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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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Pipes fills in as provost

By Yvonne Chiu | July 6, 1993

Bruce Pipes is now doing a job he might have gotten -- if he hadn't withdrawn his candidacy. But he still got the provost job, if only temporarily. Pipes will serve as the College's chief academic officer until the provost-designate, Lee Bollinger, the University of Michigan Law School dean, takes over next July. Pipes and Bollinger were both on the final list of four candidates in the search to succeed John Strohbehn.

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DHMC cancer program reaches out to rural areas

By Todd Steiner | July 6, 1993

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center's Norris Cotton Cancer Center has announced a new collaboration with New Hampshire and Vermont physicians which is designed to extend the reach of experimental cancer treatments to patients in local rural areas. The program is the first to directly involve community physicians in highly sophisticated investigational treatments, according to Dr. L.

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Summer isn't just for sophomores

Amidst the scrambling to meet other '95s for picnics on the Green, bonding in debauchery in fraternity basements, climbing to the summit of Moosilauke and jumping off ropes into frigid waters in search of class unity, there are many students at Dartmouth this term who are not sophomores. Summer is for everybody, including '96s, '94s and '93s, exchange students and transfer students. Hanover's beauty is a magnet that attracts nature lovers who bike, hike, swim, jog, and revel in the sun.

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Summer term reveals flaws in alcohol policy

By Marina Lakhman | July 6, 1993

The reduced number of students on campus this term has revealed flaws in the College's alcohol policy. The policy, which took effect at the end of Winter term, is based on a mathematical formula and hinges on the number of students on campus who are of legal drinking age. If the policy is followed to the letter, then even if every student of legal drinking age on campus were expected to attend a party in a Greek house, there could be no more than a total of three and a half kegs on campus regardless of how many Greek organizations register parties. So far no more than two or three parties have been registered on any given night and the number of kegs on campus has not exceeded three and a half on any night. But Assistant Dean of Residential Life Deb Reinders said there is no cap on the number of parties that can go on in one night and hypothetically it is possible for the number of kegs on campus to exceed three and a half, according to Reinders. "When the alcohol policy is reviewed, that is something that the committee should look at," Reinders said. During the regular school year, the formula for the number of kegs allowed at a Greek house party depends on the number of legal drinkers expected throughout the night multiplied by the number of hours the party is expected to last.

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