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Women disappointed with Board decisions

By Wendy Yu | April 21, 2000

Although only about half of the female students interviewed by The Dartmouth expected the Trustees to address campus gender relations in their statement, a large majority said they felt the attention given to the issue was disappointing. On its first page, the statement by the Board of Trustees said, "We need to affirm the importance of inclusiveness and positive gender relations." However, there is no more mention of the subject in the rest of the document, including the list of 13 decisions. Susan Marine, coordinator of the Sexual Assault Awareness Program, said it was difficult to see exactly how the Trustee's announcements would affect the gender situation on campus, and she has adopted a "wait and see" attitude, although she said she was happy that no decisions would be antithetical to gender relations. Marine was more disappointed by the lack of attention toward the diversity issue, which she emphasized more than gender problems in the College. Others were more critical of the lack of attention exhibited in the statement. "Gender issues is something the Trustees definitely need to address," Alex Kremer '01, president of the Panhellenic Council, said.

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Planners to release list of cable channels

By Ithan Peltan | April 21, 2000

College planners are currently finalizing the list of channels that will be offered over the campus cable television network when the improved system becomes active next fall and will likely release the list today. Director of Instructional Services Mike Beahan said there will be around 50 channels available to students in their dorms, including all of the channels currently offered in the rooms and on the televisions in dorm lounges and other locations around campus. Channels such as Fox, ESPN and CNN will definitely be available in the dorm rooms, Beahan said, as will the Black Entertainment Television network. Beahan said his office and the office of the Dean of the College are waiting for Adelphia, the local cable company which will be providing the programming to the College, to return a signed contract. After receiving the contract, the College will be making an announcement about next year's cable programming, which should occur this afternoon. Matt Benedetto '00, who served as the Student Assembly representative on the College committee formed in 1997 to look into the cable situation, said he is glad that the expanded cable programming will be available next fall, although he will not be here to see it. "I'm excited about it because I think that it was something that we're missing up here," he said. Benedetto said the committee on which he worked suggested channels that would offer a broad range of options. The subcommittee that brainstormed a list of proposed channels wanted to ensure that the cable service would provide not only entertainment, but cultural, news and educational programming as well, Benedetto said. "We got together and brainstormed what we thought would be various things that aren't represented now that would be important to have," he said. Students have been asking for cable packages of the type that will be available next term since 1997.

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Current SA leaders content; candidates remain unsure

By Wendy Yu | April 20, 2000

The statements released by the Trustees and Dean of the College James Larimore were met with a lack of surprise by the leadership of the Student Assembly and members of the Student Response Task Force yesterday. These student leaders expressed general agreement with the announcements and said that they had great hopes for improvements to the social and residential future of the College -- but many disagreed with specific changes that now will be made to the Greek system. "Nothing's going to change unless the culture changes," Assembly President Dean Krishna '01 said, adding that he thought the decisions made by the Trustees is a step in the right direction toward making those changes. Approval is most enthusiastic for the development of social and residential space and the reevaluation of the D-Plan. "[D-Plan review] is something the College has needed to do for a really long time," Assembly Vice President Margaret Kuecker '01 said. Vice presidential candidate Chance Hill '01 expressed support for the promised fair treatment of Greek houses as places with individual personalities, in which they would be given the opportunity to meet the Trustee's standards. Task Force Member Kate Laswell '02 said, "I'm excited by the fact that the Trustees were so generous in their ability to conceive so many new parts to Dartmouth," referring to the creation of new social spaces and physical construction. Many felt the Trustees had made many of their decisions before reading student proposals, but, as Alex Wilson '01, Assembly treasurer and presidential candidate, said, "[that is] what we were told to expect." The biggest controversy involved the decision to place a moratorium on the formation of new single-sex residential selective organizations, which, for most, killed hopes of the creation of a seventh sorority house. "The College needs a seventh sorority, if not an eighth or a ninth," said Molly Stutzman '02, Assembly student life chair and candidate for vice president. She added that it is not equitable that the sorority system could not be more like the fraternity system, which has houses higher in number and smaller in size. Moving rush to Winter term, requiring undergraduate advisors to live in Greek houses and failure to emphasize diversity also evoked criticism. "One of my main concerns is that diversity on campus was not addressed as a main issue," presidential candidate Alex Grishman '01 said.

