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Fulbright scholar to study in London

By Jordy Urstadt | June 13, 1993

Darin Raiken, winner of a Fulbright Scholarship this spring, attributes his academic success to hard work. An economics major, Raiken maintained a 3.92 grade point average through the end of Winter term. "I don't think I'm naturally smart; I just put in long hours," Raiken said. "I get excited over [the work] I'm doing.

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Brian Hayes '90 receives posthumous degree

By Jennifer Sack | June 13, 1993

Brian Hayes '90, who died of cancer last August only six credits short of graduating, will receive a posthumous degree at this year's Commencement. According to Assistant Dean of Students Barbara Strohbehn, Hayes' degree will be the fourth awarded since 1965 to an undergraduate who died before completing the required curriculum, but the first awarded under official guidelines. Discussion surrounding the decision to give Hayes a degree prompted the Dean's office to develop a formal set of criteria to systematically determine who should be awarded such a distinction.

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Commencement rich in tradition and weirdness

By Justin Steinman | June 13, 1993

Throughout the years, Dartmouth's Commencement has been graced by the likes of United States Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower and literary legends Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. It has also been attended by drunkards, auctioneers, gamblers and a Native American standing on the branch of a pine tree. Somewhere in there, the College managed to fit in a few graduates, an occasional faculty member or two and a couple of College Presidents. Like every other Dartmouth tradition, Commencement has evolved throughout its 223-year existence and certainly had more than its fair share of strange occurrences. The beginning There were only four graduates at the College's first Commencement in 1771, and these students only spent one year at Dartmouth having received the first three years of their undergraduate education at Yale. The ceremony, which included orations in Latin and English and began and ended with a prayer, occurred on Wednesday, August 28, 1771 in the location where Reed Hall now stands, according to a Commencement history written by the late College Professor Francis Lane Childs '06. These four young men were honored by College founder Eleazar Wheelock and New Hampshire Governor John Wentworth, who made the journey from Portsmouth to Hanover accompanied by 60 guests. To celebrate the first graduating class, Wheelock planned a large banquet and provided rum for his guests.

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Internet gains students global access

By Justin Steinman | June 1, 1993

Through Dartmouth's computer network, students can tap into computer systems all around the world, talk to their friends at other colleges from their computers, and search libraries across the country for research materials. The Internet, an interconnected computer network that will form the basis for the "information superhighway" that the Clinton administration espouses, allows students to connect to computers around the world from the comfort of their dormitory room.

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Nine profs to retire this month

By Joe Berger | June 1, 1993

When Dean of Faculty James Wright recognized nine retiring professors at the final faculty gathering this spring, he noted that together they had been teaching at Dartmouth for 278 years. Each of the nine taught at Dartmouth for twenty years or more. Professor Fred Berthold graduated from Dartmouth in 1945 and returned to teach four years later.

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Two students receive teaching grants

By Amanda A. Amann | June 1, 1993

Two Dartmouth juniors, Lloyd Lee and Zola Mashariki, have received a national award that provides financial support to minority students who plan to teach in public schools. Each will receive up to $18,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship between the summer of their junior year and the start of their teaching careers.

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Houses in jeopardy; Plagued by low membership, some fraternities look to fall rush

By Jennifer Sack | June 1, 1993

Some of the College's fraternities currently troubled by low membership are looking toward next fall's rush period to strengthen their houses. While there are fraternities with as many as 94 members, Kappa Chi Kappa, Gamma Delta Chi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon have 29, 28 and 18 brothers, respectively. Although low membership has caused two Greek organizations to dissolve in the past five years, the presidents of Kappa Chi, Gamma Delt and SAE do not foresee their houses following this course. In fact, two of the presidents said their fraternities are actively seeking to recruit new members and feel confident that their efforts will pay off in the fall. Gamma Delt President Todd Brackett '95 said the fraternity is having more parties this term and trying to involve members of the Class of 1996 in house activities. He said the fraternity is also urging some of the men who "hang out" at the house to become members. Although Gamma Delt is making a strong effort to recruit new brothers, Brackett said he would like to see membership remain somewhat modest. "We're working to up the size to tops 45," he said.

