Local restauranteur Milowsky feeds the Upper Valley
By Abigail Klingbeil | August 10, 1995Owner of popular restaurant trio Lui Lui's
Owner of popular restaurant trio Lui Lui's
Now holding its meetings at barbeques instead of in Rockefeller Hall, the Summer Student Assembly avoids making decisions with long-term effects and focuses on providing student services. Summer Assembly President Matt Shafer '97 said the Assembly has left in-fighting by the roadside this summer and is moving toward accomplishing its goals. Less policy-making Summer Assembly Vice President Scott Rowekamp '97 said the Summer Assembly does not take up "policy-type issues" because those issues usually do not arise in the summer.
Most freshmen students will get their first glimpse of Student Assembly President Jim Rich '96 as he delivers a speech at convocation. Rich said he hopes to"give a perspective of Dartmouth from an upperclassmen who has maybe seen and experienced some of the things they are about to experience." But he already has some advice for incoming first-year students: "Be involved actively in making Dartmouth a better place because it's small enough that every student can make a difference." This is advice Rich himself seems to have followed. Rich's experiences at the College range from being captain of the men's tennis team to a member of the Committee on Standards. And then Rich, a government major from Bedford, N.H., ran in the spring for Assembly President, using the slogan, "Not for the right, not for the left -- for Dartmouth." He won with 32% of the vote. "Be open to participate in all sorts of different activities at Dartmouth -- both academic and extra-curricular."Rich added. "Get to meet as many people as you can and to really engross yourself in this place because you only have four years to experience it," he added. He said although he would never have chosen another college, he recognizes there are things at Dartmouth that need changing.
When Jim Hourdequin '97 recently hosted a dinner party outside the tent where he is living for the summer, his guests ate lettuce he had grown himself. And before long, more than just Hourdequin's dinner guests will be able to eat fresh, local, organically grown produce planted by him at Dartmouth's new organic farm, where he works. This summer, the biology major from West Hartford, Conn., is not taking classes, but pursuing what he loves, "be[ing] close to the woods and the mountains." And that means forsaking the dormitory lifestyle for the sake of his Robinson Crusoe-like existence in the wilderness. Although he says he does not spend much time in his tent, he does have the necessities of home.
While some students have decided to be more relaxed abouttheir studies this summer, many Big Green athletes remain intense about their workouts. Though summer training is optional, players feel the pressure to continue intense workouts so Dartmouth will excel come competition time. "We lift four days a week and we run three days a week," football stand-out Brian Larsen '97 said.
For some students lying out in the sun on the docks is just not enough. For those who need a little bit more adventure in their lives, the Dartmouth Outing Club makes having fun in the sun infinitely easier. The DOC's Ledyard Canoe Club offers students many opportunities to enjoy the vast resources of the Connecticut River. Kathryn Scharbach, '97, a member of the club since the end of Spring term, said "yesterday was the first day I hadn't been out in the river" this term. Mary Hollendoner '98, Ledyard's summer director, said the club is popular in the summer because "instead of just swimming or sunbathing which gets boring after a while, [students] want to take out boats to do something more fun." Hollendoner said the "majority of our business is canoe rental." A student can rent a canoe or two kayaks for $5 per hour or $15 per day during the week and $25 per day during the weekend, she said.
The Student Assembly met last Thursday for the first time this summer to outline its goals and projects for the new term. Summer Assembly President Matt Shafer '97 began the meeting by declaring the Summer Assembly would not be plagued by politics or infighting. It will be an opportunity "to get a lot of good things done," he said. Though 21 students attended the meeting, the number of voting members was not enough to elect the Summer Assembly secretary and treasurer.
Through impassioned pleas, skaters avoid Main Street ban
Each year, Dartmouth's senior class gives a gift to the College -- usually not a tangible gift but a promise of future donations. This year, the Class of 1995 set a College senior gift record by raising over $100,000 in four-year pledges made by about 55 percent of the class, Assistant Director of the Alumni Fund Joe Whitworth said.
As the first year of the College's new curriculum winds to a close, administrators and students have varying opinions about how effective it has been. The new curriculum, which took effect this fall for the Class of 1998, included a new set of more specific distributive, interdisciplinary and world culture requirements.