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Students say drug use at Hanover High continues to be stable

By Tom Arnold | October 2, 1996

While recent reports indicate that drug use among teenagers is skyrocketing, students and administrators at Hanover High School say the drug problem on their campus has remained essentially unchanged. While they admit a drug problem exists, students and administrators at Hanover High say it is no greater than the drug problems facing other high schools around the country.

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Organic farm becoming a reality

By Tom Arnold | February 26, 1996

With the assistance of the newly hired farm manager, Betsy Garties, Dartmouth's Organic Farm is gearing up to cultivate the farmer in every Dartmouth student. Student volunteers will provide a lot of labor for the farm, said Garties, who is a professional farmer with a degree in soil and crop science from Texas A&M University. "We are also going to be hiring work study students," she added. Garties said she is hoping people will get involved with the farm on an academic level, with a class project or independent study. "I'd like to think of it as a resource for students," Garties said. Ross Virginia, chair of the Environmental Studies department, said next term's Environmental Science 79, Soil Science, will utilize the farm. Virginia said the department has been interested in the farm since its inception and he said he hopes students may soon be able to become academically involved with it. "The farm is sort of an outdoor lab," Virginia said.

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Walker speaks on 'blacks selling out'

By Tom Arnold | February 20, 1996

Tracing the development of Afro-American music from its roots in Africa to modern day 'gangsta rap,' Drama Professor Victor Walker tackled the question, "Are Blacks Selling out?" About 30 people attended this discussion which was the first installment in the Shabazz Lecture Series. "Selling out is not about money, it is about authenticity and about feigned authenticity," Walker said. Walker said he was not trying to point to rap as social deviance, but rather to what it really is -- entertainment. Walker said the problem is rappers do not appreciate the different aspects of the African-American community, and in that respect are selling out. "Selling out is about not identifying with the diversity in the community," Walker said. Walker gave an extensive history of black music. "We have a tendency to view changes in music as happening in a vacuum," he said.

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Carnival sculpture braves the weather

By Tom Arnold | February 6, 1996

Despite unusually warm weather earlier in the term, little student help and a scarcity of snow to work with, this year's Winter Carnival sculpture is nearing completion, sculpture committee members said. The sculpture, patterned after this year's Carnival theme of "'Round the Girdled Earth They Roamed: A Prehistoric Carnival," is a stegosaurus standing atop a large block of ice. "We finished the base on Friday -- the animal is now ready to be slushed," Sculpture Committee Chair Sara Paisner '96 said. Slushing refers to the act of applying a snow and water mix to the burlap sacks surrounding the wooden frame of the stegosaurus. Paisner said rain and warm weather, neither of which is conducive to building a snow sculpture, are the main reasons so few people have volunteered to help with construction. For the last few weeks, it has been either pouring or 50 degrees which has discouraged potential sculptors from joining the cause, Paisner said. "When there is no snow on the ground people don't get psyched for Carnival," she said. "Of course, more people work as Carnival gets closer," Beth Bloodgood '96, the sculpture publicity chair, said. "The last week everyone is like, 'Oh, we want a sculpture this year," she said. Paisner agreed the number of people willing to help with the construction has increased over the past few days -- including 15 volunteers on Friday and 10 to 12 yesterday.

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