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SA to keep Novack open 24-hours

By Rachel Osterman | November 16, 2000

Temporarily shifting its emphasis toward services, the Student Assembly took several steps last night to improve Dartmouth Dining Services -- with members pledging to keep Novack Caf open from midnight through 2:00 a.m.

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Faculty objects to report's financial focus

By Julia Levy | November 15, 2000

A bulky 34-page Academic Planning Committee report labeled, "Confidential Preliminary Report" was publicly discussed for the first time during Monday's faculty meeting -- once again unleashing questions and concerns about what the report signals for Dartmouth's future. The report has been in the works since the fall of 1999 and Dean of the Faculty Edward Berger who sits on the Academic Planning Committee said it "looks at the big picture." The faculty members who talked to The Dartmouth yesterday said the big picture and broad-reaching scope of the report led to the heated conversation at this week's faculty meeting. English professor Donald Pease, who spoke against some parts of the report at the meeting compared the general apprehension among faculty members to the student uproar when the Initiative was released in February 1999. "You know how anxious students become over the Student Life Initiative," he said.

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AD panel criticizes frat impact on gender roles

By Reena Dutta | November 15, 2000

Another packed house filled Alpha Delta fraternity last night at a discussion on gender relations and the fraternity system, called "So What's the Problem?" This is the second discussion at the house evaluating issues in the Greek system to draw a large crowd, after the first discussion "Don't Yell Faggot from the Porch" received an overwhelmingly successful rating. During last night's event, a panel of students evaluated the Greek system and proposed solutions to the various problems of gender relations at Dartmouth. The presentation began with a film called "Not Men at Dartmouth." This film looked at the role of women at Dartmouth as the College became coeducational.

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College map reveals vision of future campus

By Jay Krehbiel | November 15, 2000

With the Student Life Initiative entering its implementation phase and the College reexamining its academic priorities that need to be addressed in the coming capital campaign, Dartmouth will enter a phase of construction and massive fundraising. The next decade will likely bring half a dozen new buildings which includes some 500 new beds, more than 40 new faculty members, expanded Ph.D.

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Lucier will fill librarian's shoes

By Kelly Cameron | November 15, 2000

Richard Lucier, currently the Associate Provost for Scholarly Informatin for the Universtiy of California, will step in as the 17th Librarian of the College in February, filling a spot Margaret Otto has held for more than 20 years. Otto --Dartmouth's librarian since 1979 -- retired Nov.

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Planner previews construction

By Katie Walters | November 14, 2000

Campus Master Planner Lo-Yi Chan '54 presented updated plans for a wave of possible future campus construction yesterday. Major changes Chan suggested that would take place in the next five years included building a new undergraduate residential building and dining hall in the northern area of the campus, and connecting Thayer Dining Hall, Robinson Hall and the Collis Center to create a "true" center of student life. Chan also said more recreational facilities, including a fifty-meter swimming pool, would be built on the land currently occupied by Rolfe Field.

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Risky behavior affects frat image

By Lauren Kingsley | November 14, 2000

Judge Mitch Crane entertained a nearly full house at Rollins Chapel yesterday evening as part of the College's Greek Speaker Series, addressing potentially risky behaviors such as hazing, negligence, alcohol abuse and other issues that threaten the image and survival of fraternities and sororities. Crane, an attorney and judge from West Chester, Pa., is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

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Interim admins fill Marine void

By Rachel Osterman | November 14, 2000

Several interim appointments will fill the position left vacant when former Coordinator of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program Susan Marine left the College last week. Abby Tassel, who works with the Women's Information Service, will work part-time in both a counseling and advocacy role, and the Women's Resource Center and Health Resources will cover the programmatic aspect of Marine's old job. In addition, residential life staff will help fill the position.

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Academic report released to criticism

