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'97 arrested for assault

By David Herszenhorn | October 19, 1993

Hanover Police yesterday arrested Shakeeb Alireza '97 for allegedly assaulting his roommate during a fight early Sunday morning in Topliff Hall. Officer Patrick O'Neil said Alireza was handcuffed outside of Silsby Hall just after 11 a.m.

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Students save with new card

By Justin Steinman | October 19, 1993

With a new discount program, Dartmouth students can save at stores and restaurants in Hanover and all over New England. The multi-colored Student Advantage card replaced the Student Assembly Gold Card this year.

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Co-ed houses struggle to find niche in Greek system

By Scott Anthony | October 19, 1993

If you look at the numbers, the College's co-educational Greek houses are hurting. The number of houses has dropped from five to three in the last three years and membership continues to dwindle. But the presidents of the three existing co-ed houses -- Alpha Theta, Phi Tau and The Tabard -- say they are satisfied with their current situation and hope to increase the co-ed presence on campus. Last year Panarchy left the ranks of the co-ed Greek system and established itself as an "undergraduate society" -- separate from the Greek system but still under the jurisdiction of the College. Before Panarchy broke free, many members "didn't feel we should have anything to do with the Greek system," Panarchy Co-chair Lynn Webster '94 said.

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National alcohol awareness week begins

By Laurel Smith | October 19, 1993

As part of National Alcohol Awareness Week, the College Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs is sponsoring a series of events, speeches and discussions promoting awareness and education about "Alcohol at Dartmouth and Beyond." "There is no can of beer or bottle of wine that's going to tell you how much to use it or when to stop, like a bottle of aspirin or cough syrup," Janet Sims, chair of the CCAOD said. "Because alcohol is legal in our society, students may use it a lot but don't know that it's a drug, that it can be toxic and have side effects," Sims said. Sharon La Voy, chair of the Alcohol Awareness Week Committee, a sub-committee of the CCAOD, said the purpose of the week of activities is to "try to tease out what the issues are." La Voy said the events will focus on education about alcohol as a drug and the prevalence of alcohol at the College, not on condemning students' drinking habits. The committee, which planned most of the activities last summer, chose to focus on the ways alcohol affects students' lives both at the College and after graduation. "We want to know if students have to change their attitudes and behaviors regarding alcohol after leaving the College," said La Voy. Sims, who is assistant director of outreach and administration for the College's Health Services, said there has been a higher number of students checked into the infirmary with high blood alcohol levels recently. "We had seven students hospitalized this past weekend, and it wasn't even Homecoming weekend," Sims said. Coordinator of Student Programs Linda Kennedy said five students have been admitted to Dick's House with blood alcohol levels of over .20 so far this term. Organizers of this week's events are "trying to make students realize that 'normal' behavior is not necessarily getting drunk," Kennedy said. Kennedy cited a student survey last year that reported that 46.8 percent of Dartmouth students consume the equivalent of three drinks or less per week. "That means that very close to one half of our students don't binge drink," Kennedy said. Sims identified two main groups of students who drink on campus.

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Nurse speaks on women and alcohol

By Daisy I. Alpert | October 19, 1993

Arlene Halsted, a registered nurse at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, spoke to 10 women at Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority yesterday afternoon about the effects of alcohol on women as part of Alcohol Awareness Week. According to a 1992 study of alcohol use here, 5.6 percent of Dartmouth women drink on a daily basis, an increase from the 1989 survey. While the amount of drinking at Dartmouth has increased in recent years, most disturbing is the increase in drinking among women, Halsted said. "Women are more easily intoxicated than men," Halsted said.

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More students tested for AIDS

By Christopher Kao | October 19, 1993

A growing number of students are taking the free AIDS test offered by the College, a trend that health administrators say reflects increasing acceptance of the test as part of a regular health maintenance routine. According to Dr. Nield Mercer, assistant director for clinical affairs at the College Health Service, about 150 students each year are tested for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome at Dick's House. Mercer said slightly more males than females are tested each year. "I think the stigma is down for most people," said Neil Gillies, manager of the out-patient department at the Health Service. Gillies said people who are starting new relationships often want to be tested. Betsy Eccles, infectious disease nurse clinician at the DHMC said the number of people tested doubled in one day after Magic Johnson announced he had Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) in 1991.

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Harvard 'final club' to may become first to admit women

By Alexander R. Edlich | October 19, 1993

The alumni council of one of Harvard's elite all-male "final clubs" recently delayed a vote to allow admission to women after the measure had been unanimously approved by the society's undergraduate members. The council announced earlier this month that it will wait until a poll of the alumni members of the undergraduate student organization is finished by the end of the year. Last month undergraduate members unanimously approved the measure, which would make the Fly Club coeducational after more than 150 years. Approval from the alumni members would make the Fly Club the first of Harvard's nine all-male final club to admit women. The votes by the graduate and undergraduate members coincided with a boycott by a newly-created student group, Women Appealing for Change, which hopes to pressure the clubs into admitting women.

