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Alumni money funds senior scholarships

By Alfonso Montero | June 9, 1996

Sometimes students think alumni generosity has little direct impact on their lives other than to help pay their professors' salaries. But a reception at the Hanover Inn May 29 showed an example of alumni helping students directly. Members of the Class of 1939 honored 15 seniors who benefited from the class's generosity as part of the Senior Scholars program, which gives money to seniors living in residence halls who are writing honors theses. The program, which is cosponsored by the Office of Residential Life, has been funded by the Class of 1939 since it began in 1980, Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco said. Bob Kaiser '39, who spoke at the reception, said he is "proud to sponsor these students, who are doing amazing things." The program was given the American College Personnell Association's Model Program Award for 1989-90, Kaiser said. The students who benefit from the grants are chosen by a committee which includes Turco, history professor Mary Kelly, physics professor Delo Mook and German professor Ulrike Rainer, Turco said. The Class of 1989 will be taking over the program next year, Kaiser said. At the reception, some students spoke about the projects the Class of 1939 helped fund. John Bennett '96 said at the reception that his grant made it possible for him to visit archives in New England and New York to research his thesis on Federalist foreign policy during the War of 1812. Another history student who spoke was Elizabeth Rybicki '96.

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College handling of sexual assault put to the test

By Alfonso Montero | May 15, 1996

One term after being commissioned by Dean of the College Lee Pelton to review the way the College handles cases of sexual assault, the Mediation Committee is comparing Dartmouth's mediation practices to those at other schools and has established the questions it needs to answer. Pelton charged the committee with reviewing the College's non-disciplinary ways of handling incidents of sexual abuse and asked the committee to produce its recommendations before the end of Spring term. But some students say the review is taking too long. Co-Chair of the Mediation Committee Daniel Siegel said the committee needs more time to complete their mission, which he defined as "making a recommendation on whether or not there should be a relationship between mediation and the College disciplinary process." "Pelton told us not to rush under any circumstances, especially considering the importance of the issue at hand," he said. The other co-Chair of the committee, Undergraduate Official Affairs Officer Marcia Kelly, wrote in an e-mail message "at this point, the committee is still trying to arrange meetings and does not have anything conclusive to report." Siegel, who is also the adviser for the Dartmouth College Mediation Center, said the committee has met three times -- once in the Winter term and twice this term. In these meetings, Siegel said the committee has "reviewed the charts and the information given to them by Dean Pelton," as well as "looked at ways mediation is handled at other institutions." Siegel said the committee has succeeded in "establishing the right questions to ask." These questions, he said, have to do with the "relationship and the formal connections between the College disciplinary process and mediation," as well as whether "mediation can be conditional on the behavior of a third party." Siegel also said the committee investigated "to what extent should College disciplinary process be informed," and whether it "should make recommendations." He said these questions will be discussed in a meeting to take place before the end of Spring term. He also said the Mediation Committee appeared as a response on the part of the administration to a student request, "the desire to have mediation as an option" in solving student disputes. He said the main concern of the committee are incidents of sexual abuse, although it might expand to cover other issues in the future. Emily Stephens '97, whose allegations against the College's mishandling of a sexual abuse case prompted the creation of the Mediation Committee, said she was disappointed with the progress made by the committee so far. She also said the committee is taking too long to reach a resolution, and thereby "letting the issue flounder." She said "by capitalizing on students' research and interest the committee would have been able to reach a resolution by the end of Winter term." Last spring, Stephens said she was persuaded to resolve her sexual abuse complaint through mediation, instead of proceeding with a Committee on Standards hearing.

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Wesbury: taxes, regulation shoud be kept to minimum

By Alfonso Montero | May 7, 1996

Arguing that government intervention is responsible for the slowdown of economic growth in the U.S., Chief Economist of the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee Brian Wesbury said government regulation and taxing must be kept at a minimum. Wesbury discussed the role of the government in the economy in a speech before an audience of approximately 60 people in Rockefeller 1 yesterday. He said it was important to dispel beliefs that "the government is the most important part of the economy and nothing can work without it." According to Wesbury, government intervention "creates an economy that is out of filter." He criticized government regulations on the basis that "artificial regulation of supply creates demand for more government intervention," which he said leads to an inflationary process. To support his claim, Wesbury showed figures correlating periods of high regulation with periods of low economic growth. Specifically, he referred to the U.S.

