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'Valley Vital Signs' monitors the Upper Valley environment

By Jake Molland | February 1, 1996

In a meeting held the evening of Jan. 19, community members and Dartmouth faculty and students joined together to map out a long-term environmental plan for the Upper Valley as part of the Valley Vital Signs Project. The environmental group, one of 14 areas within the Vital Signs Project, is working to develop community indicators that measure water quality, air quality, energy efficiency, energy sources, waste recycling and production and hazardous waste in the Upper Valley. According to Vital Signs Coordinator Delia Clark, the project intends to use indicators to identify strengths and weaknesses in the community's social, economic and environmental structure. While the selection of community indicators remains early in its development, current possibilities suggest an Audubon bird species count, drinking water quality, the amount of solid waste recycled and barrels of trash collected per year. Environmental Studies Professor Diana Wright, a member of the group, said the chosen indicators, to be effective, must "speak to the heart." "We're trying to make people aware of what's happening, to ask themselves, 'What is the direction we're heading?' and 'Which direction do we want to go?" Wright explained. Greg Richards '96, in charge of finding an indicator for biodiversity in the roughly 37 townships of the Upper Valley, said the project is "an effort to define the values of a community ... and to track those values over time." According to Richards, measurement of the indicators will be a "big challenge for the environmental group." "We need to find indicators tailor-made to the Upper Valley," he said. Staff member of Environmental Measurement Jennifer Weyner said the project would allow "average people to look at the indicators and see how we're doing." The individuals involved believe "very deeply in what we're doing.

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Roberts '96, campus tenor, sees a bright future in music

By Jeffrey Giuffrida | February 1, 1996

To many people on campus, he seems to have a suave and self-assured presence. But there's more to Michael Roberts '96 than just a good wardrobe -- he's a rising star with a bright future in music. From opera to a cappella, Collis to the classrooms, Roberts is trying to do it all -- and succeeding.

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Hood Museum may return Native American remains

By Barry Kral | February 1, 1996

This spring the Hood Museum of Art hopes to return to the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi human remains found near Lake Winnepesauke and donated to the College in 1945. The interred remains of a 10- to 12-year-old Native American child had washed out of a site on the banks of the lake and were sent to the Dartmouth Medical School for forensic examination. They were subsequently donated to the Hood Museum. The area where the remains were discovered falls within the territory widely recognized as that of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi (Western Abenaki). The Missisquoi, however, are not a federally recognized Indian tribe, and thus have no legal standing for repatriation claims under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA). To facilitate the repatriation, the Hood Museum has petitioned the NAGPRA Review Committee for release of the remains, with the support of Donna Roberts, repatriation coordinator for the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi. The committee has granted permission for the repatriation process to move forward, contingent on publication of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi's claim regionally and then in the Federal Register. If no other group or individual claims the remains, they will be repatriated and reinterred in the spring. "As with most Native peoples, we believe our Ancestors should be returned to the Earth Mother as expeditiously as possible in order for them to finally continue on their journeys, which have been so abruptly interrupted," Roberts said.

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Surreal films distort perceptions

By Joaquin Diego Prange | January 31, 1996

If one evening best summarizes the theme of this term's DFS series "Auteurs", it is tonight's presentation of directors Luis Bunuel's "Viridiana" and Ingmar Bergman's "Persona." Bunuel and Bergman each revolutionized what it means to be a director and an auteur.

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Dance troupes explore African rhythm and urban funk

By Michael A> Posey | January 29, 1996

Dance takes on new heights as members of student dance troupes Ujima and Sheba take the stage. The rhythms of Africa and the streets of New York come to Dartmouth, with the student body leading the cheer. Both ensembles, already veritable hits on campus, have performed at such venues as Collis Common Ground and Dartmouth United's much heralded "jAAm at the AAm." Ujima, whose name comes from the Swahili word meaning collective work and responsibility, is probably one of the oldest extracurricular dance troupes on campus. Initiated in 1985 as a part of the Black Underground Theater Association, Ujima wanted to find its own niche and left BUTA's shadow to become a separate entity. "A lot of people wanted to show their dancing skills," said Jewel Jones '97, a Ujima member since her freshman year. Jones said many members at the time of Ujima's formation had taken ballet and tap-dance classes and wanted "to showcase their cultural achievement through dance." Ujima has roots in African dance, modern jazz, modern ballet and funky hip-hop, Jones said. Shakari Cameron '96 said she was a hesitant at first to join the group. "Someone asked if I would be interested and one thing led to another," she said. A member of Ujima since her sophomore winter, Cameron had only praise for the ensemble, which she said "really makes you feel the collective spirit." "Once you do become a member, you feel a responsibility to carry [Ujima] on.

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Students bring the internet to Valley

By Jennifer Matthews | January 25, 1996

The information highway spreads throughout the Upper Valley education system at the hands of Dartmouth's Surfer Guides -- student volunteers who work with teachers and students in Upper Valley schools. Guides tutor on basic to advanced Internet use, initiate Internet projects with students and help them to design different types of Web pages, said Surfer Guide Coordinator MaryAnn Veseskis '89. The Surfer Guide Program is a volunteer project sponsored by the Tucker Foundation and the Montshire Museum of Science. "I think of myself as a teacher" said Surfer Guide Glen Frank '98. The Surfer Guide program was started to meet the computer needs of the Upper Valley public school system, Veseskis said. After receiving a grant during the winter of 1995, Ed Baker '89 was hired to create a pilot project. Last spring Surfer Guides donated over 160 volunteer hours while assisting over 111 teachers and 59 students, Veseskis said. Judy Wilson, the Technology Coordinator for Hanover High School, said the program was "received enthusiastically by the staff." She said the program appealed to teachers as a one-on-one way to learn how to access the World Wide Web. At the end of the month, three Surfer Guides will begin to work with three social studies classes at Hanover High School to create a project designed to integrate the Internet into class curriculums, Veseskis said. Glenna Giveans, the Computer Teacher at the Hanover Middle School, was one of the first people involved in the program. Surfer Guides assist her eighth grade students in using the Internet and developing projects through the Web.

