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Other colleges' orgs. make volunteering a focus

By Kelly Cameron | November 21, 2000

College campuses seem to be a center of volunteer activity. From the Big Brother Big Sister program, popular at Dartmouth and beyond, to opportunities to knit hats for the homeless and work with children, college students are being encouraged to get out and do their parts to help others. While Dartmouth is not unique in its focus on volunteerism, the Tucker Foundation's role as an umbrella organization for both volunteering and religious groups stands out. Amherst The Community Outreach Program at Amherst College was formally created in 1986 by students and has expanded since then to include a full-time paid project coordinator and a newsletter. Outreach offers "Amherst Against Food Waste," an organization that delivers leftover food on campus to local shelters.

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Students pitch in across the nation

By Rachel Osterman | November 21, 2000

Time is money. Or at least that is what the clich says. But for an increasing number of students at Dartmouth and beyond, time is volunteering. With more than 44 percent of the student body involved with the Tucker Foundation in some way -- and 30 percent of students included in the "hard core" category -- the College has seen a surge of interest in community service that has helped change Dartmouth's commitment to and perception of volunteerism. Notably, the new involvement in community service at Dartmouth corresponds with national trends.

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Tucker dean makes participation a priority

By Alice Gomstyn | November 21, 2000

Almost 50 years after its founding, the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, the organization charged with coordinating most student volunteer activities and overseeing religious life at the College, now finds itself in a period characterized by both transition and growth. Within the past year and a half, the Tucker Foundation has undergone a number of dramatic changes.

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Miranda moves SA on new path

By Rachel Osterman | November 21, 2000

As the Fall term draws to a close -- and with it Student Assembly President Jorge Miranda's first period in office -- Dartmouth's student government looks toward an active year in which the reenergized body will have to work hard to complete the unusually ambitious goals it has set for itself. Miranda '01 was elected last spring with a notably large margin of victory, promising to institutionalize student voice at the College while presenting himself as "five foot, seven inches of fury" in his campaign. Since then, the Assembly may or may not have adopted a posture of fury, depending on whom you ask, but it has certainly moved into previously uncharted areas. While furious in its resolve to change the perception of the sometimes ridiculed body and to give students more say in the College's decision-making process, the Assembly's strategy has nonetheless been anything but antagonistic. Under Miranda's leadership -- and perhaps with the help of his skill for winning instant friendships -- the Assembly has cultivated close relationships with key administrators, while simultaneously pushing the administration to listen harder to student concerns. Miranda meets with and blitzes administrators on a regular basis, mingles with them at formal gatherings, thanks them when he feels credit is due and voices concern when he determines it appropriate -- as when the College introduced its new cable package without making mention of the Assembly's behind-the-scenes work. Above all, Miranda has dedicated his first term to laying the groundwork for what he hopes will be an activist body that at the same time attends to the more traditional focus on student services. "Our Fall term has been unusually active," he said in a recent interview.

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Early applications up four percent from '99

By David Klein | November 21, 2000

Dartmouth saw two significant increases in the College's early decision pool, with the overall number of applicants and the number of students of color rising four percent and 20 percent respectively from last year's totals, according to Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg. Approximately 1,130 early decision applications have been received thus far for the Class of 2005, though Furstenberg anticipates this preliminary total to rise slightly.

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Residents oppose total HS purchase

By Rachel Osterman | November 21, 2000

It appears area residents are decisively against proposed plans negotiated between the College and local school district for Dartmouth to buy the entire property occupied by Hanover High and Middle Schools, but the community members who attended an open meeting last night expressed more enthusiasm for the possibility of Dartmouth buying a smaller portion of that property. Among the approximately 200 people who attended what was an occasionally hostile -- though more often informative -- meeting, the idea of Dartmouth buying and then converting the entire Lebanon Street property struck a particularly unpopular chord. A total buyout would remove the entire school and community base from the downtown area, according to many of those who attended. "We want it to be the Town of Hanover, not the Town of Dartmouth," said one parent. Following the gradual overcrowding of Hanover High, the Dresden School District -- which includes the towns of Hanover and Norwich, Vt.

