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College leads Ivies in female profs

By Ritika Nandkeolyar | January 25, 2000

While the College was the last Ivy League school to admit women into its student body and was nationally perceived as a male-dominated institution for many years after, today Dartmouth is a leader in its inclusion of women in its faculty. According to Dean of the Faculty Ed Berger, currently approximately 35 percent of the 344 tenure and tenure-track faculty in arts and sciences at the College are female, while 31.5 percent of the 254 tenured faculty are women. The average of a group of 14 selective colleges including all the Ivy League schools is 17 percent tenured, 22 percent tenure and tenure-track, Berger said. Faculty are hired either as visiting professors on a one-year contract or regular faculty.

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Yale and Princeton have residential college systems

By Rachel Osterman | January 25, 2000

When the steering committee released its long-awaited report earlier this month, much of the initial focus centered on the radical reforms to the Greek system it proposed. But the report contained radical ideas in other areas as well -- calling for an enhanced cluster system and first-year only housing. Today, The Dartmouth continues its three-day look at how other colleges and universities organize their residential life systems. Yale Yale's now famous college system began in the 1930s after a large donor requested that the University construct a residential life system modeled after those in the English universities. As the system functions today, students are randomly assigned to one of 12 colleges, similar to Dartmouth's proposed clusters, prior to matriculation.

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McCain returns to speak at College

By Omer Ismail | January 25, 2000

As the Iowa GOP caucus results were announced placing him in fifth place, Republican candidate John McCain made his fifth appearance at Dartmouth College last night -- a reflection of his high-risk strategy of not campaigning in Iowa and concentrating all efforts on the New Hampshire primary. Confident that his loss in Iowa will not substantially affect his position in N.H.

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Web execs predict con't success

By Will Meland | January 24, 2000

Internet executives said they think the economy will continue to be strong for the stock market and for start-up businesses at a discussion of e-business, technology and public policy at Collis Common Ground last Friday. Discussion panelists included Jesse DeVitte, founder and president of Vertical Market Systems, Jon Logan Edwards, president of Mediaplex, Inc., David W.

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Residential life takes center stage

By Rachel Osterman | January 24, 2000

When President of the College James Wright announced the Trustee Initiative on social and residential life last winter, most community members focused not on a promise for a revamped residential system, but on his pledge to fundamentally change the nature of Greek life. But with the steering committee's recent recommendations for major changes to the College's current cluster system, renewed attention has been drawn to Dartmouth's residential life arrangements. Though student opinion remains varied about the proposals to create freshman-only housing units and residential clusters similar to East Wheelock, the concept of fundamental residential change is now, more than ever, a viable option. In a broader context, this is not surprising.

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Trustee candidate Chu '68 reflects on past

By Kathleen McDermott | January 21, 2000

When Michael Chu '68 arrived at Dartmouth in the fall of 1964, he marveled at the rustic charm and beautiful autumn foliage, stepping into puddles just to hear them crack. Thirty-six years later, after working as a political organizer in Uruguay, having graduated from Harvard Business School with highest honors and directing the world's leading non-profit microfinance organization, he is one of three nominees for a seat on the Board of Trustees. The other nominees for the vacant alumni Trustee position are Kevin Ross '77 and Maxwell Anderson '77. Born in Kumming, China, Chu spent his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay. During his undergraduate years at the College, Chu was chairman of the Undergraduate and Interdormitory Council in North Fayerweather, a member of the fraternity Delta Upsilon and leader of the Tucker Foundation's Upward Bound program. Through Upward Bound, students from Dartmouth and several other colleges spent the summer at Talladega College in Talladega, AL, leading an academic program designed to encourage low-income youth to continue in their studies. "We were seen by the local police as rabble-rousers from the North," he said. "It afforded us a real window," into the realities of a segregation that was only beginning to end, he said.

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Cable TV decision delayed once again

By Andrew Marnell | January 21, 2000

College dormitories may not get new cable television service this year, despite earlier indications that an improved programming package would be installed by the beginning of Fall term 2000. According to Dean of the College James Larimore the decision has been delayed as a result of the Student Life Initiative, as well as problems with funding the new service. "We're examining our options," he said.

