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New telephone system in works

By Blake Shepard | November 24, 1993

The College will upgrade its current telephone system in the coming year, which could allow it to add new features like voice mail to campus telephones, administrators announced yesterday. According to a statement from Telephone Services, the new system should eliminate many current problems including frequent difficulty making outside calls and cross-talk, when phone lines are temporarily crossed and several conversations can be heard on the same line. The current system, installed in 1981, is now technologically obsolete.

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Pelton charters freshman review

By Scott Anthony | November 24, 1993

Dean of Students Lee Pelton last week formed a committee to scrutinize the freshman year and suggest changes. There are 25 members on the Committee on the First-Year Experience: nine administrators, six professors and 10 students. "The overarching theme is to reinvest in the notion of an integration of the active and contemplative life of students," Pelton said.

Arts

Big Green fall seasons in review

By Ally Hyun | November 24, 1993

While Dartmouth's football team proved to us all that you don't need an Ivy League crown to call a season successful, the league title certainly helped women's soccer. Best of luck to all the teams for the rest of the year.

Opinion

CUaD's actions are not analogous to those of Luxon

By Thomas Luxon | November 24, 1993

To the Editor: I write to offer corrections to a misperception which The Dartmouth has perpetuated in its latest issues, once in a report on the Conservative Union at Dartmouth's crusade against Spare Rib ("Conservative Crusade," The Dartmouth, Nov.

Arts

Galas gives provocative show

By Susan Zieger | November 24, 1993

A spotlight parts the darkness, revealing a muscular female figure, black hair amuck and bared torso slick with what appears to be blood. "Were you a witness?" she intones throatily, then commences to sing, shriek, whisper, cackle, gasp and ululate, conjuring visions of a soul in hell.

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College hires new photographer

By Colin Grey | November 23, 1993

Walking past Robinson Hall in a gray trenchcoat and a new green Dartmouth baseball cap, the College's new official photographer, Joseph Mehling '69, zoomed into the horizon by bracketing the cloudy afternoon sky between Baker Library and Dartmouth Hall with a sweeping gesture of his hand. "If you look at those buildings and the sky -- there's the other dimension of people walking across -- that's the kind of thing that I'm interested in," Mehling said as he lifted a cigarette to his mouth. Mehling started his job as the College's photographer on Nov.

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Court rules for Topside

By Scott Anthony | November 23, 1993

Grafton County Superior Court yesterday rejected an appeal by Hanover merchants that challenged the right of the College to operate Topside, the convenience store in Thayer Dining Hall. The decision apparently ends over two years of legal wrangling, and should allow the College to continue running Topside without a special zoning exemption. Local merchants filed the suit against the town of Hanover, claiming that the town should have forced the College to ask for a special exemption to town zoning laws when renovations transformed Topside from a cafeteria to a convenience store. Topside now sells food and other items and rents videotapes. Assistant College Council Sean Gorman said he was not surprised by the decision. "I think we're glad to see the town's decision upheld," Gorman said.

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Survey successful; Response rate doubles other polls

By David Hemmer | November 23, 1993

A survey sent to students, faculty and administrators in the first week of November to gauge campus attitudes toward homosexuals may become a standard work in the field of gay and lesbian studies because of its tremendous response rate. "This is a standard now which all other surveys on this field will look at," said Auguste Goldman '94, the chair of the committee that sent the surveys. More than 70 percent of the 1,600 surveys that were sent out have been returned, according to Goldman.

Opinion

Misguided crusade

By House Editorial | November 23, 1993

Let's not talk about sex. Let's talk about constructive discourse and about dissent and debate in an Ivy League college community. A conservative crusade is being mounted against Spare Rib, a student-run women's issues publication.

Arts

Galas enacts 'Judgement Day'

By Jennifer Skoda | November 23, 1993

Avant-garde performance artist Diamanda Galas will perform "Judgement Day," an emotionally charged, solo stage production about the AIDS epidemic, tonight in Spaulding Auditorium at 8 p.m. The classically trained singer and pianist uses everything from biblical passages to parodies of fundamentalist preachers in her criticism of how the disease is dealt with by many Americans. Shock is an integral part of Galas's shows.

Sports

Big Green garner Ivy League honors

By Brad Parks | November 23, 1993

When the Dartmouth football team began its season two months ago at Pennsylvania's Franklin Field, the 1993 campaign had been all but mapped out. Jay Fiedler '94 would plaster his name in every available slot in the Dartmouth record books.

Arts

Barbary Coast jazz celebrates Sun Ra

By Ian Fitzgerald | November 23, 1993

Saturday evening the Barbary Coast jazz ensemble paid tribute to Sun Ra, the innovative pianist and composer who died this past May. Under the direction of Music Professor Don Glasgo, the ensemble rendered a selection of Ra's compositions with tremendous energy and conviction, captivating an audience of nearly 500. Improvisation and syncopation are two fundamentals of jazz that come out in Ra's work. Guest artists Micael Ray and Marshall Jackson, on trumpet and alto saxophone respectively, performed extraordinary solo passages rich in technical proficiency and the expressive possibilities of both instruments. Particularly memorable was "Discipline 27/ No.

Sports

Crew season ends at Foot of the Charles

By Amy Hatch | November 23, 1993

Men's crew completed fall competition last weekend at the Foot of the Charles in Cambridge, Mass. The two and a half mile race began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ended at the Harvard boathouse.

News

Conservatives target Spare Rib

By Maggie Fritz | November 23, 1993

Members of the Conservative Union at Dartmouth and staffers of Spare Rib, a student-run women's issues publication, both worked yesterday to mobilize supporters in a controversy sparked by last Thursday's edition of the journal. Over the weekend, members of the executive board of CUaD visited four of the seven businesses that advertised in the "Sex Issue" of the publication, and the organization met last night to release a statement condemning the journal. "We basically asked [the store managers] if they had seen the issue," said CUaD President Matthew Berry '94.

Opinion

A sad state of affairs at the AAm

By Will Griffin | November 23, 1993

These are very sad times for the organization we know as the Afro-American Society. Unabated self-interest, envy, psychological insecurity and a petty quest for some sense of "control," have become the order of the day. Since this present Executive Committee took control last Spring, the AAm has been on a steady decline.

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