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Arias criticizes U. S. military policy

By Omer Ismail | May 13, 1999

Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Oscar Arias criticized the United States' quick use of military force to negotiate world settlements during a press conference at Rockefeller Center yesterday afternoon. A renowned champion of peace and demilitarization, Arias blamed the world's military and economic superpower, the United States, for not exercising moral leadership. "I believe this is a war-loving country," he said of the United States. Arias criticized the United States for not using diplomatic efforts to resolve world conflicts, saying the United States never really tried diplomatic solutions with Saddam Hussein or Slobodan Milosevic.

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Harris '81 named EOAA director

By Omer Ismail | May 13, 1999

Ozzie Harris '81, acting director of the College's office of equal opportunity and affirmative action, was named the new EOAA director on Monday, effective immediately. Harris, who has served as acting director of the EOAA Office since 1998, will direct the College's affirmative action program, as well as oversee Dartmouth's adherence to federal equal opportunity statutes and guidelines. "This is exciting for me," Harris said.

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Arias calls for peaceful solutions to disputes

By Andrew Marnell | May 13, 1999

Oscar Arias, former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Laureate, expressed a desire for peaceful solution-seeking and an end to world economic poverty and inequality in the future during a speech to a packed crowd in 105 Dartmouth Hall last night. Calling peaceful solutions to disputes "a profound and difficult process," Arias said violence can never truly end conflicts. "I do not believe in peace because it is easy, but because it is necessary," Arias said. Giving the example of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Habitat founder to speak tomorrow

By Ritika Nandkeolyar | May 13, 1999

Millard Fuller, cofounder and president of Habitat for Humanity International, will be at Dartmouth on Friday to give a speech titled "Students Hammering Out a Difference," describing the organization's work on campuses across the nation, including Dartmouth. According to the official website, Habitat volunteers have built homes together with some 70,000 families in need in more than 1,300 U.S.

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New Hillel Torah survived the Holocaust

By Ritika Nandkeolyar | May 12, 1999

During services at the Roth Center for Jewish Life last Friday, Rabbi Edward Boraz dedicated a Torah scroll from Czechoslovakia that is over 130 years old and survived the Holocaust. Carol Cram, whose daughter Amy is currently a senior at the College and son Jeremy graduated from Dartmouth in 1993, decided to loan the Torah scroll to the Roth Center, soon after hearing of the construction of the new center for Jewish Life. "Being able to have this scroll here is a wonderful gift," Boraz said. According to Boraz, the scroll was commissioned in 1860 in Tabor, Czechoslovakia. Tabor, which had an expanding Jewish population of about 300 people at the time, has a long historical relationship with Jews.

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Assembly opposes moratorium

By Brad Russo | May 12, 1999

The Student Assembly soundly passed a resolution last night condemning the College's moratorium on new Coed, Fraternity and Sorority organization recognition, saying the decision hinders self-improvement efforts by the Greek system and sends the wrong signal to the student body. The Assembly resolution states the "unilateral announcement of this moratorium has convinced many students that the final implementation of the Initiative has been largely determined already and without consideration of student input." It goes on to say the Initiative "should not disrupt on-going student efforts for positive change" and the moratorium creates a double-standard as the administration is continuing to actively pursue other expansions of residential and social spaces. The resolution passed with 41 votes in favor and only one vote against.

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Tuck, Vt. Law begin exchange program

By Edward Thomas | May 12, 1999

Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and Vermont Law School will begin offering an exchange program for graduate students seeking either masters of business administration or masters of studies in environmental law degrees. The arrangement - formally announced this week - allows Tuck students with an interest in environmental law to explore that field more fully at VLS, while VLS students will be able to take classes at Tuck which develop the relationship between business and the environment. "Environment and business are not separate issues ... it's important for both disciplines to know about the other," Peter Miller, VLS director of relations, said. While many of the classes at VLS deal with public policy and environmental legal issues, classes at the Tuck School highlight business decisions and their impact on the environment. According to Associate Dean of the Tuck School Ken Baker, this will enable students from outside Tuck to study business and the environment from more of a "corporate perspective." As the schools are only a short distance apart, the exchange program will run on a daily basis.

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Fifty protest Chinese embassy bombing

By Eun Lee Koh | May 12, 1999

More than 50 members of the Dartmouth Chinese Association gathered in front of the Hopkins Center yesterday afternoon to protest last Friday's NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia that killed three Chinese journalists and injured more than 20 others. During the peaceful, hour-long protest, protesters echoed sentiments similar to those expressed by the Chinese government on Monday, calling for an investigation into the bombing and demanded that those responsible be brought to court. "We wanted to show our indignant and strong condemnation of the bombings," DCA Chair Zhouhui Zhang said after the protest. In a flyer that protesters distributed to passersby, the DCA called the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy "a naked act of hegemonism and a breach of Chinese sovereignty." "[The bombing of the Chinese Embassy] was not a mistake as casually claimed by NATO but an atrocity," according to the flyer. Zhang said NATO should have made sure that the Chinese Embassy was clear of their targets before launching the bombs. "I would like to believe that it was unintentional," Zhang said, but added that "it's very hard to believe that it's a mistake," particularly because of the accuracy of the bombs used in the attacks. Both President Clinton and NATO offered apologies shortly after the bombing and said the attack on the embassy was a military error. However, Zhang said the apologies offered by Clinton and NATO were not enough, saying the apologies should be followed up with action. "If I bombed the White House, and I apologized and said, 'Oh, I'm sorry,' I believe no American would be accepting of that," Zhang said.

