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Housing options for fall are slim

By Jennifer Hickey | July 30, 1998

The College's housing wait list for the Fall term has dropped from 150 to 54 students, but Acting Dean of Residential Life Mary Liscinsky said those still without housing should be exploring other options. Although the wait list is longer than last year, it has been longer in previous years, according to Liscinsky. "We just keep getting a high number of people wanting to live on campus because of the obvious advantages," she said. The Office of Residential Life saved 1,090 beds for the Class of 2002, but there were "considerably more" incoming freshmen than the office had expected, Director of Housing Services Lynn Rosenblum said. She added that all the first year students have now been housed and the wait list is currently made up solely of members of the Class of 2001. With a larger incoming class than expected and less off-campus programs offered this fall, Liscinsky said the office is looking into the possibility of converting several study lounges into rooms. The converted study lounges "would have all the typical amenities, since we would be using ones that were actually once rooms before," Liscinsky said. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg said he does not think there will be a housing crunch. Although there are currently about 1,100 students in the Class of 2002, he expects a few more to defer admission before the fall. Additionally, about four or five students drop out during the first week of Fall term, because orientation does not go as planned or they get sick on their Dartmouth Outing Club freshman trip, Furstenberg said. "Ultimately, we should have about 1,095 students," he said.

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Falling pipe and tiles narrowly miss campers

By Edward Thomas | July 28, 1998

A drain pipe crashed through the ceiling of Westside Buffet last Tuesday during peak dinner hours, narrowly missing several campers as debris and tiles fell to the floor. Construction workers were in the process of repairing the roof of Thayer Dining Hall when a pipe became unattached and fell down into the area where food is served in Westside, according to Dartmouth Dining Services Assistant Director Jerry Gambell. "It all started crumbling," DDS employee Amanda Green '00 said, "and then the pipe came crashing through.

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Non-sophomores study during summer

By Rachel Ormston | July 28, 1998

Summer term is traditionally labeled "sophomore summer," but several non-sophomores have decided to spend these three months on the Hanover Plain. While there are 1015 sophomores here for the summer, there are 197 students registered who are not members of the Dartmouth Class of 2000, according to Registrar Data Control Assistant Nancy Comstock. The Registrar's list of summer students includes 65 from the Class of 1999, and 55 members of the Class of 2001, as well as several from classes as far back as 1987, Comstock said. There are also nine students from the Twelve-College exchange program, from such schools as Mount Holyoke College, Wellesley College, and Smith College, and seven on the Thayer Engineering School dual-degree program.

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Japanese students to visit Hanover

By Eun Lee Koh | July 28, 1998

Dartmouth and the town of Hanover will play host to some unlikely visitors next week who come in honor of Kanichi Asakawa, the first Japanese graduate of the College. The 12 junior high school students, who hail from Nihonmatsu, the Japanese town where Asakawa grew up, are scheduled to arrive in Hanover on August 4. The students will stay with host families in Hanover, attending barbecues and touring Dartmouth landmarks, such as Baker Library, said Guilan Wang, director of the International Office arranging the visit. "This is an excellent opportunity for exchange and for these students to get a taste of New England culture," Wang said. The students' visit to the College will be part of larger tour of Asakawa landmarks in the United States, which includes Yale University, where Asakawa attended graduate school and later taught, Wang said. The mayor and other city officials of Nihonmatsu will accompany the students on their visit, Wang said. Asakawa, a member of the Class of 1899, was an eminent Japanese historian and a pioneer facilitator of U.S.-Japanese relations in the early 20th century. The first Japanese person to become a professor at a major American university, Asakawa has become somewhat of a celebrity in Nihonmatsu, which honors him to this day with such annual visits by students. Asakawa's education began at Waseda University in Tokyo where he was always number one in his class, according to an article in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Nicknamed "Full Mark Boy" because he rarely lost points on exams, Asakawa transferred to the College in December 1895 and continued his academic excellence. At the College, Asakawa was affectionately referred to as "K" by his classmates and reportedly wrote the best English of anyone at Dartmouth, according to a former classmate nicknamed "Clothespins" Richardson. After attending graduate school at Yale, Asakawa returned to the College in 1902 as a lecturer on Far East civilization and languages. He returned to Yale in 1907 to teach history of Japanese civilizations, specializing in Japanese feudalism. In 1930, the College honored Asakawa for his personal and scholarly excellence by conferring on him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. This coincided with the height of national animosity towards Japanese people in the United States stemming from World War II. Prior to the outbreak of World War II, Asakawa wrote several letters to President Franklin Roosevelt on U.S.-Japanese foreign policy and subsequently wrote letters and essays urging Japan against aggression toward the United States and Russia.

