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College to award 7 honorary degrees

By Charles Gardner | June 9, 2002

Commencement speaker Fred Rogers will be just one of seven individuals slated to receive honorary degrees alongside hundreds of graduating students during today's Commencement ceremonies. In addition to Rogers, who will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree, internationally renowned physician Marilyn Gaston, chemist Yuan-Tseh Lee, historian Gerda Lerner, dancer and choreographer Arthur Mitchell, writer Evelyn Stefansson Nef and distinguished businessman and philanthropist E.

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Senior Week gives '02s a chance to kick back

By Megh Duwadi | June 9, 2002

The product of more than a term's worth of efforts by the 2002 Class Council, Senior Week's many recreational activities gave graduates a chance to relax and enjoy their last days as Dartmouth students. "The final days leading up to graduation are chaotic, emotional and very special, and they pass too quickly," said class president Jennifer Tutak, who spearheaded the week's organizational efforts.

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Seniors discuss summer plans

By Sabrina Peric | June 9, 2002

Although by next fall the graduating seniors will be strewn across the world, many of them will spend the summer right here in the Upper Valley. "My Dartmouth friends are staying mostly in Hanover," Andreas Stavropoulos '02 said.

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Grad students receive degrees

By Tracy Landers | June 9, 2002

Students from the three graduate schools, Dartmouth Medical School, Tuck School of Business Administration and Thayer School of Engineering, shared the excitement and reward of graduation ceremonies this Saturday.

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College to enter Mister Rogers' neighborhood today

By Charles Gardner | June 9, 2002

"It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?" are lines now familiar to two generations of American children. Although more than 30 years have passed since he taped the first episode of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," Fred McFeely Rogers has kept his underlying message of neighborly love and appreciation unchanged. And while the last show was taped over a year ago, Rogers -- who will speak at Commencement today -- has remained active, writing books and working on a new website, among other activities. For Rogers, who attended Dartmouth for two years in the late 1940s before transferring to Rollins College in Florida, going away to college was a entirely new experience. "I was really just a kid at the time," he said.

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Graduation List 2002

By The Dartmouth | June 9, 2002

The following is the graduation list for 2002, accurate as of Wednesday, June 6. All students listed are members of the Class of 2002 unless otherwise noted. Rabia Abbasi David Lewis Abramson Michael Anthony Acovio Richard Manly Adams, Jr.

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Crunching the numbers for '02s

By Lizzie Wise | June 9, 2002

Matriculating to the College in 1998, the members of the Class of 2002 began their Dartmouth careers as students at the same time James Wright began his career as president. Fifty-one percent male and 49 percent female, this year's group of graduates contained more women than any previous class in Dartmouth history.

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Court upholds affirmative action

By Matt Lewis | May 29, 2002

The Sixth United States Circuit Court of Appeals narrowly upheld the use of affirmative action in the University of Michigan Law School's admissions process on May 14, bolstering legal support for institutions like Dartmouth that consider race in admissions and faculty recruitment. Yet with an upcoming case against Michigan's undergraduate program and prospects of appeals to the Supreme Court, the future of affirmative action at Dartmouth remains in doubt, despite increases of minorities in the College faculty, administration and student populations since the early 1970s. Overturning a prior ruling by a federal judge in Detroit, the court affirmed a 1978 Supreme Court decision that schools may seek to admit a "critical mass" -- or a meaningful number -- of minorities, but cannot fulfill specific quotas. Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg lauded the decision but said the upcoming case against affirmative action in undergraduate admissions at Michigan poses a greater concern for the current admissions procedures at Dartmouth. "I'm pleased with the decision because it does reaffirm the way we do things here," Furstenberg said.

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Thesis raises troubling questions about race at College

By Kathleen McDermott | May 29, 2002

If the research presented in one senior's sociology thesis is any indication, a good portion of white students at Dartmouth may hold largely uninformed and perhaps problematic views on race. Over the past year, David Trouille '02 surveyed and interviewed a broad cross-section of white males at Dartmouth, asking questions aimed to address how these students viewed racial identity and race relations on campus and beyond. Last Thursday afternoon he presented the results of his thesis -- entitled "The White Faces of Dartmouth College: A Study of Racial Identity among White Males" and advised by sociology professor Christina Gomez -- to a packed audience of students and faculty. His research found that, by and large, white students did not see themselves as having any role in constructing racial identities and affecting race relations. They did acknowledge the reality of racial self-segregation on campus.

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