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SA tables proposal for diversity amendment

By Matt Lewis | February 13, 2002

Concerned by insufficient support for a new constitutional amendment that would create a vice president and committee of diversity affairs, Student Assembly last night postponed voting on the amendment until next week's meeting. While no members spoke against the Assembly efforts to resolve diversity issues on campus, some viewed the amendment as excessively vague and opposed creating a new committee. The amendment, sponsored by Jonathan Lazarow '05 and Vice President of Academic Affairs Aly Rahim '02, proposes creating a diversity affairs committee to address general social issues including race, religion, sexual orientation and socio-economic status. According to its supporters, the new committee would tackle these issues, currently under other committee's auspices, more effectively and sufficiently than the Assembly is currently capable of doing.

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Koop '37 discusses the way things are, were

By Rebecca Leffler | February 13, 2002

Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop '37 met with students in an informal "fireside chat" last night to address concerns and uncertainties about entering the medical profession. Koop talked about the ways in which medicine has changed both positively and negatively in recent years, emphasizing the differences between the field he entered in 1941 and what medicine has evolved into today. Most doctors were family practitioners when Koop entered medicine.

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Hostages released at Conn. university

By Ithan Peltan | February 13, 2002

A former Fairfield University student claiming to have a bomb took 22 students and an associate professor hostage yesterday at the Connecticut school before releasing them late yesterday evening. The suspect, identified only as a recent graduate of the university, gave himself up peacefully about one hour after releasing the last hostage from the classroom where the students had been attending a religious studies class. WCBS-TV in New York City -- Roman Catholic Fairfield is 20 miles from the New York border -- reported that the suspect forced one of the hostages to call the station and demand that a statement be broadcast. The television station chose not to broadcast the statement, which spokesperson Karen Mateo described as "rambling and anti-Semitic." Five of the original 23 hostages were released shortly after the suspect took over the religious studies class.

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Prep schools question, and eliminate, the AP

By Alison Schmauch | February 13, 2002

Despite the growing popularity of the College Board's Advanced Placement program, which allows high school students to earn college credit for advanced work done in high school if they perform well on national exams, some elite high schools are becoming increasingly critical of the program. New York City's prestigious Ethical Culture Fieldston School took the widely publicized step last year to drop AP courses from its curriculum, setting off a debate at many similar high schools about the value of the AP curriculum. APs have escaped much of the controversy surrounding the College Board's other tests, such as the SAT, because they are based on a set curriculum and, watchdogs of the standardized testing industry say, contain fewer biases.

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In the shadows: quiet ACT avoids controversy

By David N. Archwamety | February 13, 2002

Just about every Dartmouth student has heard the criticisms of the SAT: that the aptitude test favors those who can afford expensive preparation; that minorities are unfairly disadvantaged; that it is an inaccurate predictor of college performance. But another widely used test in the college admissions process has escaped public scrutiny -- the American College Test, or ACT. A roughly equal number of students take the ACT and SAT each year.

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Cases of viral pink eye surge on campus

By Tara Kyle | February 12, 2002

Along with the season's usual aches, pains, sniffles and coughs, early February has brought a slightly more exotic affliction to Hanover -- a surge in cases of viral conjunctivitis, more commonly known as "pink eye." Over Winter Carnival, College Health Services at Dick's House saw between 15-20 incidents of pink eye, and the preceding weekend brought about 10 cases.

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NYU professors advocate unity of race/sex issues

By Karla Kingsley | February 12, 2002

To respond to issues of race, gender and sexuality, national leaders need to realize that the issues belong together and stop separating them for political gain, according to panelists at yesterday's launch of the Women's Resource Center's Sex Series. History professors Tricia Rose and Lisa Duggan, both from New York University, argued the above point during a dialogue on race, gender and sexuality in Brace Commons yesterday as part of their efforts to end a problem they have deemed the "Balkanization of issues." Rose began her part of the presentation with an explanation of the need to combine race, gender and sexuality in our observations. Society has created an "imaginary norm to which only a small group of people actually belong," Rose said, saying that this group is formed only by the exclusion and exploitation of other people. She then presented a 1987 case study of Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old black girl who would not speak and wrote only "white cops" on a piece of paper after being raped, beaten and left in a garbage can. According to Rose, after the arrests of five area police officers and assistant district attorney Steve Pagones, the media immediately sensationalized the case and ran with it, only to be embarrassed later when a jury declared that there wasn't enough evidence to declare guilt.

