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CFSC elects Lafaro '02 as VP

By Will Meland | January 17, 2001

Lauren Lafaro '02 was elected Vice President of the Coed Fraternity Sorority Council last night, nine days after an unusual election in which no one ran for that position on the Greek council. Yesterday's vice-presidential election, which was held at Everything But Anchovies restaurant, drew five candidates -- compared to one for the presidential contest last week -- and all except Lafaro were males. "This election was better publicized, that was the big thing," Shihwan Chung '02, president of the CFSC, said, explaining the substantial increase in candidate interest. While Chung described all the candidates as "very qualified" for the position, he said there is an advantage to having a female as a senior executive on the council. Lafaro is a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority.

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Dartmouth not alone in housing shortage

By Kelly Cameron | January 17, 2001

Do you ever wonder if Dartmouth is the only college facing a housing crunch every year? While some schools do not have a housing problem at all, Dartmouth, along with some other comparable schools, is making plans to increase residential space over the next few years to accommodate not only current students but additional students as well. In the meantime, these colleges have to come up with alternative solutions for their respective housing crunches. Currently, Dartmouth only guarantees housing to first-year and exchange students.

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Dorfman values linguistic heritage

By Alison Schmauch | January 16, 2001

Ariel Dorfman delivered Dartmouth's Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration keynote address yesterday, about whether it is a "curse or blessing" to be "absolutely, completely, and irreversibly bilingual." Dorfman was born in Argentina, but moved to the United States as a child.

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Ambition drives Provost to resign after two years

By Julia Levy | January 16, 2001

Provost Susan Prager announced that she will leave the College July 1, 2001 after only two years serving as Dartmouth's provost -- second only in administrative rank to College President James Wright. Although Prager's tenure at Dartmouth seems brief, it is not atypically so. Both Wright, who served one year as provost before becoming College president in 1998, and his predecessor, Lee Bollinger, who was provost for two years before leaving to become president of the University of Michigan, worked in similar time frames. When Prager talked last night with The Dartmouth, she emphasized that her decision to leave the College was not motivated by a bad experience here.

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MLK Jr. day has controversial past

By Nick Lambrecht | January 15, 2001

Today marks the sixteenth national celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, which celebrates the achievements of the slain civil rights leader and serves as a day of reflection on the history of the civil rights movement as well as the quest to make sure its importance will be remembered in the future. The call for a holiday honoring Rev.

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Afr. Americans have early roots at College

By Mike A. Hamilton | January 15, 2001

As the College this week acknowledges the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr., his legacy necessitates a look back at the history of African-Americans at Dartmouth -- a history both longer and more circuitous than might be expected. The first African-American affiliated with the College was Caleb Watt, who served as founder Eleazar Wheelock's manservant, according to Director of Alumni Relations Nelson Armstrong '71. Despite a charter which prohibits discrimination, there were no African-American graduates until Edward Mitchell in 1824, 55 years after the College's founding. Yet when forces of social change touched the United States, Dartmouth too was affected and undertook serious measures to diversify its campus. According to history professor and College historian Jere Daniell '55, the first thrust toward making diversity a priority on campus was the civil rights movement of the late 1960s.

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Dorfman to give keynote address

By Kathleen McDermott | January 15, 2001

Kicking off a ten-day celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Latin American writer Ariel Dorfman will deliver his speech "To Be Completely, Absolutely, and Irreversibly Bilingual: A Curse or a Blessing?" at 7 p.m.

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S & S investigates shower fiasco

By Kathleen McDermott | January 12, 2001

Hanover Police and Safety and Security are both investigating after an unidentified middle-aged male was reported looking into an occupied shower stall in a Smith Hall women's bathroom Wednesday night. Crime alerts posted around campus have informed students of the incident, which was reported immediately to Safety and Security at approximately 9:30 p.m.

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Is Greek leadership in decline?

By Ithan Peltan | January 12, 2001

Normally, the races for positions on the executive board of the Coed Fraternity Sorority Council attract a number of affiliated juniors eager to lead an organization representing more than half of the student body. Last January, there were four candidates for president and five for vice president.

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Upper Valley faces worker shortage

By Charles Gardner | January 12, 2001

With the strong and nearly uninterrupted economic growth of the past eight years, the U.S. unemployment rate is hovering around its lowest level in 30 years and workers have been in increasingly short supply nationwide. This national trend towards a very low jobless rate, which held steady at 4 percent last month, has been reflected at both the national and the local level. "The local labor market in Hanover has shown less then one percent unemployment recently," said Assistant Professor of Economics Herbert Schuetze.

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Panhell expects 35 women to rush

By Tara Kyle | January 12, 2001

Despite rumors that as many as 300 women had signed up for winter rush, sorority leaders are preparing to begin rush on Sunday with the much lower and more manageable number of 35 women planning to participate. Julie Calderon '01, who served as Panhell's vice president for 2000, said that they expect to offer bids to all of this term's rushees. "We're hoping to fit everyone in, though we can't guarantee anything," Kremer said. Each of the sororities contacted by The Dartmouth plan to take a pledge class this winter.

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Thayer receives $435K defense grant

By Kelly Cameron | January 12, 2001

The Thayer School of Engineering has received a $435,000 grant from the U.S. government to perform research "critical infrastructure protection." Over the next two years, the grant will fund the research of two post-doctoral fellows as Sylvanus Thayer Fellows in Critical Infrastructure Protection and Information Assurance. The fellows will conduct research into information assurance, threat, vulnerability and risk assessment, as well as intrusion monitoring and response. Professor of Engineering Sciences George Cybenko noted that the fellowship would look at ways to protect critical infrastructure. The United States infrastructure systems, such as transportation, health services and telecommunications, often depend on each other, Cybenko pointed out.

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