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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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Papers name editors

By Jason Casell | March 7, 1994

Last week three student publications, The Beacon, The Dartmouth Review and Spare Rib, selected new editors in chief, who will assume their positions next term. Farouk Ladha '96, who succeeds Matt Calkins '95, will become the fifth editor of The Beacon, a conservative monthly publication. Daniel Garcia-Diaz '95 will become the 16th editor of the Review, the off-campus conservative weekly.

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Town struts for charity

By Maggie Fritz | March 7, 1994

Hanover residents will be strutting their stuff this April when the Hanover Parks and Recreation Department sponsors a Spring Fling Fun Run and a Spring Strut to benefit Hanover Youth-in-Action. The run, which traverses a 5 km course, and strut, a 1.5 km walk, will take place Saturday Apr.

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Muslims fast to celebrate holy month

By Yvonne Chiu | March 7, 1994

When the next new moon appears Saturday, Muslims around the world will celebrate the end of their month-long observance of Ramadan, with all-day festivities and feasts the following day. Since the last moon cycle began Feb.

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New candidates join election race

By Scott Anthony | March 7, 1994

Three more students declared their intention to run for Student Assembly president over the weekend, bringing the number of candidates for the April election to five. Jim Brennan '96, Danielle Moore '95 and Caleb Scott '97 said they would join David Gonzalez '95 and Kenji Sugahara '95 in the struggle for the top Assembly position. Rukmini Sichitiu '95 will seek the vice presidency, according to her friend, Michael Corriere '94. Sichitiu joins Alexandra Morgan '95 and Steve Fagell '95 in the vice presidential race.

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Former chief discusses CIA's role

By Ranjit S. Ahjuwalia | March 4, 1994

Peter Earnest, former chief of media relations for the Central Intelligence Agency, held an informal question and answer session with about 20 students last night in the Class of 1930 Room in Rockefeller Center. Earnest retired from the CIA last January after working for the agency for 35 years, during which time he also represented the CIA to the U.S.

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Freedman, Pelton meet with Greeks

By Scott Anthony | March 4, 1994

College President James Freedman and Dean of the College Lee Pelton answered questions on topics ranging from the coeducation of the Greek system to the value of a Dartmouth education in a fire-side chat last night at Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity. Chi Gam and Sigma Delta sorority co-sponsored the event in an effort to improve relations between the administration and the Greek system, Chi Gam President Kevin Fleming '95 said.

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Greek video sparks discussion

By Colin Grey | March 3, 1994

Editor's note appended (Oct. 17, 2014) Last night more than 50 students attended a presentation of a video and audiotape that documented the initiation rites of two Dartmouth fraternities. English Professors Tom Luxon and Ivy Schweitzer led students through the 80-minute videotape of Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity's 1987 "Hell Night" and an audio recording of Alpha Delta's 1988 sex-room interrogations. Students listened to and watched the recordings in the Hyphen Lounge of Butterfield and Russell Sage Halls. "What we really want to do is get a discussion going.

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Spelios '95 provides weather service

By Maggie Lockwood | March 3, 1994

If you are one of the 190 people on the Lou Spelios '95 daily BlitzMail weather update, then you know when it is the kind of day so cold your nose freezes within a minute of leaving the dorm. "I've tested the temperature which causes your nose to freeze.

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Ski team struggles, individuals excel at weekend championships

By Scott Burns | March 3, 1994

With the NCAA Championships less than two weeks away, the ski team, hampered by sickness, took to the road last Friday and Saturday, posting some of its best individual results of the season, but struggling as a team in the Eastern Collegiate Championships. The men finished third in overall competition just two points behind host Middlebury College, while the University of Vermont took the win. On the women's side, the Big Green took fourth overall behind UVM, Middlebury and the University of New Hampshire. J.P.

