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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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Vice Presidential Student Assembly Candidates

By Omer Ismail | April 26, 2000

Chance Hill '01 Age: 21 Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif. Major: Government Minor: Spanish Chance Hill '01 said he would like to work with Dean of the College James Larimore and the administration to include effectively all student input in the Initiative decisions that will be made next year. Pointing out that the administration will be deciding important details next year in implementing the Trustees' Initiative guidelines, Hill stressed the need for student input in decisions that will be "changing our lives." As vice president, Hill would also like to "moderately reform" the Assembly to attract more students and actively recruit different types of students.

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The D's peek into Dartmouth's very own White House

By Jennifer Thomas | April 25, 2000

While husband James Wright, president of the College, wrestles with the issues of community raised by the Initiative, Susan Wright promotes her own sense of community by regularly opening the presidential residence to students and faculty. "Jim and I really want to be able to open the house to various groups," she said.

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Student Assembly Elections Feature

By The Dartmouth Staff | April 25, 2000

As the application process for spring elections draws to a close, a number of students have signified their intent to run for the Student Assembly presidency -- setting up one of the most crowded fields in some time. Read all about the candidates in our Student Assembly Elections feature.

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Hanover HS receives phoned death threat

By Mark Bubriski | April 25, 2000

A disturbing Columbine-esque threat was phoned into Hanover High School's main office yesterday morning leading to a "lock-down" of the school's premises until the situation was deemed safe. An anonymous male called the school at 11:45 a.m.

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Lawsuit increases Napster worries

By Amit Anand | April 25, 2000

Responding to a lawsuit by the heavy metal musical band Metallica, the University of Southern California plans to continue to allow access to Napster -- a popular program that lets users exchange MP3s over the Internet -- as long as users demonstrate that they are using it for legal purposes, the university announced on Friday. The University's response to Metallica's lawsuit comes days after Yale University and Indiana University, who were also defendants in the lawsuit, decided to block all access to Napster.

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Republican youth group in search for moderates

By Louisa Sadler | April 25, 2000

Hoping to capitalize on recent College students' involvement in the 2000 Presidential campaigns, the Republican Youth Majority -- a nationwide, moderate Republican activism group -- was at Dartmouth this month seeking new members with the hopes of establishing a chapter on campus. The group would not be an alternative to the long-standing College Republicans, formerly known as the Conservative Union at Dartmouth, but merely an additional option for Republican activism, regional organizer Rob Singer said. He said he is seeking to expand the group's membership throughout the Northeast, which prompted his trip to the Dartmouth campus. The Republican Youth Majority is built on a "fiscally conservative and socially moderate" platform, which includes a pro-choice plans, according to their fliers on campus -- an item that conflict with traditional Republican party ideology. "People don't know this message exists within the Republican party.

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DDS does not consider genetic modification

By Brian Potter | April 25, 2000

Are the tomatoes you eat in Food Court as natural as they look, or have they been genetically modified through a controversial alteration? Even though the idea of genetically modified food is currently being widely debated, Dartmouth Dining Services has no official policy on whether it buys the souped-up vegetables and meat or their more traditional cousins. The College does not check first before purchasing items to see whether they were genetically modified -- or infused with a gene from another organism. DDS Purchasing Manager Beth Jones told The Dartmouth it is very difficult to tell what has been modified and what has not because food companies do not place labels on products that identify which ingredients are modified. For example, a salad dressing company will not label its products for genetically enhanced soybeans or other natural ingredients. This lack of labeling has been a particular subject of debate among legislators nationally, with some calling for mandates requiring producers and manufacturers to identify modified foods. Although there is little scientific information currently available about the effects of genetically modified food on humans, members of the College community already have a wide variety of opinions. Jones says she would not have a problem eating genetically modified food, while Collis Assistant Manager Steve Edes said he would steer away from such food if he had a choice.

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