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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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Campaign excitement continues

By Alice Gomstyn | April 24, 2000

The New Hampshire primary may have come and gone, but don't expect Dartmouth campaign managers to be slowing down any time soon. Although national news vans no longer flank the Green and the number of appearances of presidential hopefuls on campus has plummeted to zero, excitement and enthusiasm still abound in the hearts and minds of the former heads of the Dartmouth organizations supporting the major candidates in the race for the White House. "I think participating in the campaign this fall and winter has gotten me really excited in politics in general," Scott Given '02, head of the Bill Bradley campaign on campus, said. With Bradley having withdrawn from the Democratic Primary, Given has thrown his support to Bradley's fellow democrat, Vice President Al Gore. "I think there was a sense among both [Democratic] campaigns that each group would converge and support the winning [Democratic] candidate," he said. Given admits that at this point in time, the 2000 Presidential campaign is attracting little attention. "Not too many people are following the race ... There's kind of a lull right now," he said. Priam Dutta '02, former head of the Gore campaign on campus, agrees. "I'm following the campaign, but I have to admit, not as closely," he said. No longer affiliated with their respective campaigns, both Given and Dutta are currently working for the campaign to elect democrat Barney Brennan to the U.S.

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SA campaigns off to a slow start

By Rachel Osterman | April 24, 2000

Two weeks ago a bulletin board in the Collis Center was crammed with bright papers and notices. Then, following the official start of the Student Assembly presidential election, its contents were stripped to make room for campaign posters and information. But even today " 14 days after the initial disrobing " it remains brown and barren, containing but one sign: "Board for Election Posters Only." While last year at this time presidential hopefuls were advertising their candidacies through BlitzMail messages and in student areas across campus, this year's candidates have decided to start their campaigns significantly later in the election cycle. "I guess it officially began a month before the election, but I think there doesn't need to be such a long campaign period," presidential candidate Jorge Miranda '01 said.

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Women disappointed with Board decisions

By Wendy Yu | April 21, 2000

Although only about half of the female students interviewed by The Dartmouth expected the Trustees to address campus gender relations in their statement, a large majority said they felt the attention given to the issue was disappointing. On its first page, the statement by the Board of Trustees said, "We need to affirm the importance of inclusiveness and positive gender relations." However, there is no more mention of the subject in the rest of the document, including the list of 13 decisions. Susan Marine, coordinator of the Sexual Assault Awareness Program, said it was difficult to see exactly how the Trustee's announcements would affect the gender situation on campus, and she has adopted a "wait and see" attitude, although she said she was happy that no decisions would be antithetical to gender relations. Marine was more disappointed by the lack of attention toward the diversity issue, which she emphasized more than gender problems in the College. Others were more critical of the lack of attention exhibited in the statement. "Gender issues is something the Trustees definitely need to address," Alex Kremer '01, president of the Panhellenic Council, said.

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Planners to release list of cable channels

By Ithan Peltan | April 21, 2000

College planners are currently finalizing the list of channels that will be offered over the campus cable television network when the improved system becomes active next fall and will likely release the list today. Director of Instructional Services Mike Beahan said there will be around 50 channels available to students in their dorms, including all of the channels currently offered in the rooms and on the televisions in dorm lounges and other locations around campus. Channels such as Fox, ESPN and CNN will definitely be available in the dorm rooms, Beahan said, as will the Black Entertainment Television network. Beahan said his office and the office of the Dean of the College are waiting for Adelphia, the local cable company which will be providing the programming to the College, to return a signed contract. After receiving the contract, the College will be making an announcement about next year's cable programming, which should occur this afternoon. Matt Benedetto '00, who served as the Student Assembly representative on the College committee formed in 1997 to look into the cable situation, said he is glad that the expanded cable programming will be available next fall, although he will not be here to see it. "I'm excited about it because I think that it was something that we're missing up here," he said. Benedetto said the committee on which he worked suggested channels that would offer a broad range of options. The subcommittee that brainstormed a list of proposed channels wanted to ensure that the cable service would provide not only entertainment, but cultural, news and educational programming as well, Benedetto said. "We got together and brainstormed what we thought would be various things that aren't represented now that would be important to have," he said. Students have been asking for cable packages of the type that will be available next term since 1997.

