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Immelt '78 tapped for commencement

By Timothy Spellman | May 5, 2004

Jeffrey Immelt '78, chief executive officer of General Electric, will speak at this year's commencement ceremony on June 13, the College announced Tuesday. The speech will be the business leader's second at Dartmouth in three months, as Immelt addressed a Tuck Business School audience in April for the annual Greener Ventures entrepreneurship conference. "Leadership in the future will be about depth before breadth," Immelt said at the conference, where he discussed leadership and the future of business ethics.

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Journalist Reeves speaks on presidency

By Michael Reeves | May 5, 2004

The job of U.S. president "is essentially reactive," author and syndicated columnist Richard Reeves told a standing-room-only crowd Tuesday in Filene Auditorium. In a lecture titled "Presidential Leadership: John F.

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With low numbers, black sorority becomes endangered

By Steven Orbuch | May 5, 2004

Delta Sigma Theta -- the College's only national black sorority -- is in imminent danger of losing its College housing for next academic year, as its sisterhood will dwindle down to one sole member following June graduation. Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman said the College will repossess Delta Sigma Theta's four-person River cluster apartment Fall term if the apartment is not filled to capacity "because of the nature of D-plan enrollment on campus." At present, the sorority consists of four senior women.

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EPAC upholds election sanctions

By Colin Barry | May 5, 2004

Election officials upheld sanctions on the campaign of Julia Hildreth '05 at a meeting Tuesday night in the latest twist in a tumultuous and controversial race for student body president. Hildreth and her supporters will be prohibited from sending BlitzMail messages, using e-mail auto-replies and distributing new posters or fliers for the remainder of the election, Election Planning and Advisory Committee co-chair Peter Sokol-Hessner '04 said. EPAC officials said the restrictions were intended to compensate other candidates for the publicity Hildreth received from a wave of allegedly-hacked mass e-mails and the subsequent campus reaction. "We must consider both your situation and that of the other candidates," EPAC wrote in a final evaluation. In a poll conducted by The Dartmouth, Hildreth held a very small lead over fellow candidates Ralph Davies '05 and Jim Baehr '05, while Dave Wolkoff '05 and Michael Valmonte '06 trailed behind.

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SA backs Asian-American studies minor

By Lizzie Wise | May 5, 2004

In spite of the frenzied nature of campus-wide elections, the Student Assembly conducted a rather low-key meeting last night that consisted of Morna Ha '04 and Marie Choi '06 demonstrating the need for an Asian-American Studies minor program at the College. In conjunction with Ha and Choi's presentation, the Assembly passed a statement to support the creation of an Asian-American Studies program at Dartmouth. Although African and African American Studies, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies and Native American Studies departments exist at Dartmouth, there is no Asian-American Studies program, a burgeoning field that incorporates ethnic and interdisciplinary studies focused on the experience of Asian-Americans in the United States. The initiative calls for an institutional commitment to the field, including the hiring of a tenured professor. "We believe it's the dean's job to offer leadership on the issue," Ha said. Since 1997, the Pan-Asian Council -- the umbrella organization of Asian organizations on campus -- was created; and the Asian-American Studies initiative has been proactive, particularly in the past three years, meeting and engaging in discussions with College President James Wright, Provost Barry Scherr, deans and faculty members. The initiative, however, has encountered several obstacles. "There isn't a clear sense of what the College's priorities are, and we don't have an idea of where AAS falls in their priorities, or if it falls in at all," Ha said. Ha and Choi stressed that the initiative is not just about numbers, or the fact that there is a sizable minority of Asian-American students at the College. "It's about the fact that Dartmouth is a liberal arts institution, and you can't study America without studying Asian America," Choi said.

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College overrules EPAC's sanctions on Hildreth

By Colin Barry | May 4, 2004

UPDATED May 4, 11:47 a.m. In a decision that may add storm to an already controversial student election, Assistant Dean of Student Life Joe Cassidy removed sanctions the student-run Election Planning and Advisory Committee had placed on the presidential campaign of Julia Hildreth '05 in response to an appeal. The pronouncement represents the first time in recent history that College administrators have directly involved themselves in student elections or overruled an EPAC decision, and it could be a severe blow to the credibility of EPAC and the election as a whole. Cassidy's judgment may not even be strictly permitted under election guidelines, EPAC Co-chair Stephanie Long '04 said, although such a severe violation of College policy is unprecedented. "In the past, Cassidy's word hasn't previously overruled what EPAC has said," Long said.

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Virus infects many campus computers

By Zachary Goldstein | May 4, 2004

A new Windows computer virus scourging the campus has incapacitated student computers, producing long lines at the Computing Services desk in Baker-Berry Library and frustrating the efforts of at least one professor attempting to teach class. Victoria Sevastianova's Russian 13 class came to a halt Monday after a computer infected with the "Sasser virus" prevented the machine from turning on.

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Hildreth alleges campaign sabotage

In a scandal that may rock Dartmouth's neck-and-neck race for Student Body President, a close friend of candidate Julia Hildreth '05 has alleged a BlitzMail hacker broke into her account and sent fake endorsement messages for Hildreth to much of the College's senior class. Rules set by the Election Planning and Advisory Committee prohibit mass-mailing, and some have speculated that an anonymous hacker has aimed to turn senior opinion against Hildreth or have Hildreth censured by EPAC. While EPAC officials were still investigating the incident Monday night, EPAC co-chair Stephanie Long '04 said the election might be scrapped later if the incident is linked to a specific candidate's supporters. Hildreth's friend and supporter Stella Treas '05 said she was checking her mail using the Netblitz computer program at around 8 p.m.

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Vision and Action

By Jim Baehr | May 3, 2004

Ten million. That's the number of dollars the administration budget has expanded by in the last four years while academic, athletic and library funding has been cut. That's the number that has been spent on more bureaucracy while beloved professors and athletic teams have come under the chopping block. We need a Student Assembly led by a President who has shown himself willing to challenge that unacceptable status quo. I'm running for Student Body President because I have the biggest vision for change at this College. I'm very excited about changes in policy that fundamentally alter the relationship between Parkhurst and our student body, because that relationship needs change. Election season is always characterized by a tide of good ideas and good intentions. But we can't stop there.

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The Choice is Clear

By Ralph Davies | May 3, 2004

This campaign has certainly been a heated process. Each of the candidates has fired back and forth at one another about platforms and past records. Amidst the debate, the question still remains unclear who would accomplish the goals that really matter on campus. One important quality is the ability to follow through on plans and actually make things happen. This winter, I took charge of the Student Organizations Committee, and I am so proud of the things that we accomplished.

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DDS worker's firing fails to inspire boycott success

By Anna Parachkevova | May 3, 2004

The firing on Tuesday of much-liked Dining Services employee Mitzi Nalette prompted a wave of protest from outraged students, but a student boycott of Food Court planned for Friday nonetheless failed to take place. BlitzMail messages circulating widely among students Tuesday night had called for a mass boycott and accompanying protest to show support for Nalette, a well-known figure at Food Court whom many students had befriended.

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