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In Defense of Hillary

By Nina Mcadoo | April 6, 1994

Is anyone out there trying to pay as little attention to Whitewater as possible? For those concerned about the First Lady's role, disregard of the matter might be the most worthwhile position to take. Americans should be uncomfortable, to put it mildly, with the way the media, campaign handlers, politicians and the general public have treated Hillary Clinton from the very beginning.

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Slow responses to transcript proposal

By Siobhan Gorman | April 6, 1994

The Committee on Instruction did not receive any responses by its deadline from those asked to comment on a proposal to change the format of student transcripts. The proposal, which was sent to the Student Assembly, the Dean of the College, associate deans and Divisional Councils of the faculty last February, outlined a new transcript format that would list the average grade and the course enrollment along with a student's grade in a class. The COI asked recipients to respond with "comments and suggestions" about the proposal by Monday, April 4. The proposed changes are designed to address grade inflation and discrepancies between the grading levels in different academic departments. The overall grade point average increased from 3.06 in 1976-77 to 3.23 in 1992-93.

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Light lectures on views of women in politics

By Siobhan Gorman | April 6, 1994

Simply adding more women to the field of international politics will not make a difference in their visibility or in deconstructing stereotypes, said Margot Light, a visiting professor from the London School of Economics. Light spoke yesterday afternoon at a luncheon sponsored by Women in Politics. The luncheon was the first of seven events in the group's Spring term series, which is the second half of "Gender Issues in International Politics and Policy making" that began Winter term. Light said the stereotypes of women in international politics as soft, passive and powerless are perpetuated by society's views of women in power and women in politics. "Women are associated with soft issues like the environment so they reinforce traditional distinctions," she said. "On the other hand, women who get into [powerful positions] on their own are identified as being quite masculine," she said.

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Cook '94 misses court

By Scott Anthony | April 6, 1994

Nate Cook '94 failed to appear in Lebanon District Court yesterday for his arraignment on charges of hazing a Beta Theta Pi fraternity pledge. Cook's arraignment was scheduled for 9 a.m.

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Review editor resigns

By Scott Anthony and Scott Anthony | April 6, 1994

Daniel Garcia-Diaz '95 resigned as editor in chief of The Dartmouth Review yesterday and Andrew Gold '95 will step in as the acting editor. Editors of the off-campus conservative weekly announced the resignation last night. Garcia-Diaz said he resigned so he could dedicate more time to academic pursuits. "I can't do a fairly good job of editing The Review and do well in my classes," he said.

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ROTC report stalled

By Maggie Fritz | April 6, 1994

The Student Assembly decided in its general meeting last night to return a draft version of a report on the College's Reserve Officer Training Corps program to its Administrative Affairs Committee for re-evaluation. The ROTC report, which was written following a February Assembly motion to support ROTC at the College, will be presented to the Board of Trustees at its meeting during the weekend of April 15. Presently, the report is being fine tuned by the Executive Committee. "We're still in Execs, working with the draft," Assembly President Nicole Artzer '94 said.

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Books, safes, cameras and locks

By Alexander R. Edlich | April 6, 1994

A system of vaults, padlocked doors, underground rooms, locked drawers and closed bookshelves protect more than $100 million worth of manuscripts, books and photographs in Baker Library's Special Collections. A discussion of the library's security system, which followed the recent theft of a $150,000 rare book from a public library in Vermont, has determined the system is "tight," Special Collections Librarian Philip Cronenwett said. Two weeks ago a thief pried open bars on a basement window, cracked the book's case and stole an antique chromolithographed edition of John James Audubon's "Birds of America" from the Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock, Vt. The mammoth original edition of Audubon's colorful anthology of American birds is on display in Baker in an open-faced glass case in the middle of the Special Collection's reading room.

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Freedman doing well, remains in hospital

By Scott Anthony | April 6, 1994

College President James Freedman, who is in good condition, remains in Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital despite earlier reports that said he would be released yesterday. Hospital spokeswoman Peggy Slazman said Freedman's continued hospitalization is not abnormal. Freedman underwent surgery Monday to remove a testicular tumor.

Arts

'Paper' scoops action, drama

By Dawn Conner | April 5, 1994

Stop the presses! It's an exclamation every newspaper journalist dreams of shouting - if only to supplement the exhilaration of printing a lead story fantastic enough to stop the media.

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Casteneda on women in slavery

By Rini Ghosh | April 5, 1994

University of Havana Professor of History Digna Casteneda spoke to students and faculty yesterday afternoon about the role of slave women in the first half of the 19th century in Cuban society. The speech, titled "African-Caribbean Women and the Slave Experience," was translated by Marysa Navarro, a history professor and chair of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program. "It is necessary to understand the past in order to understand the present, imagine the future and help change societies," Casteneda said. The 600 documents that Casteneda researched from the national archives in Cuba revealed that only about 10 men pursued slave-related legal cases, while the rest was done by women. "Women were responsible for legal battles and for the freedom of family members," she said. She hypothesized that the higher involvement of women in legal affairs was because slave women came into more contact with people who had knowledge of the legal profession through their work in households and cities, Casteneda said. Slave women worked in various settings, including sugar plantations, cities and domestic environments.

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Testicular cancer risk highest for ages 15-34

By Colin Grey | April 5, 1994

Although other forms of cancer receive far more exposure from the media, testicular cancer poses a threat to the health of men, especially those aged 15 to 34. Testicular cancer strikes most commonly in this age group and is responsible for 12 percent of the group's cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society. The American Cancer Society estimated 350 men died of testicular cancer in 1993.

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Freedman well after surgery

By Scott Anthony | April 5, 1994

College President James Freedman is in good condition after undergoing surgery yesterday morning to remove a testicular tumor, according to Peggy Slazman, a spokeswoman for Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Mass General's Chief of Urology Scott McDougal '64 performed the surgery, Slazman said.

Opinion

Housing Crunch Hits Home

By Dan Richman | April 5, 1994

Inadequate housing is a problem that is beginning to consume our campus. When the Office of Residential Life sent out our 1994-95 housing priority numbers last week, Dean Bud Beatty enclosed a letter detailing the overcrowding we will experience in the fall and explaining, quite simply, some of us will be denied dorm housing.

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SA candidates launch campaigns

By Scott Anthony | April 5, 1994

What is usually a hectic week of campaigning for student elections began with a whimper early this morning,. Only one Student Assembly presidential candidate - Jeremy Katz '95 - had a poster hung in Thayer Dining Hall or Collis Center by 12:30 this morning, and none of the candidates could be seen. The official campaign period for the April 12 election began this morning at 12:01.

Opinion

Where do our tuition dollars go

By Steve Double | April 5, 1994

To the Editor: Do you ever wonder what your tuition money actually pays for? If you're anything like me, this question must cross your mind quite often, in light of annual tuition hikes and constant campus debate over what to do with the College's money.

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NYNEX project nixed

By Maggie Lockwood | April 4, 1994

Because of a soaring budget, unavailable technology and an inability to compromise, the plug was pulled on the proposed $6 million NYNEX-Dartmouth Learning Network project. NYNEX, New England Telephone and Dartmouth were working to provide an interactive data, voice and video network that would allow five Upper Valley high schools, the Howe Library, the Montshire Museum of Science and the College to all share educational resources. According to Erle Pierce, staff director of planning for NYNEX, after only a year, NYNEX realized it had under-estimated the time frame on the software development and watched the price tag for the information network balloon to about $18 million. ATM, which stands for asynchronous transaction mode, is a switch mechanism that allows people to converse over the telephone.

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