Love and Dartmouth: a contradiction in terms?

Today is Valentine's day. The day of love. But does Dartmouth care? The Supremes told us once that "You can't hurry love." At Dartmouth, it would seem, you cannot even get love to move along at a crawl. "When the College first became coed 20 years ago, students weren't dating, and they still aren't dating today," Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia said. A random poll taken by The Dartmouth revealed a student body equally disillusioned about the holiday. "If you look up 'love' in any Dartmouth dictionary, it will say 'see one-night stands'," Sarah LeSure '97 said. The poll revealed a student body full of doubts. "Love at Dartmouth?

A quiet Carnival

Students followed the advice of this year's Winter Carnival theme, breaking loose from a frozen Hanover to take advantage of the many activities offered during the weekend. But Hanover Police officers said this year's Carnival weekend was quieter than usual. Many of the events during the three-day weekend drew large crowds of students, especially the Winter Carnival Formal and Psi Upsilon fraternity's annual keg jump. More than 500 students flocked to Collis Center Saturday night for the resurrection of the Winter Carnival Ball, said Kerri Cavanaugh '95, chair of the Winter Carnival Formal Committee.

Pu Pu for two at new Mrs. Ou's

Mrs. Ou's Restaurant, a new 110-seat Chinese restaurant on Main Street, opened Saturday for sit-down service and will begin carry-out and delivery Wednesday. The restaurant, located on the second floor of the New Dartmouth Bank building, is owned by Cynthia Ou (pronounced oo), who also operates a takeout Chinese food stand in the Dartmouth Medical School. Mrs. Ou's Restaurant is now the third Chinese restaurant in a two-block radius in Hanover.

Student admits to starting Gile fire

Christopher Dorros '97 admitted to starting last week's fire in a trash can on the fourth floor of Gile Hall in a letter to The Dartmouth late last week. Dorros said he had emptied his ashtray into the garbage can about one hour before the fire alarm went off on Feb.

Myler '92 carried flag in opening ceremonies

Cammy Myler '92 carried the American flag for the United States Olympic team Saturday at the 1994 Winter Olympics' opening ceremonies in Lillehammer, Norway. On Jan.

Ice through the ages: sculpting new themes for the old Winter Carnival tradition

Bright lights, cold city - Freedman opens Carnival

Hanover had in fact frozen over as the 84th Carnival in the College's history broke loose at last night's opening ceremonies on the Green. "I don't know about you, but it's certainly freezing up here," President James Freedman said from the podium in front of the snow sculpture. "This is my seventh Winter Carnival, and I must certainly say that it sets four records - it's the one with the most snow, it's the coldest, it's had the most number of people working to make it a success, and it has the largest snow sculpture," he said. The Carnival Council worked diligently to ensure that the sculpture was ready for the opening ceremonies. Students workers had completed the sculpture just 30 minutes prior to the ceremonies. "I think it went very well.

Carnival formal makes comeback

The Winter Carnival Formal will return to the Collis Center tomorrow night after a one-year absence from Winter Carnival events.

Two decades of coeducation have changed Winter Carnival

As times change, traditions change. And the biggest change in the Dartmouth community in the last 50 years - co-education - has invariably changed perhaps the biggest tradition at the College -Winter Carnival. But some things about the weekend remain unchanged. It still is a weekend to let loose. "There seems to be some sort of a need in the middle of winter for people to have some sort of a break, to be festive," Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco said. The outdoor aspect of the weekend didn't change much after the College went coed in 1972. "It's an organized way of bringing people to campus and celebrating the winter and the cold," Winter Carnival Council chair Tim Chow '96 said. But one aspect of Carnival had no choice but to change. Coeducation, and the arrival of mass quantities of women on campus for the entire year shifted Carnival's focus away from the one weekend in the winter time when men could actually find a date on campus. "Coeducation changed Carnival because Carnival was the time when lots of women came to campus," Turco said.

Carnival Couincil plans theme, poster and sculpture

The 30 students on the Winter Carnival Committee are dedicated to much more than choosing a theme for the weekend.

'96 designs Winter Carnival poster

David Stack '96, artist of this year's Winter Carnival poster and t-shirt, said he was inspired to study at the College by the words of another Dartmouth cartoonist, Theodore Geisel '25. "I decided to apply here because of the Dr. Seuss quote.

