April 1. "Fred Kelley certainly has become part of the history of Dartmouth," Athletic Directory Dick Jaeger said.


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ROTC students say military life not so hard

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There are 23 students in the College's Reserve Officer Training Corp. As cadets, they spend one or two hours in military courses, two hours in leadership lab and two hours in Physical Training (called "PT") each week, according to Sergeant Terry Damm, the local ROTC instructor. Students who complete the four-year program and a six week advanced camp at Fort Bragg, N.


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Student collapses in Thayer

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A male student who became ill in Thayer Dining Hall around noon yesterday was taken by ambulance to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center where he was treated and released. According to Beth Jones, manager at Food Court, the student apparently suffered from a seizure. Roland Adams, a spokesman for the News Service said the injury was not food-related.


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Trustees to meet tomorrow

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The College's Board of Trustees will vote this weekend at its annual April meeting on the Reserve Officer Training Corps program's future and on a proposal to create a new comparative literature graduate program. Cheryl Reynolds, the Board's secretary, said the Trustees will consider the ROTC issue in one of their closed executive meetings this weekend.


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Panhell adopts new rush process

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The Panhellenic Council adopted last night a new rush policy that will guarantee all interested women a place in one of Panhell's six sororities starting Fall term. Four proposals were voted on by all six sororities at house meetings on Wednesday night.


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Crew hopes for weekend rebound

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Although the outcome of the races in Derby, Conn. last weekend wasn't what the Big Green wanted, both women's and men's heavyweight crew hope to rebound from those losses, for they and men's lightweight crew all face tough competition this weekend. Saturday, the women race Radcliffe and Syracuse in Cambridge, Mass., and men's heavyweight crew challenges Boston University and Rutgers in Hanover.


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Talk focuses on women of color

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About 40 students met at the top of the Hop yesterday afternoon as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Week to discuss how sexual assault affects women of color. The discussion, moderated by Ann Marshall '95, focused mainly on how difficult it is for sexually assaulted women of color to obtain support from within and outside of their communities. "Sexual assault is not separate from the racial problems and history which exist in this country," Susie Lee '94 said. Women of color are often not believed when revealing they have been sexually assaulted, especially when the attacker is Caucasian, Lee said. And if the attacker is part of their community, women of color are often made to feel as if they must keep silent to combat media-made stereotypes about their communities, she said. "Women of color should realize that they too are part of their community and deserve to valued as such," S.T.


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March takes back the night

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More than 70 women and a handful of men participated in the fifth annual Take Back the Night March. Marchers chanted slogans like "Women unite, Take back the night" as they weaved their way from Parkhurst Administration building, past Mass Row, down Webster Avenue to the Women's Resource Center by the Choates. At the head of the procession, Yun Chung '97 carried a wreath covered in blue, green, purple and red ribbons - which signify support for the victims of sexual assault - added by people throughout Sexual Assault Awareness Week. "We simultaneously acknowledge and reject the extreme social cost that sexual assault has for Dartmouth and the society at large," Reini Jensen '94 read from the march's statement of purpose. Yesterday's march appeared more peaceful than in the past.


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Speaker discusses men's role in rape prevention

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Alan Berkowitz, the director of counseling at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, spoke yesterday about men's responsibilities for the prevention of rape and sexual assault. As part of Dartmouth's Sexual Assault Awareness Week, Berkowitz, who came up to the College from Geneva, New York, gave a speech titled, "Consent Versus Coercion: Changing Men's Roles Towards Mutuality in Sexual Relationships." He defined rape as sexual penetration without consent and sexual assault as relations that are coerced or not agreed upon. "The goal is that if people want to be sexually intimate, there should be uncoerced mutual consent," Berkowitz said. Berkowitz said male gender roles in America are defined when children are growing up and then carry over into adulthood.


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Smoke in Silsby

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Two women were trapped in an elevator in Silsby Hall for 30 minutes yesterday before being rescued by the Hanover Fire Department. An electrical malfunction in the elevator's motor caused the elevator to shut down automatically at 6 p.m.


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Sororities may change rush

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The Panhellenic Council will vote tonight on four proposed sorority rush processes - including a lottery approach - to find one to implement Fall term. The six sororities governed by Panhell voted on the new proposals in their house meetings last night.


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