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CFSC elects female summer pres.

By Omer Ismail | June 27, 2000

The Coed Fraternity Sorority Council's fortunes could be changing for the better following Sunday night's elections, despite a major setback last month when Delta Delta Delta sorority seceded from the organization. The council has elected a female summer president, Melanie Schechter '02, who said she plans to make Greek women's issues her priority while serving on the CFSC. Along with Schechter, the council Sunday night also elected two other women to the executive board -- with Melissa Heaton '02 and Erica Preiss '02 serving as summer secretary and programming chair respectively. Schechter expressed excitement at the prospects of having three women on the council's executive board this summer. "Having women on half of the exec.

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Future of Phi Delt house still unclear

By Andrew Marnell | June 27, 2000

Despite use of their house to hold alumni receptions throughout Commencement and Reunion week, members of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity will not be permitted to reside in or utilize the facility this summer following the College's decision last March to derecognize the organization until at least 2002. According to Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman, Phi Delt's future plans for the house still remain unclear. "We're waiting for them to decide what to do or not do," Redman said.

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Registrar introduces new add/drop online

By Julia Levy | June 23, 2000

Starting yesterday, Dartmouth students had the option to add and drop courses online, using a new addition to the Registrar's Banner Student system. Yesterday afternoon, the number of students who chose to use the new web-based option for switching courses was in a dead heat with the students who opted for the traditional method of waiting in line outside the Registrar's office. According to College Registrar Polly Griffin, she had not received much feedback on the new system, but she said the lack of response was probably a vote of approval. "If it didn't work we'd hear about it," she said.

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Help Desk moves to Gerry Hall

By Omer Ismail | June 23, 2000

The next time you have difficulty loading onto DCIS Navigator from your computer, don't go running to Kiewit -- you won't find anyone there to help. As a result of the Baker-Berry library project, Computing Sales and Services -- including the Help Desk and Computer Resource Center -- have temporarily moved to the lower-level of Gerry Hall. All of the servers and other machinery, as well as the rest of the computing staff, are also scheduled to move out of Kiewit by the end of summer before the building is torn down during Fall term. After the completion of the library project, computing offices will be split between Berry and Baker libraries -- with the more technical staff situated in the lower level of Berry and the computing administrative offices in Baker. The Computing Help Desk will eventually be housed in Carson Hall -- an attached wing to Berry library that will be built in Kiewit's place and is scheduled to be completed by Dec.

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SA focuses on short-term projects

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | June 23, 2000

Keeping with what has been its traditional summer focus, the Student Assembly will spend the term concentrating on community service and student life projects, as well as recruiting new members. One of the Assembly's first tasks will be to nominate students to serve on several committees and groups related to the Student Life Initiative, which is now entering the implementation phase. A judicial group, as well as committees dealing with social alternatives, social and dining facilities, alcohol and other drugs, hazing and athletic and recreational facilities are being formed. Summer Vice President Sabeen Hassanali '02 said a number of the committees will start work this summer, and that the Assembly is now trying to fill spaces on those groups. According to summer President J.R.

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Trustee Francis recalls sorority experience

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | June 23, 2000

The newest face at the Board of Trustees meetings will be that of Karen Francis '84, a businesswoman and diehard San Francisco '49ers fan whose college activities included founding what is now known as Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority. "I'm very excited to do it at this point in my life because my Dartmouth experiences are still very close to me," Francis said of her recent election as a Charter Trustee.

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C&R takes place despite bomb scare

By Andrew Marnell | June 21, 2000

Students and alumni on campus faced the threat of a bomb in the Hopkins Center during commencement period, but the building was not closed as a result of the threat. A search began in the Hop following an anonymous call made to the College's switchboard in which a caller warned of a bomb in the building.

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Drug use hospitalizes three College students

By Julia Levy | June 21, 2000

Three Dartmouth students were treated at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center near the end of Spring term for drug overdoses involving the illegal substance gammahydroxybutrate, more commonly known as GHB. According to Charley Bradley, director of the nursing department, the three male students were rushed to DHMC and were later sent to Dick's House. She said two of the students were unresponsive to "painful stimuli" when in the emergency room, meaning that they were unconscious enough that they did not respond to pinches or pin pricks. Bradley reported that the students received intravenous hydration, and their conditions were carefully monitored. She explained that there is usually a three-hour window of time from the moment when someone loses consciousness from GHB until they wake up. "The hope is that they're going to sleep it off," she said of severe cases of GHB users.

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Board elects Francis as youngest Trustee

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | June 21, 2000

Karen Francis, a graduate of the Class of 1984, was recently elected to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees -- becoming both the newest and youngest member of the Board. Francis, who is currently Managing Director of an Internet Company and resides in San Fransisco, began her term as a Charter Trustee on June 11, succeeding Kate Stith-Cabranes '73, who leaves after eleven years. Chairman of the Board William H.

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Our Gift and Duty

By Conor Dugan | June 12, 2000

I remember my dad's car pulling away from the curb close to four years ago as I began my Dartmouth journey.

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There Stood Dartmouth College

By Robert Kilmarx | June 12, 2000

We came to Hanover after the war in the fall of 1946, to that point the second largest Dartmouth class and the most diverse, thanks to the GI Bill of Rights. We were equally divided between war veterans and those of us too young to have been in service.

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College for the '50s -- a very different place

By Omer Ismail | June 12, 2000

It was a very different Dartmouth back then. But it was an even more different group of students at Dartmouth. Half a century after graduating, the Class of 1950 -- the only one of its kind -- returns to Hanover this weekend to meet their friends and reminisce their golorious days at the College. Joel Leavitt '50, reunion chair for the class, told The Dartmouth that he and his fellow classmates were excited to come back to Dartmouth and meet his fellow peers. The first class to enroll at Dartmouth after the end of World War II, the Class of 1950 had an large numbers of war heroes -- coming to attend college after years of treacherous fighting. "There was a great [number] of people who had been involved in the war one way or another," Robert Shnayerson '50 said, adding the class had a wide mix of people ranging from an ordinary rifleman to a fighter pilot. Following the government's passing of the GI bill -- aimed at helping war verterans receive an education -- many members of the class were people who ordinarily would not have been able to afford a Dartmouth education. "The GI bill made a huge difference to ... democratize the idea of going to college," Shnayerson said. The Class of 1950 was the largest Dartmouth class to date, and members, on average, were older than usual.

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