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Local food addict group garners controversy

By Kaitlin Bell | February 12, 2002

Local members of Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous, a participant"run 12-step program for treating eating disorders, swear that it has changed their lives, but many mental health professionals are skeptical that a self-help program could work better than therapy. Two members of the local group, who must remain anonymous as part of their participation in FA, spoke glowingly about the program. One woman alternately struggled with anorexia, bulimia and compulsive eating from the age of 11.

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Ross delivers lecture on campus hate crimes

By Megh Duwadi | February 11, 2002

Jeff Ross, the nation's leading expert on anti-Semitic acts that occur on college campuses, launched the Tucker's Foundation's Social Justice Lectureship Sunday night in the Rockefeller Center. The director of the Anti-Defamation League's Department of Campus/Higher Education Affairs, Ross spoke on the topic of "Hate Speech versus Free Speech." Today's collegiate environment is "like a heaven and a hell," Ross said.

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'02s choose Senior Executive Committee

By Charles Gardner | February 11, 2002

Last Thursday and Friday, against the backdrop of Winter Carnival, Dartmouth seniors selected 20 of their classmates to serve together on the Class of 2002 Senior Executive Committee, the group charged with organizing class activities for the next five years. SEC members will hold weekly meetings during Winter and Spring terms to plan events such as Class Day and to select class marshals for Commencement, among other responsibilities. Following graduation, the committee will organize mini-reunions, manage the class newsletter and ultimately plan the fifth year reunion in 2007, at which new class officers will be chosen. The members of this year's senior class chosen for the SEC are Jonathan Block, Anne Cloudman, Anne Delaney, Derek Draper, Maxine Goldstein, Vanessa Green, Kendra Quincy Kemp, Philip Mone, Desmond Nation, Katie Pasciucco, Victoria Potterton, Eric Powers, Marcus Rowe, Michael Sevi, Yelena Shklovskaya, Molly Stutzman, Jon Sussman, Jen Tutak, Gary Weissman and Emily Wood. These 20 students -- whose names were announced Saturday following the previous day's elections -- were chosen from a total applicant pool of 34 seniors.

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Carnival violations up slightly

By Tara Kyle | February 11, 2002

Although Safety and Security encountered no major incidents over Winter Carnival, College Proctor Bob McEwen described the weekend as "very busy." The total number of alcohol-related incidents increased this year to 28, a figure which includes 16 inebriates and several cases each of possession and unattended alcohol.

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Congress approves set rates on student loans

By Richard Lazarus | February 11, 2002

A recent bill passed by Congress will establish constant interest rates for federal student loans starting in 2006 in order to make them more accessible for low-income students. Currently, the interest rates of federal student loans "float" with the 91-day Treasury bill.

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Dartmouth again attempts to create Emerald City

By Charles Gardner | February 8, 2002

Imperfect weather conditions and lack of student help could not totally derail the construction of the Winter Carnival's annual snow sculpture, which looks back to the creations of decades past for inspiration. This year's sculpture -- a replica of the Emerald City from "The Wizard of Oz" -- ties in with the Carnival theme, "There's Snow Place Like Home," and sits in its customary location at the center of the Green. Tim Zeitler '03, who served on the Winter Carnival Committee as sculpture co-chair along with Austin Brey '05, explained that his design sought to recapture the grandeur of earlier sculptures while remaining simple enough in plan to allow the participation of student volunteers. "I really wanted a revival of how things were in the past," Zeitler said.

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Safety and Security increases presence during weekend festival

By Tara Kyle | February 8, 2002

As students gear up for a weekend of outdoor fun and late-night parties, Safety and Security will strengthen its forces around campus. The celebrations surrounding special weekends such as Winter Carnival, Green Key and Homecoming frequently lead to a rise in incident reports, according to Sgt.

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Over the Carnival

By Abbye Meyer | February 8, 2002

I guess Winter Carnival is indeed the stuff of myths and movies. And with the wizardly theme of "There's Snow Place Like Home," I nominate myself as the Dorothy, for I believe that I am indeed the daughter of the Carnival, the tiny protagonist put on a long road of struggles to search for happiness and resolution. My first introduction into the world of Winter Carnival (and of Dartmouth culture), a whopping three years ago, began much like Dorothy's introduction to the land over the rainbow -- I had no idea what was going on, but I knew I wasn't in Kansas (or Wisconsin) anymore. Since the big announcement ("The End of the Greek System 'As We Know It'") had been made only two days before my first Carnival, the opening ceremony was a little weird.

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