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Three buildings may face changes

By Brad Russo | March 31, 1999

The College is considering major changes to the three main student buildings on campus -- Thayer Dining Hall, Robinson Hall and the Collis Student Center -- and hopes to have ideas for improvement by next fall. Director of Facilities Planning Gordon DeWitt told The Dartmouth yesterday his office has launched a full-scale study of the three buildings including their operation, structure and use, and has asked that every possibility for improvement be considered. DeWitt said investigations by the outside group will include everything from relocating facilities and operations amongst the three buildings to adding on to the physical plants and even connecting them. "Everything is on the table," DeWitt said.

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Race issues, door locks round out Winter term

By Mark Bubriski | March 29, 1999

While the Board of Trustee's announcement to end the Greek system "as we know it" thrust the College into the national spotlight, a significant number of non-related events shaped this past term for members of the Dartmouth community. Race issues, following in the wake of Fall term's "ghetto party" debate that set campus race relations on edge and received national coverage, were prevalent all term. In December, the College announced that only three African-American students were accepted under the early admissions plan, reflecting the small number of African-American applicants. The three students accounted for less than one percent of the total 397 students admitted early.

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Baby on board: Students juggle classes, pregnancy

By Sarah Rubenstein | March 9, 1999

On March 17, many Dartmouth students will be recovering from the stress of completing their final papers and exams - but for two students at the College, a different type of stress and adventure will have just begun. Sara Largay '00 is due to be in labor at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on March 17, giving birth to the baby with father Adam Clayton '00 at her side. "Ten days from now - oh my God," Largay said as she sat with Clayton at the Courtyard Cafe yesterday, explaining the couple is both excited and nervous about bringing a human being in the world.

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Alumni group supports single-sex Greek system

By Deborah Bernstein | March 9, 1999

The Ernest Martin Hopkins Institute, a group of 3,000 alumni, has pledged to support the single-sex fraternity and sorority system in the controversy inspired by the landmark social and residential life initiative announced by the Board of Trustees last month. Chairman of the Institute's Executive Committee Gregory Fossedal '81 said the largely conservative group believe that the College does not need to entirely eliminate its single-sex fraternities and sororities and questions the manner in which the initiative was announced. "I think most of the alumni I know, and I personally, am especially shocked by the way this was announced," Fossedal said in a telephone interview with The Dartmouth. "To me it shows that they don't really care what the students or alumni think," Fossedal said of the Trustees and College President James Wright. The Institute will work chiefly to inform alumni-- through mailings and e-mail-- about the five principles outlined in the Trustees' initiative and how they are being instituted at the College, Fossedal said. They will also encourage members of the Dartmouth community who object to the principles or their implementation to speak out against them. Fossedal said he hopes the Institute will form partnerships with students to "try and change this decision process and to reason with the administration about the decision itself." While Fossedal said it is not the policy of the Institute to encourage people to withhold donations to Dartmouth, it is its policy to encourage people to give money to the College to programs that "support things they believe in." Fossedal said this issue is the first event to color his opinion of Wright and that he is "very hurt and disappointed" by the way the initiatives were announced. However, Fossedal said "I tip my hat" to Wright for being honest in saying the initiatives were not a referendum. Fossedal said that he thinks "the administration made it pretty clear the initiatives are a closed case in their view." He said the Institute will have to make sure "people with different visions of fairness will have to go about helping Dartmouth in different ways." The Institute was founded in 1985 by Fossedal, George Champion '25 and Paul Hexter.

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New poll shows 82 percent in favor of continuing single-sex system

By Brad Russo | March 8, 1999

Student support for maintaining the single-sex Greek system remains overwhelmingly high and has not slipped in the month since the announcement of the monumental Board of Trustee initiative which mandates the coeducation of the College's social system, according to a poll conducted this past week by The Dartmouth. Eighty-two percent of respondents to the poll indicated they support the continuation of the single-sex Greek system at Dartmouth, down just two percentage points from the days immediately following the bombshell announcement on February 9.

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SA to focus on increasing student voice

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | March 5, 1999

Josh Green '00 told The Dartmouth yesterday his top priority during his last term as Student Assembly president will be to fight for the inclusion of student opinion in the College's decision making processes. In a crusade for greater institutional voice, Green said one of the "most difficult things this year has been getting answers to the challenges we pose to the administration, and hopefully spring term is the time we'll get some answers and win some battles." Green said he hopes his editorial column printed last week in The Dartmouth, which sharply criticized the administration and the Board of Trustees, will encourage students to help achieve his goal. Jorge Miranda '01, chair of the Assembly's academic affairs committee said, "The Assembly is tired of being administration's lap dog, and students want more power and voice and the SA will go for that." As a result of the Trustees' landmark social and residential life initiative that alluded to the end of the single-sex Greek system at the College, working groups were formed to address each of the five principles in the initiative. The Assembly will focus on the results of those working groups toward the end of Spring term. "I hope the Assembly will be an advocate for the students when the Trustees make their final decisions.

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Smoking making a comeback at Dartmouth

By Allison Robbins | March 4, 1999

Although an abundance of national anti-smoking campaigns have been directed at the youth of America in the past several years, recent statistics at Dartmouth show that smoking has made a comeback, confirming the results of a Harvard University study published last November in the Journal of American Medicine which found smoking has regained popularity on college campuses across the country. According to the study, co-authored by Henry Wechsler, Ph.D.

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Task force holds second meeting

By Hank Leukart | March 4, 1999

The Residential and Social Life Task Force met for the second time yesterday, and discussed the coordination of their efforts with other campus groups and the collection of student and College staff proposals. Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson told The Dartmouth yesterday that the task force plans to contact every campus organization to "encourage their participation in the process and their thinking about the five principles." Nelson hopes that every member of the College -- students, faculty, and staff -- will participate in discussion about the Trustees' initiatives. During the meeting, task force members decided to write letters to various campus organizations explaining how they can submit proposals to the task force.

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