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Reserve reading on-line

By Alexander R. Edlich | June 1, 1993

A Student Assembly effort to make course reserve readings available over the College's computer network is running into legal barriers that are inhibiting the process. Four months after the Assembly's Project Committee began the task, three documents are available through the Online Library program that enables students to tap into a vast array of other database information from their computers. This term the Reserve Room has 2,600 photocopied documents -- and that does not include books, according to Ploeger. Most of the reserve readings are protected by copyright laws that prohibit the reproduction or electronic transmission of the document. Currently, only non-copyrighted materials can be put on-line, Circulation Services Librarian Pamela Ploeger said. Jeff Bell '96, the committee's liaison with Baker Library, said 20 non-copyrighted readings will be put on-line for the Fall term. Bell said laws restricting use of copyrighted materials on computer networks are untested and the legal implications are unclear. "In effect, we're waiting for someone to get sued," Bell said.

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Symposium topic for '94s picked

By Christopher Johnson | June 1, 1993

Next year's Senior Symposium will focus on social responsibility and the college generation, organizers said yesterday. The symposium is the senior class' intellectual gift to the College. Dan Garodnick '94, the class president, selected Julie Lane '94 and Tim Martin '94 to head a 25-member committee that will organize the two-day event.

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Doctors' salaries sky-high

By Maggie Lockwood | June 1, 1993

The College's 1992 tax forms show some medical school professors make nearly as much as the College's president because they moonlight in private practices to supplement their salary. College President James Freedman tops the list with $273,673 in salary for his full time position.

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Fishing season; Upper Valley area offers many prime spots

By Ethan Sawyer | May 31, 1993

Students and local fishing enthusiasts have already taken to river, pond and stream despite a fishing season that has started slowly, and with a little help from the weather, fish should soon be jumping at hooks all over the Upper Valley. Harley McAllister '94, co-president of the Bait and Bullet Club said the club has begun its fly fishing road trips on the weekends. The best fly fishing in the area is in Vermont, according to McAllister, who recommended that people interested in fishing in the area buy a Vermont fishing license rather than a New Hampshire license. Roger Lowell, who works for Mink Brook Outfitters Inc. in West Lebanon, said if the weather gets warmer, the season should pick up within the next week. Lowell recommended the Baker, Mascoma and White Rivers for trout fishing in New Hampshire.

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Rumors of unsafe water prove untrue

By Alexander R. Edlich | May 31, 1993

Apparently false reports of lead contamination in the water at Kappa Chi Kappa fraternity sparked a flurry of false rumors this weekend that water on campus was not safe to drink. Town and College officials said yesterday that contrary to several Blitzmail messages that circulated this weekend, water on campus was not poisoned and is safe to drink. At least three different messages sent around campus said a lead pipe had fallen in the reservoir of the Hanover Water Company, shedding dangerous levels of lead into the College's water supply. But Carl Brink, the recently-retired superintendent of the company, said even if a lead pipe had been thrown into the main reservoir, which contains 217 million gallons of water, the pipe would not contaminate the water for at least several months, if at all. Ed Brown Jr., the executive vice president for the water company, said there is no reason to be alarmed.

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English FSP killed

By Alexander R. Edlich | May 28, 1993

The Committee of Chairs' vote to kill the English foreign study program in London appears to be final. Professor William Spengemann who leads the foreign study program said last week there was a chance one of the department heads who had voted against the program would ask for a revote. But the professor has not come forward and the English department has begun discussing alternatives to the two-term London program. English Department Chair Louis Renza said the department met Wednesday with some senior English majors to discuss possibilities for replacing the terminated program. He said that Spengemann, as director of next year's program at University College London, would investigate opportunities for a one term program in London or elsewhere in England. Both Renza and Spengemann said that since the London program will not end until the 1995-96 academic year, the department has sufficient time to find a replacement to satisfy both the Committee of Chairs and the Office of Off-Campus Programs. Economics Professor Jack Menge, who is the vice chair of the Committee of Chairs, said the professor who was considering calling for a revote decided not to. "No one has come forward," Menge wrote in an electronic mail message.

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New sorority full; 40 women agree to join Kappa Delta Epsilon

By Will Lockwood | May 28, 1993

Fifty women from the Class of 1996 have informally committed themselves to a new local sorority that will move this fall into the Webster Avenue house currently occupied by the dissolving Xi Kappa Chi sorority. The Panhellenic Council voted earlier this month to dissolve Xi Kappa Chi because the sorority has been plagued by low membership and financial problems. Members of the new sorority, Kappa Delta Epsilon, will be almost entirely from the Class of 1996.

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