Susanne Zantop was the editor of eight books
College remembers the Zantops
College remembers the Zantops
College remembers the Zantops
Dartmouth's student body reacted with horror and stunned disbelief as word of the double homicide spread through campus late Saturday night and Sunday morning. "I was shocked.
Disbelief was the prevailing emotion yesterday among members of the Dartmouth faculty reacting to Saturday's double murder of Susanne and Half Zantop. Professors across the spectrum of departments and with varying levels of acquaintance with the deceased echoed each other in describing their reactions, using words like "stunned," "horrified" and "shocked" again and again. "The sudden loss is so shocking and the means by which we have lost them is even more shocking," said Jim Aronson, Half's close friend and departmental colleague in earth sciences.
One year after the launch of a "social norms" campaign to change students' perceptions about alcohol use on campus, Alcohol and Other Drug Education Coordinator Margaret Smith and others are already seeing the impact of their statistic-laden posters. According to Smith, the campaign began in the fall of 1999 to provide students with factual information on which to base their drinking decisions. While in the past the health education field has relied on threatening messages and scary statistics to frighten students into abstaining from alcohol, the social norms campaign takes the opposite approach, Smith said. "Let's tell students what they're doing right," Smith said.
Dean of the College James Larimore said it was his experience working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency during the devastating 1989 San Francisco earthquake -- and not his long administrative career -- that most prepared him for the tragedy that befell Hanover over the weekend. With back-and-forth telephone calls Saturday night and meetings starting before 7 a.m.
State's major crimes unit leads current investigation
This special section contains all of the news and opinion articles written about the Zantop tragedy.
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Many of Dartmouth's professors are nationally known, but few have a chance to see their research turn into a national policy. Assistant Professor of Economics Andrew Samwick, however, has a much more significant impact on policy issues -- his Social Security research forms the blueprint for President Bush's proposed reforms to the system. "It's something I've always been intellectually curious about," said Samwick of the Social Security issue. Historically, Social Security has been evaluated on a five-year cycle.
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