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Westside Buffet will close Fall term

By Ithan Peltan | May 3, 2000

Beginning Fall term, Dartmouth students will have significantly different dining options as Westside Buffet will cease regular operations and the newly-named Novack Caf in Berry Library will hold its grand opening. Student demand for buffet-style dining has been gradually declining over the past few years, Director of Dining Services Tucker Rossiter said.

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SA focuses on elections at regular meeting

By Mike A. Hamilton | May 3, 2000

With less than one day left before today's elections, most of the candidates running for Student Assembly President and Vice President took part in a final question-and-answer forum last night at the Assembly's weekly meeting. The Assembly also passed a resolution to designate the proposed "Unity Barbecue" as this term's $1,000 campus-unifying event. The presidential candidates who appeared at the meeting included Jorge Miranda '01, Meg Smoot '01 and Alex Wilson '01.

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Judge questions the ownership of our bodies

By Regis Ahern | May 2, 2000

"Do we own our body parts, or do they belong to somebody who needs them?" asked U.S. Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi yesterday of a crowd of 65 at the Rockefeller Center. The Judge spoke on the topic of "Do We Own Our Bodies?

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CFSC could lose own judicial body

By Alice Gomstyn | May 2, 2000

Calling for the implementation of a single judicial system with jurisdiction over all student organizations, including Greek houses and athletic teams, the Trustees' Initiative decision may mean the elimination of the Coed Fraternity Sorority Judicial Committee. Dean of the College James Larimore said, "We're hoping for greater consistency and fairness in a variety of organizational types that we have here on campus," Larimore said. The new judicial committee, which would include students as well as faculty and staff, would not be involved in matters concerning the Committee on Standards. "The COS focuses on cases of individual misconduct.

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Fewer than 10 attend SA election debate

By Mike A. Hamilton | May 2, 2000

In what may indicate low voter interest in this year's elections, all five candidates for Student Assembly president debated in front of a crowd of less than a dozen people last night in Hinman Forum. The sparse attendance and tomfoolery of Jack-O-Lantern candidate Brett Quimby '02 helped to characterize the debate as somewhat comical and informal. The format of the debate consisted of several parts, including one in which the candidates briefly introduced themselves and then answered questions posed by moderators Aly Rahim '02 and Collin O'Mara '01. It was revealed in The Dartmouth yesterday that both Rahim and O'Mara have ties to two of the presidential campaigns, yet they did not step down as moderators. The second part of the debate consisted of questions which the candidates asked each other, as well as those posed from the audience. Alex Grishman '01 asked Jorge Miranda '01 how he would respond to accusations of being anti-Greek. Miranda responded by saying that he would defend the Greek system. "I don't think it's in the best interests of Dartmouth to get rid of it," he said. Meg Smoot '01 asked Wilson what he would do specifically to tackle his proclaimed trio of issues -- gender relations, diversity and student choice. Wilson said he would organize a forum for students from different sectors of campus to discuss these issues, work toward the realization of a Latino resource center and move the existing Women's Resource Center to a more centralized location on campus. During Wilson's chance to pose questions to other candidates, he directed all of them toward Miranda, the frontrunner according to a poll released yesterday.

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Few candidates seek COS offices

By Jennifer Thomas | May 2, 2000

While the Winter term Computer Science 4 cheating scandal brought fresh attention to the Committee on Standards and its decisions, fewer students are running this year for open positions than in the recent past. Only 16 students are up for the six positions that will be filled via student vote tomorrow and Thursday. Although the numbers of students running has greatly varied in the past, this is unusually low when compared to the numbers for the most recent years, according to Undergraduate Judicial Affairs Officer Marcia Kelly. "We've had years where there have been fewer than six people running," she said, but pointed out that of late the COS has seen twice the number of candidates as in this year's election. "In recent years we've had as many as 35," Kelly said.

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Pro-life group hosts conference

By Lauren Lafaro | May 2, 2000

Students from Cornell, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Northeastern and the University of Wisconsin, were among those who traveled to Dartmouth for the annual Ivy League Coalition for Life Conference this weekend. Prestigious pro-life speakers, such as Helen Alvare, a representative from the National Catholic Conference of Bishops, also trekked all the way to Hanover in order to attend the annual conference, "Women Choosing Life." "The conference was amazing," Jennifer Wan '00 said, "Especially Helen Alvare's talk about the aftermath of abortion.

