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Pelton charters freshman review

By Scott Anthony | November 24, 1993

Dean of Students Lee Pelton last week formed a committee to scrutinize the freshman year and suggest changes. There are 25 members on the Committee on the First-Year Experience: nine administrators, six professors and 10 students. "The overarching theme is to reinvest in the notion of an integration of the active and contemplative life of students," Pelton said.

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New telephone system in works

By Blake Shepard | November 24, 1993

The College will upgrade its current telephone system in the coming year, which could allow it to add new features like voice mail to campus telephones, administrators announced yesterday. According to a statement from Telephone Services, the new system should eliminate many current problems including frequent difficulty making outside calls and cross-talk, when phone lines are temporarily crossed and several conversations can be heard on the same line. The current system, installed in 1981, is now technologically obsolete.

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Electronic mail infiltrated

By Timothy Fitzgibbons | November 24, 1993

An unidentified computer user has distributed a program through BlitzMail that if installed makes text run backwards and could cause programs to crash. Several students reported receiving the program from a sender called "Dartmouth Network Services," but officials from Kiewit Computer Center said the distributor's identity has been masked by computer software. The message had a enclosure called "File Share," according to a BlitzMail bulletin sent to network users by Nancy Hossfeld, director of user communications for Computing Services. Hossfeld said the message was sent to students by "Network Management," a non-existent BlitzMail listing. The message comes just a month after an unknown user posing as an administrative assistant in the government department sent messages to students in Government 49 informing them that a scheduled examination was postponed. New mail servers that will be installed in January will tell the recipient if the message was sent from outside of the BlitzMail system, Hossfeld said. But Hossfeld said it is impossible to completely protect Dartmouth's electronic mail system without losing connections to international networks, she said. Fewer than six students reported receiving the latest message -- but the number of actual recipients could be higher, Hossfeld said. She said the event was a prank and could constitute a violation of the Computing Code.

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New computerized test may be tougher

By Amy Semet | November 24, 1993

The Graduate Records Examination will be computerized by 1996 or 1997 despite concerns about test security and gender and racial bias, the Educational Testing Service announced. ETS, which administers the GRE, the Scholastic Achievement Test and the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test, said it will phase in the computerized version slowly, making it optional over the next few years. The GRE is required for admission to graduate schools and tests verbal and mathematical skills.

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Alums visit College to view change

By Allison Sciortino | November 24, 1993

The Alumni Affairs Office earlier this month invited a small group of alumni and parents of alumni to participate in the Horizons program, spending a weekend exploring how the College has changed since they were directly involved. "The program provides a way for alumni to see the qualities that existed at Dartmouth when they attended but expressed in terms of today's teaching agenda," said John Hays, director of development at the Alumni Office. The Alumni Office sponsors the Horizons program three times each year.

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Career Services closes for move to Collis

By Ananth Srikrishnan | November 24, 1993

The Career Services office will close from Dec. 13 through Dec. 17 to move to the new Collis Student Center from its current location on Maynard Street in the old Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. "We are pleased to be part of the Collis Center," said William Wright-Swadell, director of Career Services, which was located in College Hall before it closed last winter for construction of Collis. The move will cause an interruption of about five to seven working days, Wright-Swadell said.

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Violations increase; In annual report, COS says honor principle actions jump

By Siobhan Gorman | November 24, 1993

The number of academic honor principle violations jumped more than six-fold from three to 19 in the past academic year, according to an annual report released by the Committee on Standards. Incidents of serious misconduct fell and the number of students receiving academic discipline showed little change from last year. COS, the College's internal disciplinary committee, heard 12 cases involving 23 students with honor principle violations this year and found 19 guilty. Last year, the committee reviewed three cases involving three students.

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Conservatives target Spare Rib

By Maggie Fritz | November 23, 1993

Members of the Conservative Union at Dartmouth and staffers of Spare Rib, a student-run women's issues publication, both worked yesterday to mobilize supporters in a controversy sparked by last Thursday's edition of the journal. Over the weekend, members of the executive board of CUaD visited four of the seven businesses that advertised in the "Sex Issue" of the publication, and the organization met last night to release a statement condemning the journal. "We basically asked [the store managers] if they had seen the issue," said CUaD President Matthew Berry '94.

