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New sculpture construction plan takes until Carnival's start

By Heather Kofke-Egger | February 12, 1999

Students found themselves working until 1 a.m. Wednesday in order to finish this year's snow sculpture in time for last night's opening ceremonies. The sculpture, designed by Rael Salley '01, features a giant dog sitting contentedly in the middle of the Green and is based on the theme "Going to the Dogs." This year's Winter Carnival organizers decided to compress the usual month long construction into a little more than a week.

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Carnival crowns first King and Queen Dog

By Ritika Nandkeolyar | February 12, 1999

Carnival King Toby, owned by Sarah Harris '00 and Queen Ceiley, owned by Kevan Higgins '00 and the house dog of Bones Gate fraternity, were crowned last night at the Carnival opening ceremonies. Even this year's first King and Queen Dog of Dartmouth contest was affected by President Wright's recent residential life announcements. In thanking the crowd for his dog's honor, Higgins announced "I just want to say this dog's unaffiliated but she supports the Greek system." The announcement echoed t-shirts being worn by students unaffiliated with Greek houses during the ceremonies. The winning dogs received the glory of being Carnival Monarchs and a special collar, said Dana Neutze '00, chair of the Winter Carnival's opening ceremonies committees and the organizer of the Dog Contest. "Dogs are such an important part of campus and the dog show just tied so well into this year's theme," Neutze said. Dartmouth students have been voting for their favorite King and Queen Dogs during the week leading up to Carnival. Campus canines who entered the contest have had their photos on display at the Collis Center Information Desk.

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Students overwhelmingly support single-sex fraternities and sororities

By Sarah Rubenstein | February 12, 1999

Eighty-three percent of the students who responded to a survey conducted by The Dartmouth yesterday said they favor the continuation of the single-sex Greek system at the College. Of the 4,106 students polled by The Dartmouth via BlitzMail, 2,003 -- or 49 percent -- responded to the survey, and 1,660 of them said they support the single-sex system.

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Nelson says decision will improve social life

By Brad Russo | February 11, 1999

After spending most of the day yesterday digesting the Board of Trustee's unexpected announcement of a massive residential life and Greek system overhaul, members of the Dartmouth community quickly began to consider the question of how the College proceeds from here -- or at least how to figure that out. Since the Trustees laid out only five guiding principles for the immense restructuring of undergraduate life with little definitive plans for how those principles would be implemented, much of the role for determining that plan falls to students. Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson told The Dartmouth yesterday he plans to head a task force comprised of about a dozen students as well as additional faculty members. He said the group would act as a clearinghouse for ideas proposed by members of the Dartmouth community on the restructuring. While Nelson said he has "not yet fully defined" the task force's membership, Coed Fraternity and Sorority Council President Jaimie Paul '00 and Student Assembly President Josh Green '00 have been selected to be part of the group. "With many of the things that I do, it's clear up front how much of an impact I'll have," Green said on his forthcoming work on the task force but added, "I don't think it's particularly clear in this case how much impact students will have.

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Task force to discuss future social options

By Brad Russo | February 11, 1999

Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson said he is confident the undergraduate experience will be improved as a result of the Board of Trustee's decision to drastically change the College's residential life and Greek system -- a bombshell announcement made Tuesday. Nelson told The Dartmouth he received notification of the decision and the Trustee's accompanying five guiding principals "not long before the students did" but refused to be more specific as to when he was precisely informed. "I had no idea before I saw the letter what the Trustees were proposing," Nelson said but added, "the principles they articulated didn't surprise me in the least." "This statement by the Board is not an isolated response to trying to enhance the excellence of the overall experience for students," Nelson, a member of the class of '75, said.

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President Wright outlines Trustees' revolutionary initiative

By The Dartmouth Staff | February 10, 1999

The Dartmouth spoke twice with College President James Wright. The following is a complete transcript of the first interview: President James Wright: I think this is a very exciting opportunity. The Board has been discussing for a number of years the desirability of investing resources and trying to make the out of classroom experience stronger.

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Morris speaks on Reagan's legacy

By Deborah Bernstein | February 10, 1999

Ronald Reagan biographer and Montgomery Fellow Edmund Morris told a Cook Auditorium audience yesterday that Reagan is an extraordinary man. Morris said that with the onset of Reagan's Alzheimer's disease he cannot visit the subject of his upcoming book "Dutch" because it is "distressing to see a magnificent personality and beautiful body begin to be fallible." "A theatrical person in the best sense of the world," Reagan was "gentle and gentlemanly," Morris said, but added, "It was in his nature to control everything he saw in a quiet, personal way." Morris recounted how he was asked to write Reagan's official biography and started observing the president everyday in the White House in 1985.

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Hillel hosts annual ski weekend

By Kascha Semon | February 8, 1999

More than 65 students from universities across the Northeast came to enjoy the winter weather this past weekend for the Dartmouth Hillel's third annual Ski Shabbaton at Killington, VT. Hillel invited all Dartmouth students -- Jewish and non-Jewish alike -- to attend the event, according to event-chair Sean Alpert '01. "The ski weekend surprised many people, especially the freshmen, because they weren't expecting to see what they saw -- it definitely turned a lot of people on to Hillel," said Eli Diament '02, who skied on Sunday and attended two dinners hosted by Hillel. The students -- visiting from Boston University, Brown, Cornell, the University of New Hampshire, Amherst and other nearby schools -- stayed with Dartmouth students for the weekend.

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