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Student teachers learn by teaching

By Hank Leukart | March 6, 1998

"I want to be a teacher" are the last words most people expect to hear from a Dartmouth student's mouth. But eight seniors -- Tara Bennett, Corey Chatis, Deirdre Driscoll, Elizabeth Mawn, Elizabeth McGoldrick, Richard Sevilla, Richard Ouimet and Steve Zrike-- are currently enrolled in Dartmouth's teacher certification program and are teaching elementary and secondary school students. The program pits Dartmouth students against classes of 15 to 30 students of all ages, forcing them to learn to teach in just one short term. According to the student teachers, it is grueling, but they all love it. "This is one of the most rewarding experiences I have had so far in my life," said Sevilla, who teaches fourth and fifth graders at the Seminary Hill School in West Lebanon.

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Black Theater Summit convenes

By Jennifer Hickey | March 6, 1998

Montgomery Fellow August Wilson, English Professor William Cook and Drama Professor Victor Walker have joined playwrights, businessmen, lawyers and scholars from across the country for The National Black Theater Summit at the College's Minary Conference Center on Squam Lake near central New Hampshire. The five-day, closed-door summit, which was convened to discuss the needs of black theater and its movement into the next millennium, will culminate on Saturday with a one-day national conference in the Hopkins Center. At Saturday's "African-American Theater: The Next Stage" conference, the participants of the closed summit will return to campus to discuss the issues and ideas developed during the week's working sessions. Panels will address legal and social initiatives, economic issues, playwriting techniques, diversity within the black arts community and audience development.

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Speaker to be selectted for Commencement

By Maura Henninger | March 6, 1998

With Commencement just a term away, the administration is in the process of selecting a speaker for an important year, the 25th anniversary of coeducation at the College and James Freedman's final year as College president. According to Women Resource Center Director Giavanna Munafo, the Council on Honorary Degrees, of which she is a member, has put together a group of 12 women the members hope Freedman and the Board of Trustees will consider. "I think it would be appropriate to have a woman, as do the rest of the people on the committee," Munafo said. Each fall, the committee solicits nominations from the entire College community for all honorary degree recipients.

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Willis '98 helps start Voces Clamantium

By Elenor Mak | March 5, 1998

Lincoln Willis '98 easily jumps into things when he feels needed. Last summer, while hiking in the Shenandoah National Park on the Appalachian Trail with seven children as their camp counselor, Willis had a run in with a bear. Acting quickly in the emergency situation, "I put myself between the kids and the bear," he said.

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Coeducation leads to creation of Office of Residential Life

By Joseph C. Scott | March 5, 1998

In the old days of Dartmouth, housing was relatively simple. The College business administration ran housing, providing each of the male students with a room based on what he could afford. Wealthier students lived in larger rooms, with fireplaces and other such amenities while students of lesser means lived in smaller, more barren rooms. College students often were able to live in the same room all four years, surrounded by the same hallmates. But change came throughout the 1960s when the College gradually expanded its enrollment, and rooms and beds were needed to accommodate the new numbers of students. Then many of the rooms on campus became more "compressed," according to Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco.

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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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