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Students to see course to fruition next term

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Almost two years after they began designing a history course about refugee problems, Sabine Freizer '94 and Rebecca Eldredge '94 will have the chance to take it. Next term Government Professor Gene Lyons will teach the student-initiated course that addresses the history and treatment of refugees, reasons for migrations and the changing definition of the word refugee. "The refugee movement is a very global issue but it is not really studied in any department at Dartmouth," Freizer said. But she said the College makes it easy for students to initiate their own courses.


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New leadership takes over CFSC

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Chris Donley '95, a 20-year old Engineering Sciences major in Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, will be the next president of the Co-ed Fraternity Sorority Council, the governing body of the College's Greek organizations. Last night Donley won a three-way secret-ballot vote against Evan Brown '95, a brother in Theta Delta Chi fraternity and Marie Weiss '95, a sister in Delta Gamma sorority. Psi Upsilon fraternity member Andrew Johnston '95 will be the CFSC's vice president.


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With community in mind, Sateia builds a future

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As the orchestrator of four years of planning and construction on the newly renovated Collis Center, Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia has worked on building a sense of College community with plaster and paint as well as through committees and coalitions. Whereas divisive campus issues can seldom be resolved in a single committee meeting or panel discussion, Sateia said she found it a welcome change to attend meetings that had a more immediate impact on the campus. "I would go to Collis building committee meetings, and we would decide to move a door or put up a window - things were very concrete," Sateia said. "I could see the impact of things we discussed right away, whereas on those other issues, you just work as hard as you can, and hope to make a difference," she said.


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Lone Pine obtains liquor license

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Beer will be on tap at the Lone Pine Tavern for the first time tonight, and for now the doors are open to students of all ages. The tavern, in the basement of the Collis Center, received its state liquor license yesterday but could not serve alcohol because there was not a full staff, Collis Cafe Manager Cynthia Crutchfield said. Because of questions about the feasibility of enforcing the legal drinking age, administrators were originally not sure if the tavern would be open to all students, or just those 21 and older. But Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia said all students will be allowed into the pub as long as under-age drinking does not become a problem. "We are counting on students' cooperation," she said.


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COI ends joint degree programs

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The College's Committee On Instruction voted last Thursday to recommend discontinuing a program that allows undergraduates to spend their senior year at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration or the Dartmouth Medical School. Lack of student interest and curriculum changes prompted the recommendation, which will be made to the entire faculty at its meeting this spring.



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Webster gets $10M renovation

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A planned $10 million renovation project will convert Webster Hall into a library and study space and provide more room for the College's overflowing libraries. Baker Library's Special Collections will move into Webster Hall, which will contain four or five floors of stacks inside a "glass enclosed peninsula" surrounded by desks and chairs for students, Facilities Planning Director Gordon DeWitt said. The project will begin as soon as the College raises the money, DeWitt said.


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Survey questions classroom equity

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The Women's Studies Program will distribute a survey to students enrolled in Women's Studies courses later this term to investigate the way perceived race, gender, class and sexual orientation differences are treated in the classroom. "We are trying to find out how to better integrate issues of diversity in the classroom," said Diane Taylor, co-chair of the Women's Studies Program and co-author of the survey. One in a proposed series of surveys, the goal of this questionnaire is to gauge the success of Women's Studies courses in dealing with issues of diversity into its own curriculum and the daily conduct of their classes. A rough draft of the survey, written by Taylor; Ivy Schweitzer, an English Professor and co-chair of the Women's Studies Program; and Anne Brooks, Women's Studies Program coordinator, was given to two Women's Studies courses last fall. "The fall survey was very repetitive," Taylor said.


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DNN airs show

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The first edition of Dartmouth Nightly News, a daily radio program for Dartmouth students, aired last night over the College's AM radio station, 1340 WDCR. The program, which will run Monday through Friday at 5:30 p.m., included national and local news, sports, weather and a feature section. "It's a wonderful opportunity for any student interested in broadcast journalism to get involved because there are so many aspects to the program," WDCR-WFRD News Director Adrienne Kim '95 said. Anchored by Grant Bosse '94 and Alyse Kornfeld '95, the program included an interview with government Professor Catherine Shapiro.




