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Survey questions classroom equity

By Jordy Urstadt | January 11, 1994

The Women's Studies Program will distribute a survey to students enrolled in Women's Studies courses later this term to investigate the way perceived race, gender, class and sexual orientation differences are treated in the classroom. "We are trying to find out how to better integrate issues of diversity in the classroom," said Diane Taylor, co-chair of the Women's Studies Program and co-author of the survey. One in a proposed series of surveys, the goal of this questionnaire is to gauge the success of Women's Studies courses in dealing with issues of diversity into its own curriculum and the daily conduct of their classes. A rough draft of the survey, written by Taylor; Ivy Schweitzer, an English Professor and co-chair of the Women's Studies Program; and Anne Brooks, Women's Studies Program coordinator, was given to two Women's Studies courses last fall. "The fall survey was very repetitive," Taylor said.

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DNN airs show

By Maggie Fritz | January 11, 1994

The first edition of Dartmouth Nightly News, a daily radio program for Dartmouth students, aired last night over the College's AM radio station, 1340 WDCR. The program, which will run Monday through Friday at 5:30 p.m., included national and local news, sports, weather and a feature section. "It's a wonderful opportunity for any student interested in broadcast journalism to get involved because there are so many aspects to the program," WDCR-WFRD News Director Adrienne Kim '95 said. Anchored by Grant Bosse '94 and Alyse Kornfeld '95, the program included an interview with government Professor Catherine Shapiro.

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Green Card honored at 14 stores

By David Sadoff | January 11, 1994

The Hanover Green Card, which gives students a declining balance account to use at local restaurants, had a successful Fall term and now serves 14 area businesses. "The card is doing better than I ever imagined and it's continuing to grow," said Mitch Jacobs '94, founder and owner of the company. Jacobs founded the card at the beginning of Fall term because he said he felt students would be more willing to spend money at local restaurants than at Dining Services facilities if there was an easy, cashless method. In the last few weeks, the Hanover Green Card added Foodee's Pizza, Co-op Food Store, Co-op Service Station, Chez Francoise, and Subway to the list of Hanover establishments accepting the card. Other Hanover establishments accepting the Green Card include EBA's, Videostop, Panda House Delivery and 5 Olde Nugget Alley. Students with the card put money into an account operated by Hanover Green Card, Inc. The money in this account can then be used at participating restaurants similar to the declining balance system of Dining Services. To begin using the card, students must pay $235: $75 deposit, an initial declining balance of $150 and a $10 per term fee. In the first week of Winter term, the Hanover Green Card has accepted more than 50 new student applications. "The businesses and the students are happy with the service," Jacobs said.

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Residents worry about Hillel center

By Colin Grey | January 10, 1994

Residents of Hanover's Occom Pond area are worried that the College's construction of a center for Jewish Life will disrupt the residential tranquillity of their affluent neighborhood. The College is planning to build the center on a 30,000 square-foot plot of land between Occom Ridge Road and Choate Road.

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Student discussion focuses on freshmen social options

By Maggie Fritz | January 10, 1994

A Student Assembly-sponsored forum last night that was designed to focus on intergender relations at the College turned into a discussion about limited social options for first-year students. The discussion was the third part of a series on "Men and Women and the CFS," the College's Greek system.

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Sororites plan rush

By Maggie Fritz | January 7, 1994

After a year of limiting sorority rush to one term, the Panhellenic Council, the governing body of the College's sororities, is allowing the five houses that held rush in the fall to hold another round this term. The sororities will each host one hour-long party the weekend of Jan.

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Morrow '92 helps design Mustang

By Timothy Fitzgibbons | January 7, 1994

After devoting two summers to developing the Ford Motor Company's 1994 Mustang, Kristen Morrow '92, Thayer '94 can see the result of her efforts in showrooms across the country. In the summer of 1992, Ford invited Morrow to join a team of engineers in Dearborn, Michigan charged with the task of adjusting the design of the 1994 Mustang for sale in Japan. Morrow said she became interested in automotive design after Ford engineer Will Boddie '67, Thayer '69 visited the College in 1992 for the Mustang's public debut at a reception to recruit engineers. She returned to Ford this summer as the only student engineer on the Mustang design team.

