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McCullough discusses work

By Christopher Kao | February 10, 1994

David McCullough, award-winning author of "Truman" and a Montgomery Fellow at the College discussed his works and the inspirations behind them with almost 100 people in Cook Auditorium last night. "If I have done my work, if I have brought an art to the writing of history, it means you will feel what happened - and I don't think we really know anything until we feel it," McCullough said. McCullough said when he writes a book he is "trying to bring the past to life and to recover what is slowly being lost." He said he explores themes like courage, leadership and innovation in his works. This outlook played an important part in his latest work, "Truman," which he researched for 10 years.

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Anti-Greek letter distributed

By Colin Grey | February 10, 1994

Forty students sent out a revised "Open Letter to the Administration about the [Coed Fraternity Sorority] System" yesterday to various students, with stronger demands than the rough draft which circulated prematurely last Saturday. The revised letter calls on several key administrators "to issue an order abolishing the CFS system effective in the Fall of 1994." The original letter asked for the banning of all-male Greek houses and an investigation of coed fraternities and sororities. David Cohen '94, Sari Cohen '94, Sean Donahue '96 and Lynn Webster '94 - all members of the Panarchy undergraduate society - signed the letter and said they represent the group called the Dartmouth Alliance for Social Change. The letter asks students who receive it to add their signatures to the harsh indictment of key administrators' failure to deal with the CFS system. "The CFS system represents the institutionalization of degradation in the forms of the objectification of women, the subordination of pledges, and the subjection of the individual to a constructed 'group ideal'," the letter said. The letter's main target are all-male fraternities, but it also attacks co-ed fraternities and sororities for remaining within the CFS system. "Sororities and coeds are guilty as well because of their structural similarities to fraternities," the letter said. "However, we acknowledge the need for all-female and coed spaces (including those houses that already exist), but believe that such spaces can and must exist outside the CFS system," it said. Early next week, the group said it will go public with the letter and submit it to College President James Freedman, Dean of the College Lee Pelton, Dean of Residential Life Dean Mary Turco and Assistant Dean of Residential Life Deborah Reinders. "We want to see the entire CFS system eliminated," Donahue said yesterday, speaking on behalf of the group. "We want to see the entire CFS system eliminated," Donahue said yesterday, speaking on behalf of the group. But Sunday, Donahue said the group did not expect the letter to bring about the end of the CFS system.

Arts

With Campion, conversation is king

By Amanda A. Amann | February 10, 1994

Hanover resident Nardi Campion and her dinner parties have almost become an institution in these parts, but she eschews the idea of herself as a member of high society. Invitations to an evening of good food and conversation at the Campions are prized by family friends and acquaintances at the College who are lucky enough to receive them. For such a little woman, Campion, who has no relation to the store on Main Street, has a high profile in the community. "She has an ability to generate and sustain a conversation that is quite rare.

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McCullough, a curious historian

By Justin Steinman | February 10, 1994

When one first meets David McCullough, current Montgomery Fellow at the College, he doesn't sound like a historian and best-selling author. He is more eager to talk about his hobby. "Painting is wonderful because you don't have to work with words," McCullough says.

Arts

World class trombonist to jam with Barbary Coast

By Aditya Dutt | February 10, 1994

Ray Anderson's acrobatic "trombonisms" have been described as "breathtaking, death-defying, highly dramatic and full of grand gestures," by Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble director Don Glasgo. Glasgo said Anderson is "full of swaggering bravado and undeniable sensitivity, a trombone playing Burt Lancaster in some jazzed-up version of 'Elmer Gantry'." Anderson has won several prestigious awards such as Down Beat magazine's "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition" category in the International Critics Poll and, since 1987, has won the "Best Trombonist" in the International Critics Poll every year until 1993.

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Reagan's birthday celebrated

By Siobhan Gorman | February 10, 1994

In a gathering that resembled a political convention more than a birthday bash, about 35 people convened to celebrate former President Ronald Reagan's 83rd birthday Saturday night. It was the Conservative Union at Dartmouth's third annual celebration of the event. "We wanted to have a social event that would be good fun and good humor," CUaD's Co-Vice- President Judd Serotta '94 said. CUaD also wanted the party to make a political statement to the campus, Bill Hall '96, CUaD's other co-vice-president, said. "It just makes a very good point to the campus," Hall said.

Opinion

Cattle Dollars in Dallas

By Andrew Friedman | February 10, 1994

In one of the most blatant displays of wasteful government spending nationwide, the city of Dallas has begun construction of an enormous bronze sculpture of a 19th century cattle drive.

