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Greeks adopt 'wait- and-see' attitude

By Mark Bubriski | October 13, 1999

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.

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Coed rush numbers remain steady

By Wendy Yu | October 12, 1999

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.

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Robert Dove offers election predictions

By Jeremy Skog | October 12, 1999

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.

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Festival celebrates Latino culture

By Stella Lee | October 12, 1999

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.

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Fahey reflects on his life at Dartmouth

By Jay Krehbiel | October 12, 1999

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.

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Twenty complete Moosilauke hike

By Jennifer Thomas | October 11, 1999

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.

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Students to get limited answers in Tues. forum

By Deborah Bernstein | October 11, 1999

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.

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Dentzer reflects on Dartmouth life

By Jay Krehbiel | October 11, 1999

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.

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Tucker sends students to Jamaica

By Paul Wang | October 8, 1999

While many Dartmouth students typically spend Spring Break sunning themselves on the warm, relaxing beaches of Mexico and Florida, 13 Dartmouth volunteers will instead dedicate their time to help out various humanitarian organizations in Kingston, Jamaica. This group of 10 students and three co-directors will be volunteering through the annual Jamaica Volunteer Immersion Program sponsored by the Tucker Foundation. The participants will be working at four main sites over the period of a week.

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Loebner competition to test computers

By Amit Anand | October 8, 1999

Can computers think like humans? An upcoming contest to be hosted at Dartmouth in January will test that question, posed 50 years ago by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. The Loebner Prize Competition -- part of a three-day conference focusing on the future of the Turing Test -- will likely see four or five computers competing against four of five humans in a contest to determine the ability of computers to think and act like human beings, Philosophy Professor Dr. James Moor said. The conference will discuss the "merits and problems of the Turing Test philosophically and scientifically," according to the contest's web site. The year 2000 is especially significant because Turing predicted that by the end of the century computers would have developed far enough that an interrogator would only have a 30 percent chance of correctly differentiating between a computer and a human. "What really interested me about the Loebner Prize was the prediction that was made for this year," Moor said.

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DarTalk rates are comparatively high

By Amit Anand | October 7, 1999

While many other universities offer students competitive corporate rates for long distance telephone calls, DarTalk, the College's telephone service, charges several cents higher than average corporate rates, much to the continuing complaints of many students. Higher prices have led some students to cancel their DarTalk accounts or find other ways, such as using calling cards or making collect calls, to get in touch with their family and friends.

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Alums of the College fill admissions office

By Nathan B. Anderson | October 7, 1999

As applications for the Class of 2004 begin to filter into the admissions office, three members of the Class of 1999 -- in keeping with a long history of alumni serving as admissions officers -- will play a role in selecting Dartmouth's newest students. Out of the 13 alumni officers based in McNutt Hall, nine -- including new additions Stacey Morris '99, Landis Fryer '99 and Shauna Brown '99 -- are graduates of the College. According to the Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg, the majority of admissions officers have always been Dartmouth graduates. In fact, four current officers began their careers as senior interviewers, a program Furstenberg established that enables Dartmouth seniors to interview and assess prospective students on campus. Though senior interviewers often have an edge in the application process to become an officer, it is not the only factor, Director of Admissions Maria Laskaris '84 said. When vacancies open up, the admissions office sends a notification to all graduating seniors. Fryer, who served as a senior interviewer last year, said he was excited when he received the notification. "I thought 'I know a lot about this, I could do a good job,'" he said. Laskaris also noted that precedence is not given to Dartmouth alumni in general. "In order for us to do a good job we need an admissions staff that represents a good deal of diversity," she said. However, most applications do come from Dartmouth alumni, Laskaris said.

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New safety phones installed on campus

By Xia Lee | October 7, 1999

Nine new free-standing "Code Blue" emergency phones are being installed throughout campus this term, with plans to install up to 40 more over the next several years. According to Sergeant Rebel Roberts of Safety and Security, the recent installation of these new phones is not in response to any growth of crime at the school, but rather, a follow-up to a 1991 plan to increase the availability of safety phones on campus. The phones are housed in easily identifiable, slim black towers crowned with blue lights that glow at night and flash when the phone is in use.

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Proposal relocates DOC, baseball field

By Deborah Bernstein | October 7, 1999

Debates over relocating the traditional sites of both the Dartmouth Outing Club headquarters and the baseball field dominated much of yesterday's presentation by Centerbrook Architects of their plans for the College's new recreational and athletic facilities. Centerbrook architect Chad Floyd presented the proposed plan for a 200,000 square foot recreational facility -- housing among other elements the DOC, pools, basketball courts and fitness machines -- located where Memorial Field presently stands.

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