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Refendum is beginning of student input on Greeks

By Matthew Berry | November 8, 1993

For the past three years, the Student Assembly told the student body what to think. On issue after issue ranging from supporting the censorship of the Hovey murals to condemning an Oregon state ballot referendum, the Assembly ignored the wishes of its constituents in order to further the members' personal political agendas. On Thursday, the Assembly will ask the student body what it thinks.

Opinion

Moderates left out in the cold on Greek referendum

By John Strayer | November 5, 1993

The proud and mighty Reform SA! sent out the call. They said political bickering was holding the Student Assembly back from doing something productive. Let's do something!" they shouted. The result: a referendum on the Greek system that is so poorly worded as to be utterly pointless and downright stupid. As it now stands on Nov.

News

Phi Beta Kappa inducts 26 seniors

By Mary Ellen Moore | November 5, 1993

Twenty-six seniors were inducted into Dartmouth's chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society on Tuesday at a formal ceremony in the home of College President James Freedman. The seniors were selected based on their grade point average at the end of junior year which placed them in the top 20 in the Class of 1994. At the ceremony in Freedman's basement library, Phi Beta Kappa officers donned formal academic robes. The students were notified last week of their selection to the society. "There were people raising motions and passing them and then we all signed a book and got a certificate," said Brook Brouha '94. A reception in Freedman's dining room followed the induction. "We all chatted because we didn't know each other since we had spent more time studying," Brouha said. "It was very nice to actually meet President Freedman, who normally I don't have much personal contact with," Kevin Spurway '94 said. "Twenty-six students were eligible because of dead flat out ties in rank," said Economics Professor William Baldwin, the vice president of Phi Beta Kappa.

Sports

Big Green weekend preview

By Kenneth Y. Lee | November 5, 1993

As the Fall athletic season winds down, several teams square off in the final games of the term. With hopes of post-season play burning in their minds, the Big Green looks to close their record books with notches in the win column.

Sports

Football at Columbia

By Brad Parks | November 5, 1993

It's fairly rare that you head to a football game hoping it turns into a 41-7 blowout. But after two weeks in which the Dartmouth football team effectively doubled the blood pressure of anyone who dared to enter the heart-pounding confines of Memorial Field, that's just what anyone who is making the trip down to New York City for the Big Green's match-up with the Columbia Lions is hoping for -- a boring, reach-for-the-No-Doz thrashing. Even the Miracle Man himself, Jay Fiedler '94, admitted at the end of last week's 39-34 come-from-17-points-down clipping of Harvard that, "We have to stop doing this to ourselves." Dartmouth (4-3 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) certainly couldn't have a more apt candidate for a trouncing.

Opinion

Minority views lead the way

By Sean Donohue | November 4, 1993

The question of whether or not the single-sex Greek houses should continue to exist has nothing to do with whether or not a majority of the students at Dartmouth like it.

News

Speech contest mixes emotions, hot issues

By Karin Chesebro | November 4, 1993

In a talk that won an annual speech contest yesterday, Chris Powers '94 gave a moving account of his battle with cancer and encouraged College students to take advantage of life and its opportunities. Powers tied with Jennifer Kim '94 for first prize in the annual Barge Oratorical Contest for seniors last night in Dartmouth Hall. More than 70 students listened to eight finalists speak about their life experiences and controversial issues such as interracial dating and deteriorating American morals during the annual fall speech contest held in Dartmouth Hall. The speech contest is comprised of two different competitions -- the Class of 1866 Oratorical Contest for sophomores and juniors and the Barge Oratorical Contest for seniors.

News

Donation to expand Jewish studies

By Maggie Fritz | November 4, 1993

Dean of Faculty James Wright will appoint a new committee to examine the College's offerings in Jewish studies and possibly increase the number of classes offered in the discipline. Dick Page, a trustee and the chair of the Will to Excel Capital Campaign, announced a donation from Leon Black '73 last month, $200,000 of which is earmarked for funding the expansion of the Jewish studies program offered here. "The Jewish Studies program at Dartmouth right now is about half-way between nothing and where it's supposed to be," Rabbi Daniel Siegel said.

News

Gift will fund curriculum, museum

By Christopher Kao | November 4, 1993

At the dedication of the Hood Museum in 1985, former College President David McLaughlin lauded the family that made the building a reality. "Good judgment, generosity and discretion seem to be the Hood family character traits.

Arts

Merchants fight town over Topside

By Alexander R. Edlich | November 4, 1993

A Grafton County Superior Court judge is currently considering a lawsuit filed by Hanover merchants against the town that challenges the right of the College to operate Topside, the convenience store in Thayer Dining Hall. The case, which began two and a half years ago, will not necessarily decide the fate of the College's convenience store, but could force Dartmouth to apply for an exception to the town zoning laws. Dartmouth is not named in the suit against the town and was not asked to present briefs to the judge. But the leader of the effort, Dartmouth Bookstore Manager Dave Cioffi, said he and other merchants filed the suit to try to curb the College's "creeping commercialism." The College did not apply for zoning approval when it converted Topside two years ago from a cafeteria to a convenience store that rents videotapes, because administrators and legal consultants felt the renovations were within its rights, said Peter Johnson, the town's code administrator. The town's zoning laws stipulate that merchants, in order to make renovations to their buildings or change the use of their space, must gain approval from the zoning board. Cioffi said the suit is designed to "draw a line and straighten out the zoning ordinances.

News

Graduation anxieties tax seniors

By Amanda A. Amann | November 3, 1993

With graduation and what lies beyond fast approaching for the Class of 1994, seniors' anxieties about the future are mounting as deadlines for graduate school and corporate recruiting interviews approach. Every senior class faces the same pressures.

News

Bosnian diplomat cancels speech

By Timothy Fitzgibbons | November 3, 1993

Muhamed Sacirbey, the ambassador from Bosnia-Herzegovina to the United Nations, canceled a speech scheduled for last night in Cook Auditorium. Sacirbey was unable to speak because he was called to an urgent meeting in Washington, D.C., according to a statement released by Sabine Freizer '94, president of the World Affairs Council, one of the groups that is sponsoring Sacirbey's visit. "We are very disappointed he didn't come, but we understand under the circumstances," said Meghan Dunleavy '94, the council's vice president. Sacirbey now plans to speak here on Tuesday, November 10, Freizer said.

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