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Panel debates affirmative action

By Alfonso Montero | May 2, 1996

Experts in law and public policy discussed the role of affirmative action in American society in a panel discussion yesterday in 3 Rockefeller before nearly 80 people. The discussion, titled "Is there a Need for Affirmative Action in Public Policy Today?" was moderated by English lecturer Stephanie Boone.

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Environmental racism debated

By Alfonso Montero | April 26, 1996

Director of the Environmental Justice Initiative Vernice Miller, Government Professor Roger Masters and Chemistry Professor James Worman debated the nature and characteristics of environmental racism in a panel discussion held in the Rockefeller Center last night. Robert Braile, a Boston Globe reporter who specializes in environmental issues, moderated the discussion titled "Environmental Racism: Does it Exist?/Is it a Class Issue?" that about 40 people attended. Miller began the panel by arguing that environmental hazards tend to be located in minority communities. "Environmentally hazardous sites such as sewage and toxic waste treatment plants are many times more likely to be located in minority communities than in white communities," he said After considering various parameters such as income and location, the Environmental Protection Agency "realized race is the most significant indicator in the areas where these sites are located," Miller said. She said contrary to popular belief, environmentally hazardous sites are not only located in low-income communities but can be found in African American communities regardless of the level of income of the people living in that community. She cited her community, West Harlem, N.Y., as an example of a wealthy African-American community filled with environmentally hazardous facilities. Worman, who defined environmental racism as "inequitable exposure of minorities to environmental hazards," argued that environmental racism does not exist. Worman said Miller's statistics about hazardous industrial plants being located on minority communities were correct.

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Sexual Assault Awareness Week will begin Sunday

By Alfonso Montero | April 19, 1996

In an effort to increase campus awareness about sexual abuse, the College will launch Sexual Assault Awareness Week on Sunday. Liza Veto, acting coordinator of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program, said these events are an opportunity to "reach students we don't normally reach" thanks to "the expertise and resources of the speakers" and "the support shown by the campus in general." Veto said this year's SAAW planning committee "decided to focus more on issues of culture." She said some events would be "directed towards the general public," while others will cover specific areas like "Dartmouth culture, athletes, violence in the streets and the workplace." One of the central events in this year's SAAW is the "Clothesline Project," a display of t-shirts made by sexual assault survivors or friends of survivors, Veto said. Veto said these displays serve to "personalize the experience" and "remember there are actual people behind the numbers and the statistics." Shilyh Warren '96, a student who worked on this project, said the "Clothesline Project's purpose is to get an emotional response from the people." Cat Weiss '97, who was also involved in the project, said these kinds of displays are "witnesses to the violence some women have experienced." The College will display the exhibit in Collis Common Ground from 11:30 a.m.

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Fort Harry's changes name to Fort Lou's

By Alfonso Montero | April 17, 1996

The well-known Fort Harry's restaurant at the Exit 18 Truck Stop in Lebanon was renamed "Fort Lou's" on April 1, when Toby and Pattie Fried, owners of Lou's Restaurant in Hanover, officially took ownership. Fried said right now "Fort Lou's is in a process of change" and "there will be a grand opening sometime in mid-May." He is "turning the place around" so as to "create a friendlier atmosphere and attract more people," Fried said. He also said he would significantly improve the quality of the food. "In the past," he said, "the food they served at Harry's was literally pulled out of a can.

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Pivin denounces slashing of welfare

By Alfonso Montero | April 12, 1996

Frances Fox Pivin, a political science professor from the City University of New York, denounced the rise of political deals that promote tax cuts at the expense of social programs, in a speech she gave last night in Carpenter Hall. About two dozen people gathered to hear Pivin's speech, titled "Welfare Reform and the Transformation of American Electoral Politics." Pivin said congressmen are "slashing welfare" rather than reforming welfare. "American politics used to be pristine, and now they have turned into big money mass advertising," she said Pivin attributed the rise of "money politics" to the pressure that business leaders exert on government officials to cut social programs in an effort to balance the federal budget. She said since the majority of the four million people currently on welfare are single mothers who receive an average of $367 per month, "politicians are campaigning to make people -- namely single mothers -- worse off." Pivin said politicians wrongly claim welfare reform "has perverse consequences" such as increasing poverty and giving incentives to mothers to have sons out of wedlock. While that argument is not "completely illogical", Pivin said, the consequences of welfare reform would be "four million desperate women joining the labor force at once" which would cause "wages to go down by at least 11 percent." Pivin also said economic inequality and job insecurity are two key problems that politicians have failed to sufficiently address. Twenty years ago, the top 1 percent of workers in the United States accumulated 79 percent of the total income, she said. But today, corporate chief executive officers in the U.S.

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