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Condoms available at Topside

By Scott Anthony | September 27, 1993

Students can now charge condoms and cold medicine to their student identification cards in vending machines outside of Topside. The items are currently available at no cost at Health Services' cold clinic at Dick's House.

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New director picked for Native American Program

By Marina Lakhman | September 27, 1993

A University of Colorado administrator with ties to the Ivy League was named director of the College's 23-year old Native American program earlier this month. Leisha Conners, a member of the Mohawk tribe who currently heads the American Indian Upward Bound Project at Colorado, will start her new job Oct.

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AAm hosts its own convocation

By Scott Anthony | September 27, 1993

The Afro-American Society kicked off its 27th year with a private convocation ceremony welcoming black members of the Class of 1997 into Dartmouth's Afro-American community and pledged to improve communication within the group. Nearly 100 students and faculty members attended the ceremony in Alumni Gymnasium Saturday afternoon. The AAm is the College's black students association and often sponsors academic and cultural events at Dartmouth. AAm President Zola Mashariki '94, Vice President Shakari Cameron '96 and African Caribbean Students Organization President Lee Addo '96 addressed the gathering. Mashariki welcomed the Class of 1997 and emphasized that the AAm is open to all black students, regardless of their geographic origins. All three speeches touched on the theme of inclusion after a turbulent year for the organization. Last spring, several AAm members confiscated issues of The Dartmouth Review to protest what they considered racist portrayals of the AAm and of African Americans in the off-campus conservative journal. In May, AAm president-elect Amiri Barksdale '96, who participated in the removal of the Reviews, resigned after conflict and criticism within the society. Mashariki told the new students that there needs to be more communication within the society and AAm members need to be more tolerant. "We had a tumultuous year," she said.

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KDE initiates 64 sisters

By Michelle Mooradian | September 27, 1993

The newly created Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority initiated 64 new members last week and held its first meeting Thursday night which included the house's lifeblood, 50 members of Class of 1996. The '96 women informally committed to the new sorority last spring after the Panhellenic Council announced Xi Kappa Chi sorority would dissolve because of low membership and financial problems. After a year of deliberation, Xi Kappa Chi members chose not to join a national sorority and, instead, brokered a deal with the College administration and the Panhell that would allow the creation of KDE, a new local sorority, KDE President Cheryl Pinkerton '94 said. Last Wednesday night, KDE initiated the 14 former Xi Kappa Chi members who chose to join the new sorority.

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MIT wins anti-trust appeal

By Kristen King | September 24, 1993

A Philadelphia federal appeals court last week ruled in favor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a case the Justice Department filed four years ago against the university for violating federal antitrust laws. MIT officials say the decision may slow down the bidding wars between elite institutions for top students who need financial aid. But College officials here say discrepancies in financial aid packages offered to a student by different universities, which have recently differed by as much as $5,000, would still exist if the Justice Department had not filed suit against MIT and other universities including Dartmouth in 1989. Before 1989, representatives from the eight Ivies, MIT, and 20 other schools met four times a year to decide how much aid money they would give to certain prospective students so each institution could offer similar or identical packages. But in the fall of that year, the Justice Department started investigating allegations that meetings between the Overlap colleges violated antitrust laws.

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Dartmouth 8th in poll

By Alexander R. Edlich | September 24, 1993

A drop in the College's score for academic reputation caused Dartmouth to slip a place this year in a national news magazine's ranking of the nation's top universities. Dartmouth slipped into the eighth slot after holding the seventh spot tied with Duke University last year in U.S.

Arts

Challenging Panda: 'Madame Ou' to open new Chinese eatery

By Kristen King | September 23, 1993

After spending 20 years fantasizing about running her own restaurant, the owner of a cramped Chinese carry-out in the basement of the Dartmouth Medical School finally has the chance to make her dreams come true. Cynthia Ou, who is well-known among students and faculty alike for her Thursday special of fried dumplings, is expanding to a sprawling Main Street location that will seat almost as many patrons as Panda House, which is the largest Chinese restaurant in Hanover. The new restaurant, which does not yet have a name, will seat 120 people and provide take-out service, Ou said.

Sports

Women's soccer improves with age

By Brad Parks | September 23, 1993

Consolation was not the order of the day for the Big Green as the horn blast that ended the women's soccer team's 2-1 overtime loss to the University of Connecticut echoed over Chase Field, Saturday. Maybe a year or two ago, Coach Steve Swanson would have been quick with praise for what was otherwise an outstanding performance against the Northeast Region's second-ranked team. These days, though, the women's soccer program has moved beyond picking up style points and putting up a good fight against the top teams. "We've gotten to the point where there are no more moral losses," Swanson said.

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Cook called state's best professor

By Diane Fernandes | September 23, 1993

A Washington-based educational organization earlier this month named English and African American Studies Professor William Cook the New Hampshire Professor of the Year. Cook, an expert in African-American literature and one of the College's most popular professors, said he has been a successful teacher when "students are so inspired that they continue." "I've never been the great books, core-curriculum type, because developing a competent knowledge of the text doesn't empower a student to approach others," Cook said.

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Assembly plans agenda

By Scott Anthony | September 23, 1993

A re-shaped Student Assembly, its leaders and members elected last spring on anti-incumbency platforms, will begin to formally hammer out its agenda at a first meeting Tuesday. Rejecting the Assembly's old guard, students elected Nicole Artzer '94 as president and Stephen Costalas '94 as vice president. Artzer advocated reforming the Assembly's committee structure so that student leaders focus more on student concerns and less on political issues. And the new president is working with an Assembly that is expected to welcome change.

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Halloween comes early for '97s

By Yvonne Chiu | September 23, 1993

It was the night before the freshmen came and all through the halls, Undergraduates Advisers, Area Coordinators and Graduate Associates labored to decorate doors with construction paper and candy in preparation for the Office of Residential Life's second-annual Welcoming Day. To the outsider last Friday, when all the freshmen dorms officially opened, the College probably seemed to be engrossed in an early Halloween fest.

Opinion

Homelessness and the Dartmouth connection

By Brandon Del Pozo | September 23, 1993

I hoped it was too early in the term to have negative things to say about Dartmouth, but I was wrong. One of the more pressing problems with our academic institution is homelessness. Don't struggle to recall where you saw the last bum on Main Street this morning.

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