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Students deal with blackouts

By Kelly Cameron | February 7, 2001

What would life be like without electricity? This is a question that most people cannot even begin to answer because of their routine dependence on lights, electronics and especially computers, but it has become a harsh reality in most parts of California. The deregulation of electricity in California has led to a number of power blackouts around the state.

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Committee unfazed by Testa resignation

By Alison Schmauch | February 6, 2001

The Greek Life Steering Committee continues to work toward the release of a definitive report regarding possible ways to modify the Greek system at the end of this term, despite the resignation of committee member Professor of Education Randy Testa. Formed with the charge of drawing up a final set of recommendations regarding the Greek system, the committee serves as the latest of what have been a series of groups involved in the implementation of the Initiative. Committee member Shihwan Chung '02 said the committee has listed six guiding principles after extensive discussion and meetings last term and will continue to work with these principles in the coming weeks as they prepare their reports. According to these six principles,the Greek system should promote scholarship, leadership development, service and philanthrophy, accountability, brotherhood and sisterhood and diversity and inclusivity. Recently, the whole committee split into six groups, each of which will prepare a report explaining how the Greek system can better achieve one of the listed principles. Each of these reports should be completed within the next week or two, according to Chung. The Committee hopes to release a compilation of all six reports by the end of winter term, he said. No committee members who spoke with The Dartmouth said that the resignation of Education Professor Randy Testa had significantly affected the committee's plans or schedule. While Assistant Dean of Residential Life Cassie Barnhardt said that the report currently being prepared might have looked different had Testa remained on the committee, she said that the committee's flexibility has been one of its principal strengths. Committee members M.

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'03 honored along with profs.

By Liz Gannes | February 6, 2001

When letters arrive for Professor Abigail Drachman-Jones of the history department, workers at the Hinman Boxes may have trouble figuring out where they belong. There's no box assigned to such a person in the 6000s, where professors get their mail. But someone with the exact same unusual name -- sans the title -- does pick up her mail from box 907. The confusion arises from the fact that Abigail Drachman-Jones '03 does not even possess a degree from a college -- and certainly does not teach at one. The American Historical Association, however, featured Drachman-Jones for a professorial achievement this month, when she spoke at its 115th annual meeting, a conference for historians, professors and authors. The unassuming listing of "Abigail Drachman-Jones, Dartmouth College" drew little attention to her age, until the 19-year-old was introduced at the actual panel January 5 and her youth became apparent.

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Shock fades as students mourn

By Ryan Samuels | February 6, 2001

As some of the initial shock caused by the murders of Professors Half and Susanne Zantop wears off over one week after the killings, Dartmouth students are expressing mixed opinions about the case, the Attorney General's Office investigation and the ways in which the crime continues to affect their lives. David Atterbury '04 described concerns echoed by many.

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Arrest rumors abound in press

By Julia Levy | February 6, 2001

Chief of the New Hampshire Criminal Justice Bureau Charles Putnam denied rumors yesterday that an arrest in connection with the Zantop murders had been made in Arizona. Yet WMUR-TV reported last night that New Hampshire authorities said they have been following leads in Arizona related to the Zantop investigation, citing unidentified sources. Efforts may be focusing on Arizona State University in Tempe.

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Humanitates Vitae to host science court

By Tara Kyle | February 5, 2001

Along with new course offerings proposed for the spring of 2001, the College's academic program Humanitates Vitae will be hosting a Student Science Court featuring the topics of HIV and AIDS in Africa this spring in conjunction with the Ethics Institute. According to Humanitates Vitae Director Lee Witters, the aim of the Science Courts, as with the new classes, is to foster an interdisciplinary approach to education. "The idea is to bring students to the topic rather than putting the topic to them within the classroom environment," Witters told The Dartmouth. "There are lots of students in the humanities that have a knee-jerk reaction to the sciences courses, and similarly plenty of sciences students that avoid the English classes.

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Grads move into Whittemore

By Charles Gardner | February 5, 2001

Whittemore Hall, the newest addition to the campus landscape, opened its doors to residents last month following 18 months of construction. Designed to house graduate students at the Tuck School of Business, Whittemore features 60 single rooms, each equipped with a bath, as well as 10 group study rooms, four conference rooms, student storage areas and locker rooms, according to Project Manager Diane Engelhard. The building is located between the Murdough Center and the River Cluster, and is adjacent to Byrne Hall. "It basically provides us with what we consider an appropriate level of residential space for graduate students who tend to be on average 28 years old," explained Special Assistant to the Dean Penny Paquette. Paquette said that Whittemore helps address limitations of other graduate housing at the Tuck school, such as Woodbury Hall, built in 1930, which contains double rooms and shared bathrooms, and which lacks air-conditioning. Woodbury, whose residents were moved to Whittemore upon its completion, will no longer be used for housing, and according to Paquette will be renovated and converted into needed office space. "It's wonderful to have the space and privacy of your own room," said Kate Thunissen, a graduate student at Tuck who recently transferred from Woodbury to Whittemore. "Once you've been out there living in your own apartment, you come to expect a certain standard of living," she said. Steve Malnight, another student, was equally positive on the change.