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Assembly proposes new constitution

By Maggie Fritz | March 2, 1994

The Student Assembly considered 21 amendments to a proposed constitution at its meeting last night. The 27-page proposed constitution has had 15 revisions since the original draft was produced in January. The amendments discussed fundamental aspects of the constitution and also addressed minor points such as wording. The proposed constitution is a more detailed document than the present constitution. The new constitution calls for a change in the number of general representatives from the student body from 21 to 24 and the number of freshman class representatives from seven to eight. It also gives more flexibility to the Assembly by not pre-determining the functions of the Assembly's standing committees and by leaving unspecified spending limits to be determined each year by the by-laws. Amendments to the proposed constitution include provisions for a special all student body election in the event of a tie in an initial vote for Assembly president or vice-president. "The bulk of [the constitution] got through and I'm happy with that," Chair of the Constitutional Task Force Tim Rodenberger '95 said. The Assembly will examine the constitution as a whole at its meeting next Tuesday and vote on whether to accept it. The constitution must be passed by a two-thirds vote of the general Assembly in order to be instituted.

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Green Key creates forum for candidates

By Maggie Fritz | March 2, 1994

The Green Key Society plans to publish a special election newspaper next term to provide space to every candidate running for offices in Student Assembly, class councils, the Green Key Society, and the Committee on Standards to present their platforms. The single-issue paper will be distributed to students' Hinman Boxes four or five days prior to the elections scheduled for April 12th, according to acting vice president of Green Key Hosea Harvey '95. "The purpose is to increase responsible student government in order to give students the easiest possible access to responsible voting," Harvey said. The paper will be about 12 pages and will print submissions from every candidate.

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Wallis delivers lecture

By David Hemmer | March 2, 1994

Engineering professor and world-renowned expert on fluid mechanics Graham Wallis delivered the College's seventh annual Presidential Lecture yesterday afternoon to a crowd of about 150 in Alumni Hall in the Hopkins Center. The lecture, titled "A Smorgasborg of Multiphase Flow," presented a broad, basic survey of fluid mechanics. President James Freedman, who introduced Wallis, said, "The Presidential Lecture Series is designed to recognize the contributions of members of the faculty to Dartmouth's academic excellence." Wallis currently holds the Fairchild Professorship at Dartmouth, and served as associate dean of the Thayer School of Engineering from 1989 to 1993. Wallis discussed multiphase flow, which is the study of fluid behavior in which a combination of suspended particles, liquids, gasses or plasmas travel together and react with each other. Examples include pouring whiskey over ice cubes, burping, stirring milk into tea, clouds, soda, blood, beer and pollution. Wallis said for many diseases, including pneumonia, kidney stones and allergies, "multiphase flow is the primary cause or symptom." The lecture was accompanied by an extensive slide show. Wallis discussed experiments on multiphase flow conducted by several local companies, some of which were started by Thayer School of Engineering graduates or faculty. Multiphase flow research examines such diverse topics as pressure zones around ski jumpers, chemicals that dissolve blood clots after heart attacks and air vortexes that cause dirt to build up on rear windows of cars. Wallis spoke of different models researchers use to help predict the behavior of systems.

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Planners shape library

By Siobhan Gorman | March 2, 1994

The new Berry Library, the futuristic companion to Baker Library, which is scheduled to begin construction in 1996 or 1997, is being billed as the library of the 21st century by members of the task force responsible for its development. Berry is scheduled to be built on Elm Street, which the College has purchased from the city of Hanover, said Nancy Marion, economics professor and task force member. The $30 million gift for the new library has been invested and may reach $40 to $50 million by the time the library is actually built, Marion said. Berry Library is in its earliest planning stages, according to Bill Scott, classics professor and chair of the task force. "There isn't any need for us to get specific yet," he said. The task force has been gathering information by visiting libraries on campus and listening to presentations on new technology and preliminary architectural options, Marion said. Marion said one of the main issues the task force is discussing is the new library's focus on electronics as opposed to storage of volumes in hard copy. "We're going to think about a library with a huge book collection," English professor and member of the task force Alan Gaylord said. But he said the more science-oriented task force members are focusing on creating a kind of "virtual library." The virtual library would consist mainly of a huge computer network which would improve access to materials, Gaylord said. One of the main features of the library of the future will be flexibility, Margaret Otto, librarian of the College and task force member said. "The technology is moving at a rapid rate.

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