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Survey successful; Response rate doubles other polls

By David Hemmer | November 23, 1993

A survey sent to students, faculty and administrators in the first week of November to gauge campus attitudes toward homosexuals may become a standard work in the field of gay and lesbian studies because of its tremendous response rate. "This is a standard now which all other surveys on this field will look at," said Auguste Goldman '94, the chair of the committee that sent the surveys. More than 70 percent of the 1,600 surveys that were sent out have been returned, according to Goldman.

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Court rules for Topside

By Scott Anthony | November 23, 1993

Grafton County Superior Court yesterday rejected an appeal by Hanover merchants that challenged the right of the College to operate Topside, the convenience store in Thayer Dining Hall. The decision apparently ends over two years of legal wrangling, and should allow the College to continue running Topside without a special zoning exemption. Local merchants filed the suit against the town of Hanover, claiming that the town should have forced the College to ask for a special exemption to town zoning laws when renovations transformed Topside from a cafeteria to a convenience store. Topside now sells food and other items and rents videotapes. Assistant College Council Sean Gorman said he was not surprised by the decision. "I think we're glad to see the town's decision upheld," Gorman said.

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College hires new photographer

By Colin Grey | November 23, 1993

Walking past Robinson Hall in a gray trenchcoat and a new green Dartmouth baseball cap, the College's new official photographer, Joseph Mehling '69, zoomed into the horizon by bracketing the cloudy afternoon sky between Baker Library and Dartmouth Hall with a sweeping gesture of his hand. "If you look at those buildings and the sky -- there's the other dimension of people walking across -- that's the kind of thing that I'm interested in," Mehling said as he lifted a cigarette to his mouth. Mehling started his job as the College's photographer on Nov.

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Man dies after game; Five-car accident sends six to local hospital

By Alexander R. Edlich | November 22, 1993

One man died and five others were injured after a five-car collision following the football game Saturday afternoon on East Wheelock Street in front of Topliff dormitory. Police said Joseph Loew, 60, of Lebanon, N.H., died of cardiac arrest a few minutes after an ambulance transported him to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. A police spokesman said last night they were investigating whether the cardiac arrest caused Loew to lose control of his car and careen into the other stopped vehicles. Police investigations will know the exact cause in a few days.

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Area resorts open ski trails

By Jason Casell | November 22, 1993

With the white flakes falling, cold weather and more of it expected, students are taking off to local ski slopes in hopes of some good runs before the term's end. Some daring students have done so already. Ben Wheeler '95 skied at Killington at the end of October. "The conditions were pretty minimal.

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Travels in Africa

By Allison Sciortino | November 22, 1993

World traveler Patrick Giantonio led audience members on a journey through Africa Thursday night as he narrated "Footsteps into Change," a film presentation of his five-year walk from Kenya to Cameroon. Giantonio traveled to Africa five years ago to find out "why is the quality of life declining in Africa and what, if any, role can we play in the solution?" With only two donkeys to keep him company, Giantonio walked during the day and arrived in a different village each night, where he said he was warmly welcomed by villagers. Although African lives are plagued with devastation, Giantonio said he was inspired to see their "age-old energy and spirit," which he said brought a festive spirit to the villages he visited. During his tour, Giantonio said he realized that he had many misconceptions about the United States' role in Africa and the issues of overpopulation and poverty. Before the walk, Giantonio said he thought the U.S.

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Fires char Choates

By Maggie Fritz And Mary Ellen Moore | November 19, 1993

Police are investigating two fires that broke out on the first floor of Brown residence hall as possible arson incidents, Hanover Police Sergeant Nick Giaconne said yesterday. Officer Steve Reed last night said police have suspects but no arrests have been made. The Hanover Fire Department received the first call at 11:48 p.m.

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Lone Pine pub will open in new Collis

By Laurel Smith | November 19, 1993

When the dust is waxed away from the newly placed grey tiles on the first floor of the renovated Collis Student Center, students will step into a campus pub complete with Dartmouth memorabilia, special food selections and five nights of programming a week. The pub committee of the Programming Board is currently finalizing plans for The Lone Pine Tavern, the replacement for Hovey's Pub now located in the basement of Thayer Dining Hall. Along with the rest of the Collis Center, the Lone Pine Tavern is scheduled to open its doors in the middle of January. With a bar, a small performance space and seating for 80, the Tavern will host a variety of events including poetry readings, radio broadcasts, and beer and wine tasting parties in addition to live music shows. "We want it to be a place for people to hang out," said Kevin Crawford '94, a member of the pub committee.

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