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Dorothy Allison discusses life challenges

By Mark Bubriski | May 4, 1999

There is almost nothing famed American writer and National Book Award Finalist Dorothy Allison is afraid to talk about. The author of the critically acclaimed novel "Bastard Out of Carolina" has struggled her entire life with difficult issues ranging from dealing with an abusive stepfather to coming to terms with her homosexuality to having a child with her lesbian partner. Last night in Brace Commons, Allison spoke in a distinctive Southern drawl to a crowd of about 100 students, faculty, and community members about writing, surviving, loving, and raising children. Allison began her discussion with a passionate reading from her most well-known novel, "Bastard Out of Carolina." The section of semi-autobiographical "Bastard" from which she read was a personal narrative about a trip to the hospital at a young age after her stepfather broke her tailbone. After reading, the author fielded questions on various topics from the audience.

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Book tells of black experiences at college

By Jennifer Kay | May 4, 1999

At Dartmouth, where racial tension is not unheard of, Professor of Education Andrew Garrod's new book "Souls Looking Back: Life Stories of Growing Up Black" provides an eye-opening look into the life stories of many members of the black community at the College. "Souls Looking Back" explores the unique experience of being black in a predominately white educational setting through narratives written by African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and biracial students from Dartmouth, McGill University, and Simmons College with 14 of the 16 essays written by students from the College. Garrod and his colleagues divided the essays into three sections according to their focus: social class and race; identity issues such as race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation; and resilience and resistance in times of crisis. Identified only by their first names, the students trace their development from their childhoods though their college years in their essays. The narratives represent a wide variety of backgrounds.

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GOP nat'l chair speaks on party's values

By Omer Ismail | May 3, 1999

Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson highlighted the core values of freedom, growth and individuality as a uniting force for the Republican party to a crowd of 60 people in 105 Dartmouth yesterday morning. Admitting that the Republicans have had minor differences on some issues in the past, Nicholson said all Republicans agree "the government should not be our master, but our servant." "We believe in empowering people instead of enabling them," he added. Nicholson said the Republican party is in a strong united position - they form 55 percent of the Senate, gained a majority in the House of Representatives for the third consecutive election last year and currently have 31 governors ruling three-fourths of the American people. Democrats who switched to Republican have also strengthened the party.

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Assembly elects four to MIAC

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | May 3, 1999

In the first step towards determining two student-selected representatives to the Board of Trustees' steering committee, the Student Assembly elected the Membership and Internal Affairs Committee last night at the first organizational meeting held by the 1999-2000 Assembly. A total of five students will sit on the 14-member steering committee, two of whom will be student-selected.

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Hundreds volunteer through DarCorps

By Wendy Yu | April 30, 1999

Hundreds of students, faculty members and administrators will gather on the Gold Coast lawn tomorrow to begin a day of community service for DarCorps '99. Volunteers for DarCorps, a college-organized community outreach project, will register at noon, and then disperse to more than 65 community service locations in the Upper Valley area. Projects for DarCorps range from painting and raking to working with elderly patients and doing trail work. "We want the volunteers to enjoy the work that they do and understand what a contribution they are making to the community at large," Co-Chair Amanda Young '01 said. Some of the local agencies involved are Planned Parenthood, the Montshire Museum, Outreach House, Ray Elementary School and the Dartmouth Outing Club. "I look forward to the volunteers coming out and enjoying their three hours.

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SA finalizes Steering selection process

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | April 30, 1999

The two student-selected members of the Board of Trustees' steering committee that will help shape the future of social and residential life at Dartmouth will be chosen through two processes -- a campus-wide election and an appointment by the Student Assembly. The two student representatives that will serve on the 14-member committee, which will also include three other student members chosen by the steering committee itself, must be selected by May 12. "We've been advocating for students to vote for Trustees, but this is the next best thing, an opportunity to vote for someone to serve with the trustees," Assembly Vice President-elect Margaret Kuecker '01 said. While more time would make the process easier, in the end, two representative students will be selected, Krishna said. "It's going to be crunch time, but it is an issue people have been thinking about for three months, and hopefully people are [prepared] so we can have really good and interested applicants," Kuecker said. To strive for more balanced and complementary representatives, the Membership and Internal Affairs Committee will choose a representative after the general election results have been announced, so that by May 12 both representatives will be known, Assembly President-elect Dean Krishna '01 said. A campus-wide Blitzmail message will be sent today providing information on how to become a candidate for the steering committee. Once interested applicants have filled out an application form, their responses will be publicly posted to inform voters. The delay in deciding a process to choose the representatives originated from the mixed messages of deadlines, Kuecker said. Krishna met with Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson Monday to determine a time frame of three to four weeks.

