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Faculty urges Trustees to end ROTC

By Scott Anthony | March 1, 1994

With little debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences overwhelmingly approved a motion yesterday urging the Board of Trustees to discontinue the College's Reserve Officer Training Corps program. The vote came in the second half of yesterday's faculty meeting.

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High grades prompt review of transcripts

By Laurel Smith | March 1, 1994

Concern about grade inflation and discrepancies between the grading levels in different academic departments has prompted the Committee on Instruction to consider a new method of reporting students' grades on College transcripts. The proposed transcript format would include not only the grade a student earned in a course, but also the average grade given in that course and the number of students enrolled. "The spirit is just to allow a more interpretable transcript so a student, a prospective employer, or a faculty member writing a recommendation for graduate school ... can evaluate what a student has actually done," Chair of the COI Gary Johnson said of the proposal. Johnson sent a letter to the Dean and Associate Deans of the Faculty, the departmental chairs, the Student Assembly and The Dartmouth, outlining the proposal and requesting comments and suggestions from the College community. If the proposed transcript format is approved, "students would be able to see how they stand relative to their classmates, and they will more clearly perceive that, for example, a B+ earned in one class may be above the class average while in another it may represent below-average work," the letter stated. The recommendations the COI receives in response to the preliminary proposal may be incorporated into a formal proposal to the Faculty during Spring term, Johnson said. "The whole intent is that we wanted to toss the thing out and get some feedback," Johnson said.

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Panel promotes health care careers

By Rini Ghosh | March 1, 1994

AIDS-activist Melissa Marsh delivered a frank speech about her experience with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to more than 400 students packed into Collis Common Ground last night. Marsh, 21, said she is heterosexual and contracted the AIDS virus about one and a half years ago from her boyfriend at that time. Since discovering she is HIV-positive, Marsh said she has actively fought against the spread of the virus by working with those suffering from AIDS and giving educational talks. Marsh tried to make students aware of the dangers involved in having sex. "If you don't feel comfortable about having sex with someone who is HIV-positive, you shouldn't be having sex," Marsh said. Marsh also repeatedly pleaded with students who decide to have intercourse to practice safe sex. "Trust is the number one thing we have to have in our relationships," Marsh said.

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College Bowl wins Regionals

By Jack Vaitayanonta | March 1, 1994

Dartmouth's College Bowl team won the New England Regional Championship this weekend at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass., and will head to the National Championships at the University of Florida in Gainesville at the end of April. The team, composed of captain Grant Bosse '94, Ted Schuerzinger '94, Steve Schmidt '97, Dan Clark '97 and alternate Michael New '97, defeated Harvard University in the championship game of the 17-team tournament, avenging a loss to Harvard in the finals of the same tournament last year. Schuerzinger, Dartmouth's high scorer, was voted to the tournament's all-star team, Bosse said. The team finished the tournament with an 11-1 record, defeating Connecticut College in the semifinals.

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Kelly to serve as officer

By Jack Vaitayanonta | March 1, 1994

Marcia Kelly replaces Maureen Ragan as Undergraduate Judicial Affairs Officer today. Ragan had held the position on an acting basis since September 1993. The Undergraduate Judicial Affairs Officer coordinates investigations of Student Code of Conduct violations and educates students about the College's judicial process. Kelly will also handle the daily activities of the Committee on Standards, the College's body for enforcing rules.

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New International House dedicated

By Maggie Lockwood | February 28, 1994

The residents of the International House hosted about 50 guests Friday night at a celebration in their new location in the recently renovated Brewster Hall. Brewster is located behind the Hood Museum of Art and was the former home of Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority.

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Anxieties tax seniors

By Mike Mathis | February 28, 1994

About 30 seniors gathered at the Top of the Hop last night to burn rejection letters and talk about the stress of graduation in an event sponsored by Palaeopitus. Palaeopitus, a group composed of seniors from various student organizations, advises College President James Freedman and Dean of the College Lee Pelton. Senior Class Dean Teoby Gomez gave an informal talk and comedian Mike Bents performed at the event. Although this is the first year for the gathering, members of Palaeopitus said they hope it will become a tradition. "We hope to make it an annual event," said Kenric Tsethlikai '94, vice chair of Palaeopitus.

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Former Trustee Zimmerman '23 dies

By Maggie Fritz | February 28, 1994

The flag on the edge of the Green stood at half mast Friday in honor of former College Trustee Charles Zimmerman '23, TU '24, who died Thursday at the age of 92 in Hartford, Conn. Zimmerman served on the Board of Trustees from 1952 to 1972 and on the Board of Overseers of the Tuck School from 1951 to 1957. Both Zimmerman Lounge in Blunt Alumni Center and Zimmerman Hall in the East Wheelock Cluster are named in his honor. "He was Mr. Dartmouth," College Spokesman Alex Huppe said. Zimmerman was an economics major and member of Zeta Psi fraternity.

