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Wright announces 46% endowment return
By Jen Taylor | October 17, 2000Address outlines major building plans and expresses low priority for changing D-plan
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Despite efforts, sororities fail to guarantee bids
By Jen Taylor | October 4, 2000Panhell turns two percent of rushees away
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College students rally for Nader in Boston
By Jen Taylor | October 2, 2000Fourteen students gathered outside Robinson Hall at 9 a.m. yesterday morning -- groggy but excited, carrying rolled poster board signs and ready to rally in Boston's Fleet Center for a political candidate with no chance of winning. Approximately 12,000 people, mostly students, would join this Dartmouth contingent at the event later yesterday afternoon, not to support George W.
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Larimore adds more specifics in morning letter
By Jen Taylor | April 19, 2000Says house residency will not be limited to seniors; summer still not decided
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Michael Chu '68 elected to Board of Trustees this weekend
By Jen Taylor | April 17, 2000Michael Chu '68 was elected to the Board of Trustees over the weekend Board meeting. Chu will take his seat on June 11, when the alumni seat vacated by Richard M.
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Averitt battles AIDS, App. Trail
By Jen Taylor | August 25, 1999For the last two months Dawn Averitt, a leading activist in AIDS treatment issues, has hoisted a 50-pound pack and joined the approximately 1,500 others who step onto the white-blazed path of the Appalachian Trail. While other hikers face the daily struggle of climbing peaks and facing the 2,160-foot long hike, Averitt adds the extra burden of the daily struggle of living with AIDS. Averitt spoke candidly with students, presenting herself as a picture of health, hope and humor, yesterday at the Tucker Foundation. Although most hikers begin their Appalachian Trail trek in Georgia and head North, Averitt and her party began at Mount Katxhadin in Maine and are heading south -- homeward bound for Averitt, a Georgia native. She and her brothers talked about thru-hiking the trail since they were children. In addition to hiking equipment, Averitt also carries along a substantial drug regiment, taking 28 medications a day in order to keep her immune system healthy. The 15 mile-a-day hike had to be carefully planned to accommodate mail drops every seven to 10 days to pick up medications. "I get up in the morning and shove in four chalk sized pills ... and think 'everyone doesn't do this,'" she told students.
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Architects present proposals
By Jen Taylor | August 19, 1999The Centerbrook architects, who will draft the plans for new social and recreational facilities to meet the goals of the Trustee Initiative, met yesterday and Tuesday in the Tindle Lounge of the Thayer dining hall to introduce options to the College community. All of the firm's student life proposals include a replacement for Webster Hall, and some of the more elaborate suggestions include connecting Robinson Hall, Thayer and the Collis Center with three-story additions. Some schemes for a new inclusive athletic complex are as drastic as losing Memorial Field and Red Rolfe baseball stadium. Student Life and Dining The first day of meetings focused on student life and dining sites.
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College house purchase may not affect students
By Jen Taylor | August 11, 1999Students living in the off-campus housing the College is currently purchasing will probably not be affected -- for the short term -- by the change in ownership. Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman told The Dartmouth yesterday that students should not view the process as the first step in bringing students back on campus. "The local market has been a huge help ... helping us deal with housing issues," Redman said. "There should be an ample supply of College and non-College housing," he said.
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College launches new dining survey
By Jen Taylor | August 5, 1999Approximately half of the student body received a BlitzMail message yesterday asking for responses to a dining and retail service survey. "A random sampling of students," selected from among the members of the Class of 2000, 2001 and 2002, received the BlitzMail request which will also be sent out to graduate students, Dean of Residential Life Holly Sateia said. The dining feedback will be used to gain feedback directly pertaining to the Social and Residential Life Initiative and the prospect of decentralizing and expanding dining options, according to Dean of the College James Larimore. Clearwater Research is conducting this survey -- the first of two -- as part of the Centerbrook architect project which will determine the structure of the College's dining and shopping options. Although tedious, the 19-page survey is thorough, asking those polled to evaluate all angles of dining options including quality, quantity, cost, hours and location. The survey also requests feedback on the possibility of using a meal plan in off-campus eateries, similar to the new Dartmouth Card plan. Although separate from the Trustee steering committee, the Centerbrook project also aims to make improvements in student life related to the Initiative. In the BlitzMail message, Larimore stated, "The responses we receive will be crucial in advising the administration and Trustees about particular aspects of social and residential life at the College and will help guide the architectural firm that will be compiling and presenting the various alternatives." The second survey Clearwater will conduct regards recreation facilities at the College. Although some of the questions may resemble Task Force proposal suggestions including expanded hours, new facility locations the availability of beauty care and clothing merchandise, campus groups did not formulate the questions, Sateia said. "Clearwater drafted the questions on the survey," Sateia said, mostly taken from questions used on other campuses. Following the initial draft the group met with students and faculty involved in the Centerbrook architectural project to "make it pertinent to Dartmouth." Larimore said that the Centerbrook interview sessions with students have formed the basis of the questions that appear in the survey. Typically when an organization or a college has an interest in gaining information on a topic it hires a research group to formulate general standardized survey questions. The questions are fed back to a working group, so the group can give feedback on whether the questions are inappropriate for the college or steer the respondent in a particular direction. According to Larimore, it is also standard practice in a marketing-type survey to offer a reward for responding.
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Social life flourishes despite rural setting
By Jen Taylor | August 1, 1999Many people think Dartmouth's remote location precludes any sort of active social life, yet a wide range of social options are thriving in this sleepy New England town. You'll probably spend your first few weekend nights wandering around with herds of other first-year students -- some you sort of know, others you don't know at all -- feeling clueless and looking for things to do.