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Ben Bradlee to visit campus in May

By Kathrin Weston | April 30, 1999

Distinguished journalist and former executive editor of the Washington Post Benjamin Bradlee will be visiting the College as one of Spring term's Montgomery Fellows May 17 and 18. Bradlee, who presided over the Post during the Watergate controversy, will speak about the presidency of Richard Nixon as part of the "Power and the Presidency" lecture series in Cook Auditorium on May 18. Shortly after receiving a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, Bradlee began his journalism career in 1948 as a reporter for the Washington Post covering the federal courts. Bradlee left The Post in 1951 to become press attache for the State Department at the U.S.

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UPenn calls end to campus alcohol ban

By Julia Levy | April 30, 1999

University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin lifted the five-week alcohol ban after receiving the final report from the alcohol task force that recommended safer uses of alcohol and expanded social options. The task force's 10-page report recommends that no hard alcohol be allowed at registered on-campus parties, and that alcohol distribution at registered undergraduate events end at 1 a.m., along with other recommendations. "I think this policy is going to lead to substantive change in respect to curbing alcohol abuses," Wharton senior and task force member Jeffrey Snyder said. The temporary ban on alcohol, imposed immediately after the death of Penn alumnus Michael Tobin '94, triggered protests from much of the University's student body.

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COS election winners are announced after delay

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | April 29, 1999

After a few computer glitches and more than a week's anticipation, the six members of the Committee on Standards were finally announced yesterday. Ezekiel Webber '00, Jorge Miranda '01, Zoe McLaren '00, Bruce Kennedy '00, Brian Feldman '00 and Brian Sleet '00 garnered the highest numbers of votes in a field of 16 candidates. While the winners of all other elected positions were announced April 20, the COS results were postponed because it was discovered that Class of 1999 students, eligible to vote for COS representatives, were prevented from submitting a ballot over the computer. Additional voting time was then allotted, and the deadline for seniors was extended until April 23. According to a BlitzMail message posted on the elections bulletin by Director of the Collis Center Mark Hoffman, results were expected to be made public the same day. Another computer error, however, lead to the posting of a new bulletin bumping back the time to April 25.

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Candles light up Green for Kosovo

By Julia Levy | April 29, 1999

Members of the Dartmouth Kosovo Refugee Fund lit the Green with hundreds of candles last night in an effort to raise awareness about the conflict in Yugoslavia, and to show support for Kosovar refugees. Student members lined the candles, purchased partly with the funds raised from the Candles for Kosovo project, along the paths running across the Green at 8 p.m.

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Admissions denies WSJ's claims

By Omer Ismail | April 28, 1999

Admission officers rejected claims of a recent Wall Street Journal article that Ivy League colleges favor certain extracurricular activities over others when admitting students. Having compiled statistics from the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College and Georgetown University -- two of which are not even part of the Ivy League -- the Wall Street Journal article argued that being a student leader, a publication editor or a team captain is a huge advantage when applying for admission to an Ivy League school. Karl Furstenberg, Dartmouth's dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, said the article was "foolish." He said the Journal reporter contacted him too, but she only quoted people whose remarks agreed with the assertion of the story. Robin Mamlet, dean of Admissions at Swarthmore, reiterated similar comments about the article.

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Assembly ponders selection process

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | April 28, 1999

Newly elected Student Assembly President Dean Krishna '01 and Vice President Margaret Kuecker '01 are leaning towards conducting a campus-wide election to choose the two undergraduates to represent the student body on the Trustee steering committee. The committee -- which is the second stage in the implementation of changes resulting from the Trustees' five principles -- will recommend to the full Board a proposal on changing the College in accordance with the principles. Five students will sit on the steering committee, two of whom will be chosen by the student body.

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Alums discuss student life elsewhere

By Katharine L. Uhre | April 28, 1999

Yesterday a panel of three Dartmouth graduates spoke to administrators and students about their experiences with student life at other institutions and compared them with their experiences as undergraduates at Dartmouth. The panelists drew comparisons between residential housing at Dartmouth and other institutions.

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