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Vandewalle testifies on Algeria

By Scott Anthony | March 29, 1994

Government Professor Dirk Vandewalle recently testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the dangerous political situation in Algeria, where he said 40 to 50 people are killed weekly. Vandewalle was one of four people scheduled to testify on what course of action the United States should pursue in Algeria, which has been on the brink of civil war since a military regime ascended to power in January of 1992. Ambassador to Egypt Robert Paltrow, a professor from Johns Hopkins University and a professor from Haverford College also testified on Algeria's current political climate. In Vandewalle's five-page testimony, which he presented last Wednesday, he said Algeria is in a virtual state of civil war between the current government and Islamists. "Both sides ... are armed and increasingly organized specifically to target their opposition," he said.

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DOC selects leaders

By David Hemmer | March 29, 1994

Amy Barnhorst '95, the Dartmouth Outing Club's new president, and Todd Parment '95, the new vice president, said they want to make the club more unified in its promotion of outdoor education and leadership. Barnhorst, who replaced Mark Giordono '94, and Parment, who succeeded Wyatt Oswald '94, started their year-long tenures at the beginning of this term. The DOC is the umbrella organization that coordinates Cabin and Trail, Environmental Studies, Winter Sports and several outdoor clubs, such as Bait and Bullet, Biathlon, Cycling, Ledyard Canoe, Mountaineering, Riding, Trap and Skeet and Snow Boarding. Both new leaders enter their positions with extensive experience in the DOC and goals to make the different divisions within the club more unified. "I want to try to bring out a more unified club spirit so that - rather than being opposing faction of kayakers, rock climbers and backpackers - the club is a more coherent group of people who share a diverse interest in a variety of activities and work together to make things happen," Barnhorst said. Through his new position, Parment said he hopes to broaden his own experience and to create stronger ties between the many divisions of the Outing Club. While conceding the divisions have many different purposes, Parment said he thinks "there is a lot that the different groups could offer each other." Barnhorst, who became involved with the DOC her freshman year, was the co-chair of the Mountaineering Club.

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Tuck Globalizes

By Alexander R. Edlich | March 29, 1994

The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration named last week one of its professor the director of the school's new $13 million international business program, which will expand opportunities abroad for students and professors. Dean of the Tuck School Edward Fox named Tuck Professor Joseph Massey as the center's director March 24. The new program, called the Whittemore Center for International Business, will facilitate development of foreign contacts, enhance research possibilities and create new jobs for graduates, Fox said. The center is the school's latest step in increasing international trade knowledge and skills, mirroring the growing importance of global commerce in today's world. The center's creation was made possible by a $6 million bequest from Earl Daum '24, T'25, a former member of Tuck's advisory board.

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Sleigh gets $20K grant

By Jack Vaitayanonta | March 29, 1994

English Professor Thomas Sleigh recently received a $20,000 Creative Writing Fellowship that will fund his living expenses while he finishes his poetry book, currently titled "The Work." Sleigh was awarded the fellowship last month from the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. "My initial reaction was of disbelief.

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Coalition calls for removal of ROTC

By Maggie Fritz | March 28, 1994

The Coalition for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns issued a statement on Mar. 28 demanding that the College eliminate its Reserve Officer Training Corps program. The coalition alleges that ROTC discriminates against homosexuals and therefore violates the College's Principal of Equal Opportunity. The statement will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for consideration at its meeting on the weekend of April 15. The coalition is a an organization of Dartmouth faculty and staff, which addresses the concerns of gay, lesbian and bisexual employees at the College. The coalition's statement comes nearly one month after the faculty of arts and sciences voted overwhelmingly to urge the Trustees to discontinue ROTC for similar reasons. In 1991, the Trustees said they would discontinue the ROTC program if the U.S.

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Katz '95 to run for SA prez

By Scott Anthony | March 28, 1994

Six students will seek the Student Assembly presidency in the April 12 election and more than 75 students are running for the 53 other elected positions. Five students -Jim Brennan '96, David Gonzalez '95, Danielle Moore '95, Caleb Scott '97 and Kenji Sugahara '95 - announced their candidacies before Director of Student Activities Tim Moore released the official ballot. Jeremy Katz '95 also will be on the ballot. Moore released the official list of candidates on March 14.

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Home and Life show attracts people, pets and a dinosaur

By Colin Grey | March 28, 1994

This weekend, while returning students slowly filled up the Dartmouth campus, approximately 14,000 people - mostly families from the Upper Valley - drove in packs to Leverone Field House for the 15th annual Home and Life exhibition. Parents and their children roamed through the 257 booths, perusing showcases from a variety of exhibitors ranging from the Toys'N'Stuff toy store to ACoRN, the Upper Valley's AIDS Community Resource Network. Other visitors relaxed, lounging on a sofa while watching "Back to the Future" at the Radio Shack booth. The tarantulas and goldfish at the Lebanon Pet and Aquarium Center booth fascinated adults and children alike. Even tiny tot superstar Barney, a giant purple dinosaur with his own cartoon show on television, was there.

