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In African AIDS crisis, desperation and lack of education

By Thomas Sexton | May 7, 2003

Psychologist and AIDS activist Kylie Fauth related her experiences with the tragic consequences of the raging AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa in an informal talk yesterday entitled "Women, Gender and AIDS." According to Fauth, 34 percent of Zimbabweans are currently infected with HIV or AIDS, but the disease is still largely repressed.

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Author advocates 'new paradigm' in race issues

By Valerie Silverman | May 7, 2003

Race is a national obsession, even though we may not realize that it is on our minds. And, Frank Wu stressed in a lecture yesterday, race means more than black or white. "You will miss the fastest growing demographic groups of this country if you truly think that everyone must be either black or white," Wu said in explaining his motivation for studying, teaching and writing about race, particularly in his book "Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White." Wu expressed a wish to introduce a "new paradigm" that includes Asian Americans and other races. A charismatic and engaging speaker, Wu opened with a story, assuring the audience that "this happens to every Asian American male between the ages of four and 80." He described the common, seemingly comical occurrence of encountering a seven-year-old boy while walking down a street.

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Sex expert analyzes shifting perceptions

By Robert Kimmitt | May 6, 2003

When it comes to sex today, more is better, preferences differ and there is a good deal more to consider than "ripping off your clothes and rubbing your genitals together," according to Dr. Randye Cohen, Ph.D. In a speech yesterday entitled "What Drives Your Sex Drive," Cohen discussed personal sexuality and shifting perceptions of sex. "The meaning of sex changes from culture to culture.

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Student's condition still critical

By Tara Kyle | May 6, 2003

As of late yesterday, College officials reported no change in the condition of the Dartmouth student injured over the weekend in a hotel fire in Nimes, France. The student, who after initial treatment was transferred to a burn center in Montpelier, France, remains in critical but stable condition.

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Speaker: Democracies breed increased peace

By Elise Dunphe | May 6, 2003

"Since the adoption of the United Nations Charter in 1945, at least 89 percent of wars have been initiated by non-democracies," said John Norton Moore, who stated that modern democracies do not wage war on each other, due to a phenomenon he called the Democratic Peace. Moore, who is a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and an expert on national security law, spoke yesterday on achieving peace in the modern world through democratization and the use of deterrence. By working toward establishing democratic cultures, Moore said, we will likely see a decrease in the number of major wars fought in the 21st century. He defined a major war as one in which there were more than 1,000 casualties.

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Profs stress interdisciplinary approach to global warming

By Allison Forbes | May 5, 2003

Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, engaged a classroom of leading environmental activists, researchers, planners and students Friday night in a discussion of her 5-point approach to tackling climate change globally. Claussen was the keynote speaker for this past weekend's Student Science Congress. The event was meant to introduce students to an interdisciplinary approach to global warming, according to professor of biochemistry and medicine Lee Witters. "This is something that every student who goes to Dartmouth should know something about because every discipline has a part in this issue," Witters said.

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Student critically injured on LSA

By Tara Kyle | May 5, 2003

A female Dartmouth student enrolled in the French department's Language Study Abroad program suffered serious burn injuries in a weekend hotel fire. The student, currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in France, is in critical but stable condition, according to Dean of the College James Larimore. Dartmouth administrators learned of the student's condition in the wee hours of Sunday morning and proceeded to put her parents and the LSA's faculty director in contact with support systems at Health Services, Off-Campus Programs and the Dean of the College Office. At present, College officials are waiting for updates while trying to "offer as much helpful advice and assistance to the parents as we can," Larimore said. French authorities are currently investigating the cause of the fire.

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Koop: 'Real terrorists' in tobacco industry

By Elise Dunphe | May 2, 2003

Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop '37 does not discriminate between drug lords and executives of tobacco companies when it comes to fostering the disease of addiction. He called the tobacco companies "the largest concentration of evil masquerading as big business on this planet," and said that they are equally evil as the dealers of illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine. "In my opinion, they are all evil," Koop said.

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