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New website sparks disapproval

By Andrew Marnell | July 21, 2000

Students using the Dartmouth College webpage during the last week have been in for a surprise -- the site was entirely revamped last Friday, presenting a dramatically different faade and some new features. The front page has been redesigned to include Dartmouth current events as well as various search options.

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Some Tubestock partiers to celebrate off-campus

By Wendy Yu | July 21, 2000

While many are looking forward to this weekend's Tubestock events, few consider it to be on the same level as the College's recognized weekend celebrations, such as Green Key or Winter Carnival. A reason for this is that, despite the large gathering on the river tomorrow, the prohibition of registered parties in Greek houses has spread the focus of festivities to various locations, scattering the campus among many off-campus and private house parties. Hawkeye King '00, who has already attended three Tubestocks, said that this weekend does not compare to other 'big weekends' because of the fact that the parties do not go on for an entire weekend, but rather, merely as a one-day event. Despite this, King is looking forward to tomorrow. "I like the fact that it's a celebration of the water," he said.

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College remembers chem. prof. tragedy

By Andrew Marnell | July 21, 2000

Three years after her death, Former Professor of Chemistry Karen Wetterhahn was remembered yesterday with the unveiling of her portrait in Collis Commonground. The painting, by Boston artist Tom Ouelette, was presented to over 100 family members, friends and colleagues who attended the memorial service yesterday afternoon. President of the College James Wright described the painting as "a lasting reminder of Karen's contributions to Dartmouth and a lasting reminder of her legacy." Chair of the Chemistry department John Winn, Associate Dean of the Sciences Mary Lou Guerinot as well as Wetterhahn's sister, Charlotte Archabald, also spoke at the service. Wetterhahn died in 1997 as a result of dimethyl mercury poisoning after a few drops of the toxic chemical leaked through latex gloves and entered her bloodstream. After several weeks of worsening symptoms including slurred speech, difficulty with balance and problems seeing and hearing, Wetterhahn was diagnosed with mercury poisoning and was checked into Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for treatment. As time went on over the first months of the year her condition worsened.

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Gold Coast windows force audit

By Wendy Yu | July 19, 2000

A room by room sweep of the Gold Coast will take place today and tomorrow to ensure all the windows installed in the residence halls are not posing a danger to students living in the dorms and to passers-by. About two weeks ago a window mysteriously fell from the fourth floor of the building and crashed to the ground, prompting to College to take the emergency precautions. "We think that either something settled or shrunk a little bit," Director of Residential Operations Woody Eckels said, adding that no one knows exactly why the window came loose. Oaks Brothers is the company that was responsible for installing the new insulated windows last summer during the Gold Coast renovation project. Employees of Oaks Brothers will be accompanied by building custodians and maintenance workers from the Office of Residential Life while they enter student rooms and check windows, free of charge. If the occupant is not present, the custodian will use a master key to enter the room and allow the window worker to make the inspection. In a BlitzMail message sent to the residents of the Gold Coast cluster, Eckels said the inspection will take less than a minute unless a faulty window is spotted, in which case a repair will take about 10 minutes. According to Eckels, a student in Lord residence hall complained about a window being stuck.

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Berger: No cyber-classes for now

By Lauren Lafaro | July 19, 2000

In an age where the Internet has become a part of day-to-day life, colleges and universities around the country are using it for yet another purpose: teaching classes. This fall, six professors from six different colleges will give new meaning to the term "team teaching." They are planning on teaching an advanced Latin course together -- on the Internet. This course will be the first offering in the "virtual classics department," designed to coordinate teaching efforts of professors from 13 of the 15 institutions in the Associated Colleges of the South, including Davidson College, Furman University, Washington and Lee University and Rhodes College. The Latin course this fall will be taught by six different professors.

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Grand Union shuts its doors next week

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | July 19, 2000

Attention shoppers: if you are looking for the nearest red dot special, you will now have to trek to Vermont. After 10 years of serving the Hanover community, Grand Union grocery store will close its Main Street doors this Saturday, July 22 at 5 p.m. As the largest supermarket near campus, the Grand Union will change hands and operate under another supermarket chain, P&C, which will complete small renovations before the store.

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Hanover sways on tree cutting issue

By Jen Tutak | July 19, 2000

It is still the end of the line for the rope swing, but the fate of the actual tree to which the swing is attached is still hanging in the balance. Although the town of Hanover originally said that both would be cut down by July 9, difficulties in removing the tree have slowed the proceedings and may possibly thwart cutting down the tree altogether.

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CFS ban pushes social scene off campus

By Stacy Smalling | July 17, 2000

With just over 1,000 students on campus, many, who spoke with The Dartmouth, said they believe sophomore summer has opened the door for more mixed and open interaction between their classmates, though some said they expect the new social scene to end with the Summer term. "It feels a lot like orientation," Tom Dempsey '02 said.

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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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