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Panel on Haitian literature, democracy

By Kim Derrick | February 28, 1994

College and visiting professors discussed the links between literature and democracy in Haiti Friday morning in a seminar titled "Culture and Politics: Imagining Democracy." The panel, which was part of last week's conference "The Future of Democracy in Haiti," included French and Italian Professors Daniel Desormeaux and Keith Walker, English Professor Bill Cook and Regine Laforet, a professor from the Africana studies department at Brooklyn College in New York. The panelists spoke to an audience of about 30 people in Collis Common Ground. "Without the literacy that leads to freedom of expression, there can be no democracy in Haiti in the future," Laforet said. She said that literature reflects a society's ideology and encompasses the dominant ideas, values and sentiments by which people experience society. Walker captured some of the dominant themes in Haitian literature by reading translations of excerpts from "La Pacotille," a novel written by Haitian author Gerard Etienne. "There was blood everywhere in the colorlessness of the landscape which rose toward the seeming curvature of the sky.

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Two '94s arrested for hazing

By Scott Anthony | February 28, 1994

Hanover Police arrested two seniors who are members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity Friday for violated New Hampshire's hazing law during Fall term. Nate Cook '94 and David Robb '94 are charged with hazing, along with providing liquor to Oge Young '96, who was a Beta pledge Fall term. This is the first time Hanover Police arrested a student for violating the state's anti-hazing law, which went into effect last July.

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Lucke begins two jobs

By Jason Casell | February 25, 1994

After nearly two years without a health educator or a drug and alcohol specialist, the College recently hired Gabrielle Lucke to fill both positions. Lucke will serve as coordinator of health education programs, a position combining the tasks of former drug and alcohol specialist Rahn Fleming and former health educator Beverlie Conant Sloan, both of whom left the College in the spring of 1992. The new position involves designing, evaluating and implementing existing health education programs, with emphasis on alcohol and drug education and peer education development. "This is my dream job," said Lucke served as assistant director of residential life at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania and as a health education instructor at the University of Maryland at College Park. Lucke said the College hired someone to fill the position last spring but the individual, whose name she would not release, canceled at the beginning of Fall term.

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Aristide calls for return to democracy

By Maggie Fritz | February 25, 1994

In a public address last night, Haiti's exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide called on the international community to increase sanctions against his country in order to restore political stability to Haiti. Aristide gave the keynote address in the College's conference titled"The Future of Democracy in Haiti" to a crowd of more than 350 people in Webster Hall.

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New hazing policy remains vague

By Maggie Fritz | February 25, 1994

Dean of the College Lee Pelton recently released the finalized version of the College's hazing policy Tuesday, which detailed virtually no changes from last year's policy. A primary draft of the policy, discussed in the fall, contained specific references to initiation rites that could constitute hazing.

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Panelists discuss Haiti's history

By Kim Derrick | February 25, 1994

In a panel discussion on the future of democracy in Haiti, four panelists agreed that the explosive situation in Haiti cannot be calmed until exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is returned to power. About 60 people attended the panel, titled "Historical Background: Barriers to Democracy," which was the first in the "The Future of Democracy in Haiti" conference. The panelists included author Amy Wilentz, Miami University Law Professor Irwin Stotsky, Wesleyan University Afro-American Studies Director Alex Dupuy and Princeton University French Professor Leon-Francois Hoffman. The four sketched a grim picture of Haitian history.

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At 25 and older; non-traditionals try to carve campus niche

By Amanda A. Amann | February 24, 1994

Non-traditional students, the College's designation for students matriculating at age 25 or older, have formed a group to help other atypical undergraduates make an easier transition to college life. Club founder James von Rittmann, a 31-year-old junior, said the group aims to welcome new older students and to propose changes to housing and financial aid procedures that are not adapted to the needs of non-traditional students. There are 23 non-traditional students on campus ranging in age from 25 to 52.

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Norman favors new voting system

By David Hemmer | February 24, 1994

Addressing a small audience last night in a talk titled "Power, Law and Order," Mathematics Professor Bob Norman discussed the accuracy of different voting systems and advocated the "approval system," which allows voters to choose as many candidates as they wish in any given race. Norman said most elections in the United States are either decided by the plurality method, in which the highest vote-getter wins, or by the plurality with run-off method, in which the top two candidates compete in a second election and the winner is the one with the greatest number of votes. But in his studies of election outcomes, Norman found these two methods often fail to accurately reflect the will of the voters.

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Students and faculty meet at Dean's dinner

By Jack Vaitayanonta | February 24, 1994

A total of 24 students and faculty members attended the annual Faculty-Student Community Dinner last night in the Collis Center. The event was sponsored by the Dean of the College Office. The dinner gave students the opportunity to meet and talk with their professors on an informal basis. For the last three years, the Dean of the College Office has sponsored this event, which is mostly geared toward freshmen and sophomores. "This is an important opportunity for students because education is a continuum, and I would like to be able to hold these dinners more often, maybe even once a term," Dean of the College Lee Pelton said.

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