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Snow sculpture makes progress

By Jennifer Hickey | January 26, 1998

Mobsters, machine guns, a getaway car and ice are elements of the snow sculpture taking shape in the middle of the Green in preparation for Winter Carnival. The sculpture compliments this year's carnival theme, "The Roaring '20s," a pun celebrating Hanover's winter temperatures and the Jazz Age. The 20-foot long, nine-foot wide and 20-foot high sculpture will depict a car from the 1920s with a cartoon face on the front grill and mobsters hanging out of the windows. The snow sculpture's co-chair, Todd Garfield '00, created the design for the car and met with professors and students from the Thayer School of Engineering earlier this winter to plan the structure. The sculpture's planners are working carefully to prevent a repeat of last year's Winter Carnival sculpture, which collapsed. Last year's sculpture was supposed to depict a knight on horseback rearing up and stepping on a dragon, but warm and sunny weather caused the horse structure to fall in on itself the Thursday before Winter Carnival weekend. Workers then changed the scene to depict the dragon's victory -- the knight and horse were converted into a coffin. This year, the Winter Carnival committee plans to build the majority of the sculpture as a solid chunk of snow.

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Assembly selects possible nominees for dean search

By Jacob T. Elberg | January 23, 1998

The Student Assembly selected six students last night, from an applicant pool of 40, who they will nominate to be student representatives to the Dean Search Committee, the committee charged with finding the next dean of the College. The six nominees will be interviewed by College President James Freedman, who will select two students to join the nine member committee.

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Stones goes from war to Hollywood

By Matt Frucci | January 23, 1998

Whatever you do, do not call Oliver Stone a conspiracy theorist. In a phone interview from London, where he is currently on a press tour, America's most intense film director was surprisingly laid back and down-to-earth, if not entirely amiable. He happily entertained questions from Vietnam to "Wayne's World" "I love those movies" but when the conversation turned to "JFK" and the controversy it sparked, Stone was defensive, at points offended and eventually lashed back. There is nothing subtle about Stone.

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Yo-Yo Club hangs in the balance

By Deborah Bernstein | January 22, 1998

One club that certainly understands the ups-and-downs of life is the College's Yo-Yo Club. The club was founded by Sol Diamond '97 "to create a forum in which members of the Dartmouth Community from diverse backgrounds can better themselves academically, socially, spiritually and physically through activities motivated by and involving the yo-yo.

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Hervey urges students to give to community

By Kascha Semon | January 22, 1998

Guests including a Vermont nurse mid-wife, a New Hampshire forester and key-note speaker Eurmon Hervey encouraged about 170 students and professors to give back to their communities during a dinner called "If Your Dream Job Is Helping People" in the Collis Center last night. Hervey, founder of REACH, the Revitalizing Educational Awareness for Change Institute, a program for under-privileged high school students, and five of his students shared their hopes for Dartmouth graduates' futures before the dinner. Hervey, who was raised in the Mississippi Delta, said he always knew he would give back to the community and encouraged Dartmouth students to do the same. "REACH was born of my passion and frustration with education," he said. Hervey said he escaped guidance counselors who told him to consider carpentry or masonry as a career despite his outstanding academic record -- he was a straight-A student, class president, drum major and member of the track team in high school -- and went on to achieve a B.A.

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Rugby house plans draw controversy

By Hank Leukart | January 21, 1998

A lawsuit regarding the College's proposed rugby clubhouse on Reservoir Road now includes Dartmouth College, in addition to the original participants, Hanover resident Frederick Crory and the town of Hanover. Crory filed suit against the town of Hanover in October of last year in reaction to the Hanover Zoning Board's decision to allow the construction of a rugby clubhouse on Reservoir Road. Following Crory's protest, the College filed a motion to intervene in the case which would allow it to work in conjunction with Hanover to defend the Zoning Board. "This is commonly done when a land owner has an interest in a case like this," College Counsel Sean Gorman said. Both Gorman and Crory said the case is based on a matter of principle because it may set a precedent for similar issues in the future. "If there will be a change in what [Dartmouth] believed to be the ordinance for at least twenty years, it will change our ability to run the programs we want to run," he said. Crory said he has a vested interest in the outcome of the case, as he lives near the empty lot where the building is slated for construction.

