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Mock Trial heads to Silver Flight competition

By Julia Levy | February 26, 1999

After placing fifth in the regional tournament held at Utica College last weekend, the Dartmouth Mock Trial Society will compete in the Silver Flight national competition for the second time in its three-year history. Between 60 and 100 schools will participate in the tournament held in St.

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Study: stereotypes affect academic performance

By Mitch Yashiro | February 25, 1999

A team of Harvard University researchers concluded that ethnic and gender stereotypes can facilitate or impede academic performance, according to a study published in last month's issue of Psychological Science. Researchers found that stereotypes commonly perceived as being "positive," such as the assumption that Asian-Americans do better in math and science, can raise academic performance.

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With new members, SA votes to support working groups

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | February 24, 1999

At a meeting marked by the presence of new representatives -- likely foreshadowing an upswing in Greek membership in the near future -- the Student Assembly voted 51 to zero last night in favor of supporting five student working groups engineered to address the five principles announced by the College's Board of Trustees two weeks ago. According to Teresa Knoedler '00, Assembly member and sponsor of the resolution, Assembly representatives will participate across group lines in a collaborative rather than organizational effort to facilitate and fund this venture. "The Assembly is not necessarily establishing the five groups, but rather this [resolution] is an endorsement of the groups," Knoedler said. Assembly Vice President Case Dorkey '99 said, "The important challenge for everyone involved is the communication between working groups so that the principles relate to each other, and that focusing on each one doesn't take away from the whole." The Assembly's resolution granted $2,000 to fund the working groups, covering primarily communications and publicity expenses such as posters and mailings.

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Adamson speaks on economic system

By Kascha Semon | February 23, 1999

"Rebecca Lee, if you don't change directions, you're going to end up where you're heading," Rebecca Adamson said her mother told her. Adamson used this advice to illustrate the eventual progression of the current Western economic system during a speech yesterday in Collis Common ground, continuing the Martin Luther King Day celebration discussion on neighbors, community, indifference and engagement. Adamson's diverse heritage -- her mother is Cherokee and her father is Swedish -- has informed her daily life with profound understanding of diversity, enhanced by her extensive work with Native peoples across the world. She said the predominating Western economic system is based on the assumption of a scarcity of resources and individual insatiable appetites. Adamson said Western economists create a self-fulfilling prophecy with these assumptions. Adamson said indigenous cultures provide examples of economies based on different belief systems. "Every society organizes itself socially, politically, and economically according to its values," said Adamson, repeating this statement in her speech. Adamson said the quality of life of Native American tribes predicts the outcome of the entire U.S.

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Coed houses upset by initiative

By Kascha Semon | February 22, 1999

Members of coeducational fraternities and undergraduate societies seem equally upset by the reforms mandated in the Trustees' recent social and residential life initiative -- although the reforms would include formation of more coed houses similar to their own. "To me, it seems that they want to get rid of the entire system and that is attacking my house," coeducational fraternity member and Tabard President Sarah Harris '00 said. Harris, who read the letter sent by the Board of Trustees two weeks ago, said she "was really shocked at how ambiguous the letter was" and marked its contrast to the articles printed in The Dartmouth and The Boston Globe. The letter outlined five principles, one of which suggested that the social and residential options be "substantially coeducational." In an interview with The Dartmouth, College President James Wright said that the current single-sex Greek system is not one of inclusion, and with the coeducational changes he hopes Dartmouth will be a place that "can share more fully in the life of the community." "I don't think making something coed necessarily makes it exclusive or not exclusionary," Phi Tau President Virginia DeJesus-Rueff '00 said.

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Warren '02 will join Task Force

By Brad Russo | February 19, 1999

Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson announced yesterday that Freshman Class President Josh Warren has been selected to become an additional member of the Residential and Social Life Task Force. Nelson had previously selected eight students to serve on the task force, but no member of the Class of 2002 was among the original group.

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