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SA rejects women's dormitory

By Maggie Fritz | November 18, 1993

The Student Assembly voted down a motion Tuesday night that recommended the creation of an affinity residence hall for students concerned about women's issues. The motion, which would have supported creating a Women's Perspective Residence Hall, was sponsored by Rukmini Sichitiu '95 and Danielle Moore '95. Sichitiu said the dormitory would "be a support structure for women at Dartmouth." "It will foster dialogue and it will have a strong academic focus," she said of the proposed hall. But for now supporters will have to do without the full Assembly's support for the program. The Office of Residential Life, Dean of Faculty James Wright and Dean of Students Lee Pelton must approve the idea before the dorm can be created. "ORL definitely supports the motion," Sichitiu said at the meeting.

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Economics prof won't finish term

By Kristen King | November 18, 1993

With only two and half weeks left until final exams, a visiting economics professor is leaving the College and will not finish teaching two sections of Economics 22, a course on macroeconomics. Two senior professors in the economics department visited the classes yesterday and told students that Alastair McFarlane, a visiting professor from the University of Michigan, would not finish teaching his courses this term. McFarlane had also been scheduled to teach Economics 10 at Dartmouth next term. Department Chair Jack Menge and Professor David Blanchflower told the students that the remaining classes would be taught be senior macroeconomics professors. In an interview last night, Menge would not say why the department is replacing McFarlane.

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Greek discussion is first in series

By Scott Anthony | November 18, 1993

In a group discussion on the Greek system sponsored by the Student Assembly last night, students said they want alcohol at Dartmouth social events and that women feel uncomfortable going into fraternity houses. About 20 students attended the discussion in the Hyphen, called "Men and Women and the CFS: How well does the system serve the students?", Assembly President Nicole Artzer '94 moderated the discussion, where most student comments supported the College's current Greek system.

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Lecture examines role of saints and relics

By Jordy Urstadt | November 18, 1993

On Tuesday night, J.S. Tambiah lectured on the relationship of saints and the concept of sainthood to religious communities. Tambiah, the head of the Harvard anthropology department, presented "The Charisma of Saints and the Cult of Relics, Amulets and Tomb Shrines: A Comparison" to an audience of 45 faculty and students in Rockefeller Hall. Tambiah came to Dartmouth as a Dickinson Visiting Fellow, a program sponsored annually by the religion department.

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Hillel plans stall

By David Sadoff | November 18, 1993

Plans for a new Jewish student center have been temporarily stalled because the architectural proposals exceed the cost and size specifications requested by the College and Hillel, the Jewish students' organization. "The plans are simply too large and over budget," said George Hathorn, associate director of facilities planning and the College's resident architect. The Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth, which will be located north of Delta Delta Delta sorority house, will provide Hillel more room than its current location on Summer Street. Plans for the new center include a worship and dining area for 200 people.

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Co-eds may leave CFSC

By Diane Fernandes | November 18, 1993

Members of co-ed Greek organizations last night discussed establishing a constitution that would mark the first step in a proposed secession from the Co-ed Fraternity Sorority Council. But the houses did not vote on a constitution last night at house meetings, and probably will not this term, said Mark Griffin '96, president of the Co-ed Council, which has drafted a constitution for the co-ed organizations. Griffin said the council still has to look over the proposed constitution again, distribute it to the co-ed houses, vote on it and then submit it the College. "It's not near completion," Griffin said. The CFSC is an umbrella organization for the Greek houses and the various subcommittees, including the Co-ed Council.

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Race for hunger kicks off week

By Jack Vaitayanonta | November 16, 1993

Students and Upper Valley residents participated in a road race and informational banquet Sunday to raise money for relief organizations worldwide and to learn about the planet's food shortage crisis as part of the first events of this year's Hunger Awareness Week. The events are organized by Students Fighting Hunger, a division of the Tucker Foundation.

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Recent history leads business to reinvest

By Colin Grey | November 16, 1993

Dartmouth's reinvestment in companies that do business in South Africa, which was announced by the Board of Trustees after their fall meeting this weekend, was spurred by dramatic changes in the policies of the South African government over the past several years. After enduring years of international economic sanctions, the South African government officially ended apartheid and began to take steps towards fair representation of blacks.

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Convention center faces hurdles

By Michelle Mooradian | November 16, 1993

Questions about water supply and traffic complications are haunting the developers of a proposed $15 million hotel and conference center scheduled to open in Hanover in 1995. The proposed 150-room Hill Winds Hotel and Conference Center is planned for a 40-acre lot off Route 120, just north of the Lebanon-Hanover border. The location of the center will affect both Hanover and Lebanon, said Ralph Atkins, a Lebanon planning board member and chairman of the city's water study committee. Developers hope to use Lebanon's water system as the center's main source.

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Divestment history

By David Herszenhorn | November 15, 1993

Hanover Police arrested Ashmita Goswami '94 early Saturday morning for allegedly driving under the influence of liquor. According to Dispatcher Doug Hackett, the police responded just after midnight Saturday to the report of a hit and run accident involving a parked car on Webster Avenue. Hackett said information from witnesses led police to Goswami, 21, who "was identified as the driver of the departing vehicle." Both cars suffered severe front end damage, Hackett said. Goswami in an interview last night denied the allegations. "I was never in a car and I was never pulled over," she said.

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Poetry and Russian politics

By Melissa Marroncelli | November 15, 1993

Leading Russian poet and essayist Alexander Kushner said it is difficult to separate politics from poetry in today's Russia. "Now we, in Russia, are living through very difficult times when we see the breakaway of mentality," Kushner told a predominantly Russian-speaking audience in the faculty lounge of the Hopkins Center Thursday night.

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CFS leaders happy with decision

By Scott Anthony | November 15, 1993

The Board of Trustees said Saturday it does not plan to examine the College's Greek system in the near future and that reform should be initiated from within. The decision effectively rids the responsibility of reform on the Trustees and places it on students and administrators. Last year, former Student Assembly President Andrew Beebe '93 asked the Board to consider forcing the entire Greek system to go co-educational. Currently, the Trustees are concentrating on the Will to Excel capital campaign and do not have the Greek system on their agenda for the coming year. Students said they think it is good that the Trustees are removing themselves from the Greek issue. "Now that we know where the Trustees stand, we can go forward on reforming from within," said Mark Daly '94, the president of the Coed Fraternity Sorority Council. "The change will come from members from within the houses," he said.

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Campus calm as Trustees reinvest

By Christopher Johnson | November 15, 1993

The Trustees' decision Saturday to reinvest in South Africa closes another chapter in a decade-long controversy that caused the largest student protests in decades and ultimately led to the resignation of College President David McLaughlin. But the once-passionate issue of the College's financial ties to South Africa has dimmed in recent years and the announcement has been received as another routine event during a routine Trustee meeting. After just four years of restrictions on South African investments, the Trustees decided that the word of Nelson Mandela, the South African statesman and leader of the African National Congress, was enough to sway them into reinvesting. Mandela, in a speech to the United Nations on Sept.

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Divestment history

By By Christopher Kao | November 15, 1993

In January 1986, at the height of debate over Dartmouth investments in South Africa, 12 students armed with sledgehammers attacked four student-built shanties on the Green. The attack took place on Jan.

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