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Green Card honored at 14 stores

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The Hanover Green Card, which gives students a declining balance account to use at local restaurants, had a successful Fall term and now serves 14 area businesses. "The card is doing better than I ever imagined and it's continuing to grow," said Mitch Jacobs '94, founder and owner of the company. Jacobs founded the card at the beginning of Fall term because he said he felt students would be more willing to spend money at local restaurants than at Dining Services facilities if there was an easy, cashless method. In the last few weeks, the Hanover Green Card added Foodee's Pizza, Co-op Food Store, Co-op Service Station, Chez Francoise, and Subway to the list of Hanover establishments accepting the card. Other Hanover establishments accepting the Green Card include EBA's, Videostop, Panda House Delivery and 5 Olde Nugget Alley. Students with the card put money into an account operated by Hanover Green Card, Inc. The money in this account can then be used at participating restaurants similar to the declining balance system of Dining Services. To begin using the card, students must pay $235: $75 deposit, an initial declining balance of $150 and a $10 per term fee. In the first week of Winter term, the Hanover Green Card has accepted more than 50 new student applications. "The businesses and the students are happy with the service," Jacobs said.



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Residents worry about Hillel center

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Residents of Hanover's Occom Pond area are worried that the College's construction of a center for Jewish Life will disrupt the residential tranquillity of their affluent neighborhood. The College is planning to build the center on a 30,000 square-foot plot of land between Occom Ridge Road and Choate Road.


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Student discussion focuses on freshmen social options

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A Student Assembly-sponsored forum last night that was designed to focus on intergender relations at the College turned into a discussion about limited social options for first-year students. The discussion was the third part of a series on "Men and Women and the CFS," the College's Greek system.


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Sororites plan rush

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After a year of limiting sorority rush to one term, the Panhellenic Council, the governing body of the College's sororities, is allowing the five houses that held rush in the fall to hold another round this term. The sororities will each host one hour-long party the weekend of Jan.


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Morrow '92 helps design Mustang

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After devoting two summers to developing the Ford Motor Company's 1994 Mustang, Kristen Morrow '92, Thayer '94 can see the result of her efforts in showrooms across the country. In the summer of 1992, Ford invited Morrow to join a team of engineers in Dearborn, Michigan charged with the task of adjusting the design of the 1994 Mustang for sale in Japan. Morrow said she became interested in automotive design after Ford engineer Will Boddie '67, Thayer '69 visited the College in 1992 for the Mustang's public debut at a reception to recruit engineers. She returned to Ford this summer as the only student engineer on the Mustang design team.


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Engines class invents

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Students in an introductory engineering course last fall developed products to solve everyday problems like roller-skating on rocky roads and transferring a person from a wheelchair to a regular seat. Engineering Sciences 21, Introduction to Engineering, divides students into four or five person teams that must invent a product and develop a marketing strategy for it.


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Prof speaks about water

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In an era of perpetual water shortages in the southwest, Dr. Charles Drake, a professor in the earth sciences department, delivered a timely lecture on water use and management titled "The Colorado River." In the first of a series of nine public lectures on environmental sustainability, Drake presented the scientific aspects of natural resource management to an audience of 60 yesterday afternoon at the Thayer School of Engineering. Drake recounted the history of water use and management on the Colorado. "Politics reflects public attitudes, and the fate of the Colorado is determined by politics," Drake said. He described the career of John Lesley Powell, who made the first attempt at water management on the Colorado in the 1880s. Powell proposed to the Senate in 1888 to settle land according to the potential for irrigation, Drake said, but the prevailing attitude of manifest destiny felt that "water followed the plow." Although the government disregarded Powell's advice, "Powell's legacy lives on," Drake said.


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Case of missing bags

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More than 50 Dartmouth students who flew from Boston to Lebanon last weekend had to wait up to four days to receive their baggage. Northwest and US Air, the major airlines to offer flights between the two cities, anticipated the difficulties in fitting students' holiday baggage and ski equipment on the 19-seat planes that make the trip, said spokesmen from the airlines. US Air planned to fly extra planes carrying only baggage or to use ground transportation to bring the bags to Lebanon, a company spokeswoman said. But Monday's snowstorm prevented planes from leaving Boston's Logan Airport and made the road conditions unsafe for the vans. Northwest Airlines had 200 bags that could not fit in the planes with the passengers, said Jim Lalos, a spokesman for Precision Airlines, a carrier for Northwest.