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SA picks new members

By Suparna Dutta | November 9, 1993

The Student Assembly nominations committee granted 18 students membership on the Assembly last week. The committee, co-chaired by seniors Matthew Berry and Mark Waterstraat, spent the last two weeks reviewing applications. Students who wish to be Assembly members must attend three consecutive Assembly meetings and then submit an application to the nominations committee. Once approved, students become full voting members of the Assembly. Eleven freshmen were admitted to the Assembly.

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Course selection on computer

By Maggie Fritz | November 9, 1993

Students won't have to leave their rooms to register for Winter term courses this year. A new computerized course registration system over the Kiewit network lets students register for their courses from their dormitory rooms.

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Scientist speaks on Cold War

By Jordy Urstadt | November 9, 1993

A Russian historian spoke last night on how Cold War scientists had to suppress their political views to avoid being purged by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Alexei Kozhevnikov of the Moscow Institute for Sciences, spoke about Stalin's Academy of Sciences to 25 students and professors in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Kozhevnikov is part of a group of Russian scientists who are revising Soviet history following the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Kozhevnikov discussed the politicization of the scientific community under Stalin in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Volleyball team claims gender bias

By Alexander R. Edlich | November 9, 1993

A member of the women's volleyball team wrote a letter in July to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights supporting an allegation that the College does not provide equal opportunities to men's and women's sports. The Office of Civil Rights is currently investigating the College after members of the women's softball team filed a complaint last spring charging that the College discriminates against women by giving preferential treatment and relatively more funding to men's athletic programs. Members of the softball team said the College had violated their civil rights by not complying with federal legislation that mandates gender equity in collegiate athletics. In the three-page letter, sent on behalf of the entire volleyball team to the head investigator at the Education Department, Andrea DeShazo '94 wrote that the team is another example of how the College has violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits federally-funded schools from discriminating on the basis of sex in any programs or activities. The volleyball team letter is not a complaint, but does ask the Education Department to consider the volleyball team's situation if it decides to reprimand the College. "I am writing ... with the hope of adding information to your investigation," DeShazo, the teams administrative liaison wrote.

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Health care costs more than education

By Jason Casell | November 8, 1993

A Columbia University economist said Thursday that the federal government spends twice as much money on health care than on education. Sharon Glied, a professor at Columbia's School of Public Health, said reforming America's health care system should be Congress' top priority. She said the government spends approximately $3,100 a person on health care -- twice as much as it spends on public education. "By the year 2000, 27 percent of the annual federal budget will be devoted to health costs," Glied said. Glied, a health care expert who serves on the President's Council of Economic Advisors, is a member of President Bill Clinton's Health Care Task Force, which is the main group that formulated the current health care reform package. During the speech in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, Glied said health care reform is necessary because it will provide security and access for the nearly 36 million Americans who are uninsured. She also said the reforms will result in lower household medical bills and will reduce the impact of health care costs on the federal budget. "The majority of Americans want health care reform, but they aren't willing to pay for it," she said.

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Review editor on radio

By Alexander R. Edlich | November 8, 1993

Dartmouth Review Editor in Chief Oron Strauss '95 defended his newspaper in a radio interview last night and lashed out at College administrators for "deliberately distorting" the north campus development project. Strauss, in an hour-long program on WDCR, the College's AM radio station, said his newspaper is one of the three most important college newspapers in the country.

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Ivy conference examines bigotry

By Colin Grey | November 8, 1993

An Ivy League conference on bigotry opened here yesterday with a lecture and discussion of intolerance on college campuses. The conference is designed to educate student leaders at Ivy League colleges about the importance of recognizing and eliminating bigotry and intolerance on a practical and intellectual level. Despite a closed invitation list that includes selected students and professors, participants from several schools missed the opening of the "Alleviating Bigotry on Campus" conference at the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Delegations from Cornell University and University of Pennsylvania arrived late.