From 1911 to present

Winter Carnival revisited

Reagan's birthday celebrated

In a gathering that resembled a political convention more than a birthday bash, about 35 people convened to celebrate former President Ronald Reagan's 83rd birthday Saturday night. It was the Conservative Union at Dartmouth's third annual celebration of the event. "We wanted to have a social event that would be good fun and good humor," CUaD's Co-Vice- President Judd Serotta '94 said. CUaD also wanted the party to make a political statement to the campus, Bill Hall '96, CUaD's other co-vice-president, said. "It just makes a very good point to the campus," Hall said.

McCullough, a curious historian

When one first meets David McCullough, current Montgomery Fellow at the College, he doesn't sound like a historian and best-selling author. He is more eager to talk about his hobby. "Painting is wonderful because you don't have to work with words," McCullough says.

Anti-Greek letter distributed

Forty students sent out a revised "Open Letter to the Administration about the [Coed Fraternity Sorority] System" yesterday to various students, with stronger demands than the rough draft which circulated prematurely last Saturday. The revised letter calls on several key administrators "to issue an order abolishing the CFS system effective in the Fall of 1994." The original letter asked for the banning of all-male Greek houses and an investigation of coed fraternities and sororities. David Cohen '94, Sari Cohen '94, Sean Donahue '96 and Lynn Webster '94 - all members of the Panarchy undergraduate society - signed the letter and said they represent the group called the Dartmouth Alliance for Social Change. The letter asks students who receive it to add their signatures to the harsh indictment of key administrators' failure to deal with the CFS system. "The CFS system represents the institutionalization of degradation in the forms of the objectification of women, the subordination of pledges, and the subjection of the individual to a constructed 'group ideal'," the letter said. The letter's main target are all-male fraternities, but it also attacks co-ed fraternities and sororities for remaining within the CFS system. "Sororities and coeds are guilty as well because of their structural similarities to fraternities," the letter said. "However, we acknowledge the need for all-female and coed spaces (including those houses that already exist), but believe that such spaces can and must exist outside the CFS system," it said. Early next week, the group said it will go public with the letter and submit it to College President James Freedman, Dean of the College Lee Pelton, Dean of Residential Life Dean Mary Turco and Assistant Dean of Residential Life Deborah Reinders. "We want to see the entire CFS system eliminated," Donahue said yesterday, speaking on behalf of the group. "We want to see the entire CFS system eliminated," Donahue said yesterday, speaking on behalf of the group. But Sunday, Donahue said the group did not expect the letter to bring about the end of the CFS system.

McCullough discusses work

David McCullough, award-winning author of "Truman" and a Montgomery Fellow at the College discussed his works and the inspirations behind them with almost 100 people in Cook Auditorium last night. "If I have done my work, if I have brought an art to the writing of history, it means you will feel what happened - and I don't think we really know anything until we feel it," McCullough said. McCullough said when he writes a book he is "trying to bring the past to life and to recover what is slowly being lost." He said he explores themes like courage, leadership and innovation in his works. This outlook played an important part in his latest work, "Truman," which he researched for 10 years.

Webster renovation to reduce public venues

When construction begins this summer to convert Webster Hall into a Special Collections library, the College will lose a major venue for large public events on campus. The renovation of Webster, which can hold about 800 people, could leave the College unable to hold medium-sized events, like musical acts, comedians and speakers, Programming Board Co-Chair Bob Bordone '94 said. The Collis Student Center was designed to increase the programming space for the students, according to Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia. "Our primary concern was restoring it to a programming space," Sateia said. But due to Webster's planned closing, actual programming space will decline, Bordone said.

Coup fails

Artzer retains presidency

Assembly, DDS argue over boycott

The Student Assembly's boycott of Dartmouth Dining Services will go ahead despite recent meetings between Assembly members and administrators in which DDS claimed they cannnot meet the Assembly's demands. A motion passed at last week's Assembly meeting called for a one-day boycott to protest what the Assembly described as "insufficient flexibility on the part of DDS." The Assembly has been lobbying DDS for two and a half years to change its meal plan policies.

Speech begins Black History Month

Dr. Naim Akbar, a nationally-renowned clinical psychologist, delivered a motivational speech Saturday in the first Afro-American Society-sponsored event in the College's celebration of Black History Month. The lecture, which focused on the psychology of self-determination in the African American community, drew a crowd of about 75 people to 105 Dartmouth Hall. Abkar said the obstacles to African American self-determination are based on the European community, which considers other races inferior, and the re-socialization and subordination of the black community during slavery times. "Slavery was not just an economic, political or power arrangement.