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Students react to India disaster

By Kelly Cameron | January 31, 2001

The massively destructive earthquake in Gujarat, India may have left as many as 100,000 dead, and Dartmouth students remain far away from the tragedy and longing for further, more conclusive news. In an effort to help the victims of the disaster, student members of Milan, an organization of students of Indian and Pakistani descent, are working to put together a relief effort. Milan president Amish Parashar '03 said, "we're starting to put an effort together here.

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Registrar: reading period to be split

By Alison Schmauch | January 31, 2001

Registrar Polly Griffin has decided not to hold a special day of classes on Saturday, May 19, during Green Key Weekend -- despite the Student Assembly's initial effort to schedule two consecutive days of reading period. Instead, as was originally planned, Monday, May 28, will be the first day of reading period, and the second day will be held after classes have ended, on Thursday, May 31. Griffin said she made the decision to change the calendar back to its initial state after a series of phone conversations with Assembly President Jorge Miranda '01, Assembly Academic Affairs Committee Chair Michael Perry '03, and various College officials. The SA's reaction to the decision was mixed.

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Murders astound College alums

By Victoria McGrane | January 31, 2001

As prosecutors and investigators remain tight-lipped, Dartmouth alumni around the country are struggling to come to terms with the tragic murders of Susanne and Half Zantop. Annette Faubion '86, who learned about the double homicide inside the front cover of the Houston Chronicle, said she was "totally shocked" by the news. "It made me sick to my stomach," she said.

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Profs. comfort Zantops' classes

By Julia Levy | January 30, 2001

At 11:15 a.m. yesterday, two Dick's House counselors, a class dean and two eatth science professors filed into Fairchild 415 to face a classroom full of students who had spent every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning this term with Half Zantop. Chair of the earth sciences department Dick Birnie was the first to stand in front of the black board and address the students -- many of whom looked down to their desks and were noticeably upset. Birnie himself was also shaken.

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Past murders were few and far between

By David Klein | January 30, 2001

Although the Dartmouth community is maintaining its status as a safe-haven in the wake of the double homicide of Half and Susanne Zantop over the weekend, the College has not been immune to fatal tragedies in the past. The most recent murder that affected Dartmouth was in 1991, when two Dartmouth graduate students were murdered outside their apartment located at 8 Summer Street.

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Town residents reeling after deaths

By Kathleen McDermott | January 30, 2001

Although shocked and disturbed by Saturday's double murder of Dartmouth professors Susanne and Half Zantop, Hanover residents expressed faith in their police and community leaders to deal with the situation and return the town to its normal quiet calm. "We're all totally disturbed," said Hanover resident Barbara Allen in reaction to the weekend's turn of events.

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Community mourns the deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop

By Maggie Shnayerson | January 30, 2001

As cameras whirred and press trucks lined the Green for a second day in Hanover yesterday, some gathered together away from the eyes of the media to grieve the loss of Half and Suzanne Zantop. A gathering at President James Wright's house yesterday afternoon drew the attendance of around 50 members of the faculty and a few students who had worked closely with the couple. The event, guarded closely by Safety & Security officers, was closed to the press.

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Zantops' colleagues devastated by loss

By Ithan Peltan | January 29, 2001

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.

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Alcohol campaign reaches students

By Kathleen McDermott | January 29, 2001

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.

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College administration works to provide counseling

By Julia Levy | January 29, 2001

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.

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