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Students prepare for Tubestock

By Andrew Marnell | July 17, 2000

Students will begin preparations this week to float en masse down the Connecticut River for the 14th annual Tubestock on Saturday in what is expected to be the largest social event of the summer. Historically the event has been a high point for students on campus during the Summer term, giving them a chance to relax in the sun while consuming both non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages. Greek houses and other organizations are expected to build rafts, and most students will rent or buy inner tubes to float along with the crowd on Saturday afternoon. Despite the widespread popularity of the event with students over the last several years, as well as the high attendance each time it is held, the College has maintained complete seperation from the event throughout its history. Students in the past have not been permitted by the College to enter or exit the river from the New Hampshire shore, facing troubles with Safety and Security patrolling the area if they do. Students have traditionally avoided this problem by treking across Ledyard Bridge and using the Vermont shore. The tradition of Tubestock evolved out of a party thrown in the summer of 1987 by Rich "Boomer" Akerboom '80 for several of his friends. Akerboom, a brother of Chi Heorot fraternity during his time at the College, played with his band on the deck of his house, the "River Ranch," in front of approximately 200 people at the first Tubestock. The event has gained popularity ever since and has evolved into the rafting party that it is today. The 1999 Tubestock corresponded with the College's annual sophomore parents weekend and many families up for the weekend decided to observe the event from shore.

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New PC Blitz features trump Mac version

By Omer Ismail | July 17, 2000

Have you ever wanted to spell check your BlitzMail messages? How about having an automatic signature -- with your personal address and phone number -- attached to every message you send? The new Windows version of the BlitzMail program, BlitzMail 2.6 released in mid-June, allows you to do these things and more. Developed by Doug Hornig, senior programming analyst at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the new BlitzMail program is multithreaded, allowing users to multi-task some functions like downloading a big file and composing a message at the same time. The visual faade is also somewhat different from the previous PC version; the screen has some convenient icons to forward, compose or print a message, placed at the bottom of the screen. According to Horning, the product, which successfully passed a pre-launch Beta testing, has been working "remarkably well" so far.

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Organic farm: modern staple of the College

By Kathleen McDermott | July 13, 2000

Twelve years ago, students in an upper-level Environmental Studies class were presented with a task: develop a plan to make Dartmouth more environmentally sustainable. They drew out a proposal for an organic farm -- one of these involved using compost from the College and eventually producing food for the campus. After being shelved for several years, a new group of students came across the report and saw its potential.

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SA committees to implement SLI

By Julia Levy | July 13, 2000

Following a BlitzMail application process early this term, 25 students were appointed by the Student Assembly to committees designed by Dean of the College James Larimore to implement the Trustees' recent Initiative decision. There are six committees in all and include adjudication, hazing, programming/social alternatives, College Committee on Alcohol & Other Drugs, Initiative-related social and dining facilities and Initiative-related athletic and recreational facilities -- they will meet throughout the summer and, in some cases, into Fall and Winter terms. According to Senior Associate Dean of the College Dan Nelson, the Trustees have made a set of decisions and the six committees are charged with determining how best the decisions can be implemented at the College. "The job of the committee isn't to make recommendations about whether we should have a different hazing policy, but about how that policy should be different," he said, using the hazing committee that he chairs as an example. Assembly President Jorge Miranda '01 said the committees will be very important in determining the path the College takes as a result of the Initiative decision this past Spring term. "The committees will take a look at what was generally decided by the Trustees and look at the specifics," he said.

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Prager discusses role of women in academia

By Omer Ismail | July 11, 2000

While College President James Wright's name is everyday fare in Dartmouth students' vocabulary, Susan Prager's is somewhat less well known. This is ironic since she is not only Dartmouth's Provost, making her second in charge of the College, but she is a woman: setting her in an emerging class of high-level female administrators at elite colleges and universities. Prager arrived in Hanover two weeks before the Initiative was released in last year, and she has since been Dartmouth's chief academic officer.

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Rossiter: DDS price hike is not significant

By Andrew Marnell | July 11, 2000

With so many students living off-campus this summer, Dartmouth Dining Services' recent price hikes have been especially noticible -- but according to Director of Dining Services Tucker Rossiter, the increases are nothing to balk at. Both the price of individual food items and the designated meal plans have increased modestly this summer. Rossiter attributed the higher costs to the fact that Dining Services is paying more for some of their items and ingredients.

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'05s to descend on Hanover plain

By Kathleen McDermott | July 7, 2000

Jorge Miranda '01 just met with someone working to cure a disease. But the meeting was not with a professor or even a Biology major -- it was just one of what Miranda deems an amazing group of applicants for Dartmouth's Class of 2005. As one of the six senior interviewers this summer, Miranda spends his days interviewing applicants and working on other projects in the admissions office. Along with conducting up to four interviews a day, the senior interviewers also help host the twice-daily group information sessions, work at the reception desk and carry out individual projects, such as updating admissions literature. But by far, the best part of the job is the actual interviews, according to Miranda.

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Hanover celebrates Independence Day

By Jen Tutak | July 5, 2000

Eight-year-old Alex Strenta of Hanover was quick to tell The Dartmouth that he had no special feelings about the Fourth of July, but he was very sure about one thing: "I like the egg toss," he said. While most students on campus snoozed away Independence Day morning, townies flooded Main Street and the Green dressed in full red, white and blue to celebrate Hanover's eighth annual "Old-Fashioned Fourth of July." The morning's events commenced at 10 a.m.

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Schechter prepares for leadership

By Mark Bubriski | July 5, 2000

Melanie Schechter '02 never pictured herself leading the governing body of the College's Greek system. Not until the weekend before last Sunday's Coed Fraternity Sorority Council elections did the thought cross her mind, when Sigma Delta sorority's summer President Lauren Smalkowski '02 and a good friend of Schechter's proposed the idea. Profile Schechter, a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sister, said she "hemmed and hawed" over the notion for the next few days and eventually decided to run for president of the CFSC. Last Sunday night, the summer presidents of Greek houses chose her to lead them in what could be a tumultuous time of change for the Greek system. Just two days after being elected, Schechter received the official mandate from Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman that all beer taps and most bars must be removed before Sept.

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Redman details final bar plans

By Andrew Marnell | July 5, 2000

In what marks the final decision in the removing of permanent bars and tap systems from coed, fraternity and sorority houses, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman and Assistant Dean of Residential Life for Greek Affairs Deborah Carney issued a letter to the Greek community on Monday highlighting the details of the process. Citing the Trustee's April mandate that ordered the removal of all permanent bar structures, Redman and Carney wrote that he had set a deadline of Sept.

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New retail stores to open this September

By Stacy Smalling | July 3, 2000

Students and Hanover residents should not hold their breath waiting for new shopping options in Hanover this summer. According to Director of Real Estate Paul Olsen, the College-owned four-level shopping and office building next to Ben & Jerry's will not be completed until late September. Dartmouth has not yet confirmed what businesses will fill all of the available spaces in the new complex.

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