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D'Souza, Masters debate aff. action

By Alison Schmauch | April 18, 2001

Former Reagan administration official and author Dinesh D'Souza '83 and Roger Masters, professor emeritus of government at Dartmouth, presented views D'Souza described as "unorthodox" during a debate yesterday titled "Affirmative Action and the Crisis of Academic Standards." While D'Souza believes that some minorities do not perform well academically because their cultures and values do not promote such accomplishment, Masters sees these differences as caused by differences in the susceptibility of members of different races to environmental toxins that harm the brain. The debate drew an audience large enough to easily fill 3 Rockefeller's capacity of approximately 70 people, but the crowd was forced to evacuate the room and stand outside the Rockefeller Center when a fire alarm went off. After several minutes had elapsed, a Hanover fire crew confirmed that there was no fire and that it was safe to reenter the building.

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Redman rejects Psi U clemency appeal

By Ithan Peltan | April 17, 2001

Administrators yesterday rejected the Psi Upsilon appeal of sanctions imposed against the fraternity following an incident Winter term in which members of the house yelled allegedly racist and sexist remarks at a female passerby. After considering the Psi U appeal for nearly two weeks, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman sent a letter to the fraternity indicating that he felt the sanctions were appropriate as initially handed out. "In my mind, it fits," Redman said.

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D'Souza debates Western hegemony

By Alice Gomstyn | April 17, 2001

Yesterday evening, at the Hanover Inn, a professor and his student engaged in an in-depth discussion about the dominance of Western civilization over the rest of the planet. But the two did not sit on at an intimate table in a quiet corner of the Daniel Webster room, relaying their opinions over cups of coffee. Rather, they sat side by side, facing a group of roughly 20, generally older members of the Hanover community and a handful of Dartmouth students. The professor was Dr. Jeffrey Hart '51, English Professor Emeritus at the College, a distinguished author and a speechwriter for two presidents.

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Other college Greeks offend minorities

By Maggie Shnayerson | April 16, 2001

A Lexis-Nexis Universe search of recent University-Wire articles including the words "Greek," "offensive" and "party" turns up articles about incidents at various campuses across the nation. More than a quarter of those results describe events at Dartmouth. Such notorious College parties as the luau-themed party planned by Delta Delta Delta sorority and Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity and the "ghetto"-themed party co-hosted by Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Xi Delta sorority have garnered thorny laurels for Dartmouth as it tries to encourage applicants from ethnically diverse backgrounds to consider the College. Dartmouth is not alone, however. Administrators at Auburn University in Alabama and the University of Florida-Gainesville have struggled over the last two years with theme parties at campus fraternities that have offended minority groups at the universities. Two members of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Auburn dressed up as Ku Klux Klan members for a Halloween party in 1998.Auburn's student body is made up of 91 percent Caucasian students and six percent African-American students, according to the Princeton Review.

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Two '04s elected to Ivy Council board

By Mike A. Hamilton | April 16, 2001

Two members of Dartmouth's Class of 2004 were elected to positions on the executive board of the Ivy Council, an organization that brings together student governments from each Ivy League school, by delegates attending a conference this past weekend at Columbia University. Freshmen Stephanie Long and Josh Marcuse, attending their first Ivy Council conference, will serve in the positions of external vice president and internal vice president, respectively, for the next year.

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Campolo talks on role of Christ

By Ryan Samuels | April 16, 2001

Dr. Tony Campolo began his speech last week on whether the Church is an enemy of Jesus with the George Bernard Shaw quip, "God created us in his image, and we have been returning the favor ever since." For an academic illustration of this phenomenon, Campolo cited the work of French sociologist Emile Durkheim, who concluded from his research of Australian aboriginal tribes that people worship representatives of their collective traits and values. "Many politically conservative evangelical Christians transformed God into a right wing, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant member of the Republican Party," Campolo said. "Christ is not a Republican.

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Senior Symposium focuses on env.

By Tracy Landers | April 16, 2001

The 23rd annual Senior Symposium will bring David Orr, director of environmental studies at Oberlin College, to Dartmouth to give a speech on "Education and the Earth." This year's Senior Symposium falls on Earth Day, Saturday April 21, and the 10-student symposium committee chaired by Judy Huang '01 and Nicole Vanatko '01 has come together with the Dartmouth Environmental Conservation Organization to create a joint event. Unlike last year's symposium, which was seven days of events ranging from slide shows and films to speeches and discussion groups, the symposium this year will encompass a weekend and feature one speaker. "Last year's symposium had a much more extensive program, but this year we're planning more focused events," Huang said.All of this year's events are centered on Orr, an award-winning environmental writer and activist who promotes education as a primary means of creating environmental sustainability. Orr is the author of "Earth in Mind" written in 1994, "Ecological Literacy" from 1992 and has also published more than 90 articles. Jessica Morey '01, a member of ECO and a coordinator of Earth Day, and Vanatko said they were inspired to invite Orr to the symposium after reading "Earth in Mind" in a class taught by Professor Nancy Crumbine entitled "The Philosophy of Education." Crumbine will introduce Orr at the keynote address. Orr's novel focuses on "business, ethics, religion and an all encompassing view of the way things are now and how we can move closer to sustainability," Morey commented. The committee has planned a Saturday morning brunch for Orr, students and faculty at the Organic Farm. The speech will take place in Filene hall in Moore at 11 a.m.

