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Advisor to Unabomber argues Kaczynski is sane

By Omer Ismail | May 21, 1999

Michael Mello, occasional legal advisor to Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski and Vermont Law School professor, argued last night that Kaczynski deserves a new trial because he is not a paranoid schizophrenic, as his lawyers claimed he was. Mello, whose visit was arranged by the Daniel Webster Legal Society, spoke to a crowd of 30 people in 3 Rockefeller last night and attacked the stance of Kaczynski's lawyers who pleaded their defendant guilty and tried to justify Kaczynski's numerous murders by calling him insane. Along with three VLS students, Mello helped Kaczynski draft an appeal to "vacate and set aside his guilty plea" under the insanity justification.

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Student followed to apartment

By Andrew Marnell | May 20, 1999

An unidentified man allegedly followed a female student from Collis Center to her apartment behind the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity late Monday night, then entered her apartment unannounced. "This man walks into the outer room, didn't knock, just walked in," Jenny Holland '99, the student who was followed, wrote in a BlitzMail message spread throughout campus earlier this week. The man said he thought he and Holland had made eye contact at Collis, Holland told The Dartmouth. Holland did not recognize the man.

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Lebanon H.S. faces mascot dispute

By Julia Levy | May 20, 1999

Lebanon High School may be leaning towards abandoning its Indian mascot, despite a recent decision to continue using the controversial mascot for the time being. During a May 12 board meeting, the school board members made a short-term decision to repaint the Native American symbol on their new football field concession stand.

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Students discuss athletic space

By Katharine L. Uhre | May 20, 1999

Last night over 50 students and several administrators gathered in Tindle Lounge to participate in a fact finding workshop on the future of athletic and recreational space at Dartmouth College. "We have completely open minds and need to hear ...directly from the students," said Chad Floyd, a Partner at Centerbrook Architects and Planners, the college architectural firm and the leader of the workshop last night. The college architects head a team of specialists that includes engineers and representatives from Brailsford & Dunlavey, which specializes in state of the art developments in the college athletic arena. The workshop began with a presentation by two employees of Brailsford & Dunlavey, who discussed the history of athletic facilities and offered ideas for the future.

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Trustees finalize Initiative Steering Committee: Miller '02, Roderick '99 named final two undergraduates to be part of 16-member group

By Brad Russo | May 19, 1999

The final members of the Trustees' influential Steering Committee were announced yesterday, signaling the beginning of the powerful committee's work of weeding through proposals on the controversial Five Principles and presenting a recommended implementation plan to the full Board of Trustees. In addition to Meg Smoot '01 who was chosen through last week's student election and Matthew K.

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Working groups near completion

By Brad Russo | May 19, 1999

After months of meetings following the announcement of the Trustees Five Principles, the student-led Working Groups are now preparing their final proposals for social and residential change that they will submit to the College. The Student Assembly will vote on the proposal in a series of piecemeal resolutions at its meeting next Tuesday - one of the current Assembly's last. Assembly Vice President Case Dorkey '99 said the proposal is being drawn up collectively by the chairs of the five Working Groups and he expects the proposal to include both suggestions on how the initiative should be implemented and student opinions gathered during the Working Group meetings. At its meeting this week, the Assembly passed a resolution calling for greater "administrative accountability to the student body." The resolution asks College President James Wright to issue an end-of-the-year report detailing the College's progress in response to all of this year's Assembly resolutions which called for administration action. The resolution states that the responses the Assembly has gotten so far "have been largely informal or inconclusive"

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Bradlee describes Nixon's persona

By Sarah Rubenstein | May 19, 1999

Richard Nixon worked very hard but never seemed to enjoy it, often seemed uncomfortable around people, had an inferiority complex and was cynical and anti-Semitic, former executive editor of the Washington Post Ben Bradlee said in a speech mixing anecdotal analysis and humor for a filled Cook Auditorium yesterday. Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991 and the newspaper's main decision-maker when it uncovered the Watergate scandal, told several anecdotes about the president whom he jokingly thanked for being "solely responsible for my presence here today." "Choosing me to analyze Nixon is a little like choosing Judge Starr to analyze Clinton," Bradlee said, as he gave the final speech of the Power and the Presidency series, which has spanned the past two terms and seen speakers such as historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and Clinton biographer David Maraniss come to the College. This term's Montgomery Fellow said he did not know Nixon personally but recounted a few of his interactions with the president. Bradlee said he first covered Nixon during the 1960 presidential campaign, although he had been assigned to focus on John F.

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Feldstein speaks on Social Security

By Ritika Nandkeolyar | May 18, 1999

Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics at Harvard and head of the National Bureau of Economic Research, presented his proposal for funding Social Security yesterday in a speech titled "Reforming Social Security." "Reforming the government retirement programs - Social Security and Medicare is the single biggest domestic problem facing the United States today," said Feldstein, who recently co-authored a book with Dartmouth Economics Professor Andrew Samwick. According to Feldstein, this reform is necessary since the U.S.

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Doctor injured in car accident

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | May 18, 1999

Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics and the Medical Director of Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Dr. John Brooks was rushed to the emergency room Thursday May 13 after a serious automobile accident with a moose. Traveling on Interstate 89 between Concord and Hanover, Brook's car collided with the large animal. State police responded, and Brooks was admitted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center at 10 p.m.

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Wigand decries tobacco industry practices

By Josie Huang | May 18, 1999

Health advocate Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, who rose to national prominence as the highest-ranking tobacco industry executive to address smoking and health issues to the public on news program "60 Minutes," related his insider experience, lambasted a "very sleazy, powerful, smart" business and described abuses such as public misinformation and youth-oriented marketing last night in the Collis Commonground. In a lecture titled "Inside the Industry: The Smokescreen," Wigand recounted his relationship with Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, one of the largest cigarette makers in the world.

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Bradlee discusses friends, career

By Sarah Rubenstein | May 18, 1999

A few years after The Washington Post uncovered the Watergate scandal that led to Richard Nixon's resignation, the movie "All the President's Men" told the newspaper's story with a tone that offered high praise to the journalists and their ethics. Today, particularly in light of the Clinton scandal and the recent shootings in Littleton, Colo., the media have been targets of harsh criticism. But Ben Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991 and the main decision-maker when it came to what The Post would print regarding the Watergate scandal, has as much faith in the press - that is, the "good" press - as he did back then. Good coverage In an interview with The Dartmouth at the Hanover Inn yesterday, this term's Montgomery Fellow said the top seven or so newspapers in the country, including The Washington Post and The New York Times, have never had more educated, thoughtful and careful reporters, and they have never attracted better young reporters, particularly women. That is not to say other newspapers that engage in tabloid journalism - what Bradlee calls "kerosene papers" - are responsible.

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Great weather marks typical Green Key

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | May 17, 1999

During a weekend highlighted by spectacular weather, various social events and a campus-wide party atmosphere, behavioral violations and arrests during this year's Green Key weekend were not markedly different from last year's. Overall, the weekend featured minimal changes in security reports from last year, and no significant new security policies were instituted. "Nothing really major jumps out at us.

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Habitat founder speaks on need for better housing

By Ritika Nandkeolyar | May 17, 1999

In a speech titled "Students Hammering Out a Difference," Millard Fuller, the founder and President of Habitat for Humanity International, described Habitat's mission and future plans. Habitat is now one of the premier social justice and social relief organization in the world and has built houses in 24,000 towns in 63 nations since 1976. According to Fuller, the organization has grown because growth has been one step at a time. "At first, we built one house, for one needy family in southwest Georgia," he said.

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