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Trustees announce tuition hike, cable funds

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | February 15, 2000

The Board of Trustees announced the annual tuition increase and approved funding for a new a cable package in its Winter term meetings over the weekend, the College released yesterday. The Board also voted to name the new East Wheelock residence hall after Trustee Emeritus Norman E.

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ORL faces another Spring housing crunch

By Rachel Osterman | February 14, 2000

For the second consecutive year, leave-term students will be denied on-campus housing this spring, as the College struggles to accommodate even those students who are enrolled for Spring term classes. The current number of on-term students for whom the Office of Residential Life has not been able to find living spaces -- currently 106 -- marks the largest spring housing crunch in recent years. Fifty students were originally affected by last year's Spring housing deficiency.

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Carnival brings few major police incidents

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | February 14, 2000

A weekend of Winter Carnival revelry yielded few major incidents for the Hanover Police Department and College authorities, and numbers of alcohol-related incidents were slightly down from a year ago when all Coed Fraternity Sorority-sponsored parties were cancelled. Carnival weekend was "extremely quiet," Hanover Police Chief Nick Giaccone said.

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Keg jump turns 19

By Ithan Peltan | February 11, 2000

Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers will lace up their skates, pull on their pads, take a skating start, and risk life and limb as they attempt to leap as many empty beer kegs as possible during the 19th Annual Psi U Keg Jump, Saturday. Attracting well over 500 spectators to the College's oldest fraternity, the jump is one of the most popular traditions of Winter Carnival weekend. Participants in the event don more and more layers of padding as the number of kegs increases.

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A note on the theme

By Jeremy Skog | February 11, 2000

This year's theme, "Lest the Cold Traditions Fail," was chosen as a way to look back and examine history, Winter Carnival Committee Co-Chair Amish Parashar '03 said. The carnival used to be centered on winter sports, Parashar said, recently the focus has shifted much more towards the festivities.

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Women at Carnival: from 'special trains' to coeducation

By Rachel Osterman | February 11, 2000

Students familiar with the Winter Carnival posters that hang in Thayer Hall may have noticed a certain peculiarity: the presence of women in many of the signs that date back as late as the 1930s. Indeed, long before coeducation made females' participation in the annual snow festival inevitable, women played an integral, if sometimes controversial, role in the Carnival. Their presence was always highly anticipated, sometimes even competitive, as the men of Dartmouth scrambled to find dates to accompany them during the winter festivities. Once on campus, the women participated in events that would make contemporary female Carnival goers cringe.

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Alums recall Carnival memories

By Omer Ismail | February 11, 2000

While certain activities -- partying, drinking, building snow sculptures and having fun -- remain key Winter Carnival traditions, according to Dartmouth alumni the weekend festivities have evolved significantly over the years. Carnival Dates Before Dartmouth became coeducational in 1972, students invited women from nearby colleges such as Mt.

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Trustee announcement turns 1999 weekend into fiasco

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | February 11, 2000

The Board of Trustees' announcement of the Social and Residential Life Initiative three days prior to the opening ceremonies of last year's Winter Carnival's disrupted a tradition that had endured through Prohibition and two major wars. With the Initiative's hints at the elimination of single-sex fraternities and sororities -- one clause called for a substantially coeducational social system -- the festive mood on campus changed into an uproar and discontent that climaxed with student protests and national news media attention. The Initiative was met with bold signs of resistance during the weekend, and the Carnival theme "Gone to the Dogs" came to bear an ironic undertone.

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Winter Carnival 2000 Issue

By Andrew Marnell | February 11, 2000

Many of us were caught up in the frenzy of last year's protests and rallies, the lack of parties and the sense of chaos on campus, yet even so the weekend proved to be something special -- a break from everyday routine. Winter in Hanover, forcibily reminds you that the College is somewhat cut off from the rest of the world.

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Sculptures over the years: see how 2000's stacks up

By Kascha Semon | February 11, 2000

In keeping with the theme for this years carnival, "Lest the Cold Traditions Fail, Carnival Through the Years..." the Winter Carnival Committee created a ski jump and skier on the Green, reminiscent of the fomer ski jump competitions held annually on the College's golf course. The jump and skier, designed by Ben Moor '00 and Andy Louis '00, was designed to be approximately 30 ft.

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Middlebury, Bates and Williams celebrate the snow

By Julia Levy | February 11, 2000

It's hard to imagine a Winter Carnival like Dartmouth's existing at most other schools. Just picture a snow sculpture plopped in the middle of Harvard Square, a polar bear swim in Penn's Schukyll River, or a keg jump on Brown's College Hill.

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Sex series ads offend some students

By Julia Levy | February 10, 2000

Some students have expressed concern about graphic and explicit BlitzMail messages and Posters advertising events included in The Women's Resource Center's "Sex Series." Shelley Sandell '01 asked the WRC to remove her from its Blitz list after she received a message from them that she considered "very crude." The original message that Sandell received along with other students across campus contained a self description of Inga Muscio, the author of "Cunt: A Declaration of Independence." Sandell also voiced the opinion of a number of community members whenshe called the poster advertising the month-long Sex Series "lewd." She said the posters around campus containing "graphic nudity" were, in her view, inappropriate. Emilie Linick '00, one of the student coordinators of the series, said the photograph of Muscio -- which included a frontal portrayal of her vagina -- was the only photograph sent to the WRC before Muscio's visit to the College. Linick said the people she works with in the WRC thought the photograph was an asset to the poster because it shows Muscio to be "young" and "kind of funky." Muscio's recent book argues that every woman should be in charge of her own sexual universe. But this typical feminist stance comes wrapped up in a package of rough terms that the WRC predicted could offend certain members of the community. Muscio's book delves into the meaning of the word "cunt," which originated in China, Ireland, Italy and Egypt and was first used respectfully to describe women and women's power. Sandell told The Dartmouth, "My concern was with their presentation of the material and not the subject matter.

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