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BBC reporter explains virtues of Mao's China

By Katie Walters | October 6, 2000

In a lecture titled "Mao's China: A necessary Evil?" British Broadcasting Corporation correspondent Philip Short discussed the importance of Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong's leadership and personality in bringing about cultural and political change in China yesterday afternoon in the Rockefeller Center. "One can argue that the prosperity and dynamism of China today are part of Mao's legacy" Short said to an audience of over 60 people.

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SA gathers Berry Lib. feedback

By Rachel Osterman | October 5, 2000

Students disgruntled about the quality of services and aesthetics at Baker-Berry Library may find respite in a new Student Assembly initiative. With a BlitzMail message to students yesterday, the Assembly launched its Baker-Berry Student Feedback Campaign, an undertaking the Assembly hopes will address the frequent student complaints about the new library. "I think they don't have a sense of what the main concerns are, and I think this is definitely going to be helpful in letting them know what students are upset about," Assembly President Jorge Miranda '01 said. While the Assembly report is due to be completed within the next few weeks, the process began Tuesday night when Director of Library Administration John Crane and Director of Academic Computing Malcolm Brown spoke at the Assembly's weekly meeting on Tuesday. Aware of widespread student discontent, Crane and Brown's message was conciliatory: although certain architectural designs are immovable, the library administration is looking for ways to improve on student services and make the new area more user-friendly. "The building is under construction, so there is a high threshold for change.

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Dartmouth waits on RU-486 decision

By David Klein | October 5, 2000

Despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of the abortion pill RU-486, Dartmouth health officials are currently undecided regarding the availability of the drug on campus. RU-486, also known as mifespristone, provides women an alternative to surgical abortion procedures.

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Mother sues MIT frat. for son's 1997 death

By Julia Levy | October 5, 2000

Last week, Darlene Krueger filed a suit against Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and its officers -- three years after her son Scott drank himself to death during his freshman fall fraternity initiation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earlier last month, MIT avoided a similar suit when President Charles Vest apologized publicly to the Krueger family, promising to pay $4.75 million to the family as well as contributing $1.25 million to establish scholarships in Scott's memory. "This is not about money, this is about accountability," the Kruegers' attorney, Bradley M.

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College committee will determine Greek future

By Wendy Yu | October 5, 2000

Some are calling it an implementation committee, others a steering committee. Whatever name eventually sticks, the Student Life Initiative committee on Greek Life currently being formed will redefine the Greek system as we know it. At the end of Winter term, the committee will submit a complete report of recommendations to Dean of the College James Larimore.

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College emphasizes honor principle

By Rachel Osterman | October 5, 2000

Following last year's cheating allegations against 78 members of a Computer Science 4 class, the start of the new academic calendar has seen invigorated efforts at preventing such a recurrence and improving understanding of just what the College's elusive Honor Principle means. Although the College has not changed the substance of the Honor Principle in any way, what is different this year is the attention that the code is drawing from offices all over campus. Faculty, returning students and incoming freshmen have all been targeted in new ways, marking perhaps the largest effort at addressing academic integrity in recent years. In addition to emphasizing the Honor Code at seminars for faculty and department chairs, the Dean of the Faculty Office is currently drafting a guidebook for professors, particularly those that are teaching at Dartmouth as visitors. Many returning students were surprised to find a copy of the Honor Code in their Hinman Boxes this fall, the first time the publication has been sent to upperclassmen. As for the Class of 2004, both freshmen and their parents received information about the Honor Principle before arriving in Hanover.

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The purchasing decision: Mac or PC?

By Jeremy Skog | October 4, 2000

There is something about a computer that inspires devotion. When a person has grown up with a operating system or program and followed it since childhood, through multiple upgrades and versions, through the good times and the bad, a certain attachment develops. Is it any wonder, then, that users of specific platforms may defend their decisions as strongly as priests or rabbis might defend theirs? The battle begins The whole mess between Macintosh and PC devotees dates back to the early 1980s, when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs made the fateful decision to use hardware in his new Apple systems that was incompatible with the PC prototypes being produced by companies such as IBM. But this was an age when computers were merely for hobbyists -- often bought as a kit and then assembled by the user, much as a model airplane might be today.

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Republican Committee chair speaks at College

By Ithan Peltan | October 4, 2000

Social security, education and other issues playing a part in Campaign 2000 were the focus of a speech yesterday morning by the Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson to a group of about 60 members of the Dartmouth and Hanover communities. Nicholson lauded the positions of the Republican Party and its presidential candidate, Texas Governor George W.

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Apple Computer Pullout

By Sarah Rubenstein | October 4, 2000

Sales are slumping, and even Dartmouth has stopped recommending Macintosh computers over PCs to incoming students. Will Apple's comeback ever propel it beyond its competitors?

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OS X Beta: A Revolution in Software Development

By John Teti | October 4, 2000

"You are holding the future of the Macintosh in your hands." I thought I was getting a plaything in the Mac OS X Public Beta -- a pre-release version of Apple's next-generation operating system that's being offered to interested users for $30.

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Students drawn to Gore in debate

By Richard Lazarus | October 4, 2000

A large and lively crowd of just under a hundred watching in the Rockefeller Center largely agreed that Vice President Al Gore controlled the debate better than his opponent, Texas Governor George W.

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