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August 16, 2026
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Students to reside in Phi Delt

By Wendy Yu | August 22, 2000

The Phi Delta Alpha fraternity house, dormant since the fraternity was derecognized Spring term, has finally found a new calling -- as rental housing for graduate students. The decision to lease the 14 rooms to graduate students was made at the beginning of this summer, after discussions between the Phi Delt Corporation president and former members of the fraternity. "Obviously it's not our first choice because we'd like to be living there, but given the circumstances and our need for money, it's the best option," Benjamin Steele '02 said, former member of Phi Delt, charged with handling the negotiations. The need to pay insurance and taxes for the property with some form of income prompted Steele to enter the house into the graduate student housing market. According to Steele, Phi Delt did not offer the space for undergraduate housing because "if any undergraduates were going to live there, it would be Phi Delt brothers." College derecognition sanctions prohibit undergraduates from residing in the house. Steele contacted the graduate students office for help in locating graduate students who would be interested in renting rooms. But Steele emphasized the fact that College involvement is minimal in the arrangement and will not be responsible either for the house nor the tenants. "This is really being done mostly without the College's help.

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Chaplain to leave College for sabbatical

By Jen Tutak | August 22, 2000

After 20 years of serving in ministry and 16 years of guiding the spiritual core of the College, Interim Chaplain Gwendolyn King will finally be taking a much-needed sabbatical. For King, who just celebrated her 20th anniversary of ministry on August 10, the decision to leave was not an easy one, nor will be saying good-bye. About two years ago, King said she began praying for guidance as to what direction God wanted her to pursue. "I was beginning to feel the stress and strain of being in ministry for 20 years," she said.

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Convention Perspective

By Dan Pollock | August 18, 2000

LOS ANGELES -- Like a boxer entering the ring before a title fight, Vice President Al Gore ran down a side corridor at the Staples Center and entered the presidential arena to the cheers of the thousands of convention guests and delegates assembled here. In his acceptance speech, which also had boxing-like, reoccurring theme of "I will fight for you," Gore used a combination of McCainesque "straight talk" and policy promises to deliver the most important speech of his campaign, and possibly his entire life.

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DHMC plans major expansion

By Omer Ismail | August 18, 2000

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is considering a major expansion in three of its main facilities -- diagnosis and treatment, outpatient clinics and cancer treatment -- and is currently in the planning stages of how this extension should be realized. According to Susan Reeves, vice president of the medical center, the center is feeling a major space crunch and the expansion project is a huge one, which is expected to be completed by 2005. Reeves said the construction of more outpatient clinics is one of the the project's main focuses. "A combination of better technology and much better drugs have led us to be able to make the transition from in-hospital to outpatient care," Reeves said, adding that the current size of the outpatient clinics is proving too small to accommodate all the patients. Reeves said that while in the past many patients had to be admitted to receive serious treatment like chemotherapy, vast technological improvements have allowed the medical center to handle most of this treatment from the outpatient wards without having to admit the patients. Economic factors have also been responsible for the move to outpatient clinics; receiving treatment in such clinics proves a lot cheaper for the patients, Reeves said. According to Reeves, the medical center's patient volume has been consistently growing at a rate of five percent every year -- another reason why the center has "outgrown our space" since it was first built in October 1991. The medical center will be "adding onto existing buildings and building buildings to accommodate our growth," Reeves said. According to Reeves another reason for the shortage of space is that the center has also started many new programs, which were not offered when the medical center first moved to Lebanon nine years ago. She referred to the center's Air Medical Transport Program, which flies transport patients in helicopters and treats them at the hospital. "Now we don't have any [more] room to be introducing any new programs," Reeves said.

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Routine work causes water outage

By Julia Levy | August 18, 2000

Water shut down at about 10 p.m. for Dartmouth's campus and parts of downtown Hanover yesterday when a planned construction project at the corner of Lyme Road and North College Street went awry. The College had been notified that the town was shutting down a valve, Associate Director of Facilities Operations and Management John Gratiot told The Dartmouth soon after the water pressure slowed to a trickle last night.

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Convention Perspective

By Dan Pollock | August 16, 2000

LOS ANGELES -- Local residents of cities hosting political conventions can sometimes feel overwhelmed by the glitz, the plague of media representatives and surprise appearances by political and entertainment megastars.

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Class of 2004 picks PCs over Macs

By Omer Ismail | August 16, 2000

Come September, for the first time ever, a majority of members of the incoming class will use a Windows machine rather than a Macintosh one -- with the overall percentage approximately 60 percent to 40 percent in favor of PCs. According to Dartmouth's computing store manager, Theresa Woodward, 100 more members of the Class of 2004 have ordered a PC rather than a Mac.

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Gifts to Dartmouth reach record high

By Kathleen McDermott | August 14, 2000

Dartmouth received a record number of gifts over the past year, with donations from individuals, foundations and corporations totaling $116 million. Funds raised for the year ending June 30 were 8.6 percent higher than last year, and the $66.7 million in alumni contributions comprised by far the greatest proportion of giving, according to Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations Stanley Colla. According to Dartmouth's 2000 Alumni Fund Director Robert Caldwell, "the far majority of revenue comes from individuals," accounting for approximately 80 percent of the revenue raised.

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SA gears up for Fall term projects

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | August 14, 2000

With just a few weeks remaining until the '04s descend upon the Hanover plain, the Student Assembly has been working this summer on student services for both newcomers and upperclassmen for the coming Fall term. The traditional summer Assembly focus has been geared toward short-term community service and student life projects. "I came in [to summer] thinking it was going to be a lot about student service projects for the '02s, and we've done a lot of that ... but we've had a good mix between what I expected to do and some longer projects for the fall and the year to come," summer Assembly President J.R.

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Dartmouth website focuses on minorities

By Julia Levy | August 10, 2000

When her face first appeared as one of about a dozen photographs that flashed in the upper right hand corner of Dartmouth's new website, Janine Denny '02 -- an African American student here -- was surprised. "It just showed up one day," she said. She was stopped at Lone Pine Tavern, at parties and outside Lou's over parents' weekend.

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