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Zantop tragedy inspires books

By Alice Gomstyn | April 13, 2001

At least three books are in the works about the Zantop double murder case, including one by The Boston Globe writer who first incorrectly reported that Professor Half Zantop was involved in an extramarital affair that led to his death and one cowritten by a Dartmouth student. Mitchell Zuckoff -- who was part of a team of reporters covering the case for the Globe -- is co-writing a book about the murders with his colleague Dick Lehr, a senior Globe writer, and the co-author of the book "Black Mass," a nonfictional account of illegal dealings between the FBI and the Irish mob in the 1970s. Although no contract has been signed, Zuckoff and Lehr have made arrangements with the publishing company Harper Collins to author a nonfiction book that would give a detailed account of the case, in which a married couple -- both of whom were professors at the College -- were allegedly stabbed by two teenagers from Vermont. This past winter, Zuckoff, along with Globe reporter Shelly Murphy, broke the controversial and widely disputed story that Professor Half Zantop had been engaged in an adulterous affair which may have contributed to his death.

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Campus to elect new positions

By Jeremy Skog | April 13, 2001

This year's Student Assembly election will be a bit different from those in the past, most significantly in that students will be able to run for the newly formed Organizational Adjudication Committee. Other positions that will be up for grabs on May 9 and 10 are president and vice president of the Student Assembly, as well as the positions of president and vice president for both the Class of 2002 and 2004. There are also six positions available on the Committee on Standards and 20 positions for members of the Class of 2003 in Green Key society.

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Carroll talks on Jews, the Church

By Tara Kyle | April 13, 2001

"Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase and you're not." The above statement famously opened Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update segment during its heyday in the 1970s.

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College works to raise awareness

By Lauren Gee | April 13, 2001

Both statewide and on-campus this month, activists are working to raise awareness about violence against women by catapulting sexual assault into the public spotlight. New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, who declared April Sexual Assault Awareness Month in New Hampshire, has recently announced the implementation of a three-step plan aimed at alleviating problems related to sexual assault. The first two measures, developed by the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, include the establishment of a statewide telephone hotline as well as the distribution of the second annual "Sexual Assault Monograph" brochure. An additional effort is being launched by the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office to establish a new protocol for police officers who are first to arrive at the scene of a sexual assault. According to the governor's press secretary, Pamela Walsh, the special designation of this month is significant because "sexual assault is traditionally a very underreported crime.

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Political firsts for Bush, GOP, Swift

By Alice Gomstyn | April 12, 2001

President George W. Bush presented his first budget plan to Congress Monday, outlining increases in spending on education and biomedical research while reducing other federal expenditures. Programs facing cuts include those providing income-supplementation for farmers and Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS.

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Speaker discusses gays in frats

By Ryan Samuels | April 12, 2001

"What would you do if your best friend was gay?" Shane Windemeyer asked a crowd of Dartmouth fraternity and sorority members in Rollins Chapel yesterday. According to Windemeyer, the answer to this question probably saved his life when he came out to his best friend as a Phi Delta Theta brother at Florida State University in the early nineties. "If it were not for his acceptance of who I was, and the support that I later received from my other [fraternity] brothers, I might have slipped further into depression and possibly suicide, as many young gay men do," he said. "Whether or not you think there are no gay, lesbian, or bisexual brothers or sisters in your house, it doesn't matter, because there are," Windemeyer, founder of the Lambda 10 Project, said in his speech "Out and Greek: Being Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual in a College Fraternity." He described Lambda 10 as a "national clearinghouse for gay, lesbian and bisexual Greek issues," which fosters "communication between out and closeted Greeks at different schools over the Internet." Windemeyer's speech was much anticipated by Dartmouth Greeks and independents alike. According to Windemeyer, fraternity brothers often maintain a faade of masculinity to compensate for their feelings of sexual insecurity.

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Librarian dies of heart attack

By Rachel Osterman and Ithan Peltan | April 12, 2001

Caroline H. Derouin, a recently hired member of the library staff, died yesterday afternoon after collapsing of an apparent heart attack during a meeting of library personnel. Other staff members present at the meeting in the Rauner Special Collections Library called for help after Derouin, who was in her mid-50s, collapsed at approximately 1:30 p.m. According to Claire Chandler '04, who was studying on the second floor balcony of Rauner at the time, attempts to revive Derouin with CPR and possibly automated external defibrillation appeared unsuccessful. Derouin was taken by ambulance to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center at about 1:45 p.m., where she received treatment in the DHMC emergency room, according to Phyllis Souza, a hospital spokesperson.

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