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College to open compost facility

By Jennifer Hickey | July 24, 1998

The College and the town of Hanover will open a composting facility next week in an attempt to ease the pressure on landfill space and reduce waste-dumping costs. Located just two miles from campus, near the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the new composting site should save space, time, money and valuable natural resources, according to Composting Intern for Dartmouth Dining Services Julie Moynihan '98. Materials Management Coordinator Bill Hochstin said, "We're taking material which would have been wasted and would have taken up valuable space in the landfill and we're creating a very useful product." At the site, the managed decomposition of organic matter, like banana peels, yard waste and pizza boxes, will produce a nutrient-rich soil to be used and sold. The idea for composting at the College originated in 1988 when a report on campus waste found that, although the College has a recycling rate of 35 to 40 percent, an estimated 51 percent of the remaining waste stream could be composted, Hochstin said. A few years later, when the Dartmouth Organic Farm was founded at Fullington Farm, Facilities Operations and Management started a small composting area at the site, and used the soil product on the organic garden and College athletic fields. Seeing how easy the process was and wanting to expand the program, FO&M intended to build a full composting facility at the Fullington site with a single bay Resource Optimization Technologies box built into a 24-by-50-foot pole barn, Hochstin said. But the project faced complications, as the Fullington grant precluded building any such structures on the land. Hanover then made one acre of land available for the facility, and ROT was hired to build, equip and operate it. Hochstin said the facility will be used by the College for food waste and non-recyclable paper, and by the town of Hanover for land waste. "We expect the facility to be operating on Monday," Hochstin said.

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Langford to recruit minorities

By Marcus Coe | July 24, 1998

In order to assure the diversity of the College's future classes, Sylvia Langford was appointed as the coordinator of minority recruitment for the class of 2003 earlier this week. In a memorandum released last Monday Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg announced that while Langford will retain her position as the dean of the Class of 1999, she will also be taking over the minority recruitment campaign formerly run by Associate Director of Admissions Christine Pina. Pina will be taking a one year leave to pursue graduate work at Harvard University. Langford's appointment for the 1998-99 academic year marks an important bridge between the dean's office and the admissions office in their combined effort to make the Class of 2003 as dynamic and diverse a group as possible. Langford's new responsibilities include not only the review and evaluation of applicants but also the promotion of Dartmouth to under-represented minorities who might not normally consider the College as prospective students. As tools to increase the number of minorities faces in the 2003 class, Langford will utilize special visitation programs and contact with prospective students and their family. She will also be in charge of coordinating student volunteers in the minority recruitment program and will be a valuable liaison between the dean's office, the admissions office and the College undergraduate student body. "I'm delighted about the opportunity to work in admissions as well as in the dean's office next year," Langford wrote in an electronic-mail message. Langford seems excited about working with two classes on the verge of large life transitions. "I hope to increase the visibility of Dartmouth College in several minority communities and work with the admissions team to put together another dynamic class.

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Families descend on Hanover for weekend

By Joseph C. Scott | July 24, 1998

The College is battening down its hatches in preparation for an invasion of families this weekend. According to Mark Hoffman, director of Collis Center and Student Activities, about 700 parents will be visiting their sons and daughters for this year's Sophomore Family Weekend.

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Holzer leads Council with a 'huge heart'

By Mitch Yashiro | July 22, 1998

While many Dartmouth students dream about becoming doctors, investment bankers or lawyers, summer Class Council President Paul Holzer '00 wants to be a public school English teacher. Holzer said "being friendly" is the motto in his life. "Nothing makes me happier than being friendly to everyone," Holzer said with a big smile.

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New math building will honor Kemeny

By Alex Shartsis | July 22, 1998

John G. Kemeny, 13th president of the College -- the man who oversaw coeducation and helped invent the BASIC computing language -- will be honored by a new math building, the Board of Trustees announced yesterday. The new building will reunite the math department, currently spread over three different buildings -- a setup few at the College appreciate. "It has interfered with our work," said the current department chair, mathematics professor Dana Williams.

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ALPs program finishes 17th year

By Joseph C. Scott | July 22, 1998

Yesterday marked the graduation of students attending the final session of this summer's Accelerated Language Program. This was the 17th summer for ALPs, according to Program Manager Mark Schiffman.

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Karen Wilkes '00 champions diversity

By Sarah Gerry | July 20, 1998

While most students spent Saturday afternoon floating down the Connecticut River in a drunken stupor, Karen Wilkes '00 caught up on some much needed sleep. Wilkes had been up all night Friday talking with friends, and, although she said she regrets missing Tubestock, she thought the conversations were productive. "[We] really opened up to each other," she said.

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Lent '96 leads Green Card merger

By Alex Shartsis | July 16, 1998

Taran Lent '96, vice president of the Hanover Green Card, is leading the Green Card's overhaul of the DASH office. Lent said his interest in the Green Card -- a debit card available to students for use at local businesses -- began his sophomore spring. "I was literally one of the very first card members," Lent said. He filled out his application, corrected the spelling mistakes he found on it and went into the fledgling Green Card office to turn in the corrected form and offer his help. Mitch Jacobs '94, founder and president, called on him many times thereafter. Lent returned to Hanover the summer of his junior year, both for football training and as an intern in the Green Card office. He went on to be one of the football team's co-captains his senior year, playing outside linebacker.

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Students to canoe, swim, party in river

By Eun Lee Koh | July 16, 1998

By mid-afternoon on Saturday, the Connecticut River will have turned into a sea of rubber tubes, plywood rafts and floating bodies. The 12th annual Tubestock will give students the chance to listen to live music and cool off in the water, imbibing in legal and illegal drinks -- with temperatures expected to hit record highs this weekend. Although Tubestock has become a Summer term tradition at Dartmouth, the College maintains a complete separation from the event. The tradition evolved from a daylong party on the river thrown by Rich "Boomer" Akerboom '80 for his friends during the summer of 1987. At the original event, Akerboom, a former brother of the Chi Heorot fraternity, played with his band on the deck of his house, the "River Ranch," while his friends watched from the river. Around 200 students attended the first Tubestock and soon the event caught on.

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