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New interdisciplinary debuts Spring term

By Tara Kyle | February 5, 2001

Beginning spring term, a new program which relates the study of human biology to issues in ethics, government, economics and a variety of other fields will provide students with another way to satisfy the College's much-sought-after Interdisciplinary course requirement. Three classes will be offered through the new Humanitates vitae program (listed as Human Biology in the ORC). The first two of these, entitled "Life on Mars" and "Human Biology in a Changing Global Environment" will premiere next term, while the third, "Controversies in Health, Biology, and Politics: How Decisions Are Really Made," is scheduled for Winter 2002. The focus of each of these classes will be "inherently interdisciplinary," said Lee A.

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AG's office: arrest is not imminent

By Julia Levy | February 5, 2001

New Hampshire state police returned to 115 Trescott this weekend -- more than seven days after the Zantops were murdered there -- to question passers-by in an attempt to shed new light on the investigation. Despite this appeal, Senior Assistant Attorney General Kelly Ayotte called the tactic "being thorough," and repeated yesterday in a news conference that investigators are in no way short on leads.

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Tafel to speak on gay issues

By Richard Lazarus | February 5, 2001

Richard Tafel, founder of the controversial political action committee, the Log Cabin Republicans, will speak today at Collis Commonground at 8 p.m. The gay activist group has gained national media attention over the last 25 years as Republican presidential candidates have been questioned their positions on gay and lesbian rights in several elections around the country. Despite the group's controversial stance in a party divided over gay issues, the College Republicans, Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance and the Gay Straight Alliance have united in bringing this issue to Dartmouth and co-sponsoring Tafel's visit along with other campus groups. Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance member John Brett '00 agrees that "being [lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender] and a Republican is, at the very least, problematic," he said. But Tafel's speech will be "a great opportunity for individuals in all these organizations to come together and foster productive dialogue," he noted. The decision to sponsor the speech, however, was not without debate for at least one of the sponsoring organizations. "My gut instinct was 'No, we're not doing it,'" said Gay Straight Alliance founder Amanda Gilliam '02. The Log Cabin Republicans "claim to be working within the GOP to be furthering equality, but they're really about supporting equality for gay people -- not for people of color or working class people," she noted. Yet Gilliam said she saw in Tafel's visit the opportunity not only for discussion, but for the community to gain "a really informed political savvy and political know how" that she believes is not currently heard within Dartmouth's LGBTQA community. According to Pam Misener, Dartmouth's Coordinator of LGBTQA Advocacy and Programming, the idea that all LGBTQAs at Dartmouth are Democrats is but another stereotype. "As a gay person I'm not going to tell somebody how to think.

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Some question anonymous student's decision to talk

By Alison Piper | February 2, 2001

Students who spoke with The Dartmouth yesterday wondered if the close-mouthed tactics of investigators working on the murder of Half and Susanne Zantop are feeding the rumor mill and leaving the media to settle for reporting on the rumors they encounter. Eric Liu '04 said he felt that the information around the case has been vague and that because the investigation hasn't released a lot of information, the story is "a breeding ground for rumors." Many students questioned the motives of the anonymous source who felt he was a "prime suspect." This source told The Dartmouth in the wee hours of yesterday morning that he believed he may be a suspect in the Zantop case. The student said police interrogated him for four hours on Tuesday night and confiscated his clothes and a kitchen knife.

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Expert criminalists discuss investigators' tactics

By Julia Levy | February 2, 2001

Barring an arrest within the next day, the Zantop murder investigation will have dragged on for a full week without resolve -- setting it in a different league from the majority of similar murder cases. Most homicides are solved within the first 24 to 48 hours, according to James Alan Fox, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University.

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Play addresses eating disorders

By Michelle Hogan | February 2, 2001

Dartmouth commemorated its sixth annual Eating Disorders Awareness Week yesterday in Filene Auditorium with the week's keynote events, a one-woman play starring Jessica Peck entitled "The Thin Line" and a panel discussion about eating disorders. The play strove to give the audience a realistic view of the causes, the defining characteristics and the effects of eating disorders and aimed to end common misconceptions and to explore the confusion and sense of helplessness experienced by those close to someone suffering from an eating disorder. A girl named Ellen was the play's main character.

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