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College unveils huge collection of plays

By Richard Lazarus | May 28, 2003

After decades of neglect, over 15,000 Spanish plays that formerly lay on the balcony of Baker Library's Tower Room have finally been fully catalogued and integrated into the library's collections. Originally purchased between 1929 and 1936 from an Spanish dealer, the plays were rediscovered three and a half years ago by Miguel Valladares, the library reference bibliographer, according to professor Marsha Swislocki, chair of the department of Spanish and Portuguese. In the intervening time, College librarians Valladares and Santiago Sanchez-Barbas went ahead with plans to catalogue the thousands of individual volumes, which cover a wide range of topics and which are written largely in Spanish and Catalonian. With the help of a dedicated group of students, Swislocki said, Valladares and Sanchez-Barbas entered each play into an online catalogue in a three-year effort that concluded last March. Over the past weekend, scholars, bibliographers and curators from Spain and the United States convened for a campus symposium to discuss the collection, exchange papers and hear a student performance of one of the plays. Few other colleges have such large collections of Spanish plays, and even fewer have them catalogued, Swislocki said.

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DOC tends 70 miles of Appalachian Trail, hosts hikers

By Mark Herman | May 27, 2003

The Appalachian Trail stretches 2,168 miles up the East Coast, from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine, even passing through the center of Hanover along the way. "The trail is the longest national park we own," said Dartmouth Outing Club member Beth Rabbitt '04.

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Senior injured in fraternity prank

By Colin Barry | May 27, 2003

Carl Gieringer '03 was hospitalized early Saturday morning after he fell while attempting to steal a flag from the front of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Gieringer -- who is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity -- injured both legs, shattering one ankle and breaking his heel when he jumped from a slipping ladder at around 3:30 a.m.

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Hogan '01 lambasts campus speech codes

By Charles Gardner | May 27, 2003

America's colleges and universities are guilty of an "outrageous betrayal" of the principle of free speech through their establishment of restrictive and intellectually stifling speech codes, Emmett Hogan '01 said yesterday. Hogan argued that students of the '60s and '70s who had enjoyed power in guiding college policies across the nation are now, as administrators, loathe to heed the voices of today's students in what he called "a generational swindle of epic proportions." Instead, Hogan said, institutions enforce official doctrines of diversity and group identity in what amounts to an "assault on the sanctity of the individual." Hogan, who is currently the Program Coordinator for the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education, conceded that private institutions have the right to set their own policies in any way they choose, but said colleges risk destroying their essential role as forums for the free exchange of ideas when they set limits on what can and cannot be said. Among the worst offenders, Hogan said, are Harvard University and UCLA, which have established codes banning not only harassing and derogatory language, but in some instances "demeaning" or "abusive" speech, and even remarks that challenge statements made by certain campus groups.

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Freshmen awarded research grants

By Megan Spillane | May 23, 2003

Eleven members of the class of 2006 were recently awarded First-Year Summer Research Projects. These students were selected out of what was described by the Office of the Dean of First Year Students as "the largest and strongest pool in the program's history. The program, which has been in existence for 12 years, is designed to provide first-years with an opportunity to conduct research in a specialized academic field, to interact closely with a Dartmouth faculty member and to take advantage of summer off term opportunities. "It's one of the programs that I'm always most excited about in the First Year Office," Dean of First-Year Students Gail Zimmerman said.

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For interfaith couples, challenges

By Lara Appleby | May 23, 2003

"I was raised with a sense of responsibility to preserve the traditions of our faith." Ruth, a Jewish mother whose son is dating a non-Jewish woman, expressed the above dilemma in the film "Keeping the Faith." A clip from this film opened a panel on Interfaith Marriage and Judaism held yesterday.

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Pan-Asian awards honor student leaders

By Melana Yanos | May 21, 2003

The second annual Pan-Asian Student Awards Ceremony, held last night in Collis Commonground, recognized outstanding students who have contributed to the Pan-Asian community at Dartmouth over the past year. Professor Vernon Takeshita, Professor Josna Rege and Pan-Asian Council Adviser Nora Yasamura presented the awards for the evening. Director of the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity Ozzie Harris '81 gave the opening remarks for the evening.

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