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Meningitis outbreaks rising, group warns

By Sarah Gerry | October 23, 1997

Dick's House decided last week to recommend that all students consider getting vaccinated against the bacteria that cause the potentially fatal disease meningitis, based on a recommendation from the American College Health Association, according to Director of Health Services Jack Turco. The recommendation stems from an increase in the number of meningococcal cases reported: There have been 36 outbreaks since 1992, while there were only 13 between 1981 and 1993, according to a medical newsletter. Meningococcal meningitis afflicts 2,600 Americans each year and is responsible for over 300 fatalities.

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Moore construction on schedule

By Jen Hickey | October 23, 1997

Construction of the new $26 million Moore psychology building continues on scale and on budget, and the facility is expected to open in June 1999, according to Assistant Director of Facilities Planning Reed Bergwall. The building's foundation has been laid, and workers are currently constructing its steel superstructure The Maynard Street structure will house the psychology department, which is being evicted from Bradley and Gerry Halls.

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Twenty seniors inducted into Phi Bete

By Nicole Tsong | October 23, 1997

In a ceremony at the College president's house last night, the 20 seniors with the highest grade point averages were inducted into Dartmouth's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, a national honor society. Phi Beta Kappa -- which has awarded America's top college students for over 200 years -- invites the top 10 percent of each graduating class to be members, but sends early invitations to students who are ranked in the top 20 at the end of their junior year. The grade point average of the top 10 percent of the class from the three previous years determines the cut-off GPA for Phi Beta Kappa every year.

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Administrator: Students in denial

By Eun Lee Koh | October 22, 1997

Dartmouth students are in denial about the drinking problems of their classmates, Director of Health Resources Gabrielle Lucke told the Student Assembly last night. Lucke said even in light of Massachusetts Institute of Technology freshman Scott Krueger's alcohol poisoning death earlier this month, Dartmouth students deny drinking problems exist. "The stories I hear of things that people do scares the crap out of me," Lucke said.

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Published professors honored by Freedman

By Jennifer Taylor | October 22, 1997

Thirty-seven Dartmouth professors who published books or articles in the past year discussed their works yesterday afternoon at an "Authors and Editors" English tea in the Tower Room of the Baker Library. The books and articles covered everything from the calendars of pre-Mayan civilizations to the lifestyles of women mathematicians.In his address to the crowd of students and faculty members gathered, College President James Freedman said Dartmouth "has every reason to be proud of the professors and faculty members" recognized at the event.

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Yale Law Dean decries lack of ethics

By Mike Bern | October 21, 1997

In a speech at the Rockefeller Center yesterday titled "The Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession," Yale Law School Dean Anthony Kronman decried the damage currently being done to the field of law by commercialization and privatization. Speaking to a crowd of mostly male students -- and also including College President James Freedman -- Kronman pointed to the breakdown of legal ethics in the devolution of traditional values.

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Streep honored by DFS at Spaulding ceremony

By Sarah Gerry | October 20, 1997

Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep, this year's Dartmouth Film Award honoree, likened her experience as one of a handful of females at a Dartmouth with several thousand males in 1970 to being "a canary in a mine." Streep, who received her Dartmouth Film Society award on Saturday night as part of the 25th anniversary of coeducation weekend, not surprisingly said that attending the College two years before the dawn of coeducation was not easy. An exchange student from Vassar for one term, Streep said she remembers feeling "unhappy and lonely" while at Dartmouth and recalled "taking long walks across the quad and weeping." But there was no isolation on Saturday night. When the 10-time Oscar nominee appeared on Spaulding Auditorium's stage Saturday to accept the Dartmouth Film Award, she was greeted by a standing ovation. Streep gestured for the audience to sit down, but the ovation continued for over a minute. She said that, before arriving at the auditorium, she wondered what would happen "if they gave a tribute and nobody came." "Thank you so much for coming," she told the capacity crowd.

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Barreca '79 tells it like it was

By Kathrin Weston | October 20, 1997

Prominent alumna Regina Barreca '79 discussed women's experiences in a world dominated by males and addressed how well her years at Dartmouth prepared her for the "world out there" to an audience consisting mainly of women at a luncheon on Saturday at Leede Arena. Barreca -- an English professor at the University of Connecticut who says she writes non-fiction because "if you listen carefully enough, you won't have to make things up" -- initially directed the spotlight not at herself, but at a different group of Dartmouth women. Speaking as part of the College's 25th anniversary of coeducation celebration, Barreca asked the 50 "invited women leaders" -- mostly juniors and seniors -- to stand and be recognized for their impressive achievements at Dartmouth. Barreca, known for her sense of humor and her vivacious and energetic way of speaking in public, then began her speech, which dealt with a brand of feminism utterly different from that which is commonly denoted by the term. "The definition of feminism is the radical belief that women are human beings," she said, but added that being a feminist does not necessarily mean being militant, radical or aggressive. She peppered her speech with a multitude of personal anecdotes which called forth frequent bursts of explosive laughter and spontaneous applause from the audience. Going on to speak about her Dartmouth experience, she recalled how intimidated she felt at first -- being rated an "8" on a scale of ten by a group of her male peers, and feeling out of place in a female community which seemed to her to exist entirely of tall, blonde women. "I didn't think a place could scare me," Barreca told The Dartmouth in an interview after the speech, but she said that encountering adversity from her male classmates was unnerving -- not to mention demeaning -- at first. However, Barreca said she ended up having was a "fabulous experience" and called Dartmouth the right choice. Women's lives, she said in the speech, are very similar, and that is why women bond instantly, making their life stories known to each other in three-minute conversations.

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Coeducation celebration kicks off

By Eun Lee Koh | October 20, 1997

Hundreds of students, faculty and returning alumni from the first coeducated classes at Dartmouth packed a section of Leede Arena on Friday night for the coeducation weekend's convocation ceremony -- which kicked off the year-long celebration of the 25th anniversary of coeducation at the College. In front of many alumnae from the Class of 1976 -- the first to include matriculated women -- Vice President of Alumni Relations Stanley Colla '66 praised these "pioneers" who stepped onto campus in 1972. "It is difficult to imagine what spirit of adventure or courage it took to choose Dartmouth 25 years ago," Colla said.

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College welcomes 20 new profs

By Allison Robbins | October 17, 1997

Twenty new professors have joined the Dartmouth faculty this year, an average number of appointments, according to Dean of the Faculty Edward Berger. Becoming a professor at Dartmouth is not easy.

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More than a game: Pong goes way back

By Jess Jacob | October 16, 1997

Although there may be easier ways to enjoy alcohol, beer pong has evolved in the basements of Greek houses since at least the mid-1950s, and some claim its origins go back to the beginning of time. Chris Robinson '86, a historian for Alpha Theta coed fraternity, said he believes the game started with the introduction of disposable plastic cups in fraternity basements in the 1950s. Previously, students drank from glasses or ceramic mugs and "those can be knocked over by the ball and send dangerous shards all over the place," he said. An Alpha Delta fraternity alumnus, David Thielscher '54, confirmed the existence of the game during his time at the College. "I seem to remember trying to hit ping-pong balls into glasses," he said.

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