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Campaigners 'moderate' debates

By Omer Ismail | May 1, 2000

This year's Student Assembly elections drama continues. With two days left in the campaigns, the Rockefeller Public Issues Forum is organizing a debate with the presidential candidates -- moderated by RPIF Intern Aly Rahim '02 and Collin O' Mara '01, who are helping with the campaigns of Jorge Miranda '01 and Alex Wilson '01 respectively. "I'm helping him out," O'Mara said of Wilson's campaign.

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Initiative price tag may exceed $100M

By Rachel Osterman | April 28, 2000

With the College now entering the implementation process of the Trustees' Initiative, the financial burden is drawing renewed attention, and costs appear be hovering in the $100 million to $150 million range. Although specific plans for a revamped social and residential system have yet to be finalized, a rough estimate indicates that the total sum will exceed the initial $100 million estimate, most of which will come from the school's endowment and projected alumni donations. Tuition, said Treasurer Win Johnson, will not be affected by the Initiative. In the short term, the largest amount of funds will be directed toward new residential buildings.

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Assembly candidates discuss campus issues

By Mike A. Hamilton | April 28, 2000

In preparation for the fast-approaching elections, candidates for president and vice president of Student Assembly gathered last night in Collis Commonground to give short prepared speeches and answer questions posed by moderators and audience members. Last night marked the first time that all candidates had assembled in one room for the specific purpose of discussing pertinent campus issues, but the audience reached only about 60 students at its peak level. Presidential candidate Alex Grishman '01 cited the Initiative as a reason to get involved in the Assembly and expressed concern over the apathy he said he has seen on campus. Jorge Miranda '01 said "It's too hard to affect change here at Dartmouth" now, and said the key to a successful Assembly is to keep it open, Miranda said. Meg Smoot '01 said it is not voice for the Assembly that will be important next year, but going out and actually accomplishing things.

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Alumni Initiative response down

By Ithan Peltan | April 28, 2000

Alumni reaction was muted in the wake of last week's Trustee statement outlining their plans for the implementation of the ideas contained in the Initiative. Stan Colla, vice president of Development and Alumni Relations, who has been meeting with alumni throughout the week with President James Wright, said alumni are still digesting the contents of the report and that they were asking for clarification more than anything else. "In general, at the end of the meetings, they were supportive and reaffirmed their confidence in the president and wished us well," he said. Alumni Council President Kelly Fead '78 said there have been only a third the number of responses to the most recent announcement as there were in the first week after the release of the steering committee report in January. Response to that report was also significantly quieter than response to the release of the Initiative the year before. The Class of 1962 representative to the Alumni Council, Thomas Komarek, also said that he has not heard much about the Trustees decision since its release. "I think one thing that has happened is there's a little SLI fatigue.

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Need plans for summer? Try these

By Jennifer Thomas | April 27, 2000

Still looking for something to do this summer? Imagine yourself hiking to the top of the Alps, and after having reached the pinnacle, contentedly surveying the snowy valleys below.

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Northwestern e-mails acceptance notices

By Alice Gomstyn | April 26, 2000

Some students admitted to Northwestern University this spring first learned of their acceptances to the school from an unconventional source -- their computers. According to Rebecca Dixon, associate provost for enrollment at Northwestern, approximately 90 percent of the 4,000 admitted regular decision applicants received e-mails congratulating them on being accepted to the university. The remaining 10 percent accounts for students who did not provide the school with e-mail addresses. The e-mails, stressed Dixon, were not intended to serve as primary notification for students of their acceptance to the university.

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Presidential Student Assembly Candidates

By Mike A. Hamilton | April 26, 2000

Alex Grishman '01 Age: 21 Hometown: Chaupaqua, N.Y. Major: History Platform: Increased student involvement in change-making process, especially the SLI. Construct new image for Student Assembly and publicize its work. A relative Assembly outsider, Alex Grishman '01 wants to involve students at all levels of the College and hopes to lead the Assembly in working on both large and small projects. After attending Assembly meetings last year while the Initiative process was going on, Grishman said he thought things were run extremely inefficiently and the Assembly poorly represented the views of all students. "Someone had to step in, and I decided that person was going to be me.

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