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Narasaki: Asian American growth has social impact

By Mitch Yashiro | April 12, 1999

In the second lecture of the Senior Symposium series, Karen Narasaki, Director of an Asian Pacific Americans legal lobbying group, addressed the social impacts that Asian Americans have on the United States Saturday in Rockefeller Center. Narasaki said because Asian population in the U.S.

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Gilder explains 'zero-sum' problem

By Mitch Yashiro | April 12, 1999

George Gilder -- celebrated author, economist, technology prognosticator and former Presidential speech writer -- kicked off the Senior Symposium's lectures series with a speech titled, "Why Technology Is Green and Ecology Isn't" Friday night in the Rockefeller Center. Gilder started by throwing a question to the audience, "What do the war in Kosovo, global warming conference in Kyoto and social security crisis have in common?" He explained that all three are based on a "zero-sum" game theory, in which a gain for someone is a loss for others. "It used to be thought that the only way you can improve your own position is to reduce the position of someone else," Gilder said. But Gilder challenged the popular conception by illustrating the three examples.

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Goldsmith to step down as First-Year Students Dean

By Julia Levy | April 9, 1999

After six years as the Dean of First Year Students at Dartmouth, Peter Goldsmith will step down at the end of the school year to accept a position as Dean of the College at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Goldsmith formally accepted Oberlin's offer on Wednesday to replace its Acting Dean of the College, Deb McNish. "I was nominated for this position, and it is a wonderful position at an extraordinary institution," Goldsmith said.

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Spring brings calmer Greek opposition

By Brad Russo | April 8, 1999

Angry rallies from the Psi Upsilon fraternity porch, bitter protests during Winter Carnival and biting posters hanging from fraternity windows characterized the immediate aftermath of the Trustees' surprising social and residential life initiative announcement last term. But so far this term opposition seems to be much more subdued -- and out of the public eye.

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Dorm construction to begin Monday

By Heather Kofke-Egger | April 8, 1999

Construction of a new building in the East Wheelock Cluster, scheduled to add another 80 beds by fall of 2000, will begin next Monday and add a fourth building to the College's youngest set of dormitories. Initially designed to replace beds lost to building code upgrades of other residence halls, the new dorm, or "pod," was designed to include features that enhance the design used for the first three East Wheelock buildings. The new residence hall will be part of the East Wheelock residential program which is designed to give students more access to faculty and foster a sense of community. The new building will be built between Zimmerman and Morton residence halls and faculty apartments on East Wheelock and North Park streets, Director of Residential Operations Woody Eckels said. Efforts have been made to design a building that is architecturally consistent with the current East Wheelock residence halls without repeating the same mistakes made when constructing those dorms in 1987, Eckels said. Although actual construction of the building structure will not begin until summer, work on the site will be ongoing throughout the spring, including excavation, tree removal and relocation of the cluster's central cooling unit. Construction is scheduled for 7:30 a.m.

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Little headway made in identifying hate-mailer

By Andrew Marnell | April 8, 1999

Safety and Security has made little headway towards determining the source of last weeks' hate mailings, Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson said yesterday. The focus of the investigation thus far has been the misuse of Hinman Mail, since the mailings contained the return address -- "Crusade for Christ HB 5072" -- but the Campus Crusade for Christ has denied having any involvement with the mailings. Nelson said at this point it is unclear whether the anonymous mailer was a Dartmouth student, or whether the pamphlets were sent by a member of the faculty or the outside community. Right now the College is considering this an "internal issue," he said.

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U. of Penn. ponders new alcohol policy

By Sarah Rubenstein | April 7, 1999

Responding to the administration's recent ban on alcohol at undergraduate parties, a task force composed of 20 administrators and student leaders at the University of Pennsylvania is in the midst of analyzing the university's current alcohol policy and creating a new one. According to Undergraduate Assembly Vice Chair Michael Bassik, the administration did not intend to ban alcohol permanently from parties, but wanted to prompt discussion about the university's current alcohol policy and make clear the need to alter it.

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Grubin speaks on film, presidents

By Kathrin Weston | April 7, 1999

Montgomery Fellow David Grubin, an Emmy Award-winning producer, writer and cinematographer who has won numerous prestigious awards for his documentaries, gave a speech "Presidents on Film" to an audience of approximately 30 people yesterday afternoon in Cooke Auditorium. After an introduction by College Provost Susan Prager, Grubin, who started his career as a cameraman and has since made over 100 documentaries, spoke about the significance of making films and showed clips from several of his documentaries on American Presidents. As a filmmaker, he said he sees his role as that of a storyteller as most people only care about historical facts when they are embodied in stories.

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SA mimics Trustee principles

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | April 7, 1999

At a meeting marked by the presence of more than 30 non-Student Assembly members, the Assembly voted overwhelmingly last night to pass an unusual resolution endorsing a set of its own Five Principles for enhancing student voice at the College, closely mimicking the set of residential and social life principles put forth by the Board of Trustees in February. The Assembly's resolution of student involvement -- passed 43 to five -- rings a familiar tone to students by reflecting the language and the format that the Board of Trustees used to announce its controversial Five Principles to overhaul social and residential life at the College. "I realized student involvement is the issue I care about most, and it affects all aspects of Dartmouth life.

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Pres. hopeful Bradley to visit Hanover Sunday

By Katharine L. Uhre | April 7, 1999

Democratic Presidential candidate Bill Bradley will visit Hanover Sunday to meet with a group of 10 to 15 Dartmouth student supporters who are assisting with his campaign. The students will meet with the former New Jersey senator and New York Knick at the home of Chuck Wira, a Dartmouth Medical School physiology professor.

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Man exposes himself near local trail

By Mitch Yashiro | April 7, 1999

A Dartmouth student who was jogging on Mink Brook Trail by the Connecticut River in Hanover on Monday afternoon, saw something unusual on her daily run -- a male exposing himself and masturbating on the bank of the river. "I didn't feel threatened by him.

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Record high number of minorities accepted

By Andrew Allport | April 6, 1999

Despite the commotion over the small number of African-American students admitted via the early decision process, the Class of 2003's regular admissions are of a different stripe entirely, with the highest percentage of minorities ever admitted. The number of students admitted to the Class of 2003 comprised a record 35 percent minority students -- including 297 Asian Americans, 192 Latinos, 177 African-Americans, and 60 Native Americans, as well as 9 multiracial students.

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