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Lederman speech brings light to physics

By Keith Lavigne | April 22, 1994

Montgomery Fellow Leon Lederman brought his humorous and lighthearted discussion of physics to Dartmouth Hall yesterday, captivating the standing-room-only crowd during his afternoon speech. Lederman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from Columbia University and the University of Chicago, presented theoretical physics theories using anecdotes, metaphors and jokes. The speech was about the search to understand the universe's basic elements. "The history of physics and general science," Lederman said, "is a road that started in ancient Rome and has continued along to the recent discoveries of sub-atomic particles such as quarks and neutrinos." Lederman constructed a picture of the universe's building blocks, interjecting humor and stories to help illustrate the information.

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More than a day for ESD

By Tom O'Shea | April 22, 1994

Today's Earth Day celebration marks the high point of a term's work by the Environmental Studies Department of the Dartmouth Outing Club to plan events promoting environmental awareness. ESD Members have worked to preserve forests in Northern New Hampshire, organized plans for an organic garden and lobbied to make the Collis Cafe more environmentally conscious. Last Monday, several members traveled to a Concord, N.H.

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Crossley, Spitzer chosen Guggenheim Fellows

By Amy Semet | April 22, 1994

Two Dartmouth history professors, Pamela Crossley and Leo Spitzer, were among 12 historians and 137 other artists, scholars and scientists to receive this year's Guggenheim Fellowship Awards. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed annually on the basis of "unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment," according to a statement from the Guggenheim Foundation. Dartmouth is the only school in the country to have two Fellows selected from the same department.

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College celebrates Earth Day

By Jack Vaitayanonta | April 22, 1994

The Environmental Studies Division of the Dartmouth Outing Club will sponsor a concert on the Green today to celebrate Earth Day and culminate a week's worth of activities designed to raise awareness. The concert, which will take place from 3 to 5 p.m., will feature performances by Environmental Studies Research Fellow Lynn Noel, Matt Ellis '97, Justin Wells '95 and Daisy Alpert '95 and other artists.

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Golf disappoints at Ivy Championships

By Tim Gardner | April 21, 1994

The Dartmouth men's golfers should have known they were in for some trouble at the Ivy League Championships this past weekend when they sauntered up to the first tee at the Bethpage State Park course and saw the posted sign warning 'Experts Only.' On this dreary weekend in New York, one in which the eight Ivy League teams were pitted against each other to determine the conference champion, the Big Green bested only Cornell and Columbia in sliding to a sixth-place finish.

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MCATs take over during final days of studying

By Timothy Fitzgibbons | April 21, 1994

"I am yet filled with dread/reduced to films of Barney and Fred/A career may hang on seven hours/My prayer goes up to higher powers." - from 'Lament of a Pre-Med' by Doug Kirsch '95 On Saturday at 8 a.m., students and recent alumni will enter test centers across the nation to face what may be the biggest standardized challenge of their lives: the Medical College Admissions Test. This grueling day-long ordeal determines the fate of students' careers in medicine and makes college entrance exams look easy.

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Science outside the lab

By Michele Taylor | April 21, 1994

A chemistry professor from Montreal said last night that although people use chemistry in their daily lives, most do not fully understand it because the media misrepresents it. McGill University Professor David Harpp spoke to about 50 people in 106 Steele Hall.

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Committee considers all-freshmen halls

By Scott Anthony | April 21, 1994

Members of the Committee on the First-Year Experience met with College Trustees over the weekend to discuss ideas to transform the first-year experience, such as creating freshmen residence halls. Although the First-Year Committee gave a report to the Committee on Student Affairs, members say they have not made any final decisions yet.

