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Spring term sports wrap up

By Brad Parkd | July 6, 1993

RIDGEFIELD, Conn.--The 1993 spring sports season confirmed one very basic element of April and May sporting events at Dartmouth: they never fail to keep you guessing day to day. One of the most wet and cold springs in recent history kept teams inside Leverone Field House and Alumni Gym and off the fields and rivers of Hanover until several weeks into the term, wreaking absolute havoc on schedules and home games throughout the term. Even so, through the rain, the cold and the dark of mud, Dartmouth athletic teams managed to play their seasons, making them memorable for more than just the weather. The following is a brief, team-by-team look, for the final time, at the spring sports season. Baseball After starting the season with one of the best records in the Ivy League, the Big Green fell into an abyss that included nine losses in 11 games in one stretch to finish the season 14-19 overall, 8-12 Ivy. Although the team's numbers improved from last year -- it won five more games and batted 60 points higher than the 1992 season -- the true story of this year's campaign was a vastly improved attitude in the clubhouse and on the field. Joe Tosone '93, who captained the team with Clark Khayat '93, led the Big Green in 10 offensive categories and captured All-Ivy honors along with John Clifford '95. Women's Lacrosse Over one stretch of its season, the women's lacrosse scores looked more like the Detroit Tigers' (or even the Detroit Lions' if they had a defense) than intercollegiate lax. In a season where the team ranked as high as fourth in the nation and ended 11-4 overall, 2-4 Ivy, the most exciting part was a seven-game win streak where the team outscored its opponents 82-25, making it arguably the hottest team in the country. Men's Lacrosse The Ivy drought reached year seven for the men's lacrosse team, 3-9 overall and 0-for-everything in the Ivies, as the team once again failed to win an Ivy League game in a streak that has now extended to three Presidential administrations. The team had a number of close losses and a streak of bad luck. Men's Tennis It was a strong season for the men's tennis team, which shared a slice of the EITA for the first time in the league's 87-year history thanks to a tenacious, gutsy 4-3 come-from-behind clipping of Harvard in front of a packed crowd at the home match. Dartmouth was 15-7 overall and a nearly-unbeatable 8-1 in the Ivy League. Women's Tennis With a line-up that punished the tennis ball and its opponents, the women's team contended for the title right up until the last week of the season.

News

DHMC cancer program reaches out to rural areas

By Todd Steiner | July 6, 1993

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center's Norris Cotton Cancer Center has announced a new collaboration with New Hampshire and Vermont physicians which is designed to extend the reach of experimental cancer treatments to patients in local rural areas. The program is the first to directly involve community physicians in highly sophisticated investigational treatments, according to Dr. L.

Arts

'Distant Cousin' emerge from Dartmouth family

By Dawn Conner | July 6, 1993

Somehow the cute, elementary drawing of rolling hills, apple trees and stick figures that decorates the cover of Distant Cousins' compact disc does not quite seem to fit with Elvis Presley doing karate. Then again, the group's first album, "Twice Removed," is not exactly what one would call consistent.

News

Pipes fills in as provost

By Yvonne Chiu | July 6, 1993

Bruce Pipes is now doing a job he might have gotten -- if he hadn't withdrawn his candidacy. But he still got the provost job, if only temporarily. Pipes will serve as the College's chief academic officer until the provost-designate, Lee Bollinger, the University of Michigan Law School dean, takes over next July. Pipes and Bollinger were both on the final list of four candidates in the search to succeed John Strohbehn.

News

Gay partners may get health benefits

By Steve Hoffman | July 6, 1993

College President James Freedman is considering a plan to extend health benefits to the homosexual partners of College employees. A task force established by former Provost John Strohbehn completed a report last week outlining a plan to give employees' same-sex domestic partners the same benefits as legally married spouses. Although the report has not yet been released and a final decision will not be made until the College's benefits council and attorneys approve the plan, task force members say the College is committed to the principles involved. "The big decision has been made and we're going to move forward.

News

Thayer dean will return to teaching

By Yvonne Chiu | July 6, 1993

Dean of Thayer Engineering School Charles Hutchinson will step down next June after ten years of service to the College to return to what he loves doing most -- teaching. Hutchinson will take a year's sabbatical before returning to Thayer as a professor of computer and electrical engineering. A search committee, chaired by Engineering Professor Graham Wallis, will soon be appointed to find Hutchinson's successor. Hutchinson said there was no point in being in the education business if he did not like to teach.

News

Head of DarTalk steps down

By Steve Hoffman | July 6, 1993

Jules Pellerin recently retired from his full-time position as manager of Telephone Services, but the College will not hire a replacement. Instead, George Newkirk, director of the College's purchasing department, which oversees Telephone Services, will assume Pellerin's duties while maintaining his own position. Pellerin, 62, began working for the College as a lab technician in 1960 and moved into the purchasing department in 1963.

Sports

Lightweights eliminated at the Henley Regatta

By Luis Del Valle | July 6, 1993

The Dartmouth men's lightweight varsity and junior varsity boats were eliminated last week from the Royal Henley Regatta in England, only after both boats were able to advance to the second round of the prestigious race. The defeat of the Big Green team came after several wins against British crew teams. The varsity boat came from behind on Wednesday to beat the Molesley Boat Club, and the junior varsity boat also won over another British crew team. But the Big Green's final match at the Henley came on Thursday, when the varsity boat lost by a length to a London crew team.