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McCallum found guilty of theft from Dartmouth

By The Dartmouth | January 21, 1998

BRENTWOOD -- A jury quickly found a former assistant attorney general guilty Tuesday of possessing hundreds of valuable items stolen from colleges and museums around New England. William McCallum, 34, of Londonderry, had admitted to stealing books, furniture, computers and art -- including a George Inness landscape worth $70,000 -- from Ivy League and private preparatory schools, museums and the state Supreme Court library. McCallum was arrested in July of 1996 for possession of three works of art stolen from Dartmouth, among other items. But faced with a possible life sentence on 65 counts of possessing stolen property, McCallum pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.

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Donahue '96 is civil, disobedient

By Jen Taylor | January 21, 1998

Sean Donahue '96 told an audience at the Panarchy undergraduate society yesterday how he had been arrested four times in the two years since he left the College. Donahue spoke out against American involvement in weapons manufacturing as he told the story of his involvement with civil disobedience. "It comes to a point where you have to say you're not going to be a part of that," Donahue said.

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Hanover sees business changes

By Allison Robbins | January 21, 1998

A walk down Main Street in the next few months will reveal several new developments -- from restaurants to retail stores, as proprietors adjust to the ever-changing Hanover business scene. Molly's Balloon, a restaurant on Main Street, is beginning extensive renovations in its dining room and bar area.

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Assembly to meet with Palaeopitus

By Sarah Gerry | January 21, 1998

The Student Assembly discussed plans last night to meet with Palaeopitus and the Presidential Search Committee to examine traits the groups are looking for in the College's next president. The Assembly and Palaeopitus, a senior honor society that offers suggestions to the administration, will present ideas to the Search Committee about what to look for in presidential candidates, according to Case Dorkey '99, Assembly vice president of administrative and faculty relations. In the meeting, scheduled for Sunday, the Assembly and Palaeopitus will expand on issues they introduced in a fall discussion with the Search Committee.

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Top administrators are 'lame ducks' until July

By Nicole Tsong | January 20, 1998

The planned resignations of three top administrators at the end of the academic year leaves the College in a state of transition without the ability to carry out new initiatives. College President James Freedman, Provost Jim Wright and Dean of the College Lee Pelton will all leave their posts in less than six months. The knowledge that replacements will soon be taking over all three posts means each of the three lame duck administrators has little time to maneuver outside the present direction of current College policies and projects. According to Pelton and Wright, proposing new policies at the moment would be very difficult. Unfinished business "I can't start any new projects," Pelton said.

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Finding Freedman: The last search

By Edward Thomas | January 20, 1998

When Dartmouth last instituted a presidential search in 1987, the entire ordeal remained shrouded in secrecy for six months. Throughout the process, the Presidential Search Committee refused to release a time-table of when the next president would be selected and progress was only vaguely described to the Dartmouth community in a series of news briefs. The search committee began work in November of 1986, a month after former President David McLaughlin announced his resignation on October 6. The 18-member committee -- composed of seven faculty members, seven trustees, three alumni representatives and one student -- reviewed 615 candidates who either applied for the position or were recommended by an outside source.

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Dartmouth's own astronaut prepares for space odyssey

By Edward Thomas | January 20, 1998

While hundreds of students will embark on exciting leave terms at the start of spring, one Dartmouth Medical School professor will find himself on an entirely different type of foreign study program. On April 2, Medicine Professor Jay Buckey will blast into orbit aboard the space shuttle Columbia as part of a 16-day mission to determine the effects of zero-gravity on humans and animals. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration chose Buckey as a payload specialist for the mission last April. He will work with three other scientists to complete 26 experiments as part of Neurolab, the name given to this series of investigations. Buckey hopes to determine how life forms adapt to space, and to find answers to questions such as why astronauts suffer insomnia in space and why they often have problems standing upright after returning to Earth. "All life evolved under the force of gravity ... we learned to do everything -- walking, talking, breathing -- under that force," Buckey said. "When we have gone to space our brains have had to do a lot of quick thinking about how to adapt to these environments," Buckey said.

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