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Office hours at Tavern

By Maggie Fritz | April 21, 1994

In the first Programming Board-sponsored student office hours, conversations between undergraduates and English professors revolved around everything from advice about classes to why female students wear little black dresses. With the weekly hour-and-a-half sessions from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

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Clinton to nominate Coyle '56

By Rebecca Siegel | April 21, 1994

President Clinton announced last week his intent to nominate Philip Coyle '56 to be the next Director of Operational Test and Evaluation at the Department of Defense. In a telephone interview yesterday from Washington, D.C., Coyle said he would be interested in the position if nominated. Operational Test and Evaluation reviews all operational military systems for the government before they are implemented. Coyle will be responsible for assessing results of military program testing.

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DaGlo responds to ROTC decision

By Kristen King | April 21, 1994

The Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Organization issued a statement Tuesday night condemning the Board of Trustees' decision to continue the College's ROTC program and calling for it to follow through on promises to pressure the military to change its policy on homosexuals. The statement reiterates sentiments brought up in Monday's rally to protest the Trustees' decision to keep the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, a program many say violates the College's nondiscrimination policy. "This decision comes as an insult and an outrage to gay, lesbian and bisexual students ... The Equal Opportunity Policy does not have exceptions; discrimination is unacceptable regardless of circumstances," DaGlo members wrote. The statement claims the Trustees' decision sends "a message to all gay, lesbian and bisexual students that their rights are less important than alumni donations." It urges the Trustees to fight the military's current "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which they agree is discriminatory. DaGlo Co-chair Trevor Burgess '94 stated in a BlitzMail message last night that both DaGlo and the Coalition for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns will work "closely with senior administrators in the near future to encourage positive change." "DaGLO and [the coalition] are working closely together to turn this very negative event into a positive for gays and lesbians," Burgess wrote. The statement was sent to The Dartmouth and several senior-level administrators, including College President James Freedman, Dean of the College Lee Pelton and interim Provost Bruce Pipes, and will be sent to the Board.

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Expansion plans finalized

By Maggie Fritz | April 20, 1994

The College released a finalized copy of its north campus expansion plan yesterday, detailing the College's look 20 years from now. The final plan does not differ from the drafts reported last Spring in The Dartmouth.

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The Whys of witches

By Timothy Fitzgibbons | April 20, 1994

Walter Stephens discussed the motives of Renaissance witch hunters in a lecture yesterday afternoon celebrating his inauguration to a professorship. Stephens gave a speech titled "Interrogating the Witch Hunt, 1400-1700.

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Ha '94 new KIN chair

By Jack Vaitayanonta | April 20, 1994

John Ha '94 was recently elected the first national chair of a new organization designed to increase communication between Korean American students at colleges across the country. At the eighth annual Korean American Students Conference Intercollegiate Network earlier this month, delegates formed the Korean-American Intercollegiate Network and selected Ha as its leader. The organization will provide a means of linking the various Korean students groups on different campuses, Ha said. "Often, there are small pockets of Korean groups that are doing the same thing," Ha said.

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Serkin to play for Headrest

By Yvonne Chiu | April 20, 1994

Headrest, a crisis intervention center that has serviced Dartmouth and the Upper Valley community for the past 23 years, will host its largest fund-raiser Thursday. Highlighting the event is a solo performance by internationally-acclaimed pianist Peter Serkin in Spaulding Auditorium at 8 p.m.

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Math in so many words

By Rini Ghosh | April 20, 1994

A 30-page term paper assigned in an introductory math class this term dealt some students an unexpected blow. But Professor Dorothy Wallace said she believes the paper will help students in her Math 8 class improve their writing and ability to explain mathematical concepts. "I think it's a little ridiculous for a math teacher to assign a 30-page paper," said a '97 who asked to remain anonymous. Sixteen out of 17 students interviewed over the past two days shared that opinion.

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Sig Ep to offer scholarships

By Michele Taylor | April 20, 1994

Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity will offer two merit-based scholarships to members of the freshman class as a reward for community involvement. The Leadership Award, which will give a $500 scholarship to one male and one female member of the Class of 1997, is "about academic support and scholastic and personal achievement," Sig Ep Scholarship Chair Dan Richman '95 said. The scholarships are funded by the fraternity's national organization. The scholarship is usually awarded to two men the summer before they arrive at college, Richman said.

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