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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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In referendum, vote is 'yes'; 80 percent of voters support single-sex Greek organizations

By Scott Anthony | November 12, 1993

Students voted overwhelmingly in support of the continued existence of single-sex Greek houses in yesterday's Student Assembly-sponsored referendum, but groups on both sides of the issue are claiming victory. Eighty percent of the students who voted answered yes to the question: "Do you support the continued existence of single-sex fraternities and sororities at Dartmouth?

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The Dartmouth names '95 Directorate

By Scott Anthony | November 12, 1993

Yvonne Chiu '95, a 20-year-old history major from Freeport, N.Y., has been named the next editor in chief of The Dartmouth. Chiu succeeds David Herszenhorn '94 in the top post of the nation's oldest college newspaper.

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Great observations

By Colin Grey | November 12, 1993

Although the Shattuck Observatory's 139-year-old telescope is too old to be used to conduct any significant research, students and members of the Stargazers club can still catch an occasional glimpse of a celestial object. The telescope is far less powerful than the more modern 30-foot mirror telescopes used today and the frequently overcast skies of Hanover also prevent any extensive research at the observatory. "I think the thing that's really striking about it is that even though we don't have this modern, state-of-the-art equipment, when we're looking through it, it's real light from real objects that you're seeing," said Astronomy Professor John Thorstensen, the director of the observatory. Graduate stduents in Astronomy and Physics conduct advanced astronomical research about two times a year at the Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT Observatory in Arizona, Thorstensen said. "Classes just look at nice things in this observatory," Thorstensen said.

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Planner to address Alumni Council

By Christopher Kao | November 12, 1993

Denise Scott-Brown, the designer of the College's "concept plan" for north campus expansion, will meet with the alumni council in two weeks to discuss how future developments will remain faithful to Dartmouth's architectural history. Gordon DeWitt, director of facilities planning, said Scott-Brown and Timothy Rub, the director of the Hood Museum, will be part of a panel discussion addressing the alumni council on Dec.

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Poet opens conference on Russion democracy

By Colin Grey | November 11, 1993

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko captivated a capacity crowd at Lowe Auditorium last night with readings from his works. The recital, followed by a showing of Yevtushenko's film "Stalin's Funeral," opened a conference on "The Future of Russian Democracy," sponsored by the Dickey Endowment. "We removed Stalin from the mausoleum / But how do we remove Stalin from Stalin's heirs," Yevtushenko read from his poem "Stalin's Heirs," gesturing passionately while his voice first roared through the auditorium and then dropped to a subdued whisper. Yevtushenko led the struggle against the superficial poetic optimism which followed Stalin's death in 1953, and in the 1960s he toured the U.S.

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Students fight hunger

By Amy Hatch | November 11, 1993

Organizers of Students Fighting Hunger are preparing for annual Hunger Awareness Week by scheduling events to raise money and canned goods and trying to inform the Dartmouth community about the problems of poverty around the world. "We've been doing it about 14 years," said Tucker Foundation volunteer coordinator Randall Quan '92.

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Committee elects to end FSP

By Christopher Kao | November 11, 1993

A committee of department chairs voted yesterday to terminate the College's exchange program to Budapest University of Arts and Social Sciences because no academic department will take responsibility for running the program. The exchange, which is not an official College Foreign Study Program, allows students to spend a term in Budapest studying history, government or economics.

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Greek vote to gauge opinion

By Scott Anthony | November 11, 1993

After sifting through a tug of war between supporters and opponents of the Greek system, students head to the polls today to vote on a question that many say will not provide a definitive answer. From 9:30 a.m.

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Environmental Studies finds permanent spot

By Jason Casell | November 11, 1993

After three years in temporary facilities, the environmental studies department has moved from the Murdough Center to the Steele building. The department moved into Steele in June after renovations to the building were completed. "The finishing touches for the move were last Friday," said Anita Brown, the academic assistant for the environmental studies department.

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Professor wins award for bird research

By Angela Crossman | November 11, 1993

The American Ornithologists' Union awarded Dartmouth Professor Richard Holmes the 1993 William Brewster Award, which goes to the author of the best work on birds of the Western Hemisphere published during the last 10 years. Holmes, a native Californian with a Ph.D.

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Panel addresses past and present of Jews in France

By Adarsh Carter | November 11, 1993

Harvard Professor Susan Suleiman said in a panel discussion last night that Jean Paul Sartre expressed subtle anti-Semitism in his attack on anti-Semites in France. Six prominent speakers addressed the connection between media and the way the Holocaust is remembered, as well as the representations of the Holocaust in literature. About 100 people attended the discussion in 105 Dartmouth Hall.

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Greeks receive service awards

By Rebecca Oettinger | November 11, 1993

The Office of Residential Life honored Greek houses for community service and other achievements Monday night at the eighth annual Co-ed, Fraternity and Sorority Award Ceremony. Co-ed Fraternity Sorority Council President Mark Daly '94 and the CFSC executive committee helped ORL present five awards in areas such as leadership, scholarship, recycling and community service. "This is done in recognition of good work which sometimes goes overlooked in co-ed, fraternity and sorority organizations," said Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco. She said the awards presentation is "an opportunity to say thanks and congratulate students that have tried to lead organizations and address the College's hopes that these social organizations will support rather than confound the academic purpose of the College." The highlight of the evening was the presentation of the O'Connor Cup, which ORL awarded to Delta Delta Delta sorority for the house's outstanding achievement in the areas of leadership, scholarship and programming in 1993. The award was presented by Hanover Police Officer Christopher O'Connor in memory of his father Proctor John O'Connor.

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SA arranges more debate

By Scott Anthony | November 11, 1993

Following today's referendum, the Student Assembly plans a discussion series to gather student input on Greek houses and present data in a report to the Committee on Student Life. The nine-part series, culminating in a town meeting in Webster Hall on January 28, is called "Men and Women and the CFS: How Does the System Serve the Students", Assembly President Nicole Artzer '94 said. The first discussion will be next Wednesday at 8 p.m.

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