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Unsurprised students say Trustees ignored their input

By Rachel Osterman | April 20, 2000

There were no protests or rallies directed at College administrators yesterday. Nor was there much clamor in the student areas around campus, or signs of disbelief throughout the drizzly day. For the most part, students greeted the second phase of the Trustee Initiative on Social and Residential Life with a subdued reaction, if only because few of the suggestions outlined in College President James Wright and Trustee Chair William H.

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Faculty says Board missed opportunities to go further

By Mark Bubriski | April 20, 2000

Members of the faculty, who voted 81 to 0 in favor of the derecognition of the Greek system in February, reported differing opinions on the Trustees' the Student Life Initiative statement released yesterday. "I'm profoundly disappointed that the Trustees have decided to continue [Coed Fraternity Sorority] recognition as they are presently constituted," English professor Tom Luxon told The Dartmouth yesterday. "Nothing in the decision goes to the reasons for having these organizations that are selective and single-sex," Luxon said.

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Taps, fall rush out; clusters in

By Brad Russo and Deborah Bernstein | April 20, 2000

With little fanfare and limited community attention, the Board of Trustees announced yesterday the first wave of changes resulting from the Student Life Initiative, launched last year. And just as the debate following the initial announcement focused on Greek issues, so too did yesterday's more concrete declarations center on Coed Fraternity and Sorority reform -- including moving rush to Winter term, banning taps and bars, upholding the moratorium on most new houses, and abolishing the independent Greek judicial system. More sweeping statements charged the College administration, and chiefly Dean of the College James Larimore, with implementing most of the non-Greek social reforms -- including developing new alcohol and drug policies, building and enhancing residential clusters, and planning new student recreational and dining facilities. In a letter released immediately following the Trustees' announcement, Larimore outlined several changes which would be effective this coming summer, including reversing a steering committee recommendation which would have limited CFS residency and enhancing residential and minority group support staff. In an interview with The Dartmouth, College President James Wright and Trustee Chair William H.

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Ed. dept. is viable, valuable

By Rachel Osterman | April 19, 2000

Dartmouth should increase funding for the Education Department, continue its Teacher Preparation Program and add tenure-track professors in education, according to the recently completed external review report of the combated Education Department. The report, in the aftermath of two previous internal reviews that had called for the department's elimination, has served to legitimized the popular education program within the administration. Members of the administration will meet with Chair of the Education Department Andrew Garrod within several weeks to decide how to act on the external committee's recommendations. The previous two reports -- one made in 1993, and the other in 1996 -- cited the pre-professional nature of the department and a lack of scholarship on the part of its faculty as reasons for its elimination. Since then, however, the department has undergone something of a metamorphosis.

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Initiative announcement to come today

By Omer Ismail | April 19, 2000

The Student Life Initiative process enters its next phase today. The Board of Trustees' much-awaited report -- which contains initial steps to begin implementing the Student Life Initiative -- will be revealed for the first time to the Dartmouth community today. At an 8 a.m.

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Student investors take advantage of the bull market

By Jeremy Skog | April 19, 2000

In the longest economic expansion in American history, filled with such stories as Internet opportunities turning dreaming kids into millionaires, one might expect that Dartmouth students would want to eat a piece of the investment pie. And plenty of them do. To encourage undergraduate investment efforts, several students have banded together in investment groups, such as Big Green Investors and the Dartmouth Finance and Investment Club, that provide them the insights and resources that would otherwise be unavailable to them. Big Green Investors With nearly 50 partners, the most popular investing group, Big Green Investors, is not officially recognized by the College and is a separate legal partnership. The recent expansion of the economy has led to increased interest in the group --membership has nearly doubled this year.

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SA squabbles over title resolution

By Mike A. Hamilton | April 19, 2000

Discussion over an ostensibly simple resolution to change the titles of Student Assembly president and vice president to Student Body president and vice president turned into fervent debate at last night's Assembly meeting, as members failed to approve the measure. The final vote count was 20 in favor, 15 against and 7 abstentions, falling short of the total of 38 "yes" votes needed for the proposal's approval. The resolution, sponsored by Kendra Quincy Kemp '02 and the Membership and Internal Affairs Committee, resolved that the titles should be changed to reflect the responsibilities involved with the positions that lay outside the realm of Student Assembly. The resolution also stated that the current titles are misleading because, instead of showing that the positions are elected by the entire student body, as is the present case, they imply that they are elected only by the Student Assembly. Many objectors disagreed with a clause in the resolution that suggested that some students and faculty do not view the Assembly as being representative of the student body. "If your fear is that we're not representative, then come up with an idea," Casey Sixkiller '00 said.

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