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Students celebrate Passover

By David Hemmer | March 28, 1994

Saturday night marked the beginning of Passover, a week-long celebration of the freeing of Jewish slaves from bondage in Egypt. Along with Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, Passover is among the four most celebrated Jewish holidays, said Jesse Israel '96.

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Bus, car collide on 89

By Colin Grey | March 28, 1994

A collision between a brand new Ford Thunderbird and a 45-passenger bus forced Vermont State Police to close down Interstate 89's two southbound lanes between Exits 3 and 4 for an hour yesterday afternoon. No one was injured in the accident said Heidi Holzinger, a Vermont State Police dispatcher.

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Italian department seeks student interest in FSP

By Maggie Lockwood | March 28, 1994

Pending student interest, the Committee on Off Campus Programs and College deans will decide this term whether or not the Italian Studies Program will take place next year. The 11-week program in Rome, Italy, ran for the first time last year and is approved for the fall of 1995.

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Women's Health Services support pregnant students

By Dawn Conner | March 8, 1994

Pregnancy; The third in a three part series on women's health Between 30 and 40 Dartmouth women face the decision of whether to abort a fetus or take a pregnancy to term every year, according to Director of College Health Services Dr. John Turco. Pregnancy is a difficult issue at the College; though resources have expanded with the creation of the new Women's Health Service at Dick Hall's House last fall, there is still little support for pregnant students, Manager of Women's Health Services Janice Sundnas said. This academic year, 12 pregnancies have been reported to Dick's House, which Sundnas said is not particularly high.

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Professor takes in Bosnian refugees

By Timothy Fitzgibbons | March 8, 1994

Alison Curtis, wife of visiting History Professor Perry Curtis, and Rebecca Eldredge '94 are working to bring Bosnian refugee children to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for long-term medical treatment. If DHMC executives agree, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees will work with the Bosnian government and the United States to airlift severely injured children out of war zones in the former Yugoslavia into America, said Curtis. Similar programs are currently in place in Maine, and may serve as a model for the, Curtis said. She said she hopes to use two beds at the hospital for long-term treatment of injured children from the war zone.

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Task force pushes for Korean studies course

By Jack Vaitayanonta | March 8, 1994

The Korean Language Task Force in conjunction with the Asian Studies program is stepping up its efforts to encourage the implementation of a full offering of Korean language and culture courses in the future. "The Korean Language Task Force is recommending these additions to the curriculum because an Asian Studies program is not complete without Korean language or studies," task force member Susie Lee '94 said. The task force is composed of eight to 10 students, who are all in the Korean American Students Association.

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Lodge flooded by students playing

By David Hemmer | March 8, 1994

An errant lacrosse ball knocked off a hallway water sprinkler head on the second floor of the Lodge late Sunday night, starting a massive flood. The damages incurred from the flooding may exceed $5,000 in value, said Woody Eckels, residential operations director. College Proctor Robert McEwen said a student has confessed to throwing the ball but he would not release the name. McEwen called the incident an accident. Eckels said the accident occurred when several students were playing lacrosse in the hallway around 11:30 Sunday night, during which time the ball broke the sprinkler head, setting off the building's fire alarm and causing several hundred gallons of water to flood much of the building. About 30 rooms, most of them on the second floor, were soaked by the water set off by the sprinklers, Eckels said. He said the damage totals will not be known for some time, but estimated the total to be between $2,000 and $5,000.

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Center lets alcoholics recover

By Scott Anthony | March 8, 1994

The Robert H. Smith house helps build a community for recovering alcoholic students that allows them to better cope with the pressures of life at Dartmouth without having to worry about the presence of alcohol. The house, which opened in 1989, provides recovering alcoholics and substance abusers with a "recovery-friendly living environment," said Gabrielle Lucke, the administrative liaison to the students in the Smith program. It is named after a member of the Class of 1902 who was a co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. The students have to be medically recognized as alcoholics, Lucke said.

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Doctors re-examine Chinese medicine

By Suparna Dutta | March 7, 1994

In a three-hour symposium on Chinese medicine yesterday, Timothy Timmons and San Hong Hwang spoke about practices ranging from acupuncture to tongue diagnosis to a 50-person crowd in Loew Auditorium. The two speakers, who are both doctors at the Samra University of Oriental Medicine in Los Angeles, Calif., focused on the difference between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. "The biggest difference ... is the fact that Western medicine is population based, and Chinese medicine focuses on individually-based therapy and ... is more focused on primary care," Timmons said. Both doctors said Western practitioners are using more elements of Chinese medicine in everyday treatment and are adopting some of the basic philosophies of Eastern medicine.

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