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Early admissions applications decline

By Amit Anand | January 5, 2000

Even as the number of applicants for early decision continues its downward trend, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg is confident that the total applicant pool will be as large as last year's. The total number of students admitted early into the Class of 2004 is 412, or roughly 38 percent of the early applicant pool, according to statistics recently released by the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. "I am very pleased with the strong results for admitted students," Furstenberg said.

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College prepares to release Initiative report

By Julia Levy | January 5, 2000

Almost a year after the original announcement of the Student Life Initiative, the steering committee's recommendations on its implementation will be released sometime next week. Dean of the College James Larimore said each student will receive an executive summary -- a condensed version of the entire report -- in his or her Hinman Box on the release date.

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Fall 1999 Recap

By Rachel Osterman | January 5, 2000

The fall term saw several important developments in the now year-long process of evaluating social and residential life, as the steering committee completed its deliberations and the campus moved closer to the release of its final report. In The Dartmouth's 1999 fall recap special section, you can read our recap of the fall or read the full text of ten of the most important stories from Fall term.

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Initiative, Presidential debates dominate Fall term

By Rachel Osterman | January 5, 2000

The fall term saw several important developments in the now year-long process of evaluating social and residential life as the steering committee completed its deliberations and the campus moved closer to the release of its final report. Virtually unchanged were students' attitudes towards the Greek system, according to a mid-November poll conducted by The Dartmouth in which the vast majority of students said they believe single-sex fraternities and sororities should remain on campus -- but with substantial changes. Eighty percent of the 2,836 students who responded to the poll said they support the continuation of the single-sex Greek system, closely mirroring polls conducted last winter, soon after the announcement of the Board of Trustee's controversial Social and Residential Life Initiative. This Fall term began with several community forums on the Initiative.

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Forbes speaks at Hanover Inn

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | January 5, 2000

With the New Hampshire primaries less than a month away, Republican Presidential Candidate Steve Forbes hosted a town meeting in the Hanover Inn last night, where he publicized his "new birth of freedom" plan to a predominantly older audience. Forbes said he views winning the New Hampshire primaries as a critical first step, in that a victory would enable him to begin to pressure legislators on Capitol Hill and show that Americans are primed for change. The heart of his campaign, Forbes said, concerns bringing a new birth of freedom to America, which would deliver the true agenda of America to Washington. In order to disseminate his agenda to voters in the Dartmouth community and New Hampshire, Forbes told The Dartmouth step-by-step publicity is the key. "In New Hampshire there is no shortcut to doing what I am doing tonight -- taking the message to the people," he said. In addition to electronic and print media, Forbes' campaign strategy also revolves around using the Internet, including his campaign website, which he said is superior to that of any other candidate. During his speech, Forbes stressed overhauling both the tax code and social security financing, as well as solving the health care crisis with people empowered to choose health resources. Forbes spent a considerable amount of time criticizing the Internal Revenue Service and the pitfalls of what he said is an comprehensible tax code. "We should take this horrific code that is beyond human comprehension and do to it what they used to do monsters in Hollywood movies before they discovered sequels -- take this beast and kill it." Forbes criticized Governor George W.

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Expanded hazing rules a possibility

By Wendy Yu | November 24, 1999

Administrators say the College's hazing policy should be expanded to include current prevalent behaviors for pledge period, such as wearing fraternity placards or unusual clothing. The College's hazing policy defines student hazing as any act, intimidation or coercion directed to a student to participate in an activity which would cause physical or psychological injury as a condition or initiation into membership into an organization. Under this definition, taken from the New Hampshire state legislature, popular pledge activities, such as wearing hats and carrying around objects like lunch boxes or backpacks, are condoned. "There are significant [hazing] issues the Greek system here needs to address," Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman said, also mentioning athletic teams as a group that might engage in hazing. Redman said the hazing policy of the College is much more lenient than the national definition fraternities and sororities use, which is more strict in terms of the kinds of activities it allows.

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Anti-Greek '00s face mixed reactions

By Rachel Osterman | November 24, 1999

Following the admission of their anti-Greek sentiments in The Dartmouth earlier this month, five seniors -- Ben Berk, Josh Green, Teresa Knoedler, Noah Phillips, and Janelle Ruley -- have received substantial negative and some positive feedback. The first students to publically call for the elimination of the Greek system following the Initiative announcement in February, the seniors said some of their personal relationships have suffered as a consequence of their anti-Greek stance, but that none of their closest friendships have been affected by it. "I've gotten pretty much a wide variety of responses," Phillips said.