By Liz Gannes | November 14, 2000

The faculty responded with criticism to the preliminary report of the provost's "Academic Plan" at a general meeting yesterday. The report is a broad outline of perceived challenges the College faces looking to the future, and ways in which it may overcome these potential obstacles. Its topics range greatly from how to attract faculty to Dartmouth's rural setting and comparatively small student body to understanding the global misconceptions associated with the use of the very word "college." The report outlines changes to the College's physical infrastructure such as the construction of more beds and the expansion of Thayer and Collis Halls, and the need to reevaluate graduate programs. The report includes the most specific plans for change in the area of "faculty preeminence" -- enumerating 11 precise reforms to "recruit, retain and support outstanding teacher-scholars." This is also the area which generated the most heat by those faculty members in attendance. Faculty speakers acknowledged their support for the spirit of the plan, but argued with its language and direction, much of which puts financial resources at center stage. In an interview with The Dartmouth, Provost Susan Prager, who drafted the report, said "The idea is to go through a process which begins to shape some sense of very broad direction which will direct Dartmouth's next broad fundraising campaign. "We need to stay sharply focused on how we can, over time, build a truly excellent faculty, and from that will grow the continuation of a superb student body," she continued. Physics Professor Jay Lawrence told The Dartmouth he found the premise that fundraising is directly correlated to the ability to hire professors -- which he said the presentation suggested -- disturbing. "It's a shame that the need for more faculty should rely on the capital campaign," he said. Especially active in the discussion was humanities and English professor Donald Pease, who delivered a spirited oratory on the possibility of a long-term ideological shift towards "consumerist and quantitative" objectives that could result from the "collapse of the distinction between liberal arts and graduate schools." Additional comments regarded, for example, a perception of haste in the plan's discussion, the dismissal of the utility and opinions of adjunct professors, and the repetition of the term "diversity" compared to the near racial-homogeneity of the faculty. Many faculty members were concerned about how their feedback would be incorporated into revised versions of the report. Wright committed to a follow-up meeting, but cautioned against interpretation of the plan as "a reorganization of values." He said, "the document is an effort to talk about themes -- to bring together a lot of people and a lot of priorities," and assured the faculty that "the strength of the academic program is critical as we go forward." The meeting also included a report on the update of the "College Master Plan" -- including explanation of maps of possibilities for the redesign and expansion of the campus -- by Associate Provost Margaret Dyer Chamberlain and Campus Master Planner Lo-Yi Chan.

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Bush may ease tense Russia

By Kathleen McDermott | November 14, 2000

If the Russians could sneak their votes into the Palm Beach County ballot boxes, Bush would snag the lead, according to Thomas Graham, Jr. Graham, an expert on U.S.-Russian relations and a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, explained to a packed crowd at the Rockefeller Center last night how the Russian press had taken a field day, debating which United States presidential candidate would be more beneficial for Russia. And the consensus, according to Graham -- Russia has "always liked Republicans better." Graham had originally planned his speech around "Russian Relations in the Next Administration," "naively believing that there would be a president," by this point, he joked. But it was not until a last minute question that he answered exactly how Bush and Gore might differ in their policies toward Russia.

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Former Kent State admins retell tragedy

By Alice Gomstyn | November 13, 2000

In a historically-based lecture, David Ambler, the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of Kansas, and Ronald Beers, the former Vice President for Student Affairs at Oklahoma State University, recounted the story of the Kent State tragedy of 1970, which resulted in four student deaths. The Thursday afternoon talk attracted a small group of students and faculty, who listened attentively as the two men described the chaotic events and their first hand experiences. The Kent State tragedy stemmed from President Nixon's April 30 announcement that the United States would commence bombing in Cambodia -- expanding the ongoing war in Southeast Asia.

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Phi Beta Kappa inducts 20 seniors early

By Kelly Cameron | November 13, 2000

Last week, 20 seniors were inducted as early members of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honor society. This year's inductees are -- Anura Abeyesinghe, Noaman Ahmad, Tikhon Bernstam, Tara Dairman, Michael Gallagher, Malu Govindan, Andrew Gray, Miriam Ingber, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Thomas Levi, Gaurav Mavinkurve, Ayorkor Mills-Tettey, Cynthia Oberto, Pranab Pradhan, Allison Robbins, Erin Roeder, Alka Singal, Laura Stuart, Hilla Talati, Katherine Wade and Terrence Wong. Although most members of Phi Beta Kappa are inducted late into their senior year, early induction is offered to the top 20 students of the senior class. While this year's inductees come from a variety of backgrounds, they all share a motivation for academic excellence. Mills-Tettey, originally from Ghana, looks favorably at the years that she has spent at the College. The distance that Mills-Tettey has traveled to receive an education has motivated her to work hard, she said.

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Greek panel focuses on gender relations

By Lauren Howard | November 13, 2000

A packed room of students came together at Kappa Delta Epsilon Thursday night to partake in "Who'd You Hook Up With?", part one of a discussion about the role of Greek life in gender relations at Dartmouth. The event was led by a diverse panel of seven students, each with a unique perspective to add to the discussion. Last night's talk was aimed at tackling the role sororities in particular play in forming the relationships between men and women on campus. During their initial statements, many panelists discussed feeling excluded by the sorority system.

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Sexual abuse expulsion is College first

By Julia Levy | November 13, 2000

Last year, Dartmouth's Committee on Standards permanently separated a student for sexual abuse for the first time -- marking a "landmark" for the College, according to Coordinator of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program Susan Marine. The 1999-2000 annual COS report says the student was "found responsible for engaging in intimate sexual contact with two different individuals without either woman's consent." Although no penetration or intercourse occurred in either case, the COS "was concerned about the repeated behavior and what it perceived as the student's lack of candor and awareness of the seriousness of the behavior." Marine -- who usually advises the accusers during COS hearings -- expressed faith in the decision and said "sexual abuse is violating and dangerous and harmful no matter what form it takes." She suggested that the community should be "less rigid" and more careful before it indiscriminately deems cases of rape as "terrible" and all other cases of sexual abuse as less harmful. "Until it happened, we didn't really know if the COS would separate anyone," she said.

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