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Sears travels to Bosnian peace conference

By Morning Washburn | July 31, 1997

Croatia was "not unlike Vermont," Priscilla Sears of Dartmouth's English Department said of her recent trip there to participate in the Woman's International Conference. Like Vermont, Croatia is a land of "green fields, blue mountains, clean animals, clean horses, goats, pigs and clean streams," she said.

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Nurse arrested for jewelry theft

By Erin Loback | July 31, 1997

Hanover Police arrested a nurse at the Kendal at Hanover retirement community on Tuesday for theft of $30,000 worth of jewelry stolen from a resident there last week. Arresting officer Detective Shawn Dupuis said all the jewelry was recovered on Friday, the same day it was reported missing, at the home of Shannon Kilton, 22, of Enfield, N.H. Kilton was arrested on Tuesday and charged with the felony of Theft by Unauthorized Taking.

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Governing Board to improve Collis

By Erin Loback | July 29, 1997

The recently re-instituted Collis Governing Board, an advisory and governing body concerned with the use of space in the Collis Student Center, has ideas to change the center. Collis Center Director Mark Hoffman said he wants to use the Governing Board "to get a sense of direction of what students want in Collis ... and make it more of a fixture on campus." Immediate goals Collis Governing Board co-Chair Nana Ashong '99 said the Board is focusing on improving two areas this summer -- the game room downstairs and the lounge. "The overall goal is to make Collis more of a social space -- right now people mostly just float through Collis," Ashong said. "But if it really is supposed to be the student center, it should be more of a place to relax and spend time," she said. Ashong said the game room is "pretty sterile," and ideas to spice it up have included painting murals on the wall, changing some of the furnishings and replacing the jukebox, which was there last year. Possible ways to make the lounge a more desirable place for students to hang out include adding bookshelves with donated books and getting magazine subscriptions for the lounge, Ashong said. The Governing Board will definitely make changes to Collis this term, according to Ashong, before looking ahead to Fall term and other goals for the building. Hoffman said he hopes to get some of the changes made over the interim period between Summer and Fall terms, such as ordering magazine subscriptions. The Governing Board According to Hoffman, the Governing Board has been in existence since the 1980s, but it was originally a programming body.

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Software piracy not a major concern

By Charlotte Bednar | July 29, 1997

With the advancement of information technology and increased use of the World Wide Web, computer companies are wary of college students using the Web as a platform to distribute software illegally. Software companies have now begun to crack down on software piracy, the illegal copying and distribution of copyrighted software. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, a freshman at the University of Puget Sound was found distributing free copies of 100 software programs on his web page. An employee of Emigre Inc. found the web page during a routine search of the Internet for illegal copies of his company's software, according to the Chronicle.

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Families invade College for weekend

By Jess Jacob | July 25, 1997

More than 350 families from far and near will pour into Hanover this weekend to take part in "Green Eggs and Fam," this summer's Sophomore Family Weekend. Adrienne Wilson '99, chair of the 1999 Class Council committee in charge of the weekend, co-chairs Emily Csatari '99 and Amy Stone '99, 18 committee members and Director of the Collis Center and Student Activities Mark Hoffman have many events planned to entertain families on campus this weekend. "It's all going to be fun," Wilson said.

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ORL's Beatty and Foley to leave

By Jean Blackerby | July 25, 1997

Two staff members from the Office of Residential Life, Bud Beatty and Chris Foley, have accepted positions at other institutions for the upcoming academic year. ORL has not yet planned a search for replacements, Director of Housing Services Lynn Rosenblum said. Beatty, who was the College's Associate Director of Residential Life, has already left for Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

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Computer package gets upgraded for freshmen

By Erin Loback | July 25, 1997

Dartmouth Computing Services is recommending that members of the Class of 2001 purchase Apple Macintosh Performa 6400/180 computers for $1,646, and most members of the incoming class are opting for the recommended package, according to Director of Computer Services Communications Bill Brawley. Brawley said most students usually purchase the recommended package.

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Professor lectures on serial killer

By Erin Loback | July 23, 1997

Criminal Justice Professor Tod Burke from Radford University, Va. spoke about serial killers and suspected Versace murderer and "high-priced hustler" Andrew Cunanan yesterday in Collis Common Ground. About 30 people attended the informal lecture and heard Burke's interpretations and predictions about Cunanan's crimes, as well as information on different types of serial killers. Burke also shared his background with criminal profiling with the audience. "Profiling does not tell you who did the crime," Burke said.

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Gell-Mann's knowledge covers all fields of studies

By Erik Tanouye | July 23, 1997

Less than 24 hours after his arrival in Hanover, Murray Gell-Mann stands on the back porch of the Montgomery House and points out the kingfisher that rules Occom Pond as it flies over the water in search of lunch. Gell-Mann, who is a professor and co-chair of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute, seems to have universal knowledge, from the sub-atomic level of particles to the animals at Dartmouth. Although he won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work in the field of elementary particles, Gell-Mann is confident speaking about anything from quantum mechanics to archeology to linguistics. In 1994, he published the popular book "The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and Complex." Gell-Mann is the second Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth this term.

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Nobel Prize winner talks on science

By David Kung | July 23, 1997

Montgomery Fellow and Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Murray Gell-Mann challenged his audience to comprehend "complexity" and its relationship to life in a packed 105 Dartmouth yesterday afternoon. Gell-Mann's speech, titled "The Quark and the Jaguar, From Simplicity to Complexity," was so well-attended a closed-circuit television link was set up in 217 Dartmouth Hall to allow space for additional viewers. "Plectics" was the term Gell-Mann used to explain the linking of simple interactions -- like those of one elementary particle to another elementary particle -- and the complex interactions of life, all of which are symbolized in the jaguar. Gell-Mann asked the audience to consider why systems occurring in nature tend to get increasingly complex as time passes. He spent the first half-hour of his speech defining three different kinds of complexity and then used these definitions to describe how life operates. Compression of complex data means describing it more simply -- such as through simplification using algebra.

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