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Prof speaks against same-sex marriage

By Regis Ahern | November 23, 1999

In a stand against same-sex marriages, University of Notre Dame Professor of Law Gerald Bradley defined marriage as "the communion of persons consummated by actions reproductive in type, whether it results in children" in a talk yesterday at the Rockefeller Center. The talk, entitled "How People Come To Be: The Case of Same Sex Marriage," is the second part of a series on same-sex marriages.

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College sees impact of financial aid initiative

By Omer Ismail | November 23, 1999

The introduction of the comprehensive Financial Aid Initiative last fall has positively impacted Dartmouth admissions, increasing the regular decision yield and the number of international students on financial aid, according to Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg. Furstenberg said the financial aid changes, which will be phased in over a four-year period, have also partially impacted the admission statistics of the Class of 2003 -- Dartmouth's most academically and racially diverse class ever. Virginia Hazen, director of the Financial Aid Office, said although the College cannot currently assess the numerical size of the impact, she is "very sure that without the initiative we would have seen a decrease in Dartmouth's qualified applicant pool." The new financial aid initiative targets lower and middle-income families, reducing loans and increasing scholarship aid by 6 percent.

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Goldhagen speaks on Holocaust 'executioners'

By Rachel Osterman | November 23, 1999

Dr. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of the influential book "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust," spoke about the role of the ordinary German under the Nazi regime to students and community members at the Roth Center for Jewish Life last night. Refuting the traditional explanations given by historians for the Holocaust, Goldhagen said that the mass genocide of European Jews and other groups could only be understood through the lens of the ordinary German's attitudes. Previous explanations reasoned that the perpetrators were coerced, that they were blindly obedient to authority, that they were subjected to extreme social psychological pressure, and that they operated under the mindset of bureaucrats trying to complete their job orders. However, Goldhagen said it is individual responsibility that caused the violence of that era. "[The perpetrators] were moral agents ... they had the capacity to know what they were doing, to judge what they were doing according to their values, whatever they were, and that they had the capacity to say no," he said. It was this emphasis that Goldhagen placed on the role of the individual and the individual's own anti-Semitism that won his 1997 book extensive publicity, acclaim and criticism. Preceding his book, literature on the Holocaust did not focus on the nature of the perpetrators themselves, he said. "It seems to me that without knowing who the people are, you can't understand why the Holocaust took place," Goldhagen explained. Drawing primarily from the testimony of both the perpetrators and survivors, Goldhagen sought to explain why the German people did not object when Hitler gave the order to annihilate the European Jews.

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Ivy leaders to attend summit at Yale U.

By Mike A. Hamilton | November 23, 1999

Ten representatives from each Ivy League school are expected to gather at Yale University in February for the First Annual Ivy Leaders Summit, an Ivy Council-sponsored conference focusing on leadership issues in the 21st century. Planned events at the student-run conference will focus on "Integrity and Responsibility in Leadership," and include panel discussions, small discussion groups, keynote addresses, and debates. The summit is the keynote event of the Ivy Council, which consists of delegates from student governments at all eight Ivy League institutions. The summit itself has been organized by Ivy Leaders Summit Planning Committee co-chairs Amar Dhand '01 and Yale University sophomore Addisu Demissie. "We often forget that the Ivy League is a family," Dhand said.

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Elsewhere, effects of removing frats unclear

By Heather Kofke-Egger | November 22, 1999

While administrators at colleges that have changed or eliminated their Greek systems say such changes have resulted in lower risk and well-monitored alcohol consumption, some students claim the changes have simply moved alcohol use into the dorms and off-campus. Administrators at three schools that have eliminated or modified their Greek systems on campus said that attitudes and awareness surrounding alcohol consumption have improved since new policies were instituted.

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DUI problems at College small by comparison

By Mark Bubriski | November 22, 1999

Students driving under the influence of alcohol and other drugs does not seem to be a major problem at Dartmouth compared to some other rural schools, such as Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. At Dartmouth, an average of less than 1 percent have been arrested for driving under the influence during that past four years.

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Berk plans Initiative panel for alumni

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | November 22, 1999

Office of Student Life Intern and outspoken opponent of the Greek system Ben Berk '00 is organizing and moderating a panel of six undergraduates that will present views on the Trustee Initiative to an Alumni Council sub-committee on December 2. Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia said she asked Berk to select a cross-section of students who have varying opinions on the Initiative.

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