To the Editor: To kick off this year's Sexual Assault Awareness Week (SAAW), Larry Nadeau, National Director of the Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) self defense program for women, called for the "good men" of Dartmouth to challenge violence against women on our campus.
The Sigma Delta Constitution is clear, "Sigma Delta seeks to provide a social space where all women feel comfortable, and no woman will feel threatened by her gender.
After spending seven years in a "temporary" location in the Choates dormitory cluster, the Women's Resource Center is looking for a new home closer to the center of campus. "Physiologically our location is not far away, psychologically it is," said Giavanna Munafo, the Women's Resource Center director. "If someone already knew where the building was located, such as Collis, then when they saw some of the programs we sponsor, they would be more likely to come." But the Women's Resource Center is not the only organization on campus that is looking for a new home. "There are other things that are taking precedent over the WRC," said Gordie DeWitt, director of facilities planning.
Professor Angela Davis of the University of California, Santa Cruz blasted U.S. welfare, immigration and crime policies in a speech Saturday night delivered to a packed audience in Webster Hall. Straying away from her anticipated topic of "Examining Laws of Oppressions: Rethinking the U.S.
Thanks to a new computer service provided by the College, telephone books are no longer necessary to look up business phone numbers. Through DCIS, the College's computer information network, students and faculty now have on-line access to any of 300 NYNEX Yellow Pages in New England and New York state containing more than 2.1 million business phone numbers. "NYNEX offered their service for free to a number of schools.
About 40 people gathered in Rollins Chapel for a memorial service yesterday to commemorate the 22 victims of last week's terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel. "This service will honor those killed in the name of Israel, to express our grief at the tragedy and to pray for a true, immediate peace," said Gideon Katz '97, president of Hillel, the College's Jewish student organization. Shirley Sperling '98 began the service by reciting a poem titled "Every Man has a Name" by the Hebrew poet Zelda. "When we hear this poem, I want it to remind us that every person who died had a family, a job ... and that every person who died was a real person," she said. In a speech following the poem, David Gros '95 linked last week's bombing and yesterday's signing of the peace accords between Israel and Jordan. "Each one was an individual victim," Gros said.
All 500 advanced student and faculty tickets for Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel's speech on "The Assault on Memory" were gone by noon yesterday, but 200 more tickets will be distributed before the speech Sunday. Tickets, which are being distributed for free, became available to professors and students yesterday at 9 a.m. The speech, which will take place at 8:30 p.m.
A memorial service for Adam Brown '97 will be held Sunday in Rollins Chapel at 2:30 p.m. A reception will follow the ceremony. Rabbi Daniel Siegel will officiate the service.
Time is running out for students who wish to pick their own pumpkins for the approaching Halloween festivities. With the first frost of the season already here, many farms are closing down to the public and harvesting the remaining vegetables themselves for sale at stands and markets. "We just had a killer frost [last Tuesday] night which really hit pumpkins hard.
Based on the concept of students helping each other, the Peer Educator program begins another year by increasing training and expanding its efforts in academic advising. The Peer Educator program consists of two portions -- one for academic advising and one for health advising. A common complaint among upperclass students is that the Dean of Students Office is not all that accessible to students.