U. Michigan faces historic lawsuit
Affirmative action lawsuit could set precedent for race-based admissions
Affirmative action lawsuit could set precedent for race-based admissions
A bicycle route from Hanover to the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center may soon be under construction if the town's legislature accepts a committee's proposal early next week. The committee, charged in 1997 with developing a plan to promote an alternative to automobiles, will finalize the proposal today and present it to the town on Monday. The bike route will start at the corner of the Dartmouth Food Co-Op, and end at the DHMC, according to Dr. William Young, the Recreation Department representative to the committee.
Daniel Chang elected president; Carolyn Johnson is vice president
Parking meter rates in downtown Hanover were doubled to 50 cents an hour on Monday following the outcome of a July vote by local business owners. The increase will affect meters in town parking lots as well as most of Lebanon Street, which had previously used 25 cents an hour.
Princeton University's Bioethics Professor Peter Singer, who garnered national media attention this summer for justifying euthanasia for severely disabled infants, stirred controversy from the moment he was hired last year. In his first public forum since arriving at the University this fall, Singer squared off last night against Adrienne Asch, a blind professor from Wellesley College. Singer's presence at Princeton has prompted campus-wide debate and discussion this year, according to Princeton senior Dan Powell, a bioethics major who helped organize last night's event sponsored by the Bioethics Forum of Princeton University. Powell said the views Asch expressed last night were in sharp contrast to Singer's.
Some call for elimination of Greek system, others defend positive aspects
Princeton University Sociology Professor Dr. Robert Wuthnow spoke on the evolution of religion in the 20th century and likened spirituality to hamburgers during yesterday's 23rd annual Orr Lecture held in 2 Rockefeller Center. The lecture, entitled "The Gods We Deserve?
If the start of the 1990s bore witness to several universities raising 10-digit sums of money for the first time, it seems as though there will be no trailing off at the decade's end. Last week, Harvard University President Neil L.
Fraternities and sororities across campus have essentially adopted a "wait-and-see" attitude concerning the forthcoming decision on social space by the Trustees' Steering Committee. The impending decision has some worried about the place of the Greek system in Dartmouth's future.
The number of people rushing the five College coeducational societies and houses this term has not significantly increased compared to past years, despite what appears to be a positive alignment between their charters and the coeducational principle of the Trustees' Residential and Social Life Initiative. The Trustees' Five Principles, calling for a "substantially coeducational" environment, seem to correlate with the non-exclusive, non-gender biased nature of Panarchy, Amarna and to a slightly lesser extent, Tabard, Alpha Theta and Phi Tau. "If what [the Trustees] want is what they say they want, then Tabard is what they want," former Tabard Rush Chair Corrine Keating '00 said. Though all organizations recognized the fact that their charters conformed to the guidelines of the Initiative, the societies and houses chose not to advertise that fact to the campus because they were uncertain as to what the effects of the Initiative would be. "We've considered [advertising the coeducational element of the house], but decided to hold off on that for the moment," Alpha Theta President Michael Holmes '00 said.
United States Senate Parliamentarian Robert Dove, who described himself as being "notoriously bad about predictions," offered a forecast of the 2000 elections during his speech on the "Pendulum Theory of Elections" in One Rockefeller Center yesterday. Although Dove predicted that major party-shifts will not occur during next year's election, he said there are several Senate races worth following, including the Senate race in New York where First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani are likely candidates. Most political scientists, "would pay for such a race," as either winner will immediately emerge as a hero for their own party. Dove also scrutinized the presidential elections, saying a race between Arizona Senator John McCain and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley would be the ideal situation. "The country couldn't lose," Dove said. Dove said both candidates possess dynamic personalities and have ideas that resonate with voters. Dove also predicted that the 2000 Senate race will probably not be a "swing election" -- a race where the party holding power changes.
The second annual La Alianza Latina Fall Festival will bring issues faced by Latinos in America to the forefront at Dartmouth. The week-long festival, which began last Friday, is in celebration of the National Hispanic Heritage Month that extends from Sept.
Dartmouth pulses through the family tree of Trustee Peter Fahey '68. As Fahey stepped onto campus in 1964 as a freshman for the first time, he started what has become "a great Fahey family tradition." Not only was Fahey the first to earn a college degree in his family, but he was also the first of three brothers to attend Dartmouth.
Speakers focus on faults in the Greek system
Blisters and bruises, hunger and hallucinations didn't stop 20 of the 24 official hikers from completing the annual 53-mile walk from Hanover to Mount Moosilauke on Saturday. Fervent enthusiasm pervaded Robinson Hall last Friday afternoon, where the zealous participants gathered for the start of their hike, and organizers called the trek "an absolute success." "I've been meaning to do this hike for four years now," said hiker Case Dorkey '99, who is in his fifth year at the College.
Although student representatives to the steering committee will be open to questions from the Dartmouth community at a forum tomorrow night, they are bound by the committee's confidentiality policy forbidding the release of details of deliberations and discussions at their meetings. As a preview to Tuesday's panel, the 2003 Class Council is sponsoring an information session in an effort to update first-year students on the Student Life Initiative tonight in Cook auditorium. The student representatives to the steering committee -- chemistry graduate student Jesse Fecker, Hillary Miller '02, Matthew K.
Council considers getting those not offered bids into other houses
Trustee Susan Dentzer '77 never thought she would be a pioneer, but her Dartmouth experience indicates otherwise. Perhaps this pioneering spirit was what Dentzer -- a member of the second coeducational class at Dartmouth and the first female graduate elected by alumni to serve on the Board of Trustees -- clung to when she and other members of the Board decided in February to initiate proceedings to revolutionize the College's residential and social life. Into the wild When Dentzer first stepped onto campus in the fall of 1973 her freshman year, the male to female ratio was 8 to 1, and she, like many other women on campus at the time, felt the glaringly wide gender gap. Male students who were angry with the College's decision to coeducate Dartmouth in the fall of 1972, often took their frustrations out on women, she said. Late at night, some of these men, after they had been drinking heavily, would belt "a very loud rendition of Men of Dartmouth outside of the women's dormitories," Dentzer said. During the spring of Dentzer's freshman year, a "very loud hockey player" walked up to her with two beers, and proceeded to pour them on her head -- "one for being a coed and one for being at Dartmouth." Dentzer had also tried her hand at student journalism, but found the experience unpleasant. "I had written for The Dartmouth for one term, but at the time it was a pretty male dominated environment," Dentzer said.
Each year, along with a new class of students, a new crop of professors joins the Dartmouth community.
City officials worry legal fees may increase taxes