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CBS' Pearlman speaks about media mergers

By Maggie Shnayerson | January 21, 2000

One week after the announcement of the stunning merger of America Online and Time-Warner, Co-Chief Operating Officer of Infinity Broadcasting Corporation/CBS Radio David Pearlman said yesterday that the future of communications lies in these one-stop shopping "media bundle" that corporations like his own CBS/Viacom can offer consumers. Pearlman spoke to about 40 people, mostly students, in 105 Dartmouth Hall last night, While he said he regrets that individual business capitalism has suffered at the hands of media giants -- he created his own company when he was a sophomore at Boston College, buying radio air time and then selling it again, using it to broadcast hockey and basketball games to local audiences -- he explained that those corporations offer consumers more specialized information. "We can tailor something to specifically meet your needs," he said, but the off-shoot is the "starting from the ground on up is now virtually impossible in today's world of gargantuan corporations." Before media consolidation, small companies attempted to target a wide and broad audience, Pearlman explained.

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Group of '03s discuss Initiative

By Rebecca Holub | January 21, 2000

Last night the 2003 Class Council hosted a freshman only discussion about the Committee's recommendation, with the intention of constructing a report to be sent to the Board of Trustees.

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Robo computer thefts continue

By Rachel Osterman | January 21, 2000

A rash of recent computer thefts inf Robinson Hall continued yesterday -- this time in the Student Assembly office. Expensive electronic equipment has been stolen in three separate instances since this weekend twice from the Student Publications office and most recently from the Student Assembly offices on the first floor of Robinson Hall. Although the theft of the first of the five computers, a graphite iMac, was found missing this past weekend after the Student Publications Center was reportedly left unlocked, the subsequent theft of two G-4 computers on Wednesday evening took place while that same door was allegedly secured. Yesterday afternoon marked the third theft, this time from the Student Assembly office. Two iMacs, one of which was purchased this week, a printer, and a telephone were stolen from that office sometime between 2:00 p.m.

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Possible future first lady talks with The Dartmouth

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | January 20, 2000

Taking time out from actively campaigning for her husband in the Upper Valley, Tipper Gore talked to The Dartmouth about her role in her husband's ultimate quest for the Presidency and what she envisions her role would be "First Lady Gore." With New Hampshire primaries less than two weeks away, Gore is a veteran when it comes to the campaign frenzy.

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College presents report to alumni via telecast

By Omer Ismail | January 20, 2000

In a live telecast from the Hanover Inn, senior College officials presented the steering committee recommendations to Dartmouth alumni across the world last night, with over thirty alumni clubs from Boston to Honolulu viewing the presentation, but little new information on the report or the Initiative was transmitted. Stressing the importance of alumni input on the recommendations in the coming months, College President James Wright, Dean of the College James Larimore, College Provost Susan Prager, Chairman of the Board of Trustees William H.

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Seton Hall dorm catches fire

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | January 20, 2000

Three students died and 58 others were injured, six critically, after fire and smoke ravaged a Seton Hall University dormitory filled with sleeping students early yesterday morning. While the cause of the tragic fire in New Jersey is still under investigation, the blaze itself was contained in a lounge, where two of the three students were killed. Initial student response to the fire alarm was slow because 18 false alarms had previously been triggered since September, according to The Associated Press. The tragedy featured a few students jumping from windows and others blackened from smoke.

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Tipper Gore speaks in Rocky

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | January 20, 2000

Focusing on the importance of students participating in the democratic process and ways to improve attitudes on mental health care, Second Lady Tipper Gore addressed a sizable student audience in the 1930s room in the Rockefeller Center yesterday morning. With Dartmouth only one stop in a busy day of campaigning before the primary, Gore did not direct significant energy trying to influence voters in the room to choose a particular candidate. She did say, however, that in order to handle the issues of the new century, her husband's experience, environmental devotion and ability to "keep the trains running on time and the economy strong" all qualify him to serve as the next President. Gore began the event by impressing upon the group, many of whom were already involved in campus politics, the importance of voting and involvement in campaigns. As a mother of college-aged students herself, Gore said she realized the numerous time commitments preventing students from voting or even considering becoming involved in a political campaign. Nevertheless, she urged students to engage themselves with grassroots politics and above all to exercise their right to vote. Gore used John F.

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Johnson '01 shares experiences

By Jeremy Skog | January 19, 2000

Michael Johnson '01 came to Dartmouth to get out of the Midwest, not to join a fraternity. While the influence of his two roommates led Johnson to rush and blind luck led him to pledge Alpha Delta fraternity, it was his hard work that won him a seat as president of the Interfraternity Council. For Johnson, Dartmouth has been "a great place to grow up," and it has far exceeded his first expectations. He said he loves its clean, healthy atmosphere, something that is not found at more urban schools.

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