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Search underway to replace Blunt chief

By Marina Lakhman | July 20, 1993

The search for a new vice president of Development and Alumni Affairs is underway with College President James Freedman's formation of an eight member search committee. The committee first met in late June, a month after Warren "Skip" Hance '55 announced he will retire. Headed by Dean of Faculty James Wright, the committee has placed advertisements in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle of Philanthropy and the Alumni Magazine to let people know of the opening. "We have advertised the position and begun the process of getting applications and nominations," Wright said. Freedman also sent a letter and a job description to several thousand Dartmouth alumni, inviting them to make nominations and to send in applications. Wright said although the committee would like to move quickly on the search, deadlines will remain loose.

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Carson '95 spent off-term as volunteer

By Miller Mccord | July 16, 1993

While other students talked about their summer term expectations at "Camp Dartmouth," Cecily Carson '95 found it difficult to relate. As she looked around the campus, Carson pictured 12 year-old Juan Ferran, a Hispanic youth from New York City's Spanish Harlem and a prospective member of the Class of 1999, immersed in the College's surroundings. Carson met Ferranwhile volunteering at Exodus House, an after-school program for predominantly Hispanic children.

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Pedestrian pathway planned for Mass Row

By Joe Berger | July 16, 1993

The College will close down permanently the road in front of the Massachussetts Row dormitories this fall, to add a pedestrian atmosphere planners hope to create between Thayer Dining Hall and the new Collis Student Center. Treasurer Lyn Hutton announced the project in a letter sent to students earlier this week. According to Assistant Director of Business Affairs Bill Barr, the road will be blocked at each end of the cluster in a fashion similar to the brick walkway outside Rockefeller Center, which is blocked from the street with posts. On the pedestrian mall, Barr said, pavement will be replaced by grass on what is now sidewalk on one side of the street and parking on the other.

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'Womyn' post stickers

By Steve Hoffman | July 16, 1993

A group of approximately 10 students plastered the campus Sunday night with stickers proclaiming "womyn are everywhere" in an effort to draw attention to women's issues and to provide Dartmouth with a radical voice, one member of the group said. The group attached the white stickers with plain black letters to buildings, bathroom walls, sign posts, windows and other locations around campus including the backs of cars parked in several fraternity parking lots. "By printing a fact on a sticker, we turned the message into a symbol; a symbol which strikes each person differently," said one woman who put up the stickers and who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The sticker's ambiguous message was intentional, she said. "They don't really say anything specific and yet they say a lot," the woman said.

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WWII veterans return

By Michelle Mooradian | July 16, 1993

This weekend the College will host the 50th reunion of the 234 Naval and Marines Corps veterans who drilled on the Green from July 1943 through the Spring of 1945 in preparation for service in World War II. The purpose of the preparatory tour, called V-12, was to train Navy and Marine Corps officers as well as offer them liberal arts courses.

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Minority women defend support group

By Alison Paris | July 13, 1993

Members of a support group for minority women met last night to defend their group against charges of exclusivity, but the white women who criticized the group did not attend the meeting. The Women of Color Support Group, which meets Monday nights in the Women's Resource Center, opened its meeting last night to all female Dartmouth students in an effort to explain why the group is necessary and why it must be exclusive. Of the 29 women who attended the meeting, 24 were minorities.

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Tillman appointed interim freshmen dean

By Yvonne Chiu | July 13, 1993

Assistant Freshmen Dean Tony Tillman will take over as acting dean until a search committee finds Diana Beaudoin's successor. Dean of Students Lee Pelton, who chairs the search committee composed of faculty, administrators and students, said he expects to appoint a new freshmen dean in the next couple of weeks. Out of an application pool of 250, six candidates were selected for interviews, Pelton said.

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Rassias heads cultural language program

By Nneka Landrum | July 13, 1993

Twelve students from the Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, N.Y. are visiting Dartmouth from June 6 to 15 for a distinctive language-oriented academic and cultural program that is exposing them to College life and the "Francophone" world. The first consists of the academic and social atmosphere of Dartmouth.

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East German author reads works

By Luis Del Valle | July 9, 1993

German novelist, essayist and current Montgomery Fellow Christa Wolf gave a reading of her major works last night in Cook Auditorium. Wolf, born and raised in the former East Germany, has drawn on her life experiences to inspire her work.

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Heat roils campus

By Steve Hoffman | July 9, 1993

Keep those fans cranking and head for the river or the few air conditioned havens on campus, because temperatures will be in the 90s all weekend. The summer's first heat wave has descended on New Hampshire, sending students scurrying to find a way to cool off, whatever the cost. "We've had some record-breaking and near record-breaking heat," said Pat Wester of the National Weather Service in Concord. The mercury climbed to 97 degrees in the state capital on Wednesday, breaking a previous record of 96 degrees set in 1900, Wester said.

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Head of DarTalk steps down

By Steve Hoffman | July 6, 1993

Jules Pellerin recently retired from his full-time position as manager of Telephone Services, but the College will not hire a replacement. Instead, George Newkirk, director of the College's purchasing department, which oversees Telephone Services, will assume Pellerin's duties while maintaining his own position. Pellerin, 62, began working for the College as a lab technician in 1960 and moved into the purchasing department in 1963.

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Thayer dean will return to teaching

By Yvonne Chiu | July 6, 1993

Dean of Thayer Engineering School Charles Hutchinson will step down next June after ten years of service to the College to return to what he loves doing most -- teaching. Hutchinson will take a year's sabbatical before returning to Thayer as a professor of computer and electrical engineering. A search committee, chaired by Engineering Professor Graham Wallis, will soon be appointed to find Hutchinson's successor. Hutchinson said there was no point in being in the education business if he did not like to teach.

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Gay partners may get health benefits

By Steve Hoffman | July 6, 1993

College President James Freedman is considering a plan to extend health benefits to the homosexual partners of College employees. A task force established by former Provost John Strohbehn completed a report last week outlining a plan to give employees' same-sex domestic partners the same benefits as legally married spouses. Although the report has not yet been released and a final decision will not be made until the College's benefits council and attorneys approve the plan, task force members say the College is committed to the principles involved. "The big decision has been made and we're going to move forward.

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