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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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Power failure darkens campus

By Wendy Yu | October 6, 1999

The majority of students were left in darkness and confusion last night as the power went out across most of the campus for about half an hour. The power, which went out at approximately 10:30 last night, affected such buildings as the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth Row, Alumni Gymnasium and residence clusters East Wheelock, the Gold Coast, Topliff-New Hampshire, the River, the Choates, Ripley Woodward Smith, and Russell Sage. Massachusetts Row and Wheeler-Richardson were unaffected, as well as Baker Library and Collis Center. Different areas of campus experienced varying durations of outage.

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Asbestos halts Silsby renovations

By Victoria McGrane | October 6, 1999

Renovations on Silsby Hall were halted last week to remove asbestos from the building's upper levels, according to Dartmouth's Environmental Health and Safety Director Michael Blayney. The dust from the construction raised concerns about dispersal of the cancer-causing substance into the air.

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Composting soon to be underway

By Alice Gomstyn | October 6, 1999

Although the composting program at Dartmouth has been in place for more than a year, the Courtyard Caf and Collis Caf have not been composting due to space and transportation problems, according to Campus Engineer and Civil Waste Manager Elizabeth Ashworth. While both dining halls have separately marked trash bins for compostable and non-compostable items, the lack of workers and space to store the separated trash have led to mixing the compostables with regular garbage, Ashworth said.

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Students react to Taiwan quake

By Stella Lee | October 6, 1999

The earthquake that shook Taiwan occurred halfway around the world, but its effects have reached as far as the Green of Hanover. As Taiwan tried to dig itself out of rubble, students at Dartmouth scrambled to hear word from family members and friends who lived there. Brian Ni '03, an international student from Taiwan, was checking BlitzMail at the Kiewit Computation Center when he received a message from a friend saying, "Big earthquake in Taiwan.

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