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Engines class invents

By Diane Fernandes | January 7, 1994

Students in an introductory engineering course last fall developed products to solve everyday problems like roller-skating on rocky roads and transferring a person from a wheelchair to a regular seat. Engineering Sciences 21, Introduction to Engineering, divides students into four or five person teams that must invent a product and develop a marketing strategy for it.

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Prof speaks about water

By Jordy Urstadt | January 7, 1994

In an era of perpetual water shortages in the southwest, Dr. Charles Drake, a professor in the earth sciences department, delivered a timely lecture on water use and management titled "The Colorado River." In the first of a series of nine public lectures on environmental sustainability, Drake presented the scientific aspects of natural resource management to an audience of 60 yesterday afternoon at the Thayer School of Engineering. Drake recounted the history of water use and management on the Colorado. "Politics reflects public attitudes, and the fate of the Colorado is determined by politics," Drake said. He described the career of John Lesley Powell, who made the first attempt at water management on the Colorado in the 1880s. Powell proposed to the Senate in 1888 to settle land according to the potential for irrigation, Drake said, but the prevailing attitude of manifest destiny felt that "water followed the plow." Although the government disregarded Powell's advice, "Powell's legacy lives on," Drake said.

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Case of missing bags

By Mary Ellen Moore | January 7, 1994

More than 50 Dartmouth students who flew from Boston to Lebanon last weekend had to wait up to four days to receive their baggage. Northwest and US Air, the major airlines to offer flights between the two cities, anticipated the difficulties in fitting students' holiday baggage and ski equipment on the 19-seat planes that make the trip, said spokesmen from the airlines. US Air planned to fly extra planes carrying only baggage or to use ground transportation to bring the bags to Lebanon, a company spokeswoman said. But Monday's snowstorm prevented planes from leaving Boston's Logan Airport and made the road conditions unsafe for the vans. Northwest Airlines had 200 bags that could not fit in the planes with the passengers, said Jim Lalos, a spokesman for Precision Airlines, a carrier for Northwest.

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Pelton forms first year committee

By Scott Anthony | January 7, 1994

Dean of Students Lee Pelton recently announced the members and the formal charge of a committee he formed last term to evaluate and improve the first-year experience at the College. The Committee on the First-Year Experience is broken into three sub-committees, each focusing on different aspects of the freshmen year: residential life, intellectual life and orientation.

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Former Ethics director screens film

By Jordy Urstadt | January 6, 1994

Deni Elliott, the former director of the College's Ethics Institute, premiered a video on the moral problems of pre-natal testing for birth defects in Loew Auditorium Tuesday night. Elliott was one of three directors of the new video called "The Burden of Knowledge." More than a hundred Upper Valley residents and people involved in the film's production filled the auditorium to see the hour-long video, which was followed by a panel discussion. "The impact that we hope for this film to make is to help people think about the consequences of the choices they make concerning pre-natal testing," Elliott said. Co-Director Bob Drake said, "Women aren't prepared to deal with the potential roller coaster that pre-natal testing presents.

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Peer counseling takes new shape

By Colin Grey | January 6, 1994

To alleviate the long queues at the Dean's Office, Class Deans Lisa Thum and Teoby Gomez have created a student peer advising system in their offices. Thum, the 1995 class dean, said the student advisers will make the deans more, rather than less, accessible. "It will offer a supplement to us.

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MIT, Justice settle overlap dispute

By Colin Grey | January 6, 1994

A recent settlement between the U.S. Justice Department and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology permits Dartmouth to share limited financial aid information with other schools.

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Topside games to Collis

By Amanda A. Amann | January 5, 1994

The area outside the Topside Convenience Store in Thayer Dining Hall will remain vacant this term after the relocation of video games and pinball machines to the new Collis Center. "For now it will just be quiet space," Associate Director of Dining Services Tucker Rossiter said. Plans to convert the area into office space for the Validine Office have been proposed, Rossiter said. "We might expand the store, but I really think it will be converted into additional offices," Rossiter said.

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Rhodes scholar returns to Trinidad with goals to educate

By Amy Semet | January 5, 1994

When Ian Sue Wing '93 came to Dartmouth from Trinidad, he was determined to devote all of his time to academics so that he could someday use his talents to help Third World nations, particularly Trinidad. Four years of pulling all-nighters and committing almost every waking minute to his studies brought Sue Wing his goal - and a Rhodes Scholarship. Sue Wing received his A.B.

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