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'94s still hanging around campus

By Jacquelyn Kim | July 18, 1994

Whether out of fear of entering the real world or just getting those few extra credits, members of the Class of 1994 are still hanging around after their "graduation" in June. Some "seniors," like Dawn Urbont '94, said they are staying around Hanover to ease the transition into the real world. "I'm kind of here to figure out what I'm going to be doing next," said Urbont, who plans to go into film or television production and is currently finishing up a film she started earlier this year. Another member of the Class of 1994, Heather Searles, is learning Swahili and researching graduate schools this summer.

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Foreign profs visit College

By Jacquelyn Kim | July 18, 1994

Once again this summer, professors and students from across the globe are coming to Hanover to mingle with the sophomore class. For many years now, some College departments have sponsored a summer exchange program with universities that house College professors when they are participating in a Language Study Abroad and Foreign Study Programs. The exchange, which enables foreign students to study and take classes during the Summer term at Dartmouth, has been active in departments for close to 20 years, according to Religion Chair Robert Henricks. Organized by the individual departments -- independent of the Off-Campus Programs Office -- the foreign students and professors never formally meet the other exchange students. The foreign students are here to experience studying in America and at Dartmouth, said Richard Fitch, a student at the Divinity School in Edinburgh. He added that they do not get credit for their studies. The exchange enables the foreign students to meet more Americans, said Henry Woudhuysen, an English professor from the University College London. In his three weeks here, James Hall, an English student at the University College London said he observed that "Dartmouth has much better facilities than many of the universities in England." This results in "a real can-do, will-do atmosphere," he said. The combination of computers, the theaters, the library and the Hood Museum make Dartmouth's resources outstanding, said Matthew Tempest, also studying English at the University College London. Carole Hillenbrand, a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies in Edinburgh, is teaching about Islam in the College's philosophy department. She said Dartmouth students "talk more.

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Local union fights benefit cuts

By Jacquelyn Kim | June 22, 1994

College officials will meet Tuesday with representatives of Local Union 560, whose members include food service and maintenance workers at the College, in an attempt to hammer out a new contract before the current one expires on June 30. More than 100 union members picketed in front of Parkhurst Administration building June 6 for five and a half hours to protest the College's plan to convert some 12-month jobs to nine-month jobs, according to union President Earl Sweet, an employee at Facilities Operation and Management. Sweet said the College recently changed eight non-union members' jobs at the Courtyard Cafe from 12 months to nine months. "We want assurances that that won't happen to us," Sweet said. The College offered a contract five days after the five-and-a-half-hour protest, but union members refused to sign it. "We're getting set to go back to the contract table," Sweet said.

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