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Group tries to keep discussions active

By Sarah Rubenstein | March 4, 1998

Twenty students gathered yesterday afternoon to continue discussions stemming from racial slurs discovered on a door frame of the Channing Cox apartments. Student Assembly President Frode Eilertsen '99 said he organized the meeting in the hopes that discussion and action would not end with last week's panel at the Roth Center for Jewish Life. "I think you see community improve greatly during times of crisis, and then things fall apart," he said.

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Friar talks on Roman and modern law

By Melissa Edelman | March 4, 1998

Bruce W. Frier, professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan Law School, discussed modern law in the later Roman Republic and the resistance to changes in the traditional system of law before a crowd of approximately 60 people in 2 Rockefeller last night. Frier, part of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association Speakers Series, also drew parallels between the Roman Republic's law and the modern Western law system. Under traditional Roman law, one could sue by going before a magistrate, Frier said.

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Candidate field narrows in Thayer dean search

By Jay Krehbiel | February 27, 1998

The committee charged with finding a replacement for former Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering Elsa Garmire has narrowed its search down to three or four candidates. Engineering Professor Horst Richter, who chairs the committee, said there are three finalists with one more pending further review. The list could expand to five, Richter said, but "more than five would be unmanageable." The committee will present a short list to Provost James Wright by April, and he will appoint the dean in consultation with College President James Freedman by the end of Spring term. Garmire resigned from the post at the beginning of last summer after serving less than two years in the post. Garmire, who came from the University of Southern California's Center for Laser Studies, was the first female dean in the history of the Thayer School. Charles Hutchinson, who was dean of the Thayer School for 10 years before Garmire took over, has been serving as the acting dean since summer. The search committee, which convened in the fall, also includes Engineering Professor George Cybenko, Amos Tuck School of Business Professor William Joyce, Thayer Board of Overseers Chairman John Krehbiel, Biology Professor George Langford, Special Assistant to the President Lucretia Martin, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Surgery Professor Michael Mayor, Engineering Professor Erland Schulson and Engineering Professor Linda Wilson. "We are looking for the same thing we were when we appointed [Garmire] -- someone committed to research and education, who can advance the institution," Wright said. Dartmouth's integration of undergraduate and graduate students distinguishes Thayer from many other engineering schools, and the new dean must be "compatible with Dartmouth's and Thayer's unique education environment," Hutchinson said. Richter said "Dartmouth is special because it is interdisciplinary.

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New SA vice president wants her own business

By Hank Leukart | February 26, 1998

Despite her recent election to Student Assembly vice president, Janelle Ruley '00 does not plan for a career in government. "Government interests me, but it is not my passion," she said in an interview with The Dartmouth yesterday. Ruley was elected Assembly vice president Tuesday night after former Assembly Vice President Nahoko Kawakyu '99 stepped down from her post last week. Originating from moderately sized Livermore, Calif., 19-year-old Ruley said her decision to become involved in the Assembly was a result of her working as an intern for a presidential candidate last year. "I also got involved in [the Assembly] because it is similar to what I did in high school," she said.

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