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Tucker Foundation Pullout

By The Dartmouth Staff | November 21, 2000

Almost 50 years after its founding, the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, the organization charged with coordinating most student volunteer activities and overseeing religious life at the College, now finds itself in a period characterized by both transition and growth. Find out all about it in our Tucker Foundation feature.

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Ismail '02 to lead The Dartmouth in January

By Jen Tutak | November 20, 2000

The Dartmouth announced that Omer Ismail '02 from Karachi, Pakistan, will take over as the next president of The Dartmouth at their annual Changeover ceremony on Saturday evening at the Casque and Gauntlet. A government major studying at Oxford this fall, Ismail will begin his position with the rest of the new directorate on Jan.

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New price change will keep phones ringing

By Ithan Peltan | November 20, 2000

Upcoming changes in the pricing structure administered by Telephone Services are going to be good for students' long distance bills but perhaps not so good for the bills paid by administrative departments. Plans have not yet been finalized, but Director of Fiscal and Auxilliary Services for Computing Services Betsy McClain said she hopes to see the long distance rates fall to a flat, $0.07-per-minute within the next couple of months. In addition, DarTalk users making international calls will begin paying just 25 percent of AT&T's published list rates -- down from 50 percent -- effective Jan.

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Fireplace decision due in Jan.

By Ithan Peltan | November 20, 2000

A decision on the future use of private fireplaces in student rooms -- the use of which was banned last month -- may be reached by the end of January, according to Dean of Residential Life Marty Redman. A committee assigned to make a recommendation on the issue will be convening for a brief first meeting prior to the end of Fall term.

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Bus service adds trips to schedule

By Kathleen McDermott | November 20, 2000

As students make travel plans for the Thanksgiving holiday, changes in the Dartmouth Coach's scheduling and pricing, as well special shuttles coordinated by the Student Assembly, promise to make the trip home a little smoother. A popular transportation option for many students, the Dartmouth Coach, managed by Concord Trailways, offers several daily trips between Hanover and Boston. Although previously only five daily trips were offered, as of October two more trips have been added to the schedule, a Concord Trailways driver said. Already featuring stops in Lebanon and New London, coaches now also stop at Boston's South Station on the way to Logan Airport, significantly increasing the length of the trip to approximately three hours. And although reservations are no longer required, students need not worry about buses overcrowding.

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Prof reached for stars, and made it

By Wendy Yu | November 17, 2000

In 1992, Mae Jemison accomplished the feat that put her in the history books -- aboard the space shuttle Endeavor, she became the first woman of color to go into space. "Overall, [the launch was] an incredible experience," she said.

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Traveler recounts times with Jewish Africans

By Alice Gomstyn | November 17, 2000

More than 30 students and members of the Hanover community gathered last night in the Rockefeller Center for a slide-show presentation on Jews in Africa. The speaker, Jay Sand, a self-described "freelance journalist/musician/traveler" originally from Harrisburg Penn., spent the past year and a half living with several Jewish communities in Africa.

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Jemison Institute hosts first event on science funding

By Kelly Cameron | November 17, 2000

The "S.E.E.ing the Future Conference" held a community forum in Cook Auditorium Tuesday to discuss how public funds should be distributed in the fields of science, engineering and education. The conference, sponsored by the Jemison Institute and the Thayer School of Engineering, celebrated 50 years of National Science Foundation funding and consisted of speeches by a variety of award-winning scientists, engineers, ethicists, teachers and industry leaders. Mae Jemison, director of the Jemison Institute for Advancing Technology in Developing Countries, as well as a professor of environmental studies at the College, served as the moderator of the event. The purpose of the conference was to think about questions such as "What do we have to look forward to?" and "What do we want to do with science and technology?" in the new millennium. The conference brought together a variety of fields and allowed discussion across several disciplines. One of Jemison's goals, she said, was to bring together a diverse group of people -- those who "do science" -- not just the policymakers, in order to discuss whether more government funding for science and technology is necessary, and where government funding should be applied in general. The first to speak was Steve Nelson, associate director of Science and Policy Programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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