Arts

Fox TV network to be offered in September

By Jason Casell | February 10, 1994

Students who have long missed out on their favorite Fox network programs will have the opportunity to receive them over satellite beginning next fall. Fox will be available on cable in September, before the beginning of the football season, said Kelly Jones, customer service representative for Twin State Cable, which services New Hampshire and Vermont. The network carries the popular programs "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Melrose Place" and "The Simpsons." Although Fox is available to 95 percent of the country, there has never been an affiliate to serve New Hampshire and Vermont.

Sports

Sanchez captures U.S. Cross Country title

By Jonathan Bordeau | February 10, 1994

One has to wonder whether Maribel Sanchez '96 would be the runner that she is today if her parents had not decided to move to Hastings, N.Y. Fate would have it that a young and eager Sanchez would move next door to an avid runner of the same age.

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Webster renovation to reduce public venues

By Timothy Fitzgibbons | February 10, 1994

When construction begins this summer to convert Webster Hall into a Special Collections library, the College will lose a major venue for large public events on campus. The renovation of Webster, which can hold about 800 people, could leave the College unable to hold medium-sized events, like musical acts, comedians and speakers, Programming Board Co-Chair Bob Bordone '94 said. The Collis Student Center was designed to increase the programming space for the students, according to Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia. "Our primary concern was restoring it to a programming space," Sateia said. But due to Webster's planned closing, actual programming space will decline, Bordone said.

Arts

AIDS exhibit at Collis

By Rick Owen | February 9, 1994

What do you know about AIDS? Well if the answer is not very much or even if it isn't, there is an extremely interesting exhibit of posters compiled by RAID (Responsible Aids Information at Dartmouth) on display in the Collis Commonground all day today and tomorrow. The Exhibit is called "Art About AIDS" and contains a variety of posters collected from around the world to educate and sensitize people to the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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Assembly, DDS argue over boycott

By Maggie Fritz | February 9, 1994

The Student Assembly's boycott of Dartmouth Dining Services will go ahead despite recent meetings between Assembly members and administrators in which DDS claimed they cannnot meet the Assembly's demands. A motion passed at last week's Assembly meeting called for a one-day boycott to protest what the Assembly described as "insufficient flexibility on the part of DDS." The Assembly has been lobbying DDS for two and a half years to change its meal plan policies.

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Speech begins Black History Month

By Rebecca Siegel | February 9, 1994

Dr. Naim Akbar, a nationally-renowned clinical psychologist, delivered a motivational speech Saturday in the first Afro-American Society-sponsored event in the College's celebration of Black History Month. The lecture, which focused on the psychology of self-determination in the African American community, drew a crowd of about 75 people to 105 Dartmouth Hall. Abkar said the obstacles to African American self-determination are based on the European community, which considers other races inferior, and the re-socialization and subordination of the black community during slavery times. "Slavery was not just an economic, political or power arrangement.

Opinion

Ethics in Our Society

By Dan Richman | February 9, 1994

In our four short years as college students, we seek to learn many things. Some would focus on the sciences while others would pursue the humanities.

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Carnival sculpture nears completion

By Laura Mannix | February 9, 1994

The completion of this year's snow sculpture, an abominable snowman breaking out of a pile of books, will mark the end of nearly six weeks of packing and sculpting for a small, dedicated group of students on the Winter Carnival Council. Although the sculpture now resembles little more than a giant snow pyramid, the 15 members of the Winter Carnival Council began chipping away at the massive pile of snow yesterday to shape it into its final form. The sculpture, which is 33-foot by 25-foot at the base, is made of five tiers, each between four and five feet high, which get progressively smaller toward the top, Tim Chow '96, chair of the Carnival committee, said. A six-foot-high protrusion from the top of the pile will become the snowman's upraised arm, giving the sculpture a height of 25 feet Artie Zweil '94, chair of the sculpture committee, said. The crew will work day and night to complete the sculpture by Thursday evening's opening ceremonies, Chow said. Last year's sculpture, a penguin wearing sunglasses and reclining in a beach chair, was only 12 feet tall because of the lack of snow, few workers and frozen water pipes. The council members, who started working on the sculpture after the first snowfall of the term, are counting on more help from other students in the remaining time before Carnival. Most of the snow used has come from the Green but Facilities, Operations and Management workers had to bring in two truckloads of snow from Occom Pond to help. As the weekend grows closer, more people are volunteering to help build the snow sculpture. "Usually that's the way it goes," Zweil said.

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