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Zantop mem. fund created

By Alice Gomstyn | May 11, 2001

Several former classmates of the two daughters of Half and Susanne Zantop -- the two Dartmouth professors fatally stabbed in their Etna home last January -- have come together to create a fund in honor of the couple. The fund will provide an annual grant to the foreign language department of Hanover High School. The grant is intended to help advance the study of languages and promote global understanding. "We had a question of what we could do to help," said fund co-founder Tris Wykes, who attended Hanover High School with the Zantops' daughters. "In the long run, we wanted to try to benefit the Hanover community and especially young people in the community, because it's young people who were very important to Half and Susanne Zantop," he explained. Originally from Germany, the Zantops were frequent world travelers and, according to the fund's founders, happily shared their diverse cultural knowledge and experiences with the children of Hanover. "I think they saw a purpose to not only educate their children but the children that their children interacted with," Wykes said.Wykes and several other members of Hanover High School's classes of 1989 and 1991 began working to establish the fund shortly after the couple's death. The fund has already received $15,000 in donations, and its founders hope to collect an additional $15,000 over the next five years in order to ensure its permanent endowment. Faculty members at Hanover High School will work with the school to determine how the money will be spent.

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Stutzman, Newton to lead assembly

By Jennifer Thomas | May 11, 2001

After an evening of technical difficulties on the Basement student elections website, Molly Stutzman '02 was named the new Student Body president and Michael Newton '04 the new Student Body vice president, as predicted by a recent poll conducted by The Dartmouth. With 2345 total electronic ballots cast, voter turnout proved to be the highest in recent memory.

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College, workers enter contract negotiations

By Alice Gomstyn | May 11, 2001

Local 560, the union representing over 400 College employees -- including Dining Service employees, grounds workers, painters and custodians -- will begin negotiations with the College for a new contract sometime next week, according to Union President Earl F.

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Mock trial enjoys great success

By Khalil Ayvar | May 10, 2001

In only five years since its inception, the Dartmouth Mock Trial Society has earned its way to an impressive standing in the country, as evidenced by the dozen or so plaques and trophies on the table in Rockefeller 1 yesterday. President of the society David Gacioch '00 began the 'Year in Review' presentation by saying that this was one of the society's strongest seasons yet, since its founding in 1996 by Lloyd Fass '97.

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Adonis talks about culture, globalization

By N.F.S. Knight | May 10, 2001

Globalization threatens to obliterate individual cultures, according to the preeminent Arab poet and thinker Adonis who spoke at a Montgomery Endowment lecture in 105 Dartmouth Hall yesterday. The lecture, entitled "Beyond the East/West: Towards a Culture of the Future" and attended by over 50 people, focused on the nature of individual identity in an increasingly homogenous world. Adonis envisions the conflict as one essentially between abstract notions of myth and reason. "In modern civilization, economic factors contribute to the repression of the body and soul," Adonis said. "Interest-oriented globalism, with its emphasis upon economics, is laying siege to values-oriented universalism, with its emphasis upon diversity," he added. Adonis sees the West as the main progenitor of the current threat to international diversity. "This siege is being spear-headed by the West, which dominates economic/political globalism in the name of wealth, and cultural globalism in the name of intellect," Adonis said. He believes culture to be the very essence of a man.

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Cortinez discusses education

By Allison Stuntz | May 10, 2001

Ramon Cortinez, an educational consultant in the San Fransisco area, has examined the public school system in America from almost every angle. From his beginnings as a sixth grade teacher, Cortinez worked his way through the ranks, becoming a principal and later superintendent and chancellor of both the New York City and Los Angeles school districts. Speaking to a crowd last week on "Big City Schools -- can they succeed," Cortinez began the talk with a statement that this missed the real question -- whether public education in America can survive. Currently a private consultant, Cortinez works with large companies to get funding for public schools and working to improve the public school system.

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College to offer Korean language

By Tracy Landers | May 9, 2001

Dean of Faculty Edward Berger and Dennis Washburn, the chair of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Language and Literature will meet on Monday to discuss the implementation of a Korean language program at Dartmouth. The first indication that the College is considering creating the program came on Friday when a group of 15 students met as advocates for Government Professor David Kang. Kang, who is half Korean and a strong advocate for the Korean language program, is being considered for a tenure position. Present at the meeting was David Blanchflower, associate dean of social sciences.

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SA Elections kick off today

By Jennifer Thomas | May 9, 2001

After two weeks of rigorous campaigning, the online voting process for candidates vying for student leadership positions begins today. Students may vote by logging onto the Basement web-site from 9:00 a.m.

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Wright attacked in Boston Globe article

By Alice Gomstyn | May 9, 2001

As the Zeta Psi case enters the decision phase, national media covering the controversy -- which erupted after the discovery of sexually-explicit newsletters published by the fraternity -- has shifted much of its focus on the administration itself. Judicial hearings for misconduct on behalf of the Zeta Psi Fraternity took place on Sunday.

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S&S begins BG arson investigation

By Maggie Shnayerson | May 8, 2001

After a small fire at Bones Gate fraternity early Sunday morning activated a smoke alarm, members of the house are glad that there is more than a skeleton of their house left standing. Two fire trucks, two police cars and four Safety and Security officers were summoned to the scene at 10 Webster Ave.

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Dartmouth professor discusses Bush tax cut

By Craig Elbert | May 8, 2001

As Congress moved closer this week to making President George W. Bush's promises of a sweeping tax cut a reality, agreeing to push through an 11-year $1.35 trillion reduction, economists on all sides of the ideological spectrum have scrambled to insert their views into the policy-making process. At Dartmouth, Economics Professor Jonathan Skinner has made the case that failing markets will dampen the projected surplus and people will receive less money in tax refunds than they may think. Skinner, who injected himself into the often bitter debate over Bush's tax cut in the April 12 "Christian Science Monitor," recently elaborated on his ideas in an interview with The Dartmouth. Although a common belief may be that the tax cuts are an effort to pull the country out of the current economic downturn, Skinner said that such an objective was not on the president's mind, nor is it a definite effect of the cuts. "The tax cut is backloaded, so that the bulk of the money comes later when we may be in a boom or a recession," Skinner explained. The President's logic, according to Skinner, is that the surplus of money during Clinton's administration was being spent on unnecessary projects. "If you leave money floating around in Washington, it gets spent," Skinner stated in clarification of Bush's view of the economy. As the President discussed the possible cuts Tuesday, he expressed his concern with Washington spenders. "I'm absolutely convinced we'll be able to fund the tax cuts," Bush said.

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2001 Student Assembly Elections Pullout

By The Dartmouth Staff | May 8, 2001

Recent poll results showing that more than one out of three Dartmouth students do not believe the Student Assembly represents their voice and concerns reveal an underlying skepticism among students as to the effectiveness of institutional student government. Nevertheless, SA elections have begun, and we have created a complete guide to help voters be informed.

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