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Textbook costs high at Dartmouth and in Ivy League

By Joseph C. Scott | May 7, 1998

Take your pick: a term's worth of books or 60 orders of EBAs' breadsticks. If you plan to pass, books are your best pick, but either way, you're spending about the same amount of money. Starting next year, the College will budget $230 a term per student for book prices when figuring the total cost of education, according to Director of Financial Aid Ginny Hazen. Many students say the prices at the two local bookstores are just too expensive.

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Montes-Irueste '98 to fill Assembly vacancy

By Brad Russo | May 6, 1998

The Student Assembly last night elected Unai Montes-Irueste '98 to fill a vacancy on its influential Membership and Internal Affairs Committee. The seat was vacated when Luke Felker '00 left Hanover last week.

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Burke will take over as senior associate dean

By Joseph C. Scott | May 5, 1998

Katherine Burke will become the acting senior associate dean of the College, current Senior Associate Dean of the College Dan Nelson announced yesterday. Burke, presently assistant dean of the College and a dean of the Class of 1999, will take over on July 1, when Nelson becomes acting dean of the College to replace Lee Pelton. Pelton will be leaving Dartmouth to assume the presidency of Willamette University in Salem, Ore. "I'm really excited to continue to work with my colleagues in the Dean of the College Office," Burke said. She said she will continue in her duties as co-dean of the Class of 1999 until the end of the year. "She is really familiar with the dean of the College area in general," Nelson said.

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DarCORPS boasts 400 student volunteers

By Allison Robbins | May 4, 1998

About 400 student volunteers braved the rain Saturday to contribute a total of 1,200 hours to 72 different Upper Valley charities in the second annual DarCORPS community service day. "The day was a huge success," DarCORPS Committee co-Chair Zoe McLaren '00 said. The event, under the umbrella of the Tucker foundation and founded last year by Rex Morey '99, was created to inspire students to become involved in community service and is designed to aid organizations in the Upper Valley. The volunteers, approximately the same number as last year, included representatives from several Greek houses and all four classes. The day began on the lawn of Gold Coast, where participants picked up free t-shirts and bagged lunches.

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CFSC: S&S should patrol with monitors

By Sarah Gerry | May 4, 1998

Safety and Security officers may be paired with the student monitors who patrol coed, fraternity and sorority house basements if acting Dean of Residential Life Mary Liscinsky approves social procedure revisions recommended by the Coed Fraternity Sorority Council. The teams of officers and students would be given a list of specific violations to search for, including the absence of non-salty foods or non-alcoholic beverages, underage drinking and overcrowding.

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Future of cable TV uncertain

By Jay Krehbiel | May 4, 1998

The College has not yet made a decision about providing cable service to residence hall rooms next fall, but the service is still possible, although "time is running out," Dean of the College Lee Pelton said Friday. Pelton said he would support cable in students' rooms under certain conditions: the programming should have some educational elements, the College must be able to afford the cost of renovations and service and proceeding with cable must not prevent the College from completing other important projects. College officials previously told The Dartmouth that May 1 was the deadline for the College to make the decision if cable service would be implemented for the fall. "I think that May 1 is not a drop-dead date.

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Year-round operation makes College unique

By Kathrin Weston | May 1, 1998

Although sophomores may have received strange looks from their friends back home when they told them they would be at Dartmouth this summer, students and professors alike do not seem to mind the College's year-round operation system. Professors and students said the benefits of Dartmouth's year-round operation system outweigh its disadvantages, including a schedule that is out of sync with most other schools. "It's wonderful, not wasteful like the traditional system at some other institutions," English Professor William Cook said. The traditional academic calendar, Cook said, was based on the lives of farmers, who had to work on the fields during the summer -- something most students do not need to do today. Cook said the only improvement the College could make to year-round operation would be "strengthening the offerings during the Summer term." A hectic pace "I'm happy with it, but the terms are a little on the short side," Russian Professor Richard Sheldon said.

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