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ORL awards Greek for service

By Michelle Francois | November 8, 1993

The Office of Residential life and the Coed Fraternity Sorority Council recently gave two Greek houses awards for volunteer efforts and community service. Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Delta Delta Delta sorority received the first 15 Webster Avenue award for their involvement with the West Fairlee Village School, an elementary school in Vermont. The $2,000 award, which will be given annually to Greek houses that support charity and community service projects, was established through an endowment created by alumni of three now-defunct Greek houses. Sig-Ep and Tri-Delt members volunteered at West Fairlee since last winter, providing academic and moral support for students. "We help children in the classroom and work one-on-one with the students," said Amy Palmer '94, Tri-Delt's president.

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Battle lines drawn as Greek vote nears

By Scott Anthony | November 8, 1993

With the Student Assembly-sponsored referendum on single-sex Greek organizations only four days away, a group supporting the single-sex system struck the first blow in the yes-no battle yesterday, plastering the campus with posters. A group opposed to single-sex houses met last Thursday to discuss a plan of action for persuading the student body to vote against the Greek-letter system. The Assembly-sponsored referendum asks: "Do you support the continued existence of single-sex fraternities and sororities at Dartmouth?

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College opens women's health center

By Laura Mannix | November 8, 1993

The Department of Women's Health at Dick's House opened this term with a new philosophy that has received good reviews from students. Janice Sundnas, a nurse practitioner hired in August to run the department, said the new department allows Dick's House to offer women better care and "increase communication with other student services." As department director, Sundnas sees women clinically everyday and is responsible for program planning and development. The department only treats women and specializes in women's medicine.

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Forum seeks to increase female leadership

By Michelle Mooradian | November 8, 1993

A weekend workshop in Rockefeller Center explored the political involvement of women and how the female role in leadership positions should evolve. The workshop, called "Women in Public Leadership: An Exploration of Women's Political Involvement," sought to explain how women can increase their representation in elected offices and other leadership roles. In a keynote address, former Concord Mayor Liz Hager, who ran for governor of New Hampshire in 1992 but lost in the Republican primary, spoke about the need for more women role models and mentors in "traditionally male positions such as high political office." "Though the number of women in Congress has more than doubled in one decade, women have always been and continue to be under-represented in this and other political realms," Hager said. The key to success in future elections is leadership and the ability of women to state their beliefs and stand firm, according to Hager, who was attacked in the republican gubernatorial primary for her pro-choice position on abortion. "Leadership is not an academic enterprise," she said.

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Phi Beta Kappa inducts 26 seniors

By Mary Ellen Moore | November 5, 1993

Twenty-six seniors were inducted into Dartmouth's chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society on Tuesday at a formal ceremony in the home of College President James Freedman. The seniors were selected based on their grade point average at the end of junior year which placed them in the top 20 in the Class of 1994. At the ceremony in Freedman's basement library, Phi Beta Kappa officers donned formal academic robes. The students were notified last week of their selection to the society. "There were people raising motions and passing them and then we all signed a book and got a certificate," said Brook Brouha '94. A reception in Freedman's dining room followed the induction. "We all chatted because we didn't know each other since we had spent more time studying," Brouha said. "It was very nice to actually meet President Freedman, who normally I don't have much personal contact with," Kevin Spurway '94 said. "Twenty-six students were eligible because of dead flat out ties in rank," said Economics Professor William Baldwin, the vice president of Phi Beta Kappa.

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Gift will fund curriculum, museum

By Christopher Kao | November 4, 1993

At the dedication of the Hood Museum in 1985, former College President David McLaughlin lauded the family that made the building a reality. "Good judgment, generosity and discretion seem to be the Hood family character traits.

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Donation to expand Jewish studies

By Maggie Fritz | November 4, 1993

Dean of Faculty James Wright will appoint a new committee to examine the College's offerings in Jewish studies and possibly increase the number of classes offered in the discipline. Dick Page, a trustee and the chair of the Will to Excel Capital Campaign, announced a donation from Leon Black '73 last month, $200,000 of which is earmarked for funding the expansion of the Jewish studies program offered here. "The Jewish Studies program at Dartmouth right now is about half-way between nothing and where it's supposed to be," Rabbi Daniel Siegel said.

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