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NPR broadcaster discusses China

By Kascha Semon | February 16, 2000

Mary Kay Magistad, the woman behind the voice that so many Americans have heard from China via National Public Radio for several years, spoke yesterday in the Rockefeller Center. More than 50 people crowded into the room to hear this distinguished journalist provide her up-to-date view on the political, economic and social conditions in China, and share personal anecdotes about her struggles as a reporter in a Communist country.Magistad opened the Beijing NPR bureau in 1996, and worked in the city and surrounding provinces for four years.

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Sculptures over the years: see how 2000's stacks up

By Kascha Semon | February 11, 2000

In keeping with the theme for this years carnival, "Lest the Cold Traditions Fail, Carnival Through the Years..." the Winter Carnival Committee created a ski jump and skier on the Green, reminiscent of the fomer ski jump competitions held annually on the College's golf course. The jump and skier, designed by Ben Moor '00 and Andy Louis '00, was designed to be approximately 30 ft.

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Anderson would bring new outlook to Board

By Kascha Semon | February 3, 2000

Director of the Whitney Museum of Art and Dartmouth graduate, Maxwell Anderson '77 now vies for a position on the College's Board of Trustees and thinks his non-profit background would help round out the group. Anderson said he was surprised at his nomination and that "it wouldn't occur to me to think I'd be in the running for such an honor." Although he describes his role at the Whitney as similar to that of a CEO, he pointed out that he works in the not-for-profit sector rather than the corporate world and that "people outside the corporate sector could add a dimension to the board." Anderson said that in comparison with a profit making corporation, a not-for-profit organization, he said, starts with a mission and priorities rather than aligning a mission and goals to a profit-seeking agenda. "So obviously, in terms of a university or college setting it means my instincts are to figure out what's best for the campus and see how that can be underwritten," Anderson said. He said his responsibility as a trustee would be "to help the president in the stewardship of the College ... on a policy level," but he does hold opinions on issues which directly affect students, particularly the Student Life Initiative. "I support the recommendations of the SLI because I would like to make the campus more welcoming to students of more varied backgrounds." He said he would like all students "to self-select a path through the College without feeling excluded." Anderson said he would also like to explore "the impact of distance learning on the educational environment," which would mean connecting students to Internet resources in and out of class. As a trustee, Anderson said he would also be concerned with the growth and image of the College. "I think ensuring the Colleges' steady growth as a primary choice for high school students means keeping the College competitive ... when cities are more attractive," he said. "Dartmouth was basic in launching me in my life and my career and it is an amazing institution because it connects undergraduates with professors.

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Panel discusses same- sex marriage laws

By Kascha Semon | October 21, 1999

"Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?" asked Susan Apel of the Vermont Law School, quoting actress Mae West. The answer is at least one gay couple and two lesbian couples in Vermont. Stan Baker, a partner in one of these couples, has decided to try to get inside the institution through the court system -- he and his partner Peter are challenging the ban on same-sex marriages in the case Baker v.

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Students to intern on Marshall Islands

By Kascha Semon | August 23, 1999

Seven Dartmouth students will fly to the Marshall Islands this winter to teach in the local public schools through an internship program sponsored by the education department. The interns will be the first to work in the public schools on Majuro, one of the major islands, but several Dartmouth graduates have spent the last year working in private schools on another Marshall Island, Kwajalein. The seven undergraduate interns are Diandra Benally '00, Michael Holmes '01, Chung-Yu Hsieh '01, Jessica Souke '01, Matthew Shaffer '01, James Sitar '01 and Mara Tieken '01. Amber Morse '98, who was an environmental studies major while at the College, now lives on Kwajalein, working for minimal pay at the Catholic high school on the island. In an interview with The Valley News, Morse said that she lives in a trailer infested with flying cockroaches, sporadic electricity and minimal drinking water.

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Adamson speaks on economic system

By Kascha Semon | February 23, 1999

"Rebecca Lee, if you don't change directions, you're going to end up where you're heading," Rebecca Adamson said her mother told her. Adamson used this advice to illustrate the eventual progression of the current Western economic system during a speech yesterday in Collis Common ground, continuing the Martin Luther King Day celebration discussion on neighbors, community, indifference and engagement. Adamson's diverse heritage -- her mother is Cherokee and her father is Swedish -- has informed her daily life with profound understanding of diversity, enhanced by her extensive work with Native peoples across the world. She said the predominating Western economic system is based on the assumption of a scarcity of resources and individual insatiable appetites. Adamson said Western economists create a self-fulfilling prophecy with these assumptions. Adamson said indigenous cultures provide examples of economies based on different belief systems. "Every society organizes itself socially, politically, and economically according to its values," said Adamson, repeating this statement in her speech. Adamson said the quality of life of Native American tribes predicts the outcome of the entire U.S.

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Coed houses upset by initiative

By Kascha Semon | February 22, 1999

Members of coeducational fraternities and undergraduate societies seem equally upset by the reforms mandated in the Trustees' recent social and residential life initiative -- although the reforms would include formation of more coed houses similar to their own. "To me, it seems that they want to get rid of the entire system and that is attacking my house," coeducational fraternity member and Tabard President Sarah Harris '00 said. Harris, who read the letter sent by the Board of Trustees two weeks ago, said she "was really shocked at how ambiguous the letter was" and marked its contrast to the articles printed in The Dartmouth and The Boston Globe. The letter outlined five principles, one of which suggested that the social and residential options be "substantially coeducational." In an interview with The Dartmouth, College President James Wright said that the current single-sex Greek system is not one of inclusion, and with the coeducational changes he hopes Dartmouth will be a place that "can share more fully in the life of the community." "I don't think making something coed necessarily makes it exclusive or not exclusionary," Phi Tau President Virginia DeJesus-Rueff '00 said.

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Hillel hosts annual ski weekend

By Kascha Semon | February 8, 1999

More than 65 students from universities across the Northeast came to enjoy the winter weather this past weekend for the Dartmouth Hillel's third annual Ski Shabbaton at Killington, VT. Hillel invited all Dartmouth students -- Jewish and non-Jewish alike -- to attend the event, according to event-chair Sean Alpert '01. "The ski weekend surprised many people, especially the freshmen, because they weren't expecting to see what they saw -- it definitely turned a lot of people on to Hillel," said Eli Diament '02, who skied on Sunday and attended two dinners hosted by Hillel. The students -- visiting from Boston University, Brown, Cornell, the University of New Hampshire, Amherst and other nearby schools -- stayed with Dartmouth students for the weekend.

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Birch speaks on Chiapas conflict

By Kascha Semon | February 3, 1999

Through a video and descriptions of personal experience, Melissa Birch brought the conflict between the Mexican government and the indigenous Zapatista people to the attention of an audience of approximately 40 students and faculty in Hinman Forum last night. Birch, a member of Action for Community and Ecology in the Rainforests of Central America (ACERCA), recently returned from an expedition to Chiapas, an area in southeastern Mexico which is home to the Zapatista and is rich in natural resources. The Zapatista conflict affects U.S.

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