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Reporter places fake egg donor ad

By Jennifer Kay | May 12, 1999

The advertisement promises $35,000 to an "intelligent and athletic woman with a sunny disposition," a high SAT score, specific physical attributes, and the willingness to donate her eggs to a childless couple. There is, however, a catch. The ad, which has been appearing in the classified section of The Dartmouth, is false. Jennifer Whitcomb '00 called the 800-number in the ad.

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New Chase Field may be years away

By Wendy Yu | May 12, 1999

Severed negotiations between Dartmouth College and a group of Hanover residents protesting the Chase Field athletic complex may delay its construction for months and possibly years. The Hanover Planning Board, which approved controversial versions of the artificial turf field and indoor tennis courts in November and then again in January, had been under attack by separate appeals filed by the College and a group of Hanover residents who live near the proposed site. "It is extremely important to the Athletic Department that we begin and complete these facilities as soon as possible," College Counsel Cary Clark said. Two weeks ago the College dropped its appeals and signed a notice of action, meaning the College is now prepared to start construction on the board's terms whenever the neighbors drop their appeals. "Our expectation was that soon after [the College's dropping of the appeals], the neighbors would drop their appeal," said Gordon DeWitt, director of facilities planning. But the neighborhood is apparently not ready to change their stance. "The site plan review regulations states the projects are not supposed to increase light and noise beyond the confines of the project," said William Clauson, the attorney representing the neighborhood.

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Construction further limits parking

By Wendy Yu | May 11, 1999

Despite the construction of a new parking garage in Hanover and continuing efforts by the Student Assembly to improve the parking fines system, student car owners should not expect to see a change in parking options any time soon. According to the most recent draft of the master plan, the College allocates 1,102 parking spaces for 1,661 students with registered cars. Of that number, more than half are supplied by the houses of the Coed Fraternity and Sorority Council, which charge about three or four times more than the $11 per term fee for school lots, according to William Barr, associate director of administrative services. "We have parking we are currently not using.

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Freccero speaks on film soundtracks

By Julia Levy | May 11, 1999

Former Dartmouth professor Carla Freccero spoke yesterday afternoon to about 50 students and former colleagues about the cultural politics surrounding movies and their soundtracks. She used clips from mega-hit 1990s movies "The Body Guard," "Waiting to Exhale" and "Dead Man Walking" to illustrate her belief that the narratives of movies and their pop music soundtracks do not typically correspond. She said historically, films with soundtracks were either films that were linked inextricably to music, such as operas, or films about rock groups. On the other hand, she called the pop music appearing in modern movies as characterized by "the domain of the female" and a "space where women can get prestige." As a result, she said modern films are more conservative politically than the messages conveyed by the songs that accompany them. She said "The Body Guard" was very conservative politically, depicting Kevin Costner as a heroic white man who ultimately saves Whitney Houston, a single black mother with a son.

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SA: campus must wait for Coke-Pepsi results

By Brad Russo | May 11, 1999

The Student Assembly announced last night that the result of yesterday's much talked about student vote on the College's soft-drink supplier will not be released to the campus for some time. Assembly leaders declined to give specific reasons for the delay, citing only legal reasons and effects the publicized results might have on "on-going negotiations." These future negotiations might also have an impact on the final decision the College makes despite wording in election advertisements which implied the students' vote would be final. In a flyer distributed to residence hall rooms this week, the Assembly said the soda vote was "not a poll.

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Silverman '97 to appear on talk show

By Julia Levy | May 10, 1999

Howard Scott Silverman '97 had never been on television, and he certainly never dreamed he would ever date the daughter of a celebrity. But last week, he had the opportunity to do both. Silverman was flown to Hollywood from England, where he is currently pursuing a doctorate in genetics at Oxford University, to appear on two episodes of The Roseanne Show about interfaith dating. On the show, Roseanne lamented that her daughters could not find "nice Jewish boys" to date. Silverman and two other "nice Jewish boys" were each matched with one of Roseanne's three daughters.

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Action Network names student execs

By Brad Russo | May 10, 1999

The Dartmouth Action Network has named its Executive Student Committee which will coordinate its on-campus recruiting efforts toward its larger goal of increasing the Dartmouth community voice in College decision-making. Action Network co-founder Steven Sugarman '97 said he hopes the student committee and other student workers, who will be named this week, will be able to solicit the "active support of the majority of students on campus." The committee members are Coed Fraternity Sorority Council President Jaimie Paul '00, Assembly President-elect Dean Krishna '01, former CFSC President John Muckle '99, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity President Thad Glowacki '00, Dartmouth Asian Organization President Rick Su '01, 2000 Class Council Vice-President Zoe McLaren, Tim Danford '01, Meg Smoot '01, and Shelley de Alth '02. The Action Network, recently founded by alumni Sugarman and Richard Yeh '97 and current student David Hawkins '99, all members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, hopes to "make the Trustees accountable to the opinions of the greater Dartmouth community." While not a single-issue organization, the Action Network will focus its initial work on opposing the Trustees' Social and Residential Life Initiative. Sugarman told The Dartmouth the group sought to balance the Student Executive Committee between Greek-affiliated students and unaffiliated students, but 66 percent of the committee members belong to a Greek house.

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