News

Legal eagles; Freedman and Bollinger, attorneys at school

By David Herszenhorn | July 2, 1993

Maybe it's a Daniel Webster thing. If the joke circulating across campus weren't, "How many intellectual, idealistic lawyers does it take to run this place?" It might well be: What don't College President James Freedman and provost-designate Lee Bollinger have in common? In the search for a provost, Freedman certainly seems to have picked a soul mate. Bollinger, the law school dean at the University of Michigan, was in Hanover earlier this week visiting classes and meeting with professors in the government department. In a brief interview during a walk across campus, he said, "I want to do whatever I can to help add to the intellectual life of the institution." It may sound familiar but it should hardly be surprising.

News

N.H. state meals tax affects non-students

By Yvonne Chiu | July 2, 1993

Faculty, administrators and other College employees now have to pay the 8 percent New Hampshire meals tax at the Courtyard Cafe in the Hopkins Center because of revisions to the state's meals and rooms tax. The College first started charging the tax yesterday. Under the amendment, educational organizations can no longer offer meals tax-free to faculty, administrators and other employees if the dining facility is open to the general public. Don Blume, fiscal manager of Dartmouth Dining Services, said the Courtyard Cafe will be the only campus dining facility to charge a meals tax because "the College encourages the general public to go there and the Cafe is open continuously even between terms, unlike Thayer Hall." Previously, the meals and rooms tax statute offered exemption to all school dining facilities regardless of whether public patrons were allowed. Non-students associated with the College can still eat without paying tax in Thayer Dining Hall because it is primarily a dining facility for students that is not open to the general public, Blume said. "The understanding is difficult and we're left with the job of interpreting it," Blume said. The revised law caused confusion yesterday at the Courtyard Cafe.

Arts

'The Firm' dies on hype

By Dawn Conner | July 2, 1993

It's been hyped to be the hottest movie of the summer -- calling out to those countless numbers of fans who glued themselves to every page of suspense-writer John Grisham's best seller, "The Firm." The movie version, starring Tom Cruise, opened Wednesday in theaters everywhere. Unlike other suspense novels that make successful movies, like Jonathan Demme's "Silence of the Lambs," this law firm thriller plot fails to keep its audience as entertained because of the long-drawn out story and the slow pace. It contradicts the whole premise of a thriller which is to keep viewers on edge. Cruise plays the young, ambitious and money-hungry lawyer named Mitch McDeere. McDeere, having just graduated fifth in his Harvard Law School class, is lured to a small Memphis-based law firm called Bendini, Lambert, and Locke by offers of a high salary, a new home and a fancy car -- all the things he dreamed of possessing because of his impoverished childhood. Mitch's wife Abby, played by Jeanne Tripplehorn, is suspicious from the start of what seems to be a life that's just a little too good to be true.

Sports

Crew team advances; Lightweight team wins at Henley

By Kristen King | July 2, 1993

The men's varsity lightweight crew team came from behind to beat the Molesley Boat Club Wednesday and advance to the second round in the Henley Royal Regatta, The New York Times reported yesterday. In the same half-day of the draw, Dartmouth's junior varsity boat won its own heat, meaning the two boats may face each other later on in the regatta, according to the Times. Although the College often competes at Henley, lightweight Coach Dick Grossman said he only remembered one time before this year that a Dartmouth team advanced beyond the first round. Yesterday, the varsity faced a crew from London and the junior varsity rowed against a Cambridge team.

Opinion

Give cups a chance

By 32 Robinson | July 2, 1993

32 Robinson is a series of columns representing the opinions of the summer editorial staff. The columns do not necessarily represent the official views of The Dartmouth. Despite injuries resulting from the clay cup ceremony held on Class Day, the College has achieved significant strides in revising the ritual that, with minor alterations, can remain an integral element of the senior year experience. In May, a committee of administrators, faculty and students voted to end all College support for the more-than-century-old tradition of breaking clay pipes on Class Day, an activity that desecrates the religious beliefs and spiritual practices of Native Americans. This year's seniors smashed clay cups instead of pipes on the stump of the Lone Pine, an amendment which preserved the symbolic breaking with the College while eliminating the controversial destruction of pipes. This alternative appeared to satisfy most ardent traditionalists while not offending any members of the class.

News

IRS audit of the College underway

By Joe Berger | July 2, 1993

The Internal Revenue Service is currently auditing the tax returns filed by Dartmouth in fiscal year 1991. Dartmouth was twice audited by the IRS, once in the 1970s and once in the 1980s, according to Associate Treasurer Win Johnson. IRS auditor Stephen Reale has traveled to Hanover several times in the past few weeks and may continue his work here through the summer or longer, Johnson said. "So far, we've had no feedback on anything awry," Johnson said.

Opinion

Americans, reflect on who we are

By Dan Richman | July 2, 1993

June is coming to a close and it is almost time to break out the fireworks for the 4th of July, Independence Day. This holiday is not just another excuse to sleep in, but rather a time when all Americans can unite behind some of the few ideals which we all have in common -- i.e.

News

Strohbehn returns to faculty

By Joe Berger | July 2, 1993

Professor John Strohbehn served his last day as Provost Wednesday after guiding the College's daily operations and long-term planning for seven years. Strohbehn, a member of the faculty for 30 years, will return to teaching and research in the Thayer School of Engineering after taking a year sabbatical to conduct research at Princeton University. Strohbehn chaired the Planning Steering Committee, which worked from 1988 to 1990 to produce a report outlining the College's long-term institutional goals. Chief among them were curriculum reform and campus expansion to the north of Baker library without significant change to the size of the student body. Dean of Faculty James Wright served on the six-person budget committee chaired by Strohbehn that was formed in 1989 to deal with the College's first budget crisis. "He was an exceptional Provost during the budgetary discussions of the past four years," Wright said.

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