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KDE initiates 64 sisters

By Michelle Mooradian | September 27, 1993

The newly created Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority initiated 64 new members last week and held its first meeting Thursday night which included the house's lifeblood, 50 members of Class of 1996. The '96 women informally committed to the new sorority last spring after the Panhellenic Council announced Xi Kappa Chi sorority would dissolve because of low membership and financial problems. After a year of deliberation, Xi Kappa Chi members chose not to join a national sorority and, instead, brokered a deal with the College administration and the Panhell that would allow the creation of KDE, a new local sorority, KDE President Cheryl Pinkerton '94 said. Last Wednesday night, KDE initiated the 14 former Xi Kappa Chi members who chose to join the new sorority.

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AAm hosts its own convocation

By Scott Anthony | September 27, 1993

The Afro-American Society kicked off its 27th year with a private convocation ceremony welcoming black members of the Class of 1997 into Dartmouth's Afro-American community and pledged to improve communication within the group. Nearly 100 students and faculty members attended the ceremony in Alumni Gymnasium Saturday afternoon. The AAm is the College's black students association and often sponsors academic and cultural events at Dartmouth. AAm President Zola Mashariki '94, Vice President Shakari Cameron '96 and African Caribbean Students Organization President Lee Addo '96 addressed the gathering. Mashariki welcomed the Class of 1997 and emphasized that the AAm is open to all black students, regardless of their geographic origins. All three speeches touched on the theme of inclusion after a turbulent year for the organization. Last spring, several AAm members confiscated issues of The Dartmouth Review to protest what they considered racist portrayals of the AAm and of African Americans in the off-campus conservative journal. In May, AAm president-elect Amiri Barksdale '96, who participated in the removal of the Reviews, resigned after conflict and criticism within the society. Mashariki told the new students that there needs to be more communication within the society and AAm members need to be more tolerant. "We had a tumultuous year," she said.

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New director picked for Native American Program

By Marina Lakhman | September 27, 1993

A University of Colorado administrator with ties to the Ivy League was named director of the College's 23-year old Native American program earlier this month. Leisha Conners, a member of the Mohawk tribe who currently heads the American Indian Upward Bound Project at Colorado, will start her new job Oct.

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Condoms available at Topside

By Scott Anthony | September 27, 1993

Students can now charge condoms and cold medicine to their student identification cards in vending machines outside of Topside. The items are currently available at no cost at Health Services' cold clinic at Dick's House.

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MIT wins anti-trust appeal

By Kristen King | September 24, 1993

A Philadelphia federal appeals court last week ruled in favor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a case the Justice Department filed four years ago against the university for violating federal antitrust laws. MIT officials say the decision may slow down the bidding wars between elite institutions for top students who need financial aid. But College officials here say discrepancies in financial aid packages offered to a student by different universities, which have recently differed by as much as $5,000, would still exist if the Justice Department had not filed suit against MIT and other universities including Dartmouth in 1989. Before 1989, representatives from the eight Ivies, MIT, and 20 other schools met four times a year to decide how much aid money they would give to certain prospective students so each institution could offer similar or identical packages. But in the fall of that year, the Justice Department started investigating allegations that meetings between the Overlap colleges violated antitrust laws.

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Dartmouth 8th in poll

By Alexander R. Edlich | September 24, 1993

A drop in the College's score for academic reputation caused Dartmouth to slip a place this year in a national news magazine's ranking of the nation's top universities. Dartmouth slipped into the eighth slot after holding the seventh spot tied with Duke University last year in U.S.

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Cook called state's best professor

By Diane Fernandes | September 23, 1993

A Washington-based educational organization earlier this month named English and African American Studies Professor William Cook the New Hampshire Professor of the Year. Cook, an expert in African-American literature and one of the College's most popular professors, said he has been a successful teacher when "students are so inspired that they continue." "I've never been the great books, core-curriculum type, because developing a competent knowledge of the text doesn't empower a student to approach others," Cook said.

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Assembly plans agenda

By Scott Anthony | September 23, 1993

A re-shaped Student Assembly, its leaders and members elected last spring on anti-incumbency platforms, will begin to formally hammer out its agenda at a first meeting Tuesday. Rejecting the Assembly's old guard, students elected Nicole Artzer '94 as president and Stephen Costalas '94 as vice president. Artzer advocated reforming the Assembly's committee structure so that student leaders focus more on student concerns and less on political issues. And the new president is working with an Assembly that is expected to welcome change.

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Halloween comes early for '97s

By Yvonne Chiu | September 23, 1993

It was the night before the freshmen came and all through the halls, Undergraduates Advisers, Area Coordinators and Graduate Associates labored to decorate doors with construction paper and candy in preparation for the Office of Residential Life's second-annual Welcoming Day. To the outsider last Friday, when all the freshmen dorms officially opened, the College probably seemed to be engrossed in an early Halloween fest.

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Pomp and pageantry mark start of 224th academic year

By Kristen King | September 23, 1993

President James Freedman and documentary film maker Ken Burns urged students and faculty to steep themselves in history to help shape the future during the College's 224th Commencement ceremonies yesterday in Leede Arena. Freedman, Burns and Student Assembly President Nicole Artzer '94 spoke from a podium fashioned from the stump of the Lone Pine tree to students and faculty members, many of whom donned colorful academic robes. Audience members joined the Glee Club in singing "America the Beautiful" to open the ceremony and the College's Alma Mater to close it. Burns received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the College for his film work and a minute-long standing ovation from the more than 1,000 students and faculty members gathered for his address. "Our future lies behind us," said Burns, who stressed the importance of recognizing the past to help understand and shape the future. Burns, whose films focus on distinct parts of American history, like the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the history of the Shakers and the Statue of Liberty, said not enough Americans pay attention to history. "We tend to ignore our past, always looking forward," he said.

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'97s select courses by computer, quickening process

By Justin Steinman | September 22, 1993

Freshmen did not have to leave their rooms to select classes this term. Instead, they used a new computer process to choose courses from their dorm rooms. The Registrar's Office provided the new system to make the course selection process more efficient during a Freshman Week that was two days shorter than usual because of the Jewish new year. Administrators said offering the new technology to the whole student body would create complications and keep the old course selection system in place for now.

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Classes gather for 224th Convocation

By Christopher Johnson | September 22, 1993

The College officially opens the academic year today with the 224th Convocation excercises in Leede Arena, featuring speeches by film maker Ken Burns and College President James Freedman. Student Assembly President Nicole Artzer '94 is also slated to speak at the 11 a.m.

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