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Fitzpatrick: Women want contrast: Pollster and pundit says women want government to act as referee

By Deborah Bernstein | June 2, 1998

Republican pollster and pundit Kellyanne Fitzpatrick said politicians must realize "talk is cheap and women are the first ones to figure that out" during a speech last night in 3 Rockefeller Center. Fitzpatrick said women are looking for four things in both their lives and government: simplicity, security, solvency and solutions. She criticized some politicians for believing that, to reach women voters, candidates must speak differently to them. The best way to reach out to women is to show the contrast between parties or candidates, Fitzpatrick said. Fitzpatrick credited women with leading the charge away from single-issue elections.

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Students speak out against locked doors

By Brad Russo | June 2, 1998

Approximately 75 students discussed with administrators whether to lock the doors of all residence halls during an emergency town meeting in Collis Common Ground last night. The meeting was called after students voiced concern over last week's Student Assembly vote supporting locking all doors beginning in the fall, giving all students a universal key and equipping main entrances with campus-only telephones. Students asked questions to a panel of administrators from Safety and Security and the Office of Residential Life.

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Slow weekend for new alcohol policies

By Allison Robbins | June 1, 1998

There were no registered fraternity parties this weekend, a phenomenon house presidents attributed to implementation of the College's revised social policies, a lack of funds and the upcoming exam period. The new procedures for CFSC events, which went into effect Friday, limit the number of kegs at open parties to five and permit Safety and Security and student monitoring teams to enter houses. Seth Kelly '99 who is the CFSC's events manager, a new position established to help regulate the new policies, said many houses needed to prepare for the new regulations. "[The policies] came up really quickly on a lot of people," Kelly said.

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Green Card is also Wild Card

By Jennifer Hickey | June 1, 1998

Although it may sound like the deceptive evil twin of the Hanover Green Card, the Wild Card differs from the original only in location. The Wild Card, renamed for the UNH mascot Wild Cats, is already being used by 50 students at 30 local stores in Durham, N.H.

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Palaeopitus selects from Class of 1999

By Jen Taylor | May 29, 1998

Twenty members of the Class of 1999 joined Palaeopitus, a group of seniors who advise the College president and the dean of the College, last Saturday night. The members of Palaeopitus each year must be unanimously chosen by the graduating members of the group, current member Elizabeth Sumida '98 said.

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Some fear tests will lead to war

By Chance Hill | May 29, 1998

Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Pakistani nuclear physicist, and Itty Abraham, author of a new book on India's nuclear program, said yesterday evening they fear conflict between India and Pakistan will result in nuclear war. Nuclear weapons may eventually kill "a billion and a half people," Hoodbhoy told an audience of about 150 students and faculty in 3 Rockefeller Center. "To develop such nuclear weapons is obscene" when "four million people live below the poverty line" in India, he said. Hoodbhoy called the hope that nuclear weapons can maintain peace "very optimistic." Unlike the situation between the United States and the former Soviet Republic, two countries that did not share a common border, a nuclear missile launched by Pakistan or India "only has a two to five minute flying time" before impact, he said. "This will necessitate hair-trigger responses" or a preemptive strike if hostility between the two countries escalates to war, Hoodbhoy continued. "To be a big boy in the world, you need nuclear weapons," Houdbhoy said, contrasting the nations' present situation to the past. "You had two adversaries with pistols in their pockets.

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Couple discusses battle against drugs and HIV

By Kathrin Weston | May 29, 1998

Kim and Damian Rosa, originally from New York City but now residents of the Upper Valley, told approximately 30 students how their drug use and HIV have shaped their lives last night in 28 Silsby. Kim Rosa, who was diagnosed with the HIV virus in 1990, described growing up with parents who were both alcoholics and a mother who was abusive. She began to acquire what she called "bad habits," such as smoking marijuana, taking pills, drinking and cutting school. After her father threw her out because of her drug habit, she held jobs at a bank and a deli restaurant, where one evening a customer asked her out for a drink.

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Masters retires, gets $50,000 grant, studies environment

By Eleanor Mak | May 29, 1998

Retirement and $50,000. Government Professor Roger Masters is getting both of the above this year. He is retiring from the College this June and has just received a $50,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for his work. But Masters, who has been a government professor at the College since 1967, said he is retiring in name only -- he plans to stick around and teach a few more classes. "I am 65 in June, and at 65, one should retire so that there are some places for younger scholars to get jobs," Masters said. Masters and his colleague, Myron Coplan, a retired chemical engineer and principal of a Massachusetts consulting firm, received the $50,000 grant for research one would not immediately link to government professors. The grant is for a one-year study of the chemicals used in water treatment, their impact on the nervous system's absorption of lead and the behavioral effects of lead toxicity on children. The College will also provide about $80,000 for the research project. "We think we have found things in the fluoride content of water supplies that decreases children's learning ability," Masters explained. Masters' and Coplan's study will use data collected from various government agencies about the level of lead in children's blood as well as pollution, crime and learning disabilities statistics.

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ORL chooses two new area directors

By Brad Russo | May 28, 1998

The Office of Residential Life recently announced Jeffrey DeWitt and Vicki Gist will be the College's new area directors beginning in July. Acting Dean of Residential Life Mary Liscinsky said the area directors are responsible for supervising the student area coordinators and performing functions the ACs cannot. "They really help set the daily tone and atmosphere and events that happen in the residence halls," Liscinsky said.

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ORL distributes AC, UGA awards: Students win new awards named for Mary Turco and Bud Beatty

By Kimberley Tait | May 28, 1998

The Office of Residential Life recognized the outstanding commitment of its staff members, undergraduate advisors, area coordinators and programming coordinators in an award ceremony in Brace Commons last night. The Outstanding UGA award, the Outstanding Senior Staff Member award, the Mary Turco Award and the Bud Beatty Distinguished Service Award were presented to four seniors. The Outstanding UGA honor was given to Tamara Matthews '98, a UGA in Streeter residence hall. Acting West Campus Area Director Anne Janeway solicited student input by e-mailing every freshman.

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Assembly supports locked door policy

By Brad Russo | May 27, 1998

The Student Assembly last night narrowly voted to support a plan from Director of Residential Operations Woody Eckels to lock all residence hall doors starting this fall. Under the plan, which passed by a vote of 10-8 with two members abstaining, students would have a master key to unlock all building entrances on campus.

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Fran and Bob Boehm '35 lead activists' lives, fund programs

By Melissa Edelman | May 27, 1998

Bob Boehm '35 and his wife Fran are in their mid-80s but do not let their age slow them down. When they visited the College last week, they insisted on walking from the Hanover Inn to the Rockefeller Center, and their smiles were constant and energetic. And they have a lot to smile about -- they have seen their lives' work contribute to humanitarian causes and fund public policy programs. One such program aids several Dartmouth students each year -- the Nancy Boehm Coster Public Policy Career Encouragement Program, which is designed to support student interest in public service careers. The Boehms funded this program with an annual commitment of $25,000 grants.

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