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Roommate quarrel may lead to arrest

By Timothy Fitzgibbons | October 18, 1993

A squabble between two freshman roommates early Sunday morning turned into an angry scuffle and now Hanover Police are investigating the incident as a possible assault. Police and Safety and Security officers responded to the fight in Topliff dormitory at about 5:30 a.m.

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War and peace program on hold

By Alexander R. Edlich | October 15, 1993

A committee that oversees the College Course program has voted not to offer the program's hallmark course, Introduction to War and Peace Studies, this year. Professor Jack Shepherd, who taught the course, left Dartmouth this summer for Cambridge University. Professors involved with the program said it will be restructured and incorporated as part of the College's new curriculum. Members of the program's steering committee said the College does not have professors to run the inter-disciplinary program. English Professor Peter Bien, a member of the committee, said College Course 1: Introduction to War/Peace Studies will not be offered this spring. Instead, the committee will "rethink and revise the course" and offer it in the spring of 1994, he said. Bien said he regretted the committee's decision to "lay down" the course for a year, but said the course is still a high priority.

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Sisters no more; Some sororities see rise in resignations

By Mary Ellen Moore | October 14, 1993

Citing a variety of personal reasons, numerous women have depledged their sororities this term, a trend that leaders of the Greek system say reflects growing unhappiness with the system. Depledging "is an increasing phenomenon, which says something about sororities in general," said Panhellenic Council president Rachel Perri '94. According to Delta Delta Delta sorority president Amy Palmer '94, six women have already depledged this fall.

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Symposium examines Jews in France

Speaking on "The Jewish Question in France" in a lecture last night in Dartmouth Hall, anthropologist Judith Friedlander said Jews have fought for the last century to maintain their culture in a society that tends toward homogeneity. Yesterday afternoon and last night, approximately 200 students and faculty filled 105 Dartmouth Hall to attend the first of a three-part lecture series titled "Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture and the Jewish Question in France." Earlier in the day, panelists discussed the place of revisionist history, which denies the existence of concentration camps during World War II, in French society. The conference, which will run through January, explores the progress and treatment of Jews in France from the period of Nazi occupation during World War II until the present. Professor Lawrence Kritzman, chair of the comparative literature department and the organizer of the conference, said the discussion was designed to center on "the identification of the Jew with the memory of Auschwitz in France." Author Pierre Vidal-Naquet, who teaches at the fcole Pratique des Hautes ftudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, said the "residual guilt" that emerged among the French following the collapse of the French Vichy government in the 1940s resulted in a revisionist history movement. According to Naquet, "historical facts are not 'things' ... they are alive with us today." The fact that the Holocaust is a recurring theme in literature and the arts is a clear indication that it is not merely a historical event belonging to the past, he said. The anti-Semitism that consumed the French under Vichy created a mindset which continues to surface in a milder form in contemporary French society, according to Ambassador of French Culture Christian de la Campagne, who opened the discussion. "It is important to identify the factors which foster this sentiment in order to understand the point at which we find ourselves today," de la Campagne said. The Israeli victory in the Middle East during the Six-Day War in 1967 contradicted the image of concentration camps with which the French associated the Jews, de la Campagne said. He said the extreme rightist party in France fostered anti-Semitism through publications during the 1960s and 1970s. De la Campagne said the Israeli victory and the increased promulgation of anti-Semitism in France contributed to the Jews' social and political situation in France today. Friedlander is the Dean of the New School for Social Research in New York.

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Thayer names Lynch endowed prof

By Jennifer Chen | October 13, 1993

The Board of Trustees rewarded Daniel Lynch's commitment and contributions to the Thayer School of Engineering with an endowed professorship last July. Carol Muller, assistant dean for administration at the Thayer School, said an appointment to an endowed professorship or chair is the highest honor a professor can receive. "They select a senior faculty member whose work is exceptionally done," she said. A 15-year veteran of the Thayer School, Lynch said his new appointment to the MacLean Professorship has given him more confidence to pursue new research at his discretion. "It's a great honor to be named to an endowed chair," he said. His future research may explore global management of industrialization, Lynch said. Lynch, who teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in environmental engineering, is currently working to simulate ocean movement with computers. Dean of the Thayer School Charles Hutchinson said he was pleased with Lynch's appointment and praised Lynch for his contributions to the school. "He has been involved in developing a lot of new opportunities for students in the area of environmental engineering," Hutchinson said. Christopher Naimie, who is in the fourth year of his doctorate studies in environmental engineering, has been a research assistant for Lynch for nearly two years. "Being an extremely intelligent person, [Lynch] has a tendency to speak about the important concepts of his research and not the day-to-day details that you don't learn very much from," Naimie said.

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