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College Board considers upgrading aid formula

By Julia Levy | February 8, 1999

For the first time in 20 years, the College Board is upgrading its institutional methodology -- a formula it uses to determine a college applicant's financial needs -- altering the way schools across the country calculate aid packages for college applicants. The aim of the revised formula is to increase aid eligibility for middle-income families and reduce the expected family contribution students in that income bracket, according to Jack Joyce, the College Board's manager for communication and training services. However, the revised formula will not significantly affect the way Dartmouth determines its aid packages because of the recent radical changes the College has made to the way it calculates financial aid. "It's going about it a different way, but we may end up with very similar answers," Director of Financial Aid Virginia Hazen said. The new formula will go into effect next year at Dartmouth when the financial aid office determines aid for the Class of 2004. The changes to the methodology were brought about from recommendations made by college and university financial aid representatives.

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Twenty seniors elected to Executive Committee

By Heather Kofke-Egger | February 5, 1999

The Class of 1999 elected the 20 members of the Senior Executive Committee yesterday, choosing the seniors who will plan graduation and activities in their first five years as alumni. The committee, which serves as a link between the class and the Alumni Council, is also the policy-making and governing body of the Class of 1999.

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Bob Smith calls for Clinton to testify

By Jen Taylor | February 4, 1999

New Hampshire Senator Bob Smith -- who announced last month he would campaign for the Republican presidential nomination -- demanded Monday that President Clinton testify during the Senate impeachment hearings. "There's one person out there who knows the truth.

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Black Greeks focus on community

By Sarah Rubenstein | February 4, 1999

When leaders of the historically African-American Greek fraternities and sororities at the College discuss their organizations, they don't emphasize parties, alcohol or the need for short-term social options. All four founded nationally before 1920, the historically black fraternities and sororities focus on lifetime commitments to the community -- some dealing primarily with the African-American community, and others trying to cater to their general college and national communities as well. Leaders of these organizations say joining a historically black Greek organization means commitment to a purpose -- helping others, teaching and creating common bonds of friendship. "When you become a member of our fraternity, you become a member for life," said Kesner Bienvenu '99, president of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, Theta Zeta Chapter.

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Birch speaks on Chiapas conflict

By Kascha Semon | February 3, 1999

Through a video and descriptions of personal experience, Melissa Birch brought the conflict between the Mexican government and the indigenous Zapatista people to the attention of an audience of approximately 40 students and faculty in Hinman Forum last night. Birch, a member of Action for Community and Ecology in the Rainforests of Central America (ACERCA), recently returned from an expedition to Chiapas, an area in southeastern Mexico which is home to the Zapatista and is rich in natural resources. The Zapatista conflict affects U.S.

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Artist-in-residence lays her tracks in light

By Deborah Bernstein | February 1, 1999

Artist-in-residence Jin Soo Kim chose a unique position to contemplate her work displayed at the Hopkins Center -- she physically sat on her installation, entitled "tracks." Kim perched on the end of the railroad tracks spread across the Jaffe-Friede Gallery floor as she discussed the meaning of her piece and her term at the College as the artist-in-residence. The art, consisting of railroad tracks and over 420 light bulbs laid out on the bare wood floor, stands for many things, Kim said. The bulbs are either lit, unlit or broken at random, and can represent life, the hope of life or death. Kim has left the interpretations of the work up to its viewers, but said the piece may inspire memories of trains that went to Nazi death camps in World War II. "I want people to think of what the train has meant to life and the human experience," Kim said. Kim said in creating the piece she thought about how trains have connected people throughout history and how they allowed people to "keep track of each other." Kim said people find their own meanings in her work.

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