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Current SA leaders content; candidates remain unsure

By Wendy Yu | April 20, 2000

The statements released by the Trustees and Dean of the College James Larimore were met with a lack of surprise by the leadership of the Student Assembly and members of the Student Response Task Force yesterday. These student leaders expressed general agreement with the announcements and said that they had great hopes for improvements to the social and residential future of the College -- but many disagreed with specific changes that now will be made to the Greek system. "Nothing's going to change unless the culture changes," Assembly President Dean Krishna '01 said, adding that he thought the decisions made by the Trustees is a step in the right direction toward making those changes. Approval is most enthusiastic for the development of social and residential space and the reevaluation of the D-Plan. "[D-Plan review] is something the College has needed to do for a really long time," Assembly Vice President Margaret Kuecker '01 said. Vice presidential candidate Chance Hill '01 expressed support for the promised fair treatment of Greek houses as places with individual personalities, in which they would be given the opportunity to meet the Trustee's standards. Task Force Member Kate Laswell '02 said, "I'm excited by the fact that the Trustees were so generous in their ability to conceive so many new parts to Dartmouth," referring to the creation of new social spaces and physical construction. Many felt the Trustees had made many of their decisions before reading student proposals, but, as Alex Wilson '01, Assembly treasurer and presidential candidate, said, "[that is] what we were told to expect." The biggest controversy involved the decision to place a moratorium on the formation of new single-sex residential selective organizations, which, for most, killed hopes of the creation of a seventh sorority house. "The College needs a seventh sorority, if not an eighth or a ninth," said Molly Stutzman '02, Assembly student life chair and candidate for vice president. She added that it is not equitable that the sorority system could not be more like the fraternity system, which has houses higher in number and smaller in size. Moving rush to Winter term, requiring undergraduate advisors to live in Greek houses and failure to emphasize diversity also evoked criticism. "One of my main concerns is that diversity on campus was not addressed as a main issue," presidential candidate Alex Grishman '01 said.

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Unsurprised students say Trustees ignored their input

By Rachel Osterman | April 20, 2000

There were no protests or rallies directed at College administrators yesterday. Nor was there much clamor in the student areas around campus, or signs of disbelief throughout the drizzly day. For the most part, students greeted the second phase of the Trustee Initiative on Social and Residential Life with a subdued reaction, if only because few of the suggestions outlined in College President James Wright and Trustee Chair William H.

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Faculty says Board missed opportunities to go further

By Mark Bubriski | April 20, 2000

Members of the faculty, who voted 81 to 0 in favor of the derecognition of the Greek system in February, reported differing opinions on the Trustees' the Student Life Initiative statement released yesterday. "I'm profoundly disappointed that the Trustees have decided to continue [Coed Fraternity Sorority] recognition as they are presently constituted," English professor Tom Luxon told The Dartmouth yesterday. "Nothing in the decision goes to the reasons for having these organizations that are selective and single-sex," Luxon said.

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Taps, fall rush out; clusters in

By Brad Russo and Deborah Bernstein | April 20, 2000

With little fanfare and limited community attention, the Board of Trustees announced yesterday the first wave of changes resulting from the Student Life Initiative, launched last year. And just as the debate following the initial announcement focused on Greek issues, so too did yesterday's more concrete declarations center on Coed Fraternity and Sorority reform -- including moving rush to Winter term, banning taps and bars, upholding the moratorium on most new houses, and abolishing the independent Greek judicial system. More sweeping statements charged the College administration, and chiefly Dean of the College James Larimore, with implementing most of the non-Greek social reforms -- including developing new alcohol and drug policies, building and enhancing residential clusters, and planning new student recreational and dining facilities. In a letter released immediately following the Trustees' announcement, Larimore outlined several changes which would be effective this coming summer, including reversing a steering committee recommendation which would have limited CFS residency and enhancing residential and minority group support staff. In an interview with The Dartmouth, College President James Wright and Trustee Chair William H.

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Ed. dept. is viable, valuable

By Rachel Osterman | April 19, 2000

Dartmouth should increase funding for the Education Department, continue its Teacher Preparation Program and add tenure-track professors in education, according to the recently completed external review report of the combated Education Department. The report, in the aftermath of two previous internal reviews that had called for the department's elimination, has served to legitimized the popular education program within the administration. Members of the administration will meet with Chair of the Education Department Andrew Garrod within several weeks to decide how to act on the external committee's recommendations. The previous two reports -- one made in 1993, and the other in 1996 -- cited the pre-professional nature of the department and a lack of scholarship on the part of its faculty as reasons for its elimination. Since then, however, the department has undergone something of a metamorphosis.

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