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Female students share experiences at College

By Louisa Sadler | May 18, 2000

Six senior women shared their experiences from four years at the College in a panel discussion last night, discussing topics ranging from sport and Greek participation to depression and ethnicity. The annual panel discussion -- "Will the Women of Dartmouth Please Stand Up?!" -- was started in 1989 for outstanding senior women to attest to their time and views of the College. A crowd of mainly women packed 105 Dartmouth Hall to hear this year's panel, which included Monique Roy '00, Vanessa Ferro '00, Beatrice Radakovich '00, Anne Mullins '00, Cara Fuller '00, and Dana Loebman '00. Each speaker added a diverse voice and an important message for students. "Comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable," Roy said, quoting a local bumper sticker and encouraging students to learn from the everyday challenges at Dartmouth as she said she did through her time as women's rugby captain. Ferro emphasized the need for communication on campus and cited her Senior Fellowship on her Cuban American background as an innovative way to complete her four years of learning at the College. "One thing we don't do well here is communicate in an honest, open way.

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Has the D-Plan outgrown its origins?

By Louisa Sadler | May 17, 2000

While some students sing its praises and others lament the difficulties it causes, few know the origins of Dartmouth's academic plan. The Trustees' recent call for review of the Dartmouth Plan has brought new -- but not unprecedented -- administrative attention to the unique year-round operating plan the College instituted in the 1970s. In order to admit 1,000 female students without building new facilities or decreasing the number of male students, the D-Plan enabled Dartmouth to expand at a time when it could not have afforded to increase the size of its dorms or faculty. Students and faculty embraced the new plan, and educators predicted at the time that other Ivy League colleges and even secondary schools would soon depart from the normal semester system and adopt the more efficient plan for year-round operation. While other schools -- like Stanford and Northwestern Universities -- operate on a three-term calendar, 29 years after the inception of the D-Plan, Dartmouth remains the only major institution of higher education with a year-round calendar. Creation The D-Plan was created as a direct solution to the problems associated with coeducation.

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New policy to blame for parking tickets

By Louisa Sadler | May 10, 2000

Many students have expressed anger and outrage at a perceived recent increase in parking tickets on campus, but Parking Operations is not backing down, saying all the fines are legitimate -- and final. "I've gotten three random $100 tickets in the last month -- one at A-lot when there wasn't enough space, one outside my dorm with flashers on and another in front of Thayer for five minutes.

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Republican youth group in search for moderates

By Louisa Sadler | April 25, 2000

Hoping to capitalize on recent College students' involvement in the 2000 Presidential campaigns, the Republican Youth Majority -- a nationwide, moderate Republican activism group -- was at Dartmouth this month seeking new members with the hopes of establishing a chapter on campus. The group would not be an alternative to the long-standing College Republicans, formerly known as the Conservative Union at Dartmouth, but merely an additional option for Republican activism, regional organizer Rob Singer said. He said he is seeking to expand the group's membership throughout the Northeast, which prompted his trip to the Dartmouth campus. The Republican Youth Majority is built on a "fiscally conservative and socially moderate" platform, which includes a pro-choice plans, according to their fliers on campus -- an item that conflict with traditional Republican party ideology. "People don't know this message exists within the Republican party.

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