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Hanover games will begin this weekend

By Jodi Priselac | January 25, 1996

This Saturday, the Hanover Recreation Department and the Hanover Inn will kick off the 16th Annual Hanover Winter Games with a parade down Main Street. The weekend's festivities will also include a torch-lighting ceremony in front of the Hanover-Richmond school, a homemade pasta dinner at the school and a Penny Sale to follow, according to Assistant Recreation Director Chris Vitale. "All the money raised from this goes right back into youth programming for the town," Vitale said. The Games usually raise more than $1,000 once all of the expenses are deducted, Vitale said. The money is spent on uniforms and equipment for third to eighth grade teams in the area, she said. In the past, the day's events have drawn 200 to 250 people.

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'Circle' comes of age

By Amir Katz | January 25, 1996

The efforts of friends to stick together through the toughest of times and the theme of rustic morality opposed to the vices of the city are thoroughly explored in tonight's installment of the "New Celtic Cinema" series. "Circle of Friends," a warm, unpretentious coming-of-age film set in late 1950's Ireland will show at Loew Auditorium tonight as part of its series on Celtic cinema. Based on a 1990 novel by Maeve Binchy, "Circle of Friends" is the story of three girl friends from a small Irish village who find themselves suddenly exposed to the opportunities and vices of big-town Dublin when they start attending Trinity College. The movie focuses on the moral decisions that the three friends have to make about their lives while existing in a society that is uncompromisingly Catholic. Nan (Saffron Burrows) is the most focused of the three.

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Wayne tames 'Wild West'

By Simone Swink | January 24, 1996

Tonight the Film Society will make one nostalgic for the old days, as John Wayne lassos and shoots his way through the Wild West in John Ford's "Stagecoach" and Howard Hawks's "Red River." "Stagecoach" whisks its audience into Western terrain with a bunch of misfits. On a stagecoach are a loose woman, an earnest drunk, a balmy driver, a geeky businessman with a penchant for Sherlock Holmes hats, some others and, of course, John Wayne. The colorful array of characters play off each other in humorous scenes.

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Limon: a legacy of dance

By Jack Vaitayanonta | January 19, 1996

When the Limon Dance Troupe performs at the Moore Theater tonight, it will bring a rich history and tradition to the stage. The troupe, one of the two senior dance companies in the world, continues to electrify its audiences with thrilling, no-holds barred shows filled with originality, strong form, technique and spirit. This year they visit the campus in the midst of their 50th anniversary tour, in which they will present a program of masterworks by the genius behind their work, the late Jose Limon and his artistic director and mentor Doris Humphrey and other works by acclaimed contemporary choreographers. Limon (1908-1972) formed the dance troupe, which continues to enthrall audiences 24 years after his death.

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'Unzipped' exposes world of fashion

By Tom Jawetz | January 19, 1996

Surreal, glamorous, possibly the epitome of hedonism, the fashion industry has never been looked at in such depth as in director Douglas Keeve's documentary "Unzipped," a portrait of fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi. "Unzipped" follows Mizrahi on a journey from his disastrous spring 1994 collection until the day after his well received fall collection at New York City's Bryant Park.

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'Rob Roy' epitomizes Celtic virility

By Amir Katz | January 18, 1996

"Rob Roy," starring Liam Neeson in the title role of the eighteenth-century Scottish outlaw, will be shown tonight at 7:00 as part of the Loew series featuring new Celtic cinema. The film, directed by Scottish-born Michael Caton-Jones, tells the story of Robert MacGregor, the legendary Scotsman who feuded with British nobility in the early eighteenth century.

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Pulitzer winner Art Spiegelman will speak

By Jack Vaitayanonta | January 18, 1996

When Pulitzer-prize winning Art Spiegelman discusses the making of his film "Maus: A Survivor's Tale" today, he will explain the unconventional methods he used in addressing one of the most profound tragedies of the modern age: the Holocaust. Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. The discussion, which will take place in Cook Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., centers upon the book, which uses a cartoon narrative as a medium in which the Germans are cats, Jews are mice and every ethnic group from Americans to French are portryed as different animals. The New York Times Book Review called the book "a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness ... an unfolding literary event." The book works on two levels -- the oral level made of the father's testimony and translated into cartoon bubbles and the visual level of Spiegelman's remarkable graphics. "Maus" moves back and forth from Poland to Rego Park, New York.

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Skiway predicts a good year

By David Kung | January 18, 1996

With more and more snow being dumped on Dartmouth each day, the Dartmouth Skiway predicts excellent slopes and good business for the remainder of the Winter term. The Dartmouth Skiway is continuing its fourth good ski year in a row, according to Skiway Manager Don Cutter '73. "This has been one of the snowiest Decembers ever," he said.

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