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Prof: Dartmouth's eco-policies declining

By Allison Stuntz | April 6, 2001

While Dartmouth made it onto a list of the top 11 "healthy green" colleges, the author -- a Dartmouth professor -- has a strong opinion on what he sees as the College's recent slippage in environmental consciousness, alleging that the environment is no longer a leading priority of the College's top administrators. Noel Perrin, assistant professor of environmental studies, authored a recent article for the April 6, 2001 issue of The Chronicle Review, a supplement to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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AG details his youth, career

By Ithan Peltan | April 6, 2001

Although his term expired last Saturday, New Hampshire Attorney General Philip McLaughlin will remain in office indefinitely as a "holdover," giving him the chance to continue the sort of service to the community he has sought out since college. Since his initial nomination and confirmation to the post four years ago, McLaughlin's office has overseen many high profile cases, including the investigation into the murders of Dartmouth Professors Half and Susanne Zantop. For the 56-year-old McLaughlin, born and bred in New Hampshire, becoming attorney general was completely unexpected.

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Survey: Greeks big drinkers in college

By Charles Gardner | April 5, 2001

Although researchers have long known that membership in Greek organizations is often linked to heavy drinking, a new study indicates that Greeks are no more likely than their unaffiliated peers to consume alcohol following graduation. The study, which was conducted by faculty and student researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia, also seeks to explain what drives many Greeks to heavy drinking during their undergraduate years. Kenneth Sher, professor of Psychology at the university and author of the study, suggested that social attitudes and perceptions of drinking are the primary factors. "There seem to be perceived norms of heavy drinking, related to how much people you know drink, and how much they think about drinking, and these seem to be very potent," he noted. Recent Dartmouth alumni tended to agree with Sher's assessment of college drinking behavior as applied to the College. "Especially in the all-male houses there's an environment where you can drink and it's OK and in fact encouraged," said Kenneth Harker '95. Randall Dottin '94, a former member of Kappa Alpha Phi fraternity, attributed alcohol consumption to easy availability and to a school culture that encouraged it. Despite the prevalence of heavy drinking among Greeks during college years, the study found that alcohol use drops off among most students after college, and that Greek members drink no more than nonaffiliated students in the years after graduation. "There's a powerful socializing effect that is pretty much gone by three years afterwards," Sher said.

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Fin. aid changes upset students

By Jennifer Thomas | April 5, 2001

Despite the fact that the College announced a $1.6 million addition to its endowment for financial aid this week, many students are upset by the decision that denies the majority of new benefits to current students. According to the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, the subsequent reduction of student loans in favor of grants and scholarships, especially among lower income families, will be effective starting with the Class of 2005. Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg said the inclusion of current students in the new financial aid package would have been too expensive for the College at this point. The announcement of differential treatment has been the source of frustration for many students currently receiving financial aid. Jose Paredes '01 said he was "disappointed" by the decision of the Admissions Office. "They are just worried about recruiting and not helping the ones who are already here," he said. Jessica Lawson '04 echoed Paredes' sentiment. "I don't think it's really fair," she said.

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Trustees to focus on SLI issues

By Jennifer Thomas | April 5, 2001

Discussion of the Student Life Initiative is expected to be a hot topic at this weekend's once-a-term meeting of the Trustees of the College. However, neither Chairman of the Board of Trustees Bill King nor Dean of the College James Larimore expect any major announcements to come out of the conference. "There is nothing unusual that will be on the agenda with a couple of exceptions," King said, citing an active discussion of the Initiative as one such exception. Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman is expected to provide the board with an update of the progress of the Greek Life Steering Committee.

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UGA application numbers double

By Tara Kyle | April 5, 2001

More programming, outreach, and money, along with fewer D-plan restrictions, has flooded the Office of Residential Life with twice as many Undergraduate Advisor applications as last year, according to Martin Redman, dean of residential life. Although the number of students applying has shown steady growth in recent years, 2001 saw a far more dramatic jump to a total of approximately 230 applications, compared to 117 the previous year, according to Redman and Nariah Broadus, co-chair of the staff Selection Committee and community director for the Fayerweathers and Ripley-Woodward-Smith clusters. The marked increase owes to a number of factors; prominent among these is a hike in pay.

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Bush stalled, McCain victorious

By Alice Gomstyn | April 5, 2001

The Senate dealt a devastating blow to President George W. Bush's tax cut package yesterday. In a vote of 53 to 47, the Senate approved a Democratic amendment that would trim $448 billion from Bush's proposed $1.6 trillion tax cut, redirecting the funds toward education spending and debt reduction. This latest development comes on the heels of Tuesday's landmark tie-breaking vote by Vice President Dick Cheney which helped fellow Senate Republicans block another Democratic proposal geared toward watering down the controversial tax plan. The defeated bill aimed to reduce the tax cut by $158 billion over the next 10 years.

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Admissions preps NYC diversity for college

By Jennifer Thomas | April 4, 2001

Twenty-six high school students from New York City's Prep for Prep program made Dartmouth their last stop on a two-week tour of 10 selective northeastern universities last Thursday. Although the traditional whistle-stop college trip is one of the first steps in the college application process for many aspiring high school juniors, for Prep students, it is only part of an ongoing journey of academic preparation.

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SLI Now Pullout

By The Dartmouth Staff | April 4, 2001

In January of 2000, the Student Life Initiative declared that sweeping changes were in store for the residential system of the College.

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SA pushes World Cultures Initiative

By Maggie Shnayerson | April 4, 2001

Last night, the Student Assembly passed a resolution pressuring the Board of Trustees to take more responsibility for the promises they made to support diversity education at the College. The resolution charges the Trustees with making a "greater commitment" to the World Cultures Initiative they outlined in the Student Life Initiative last January. Students -- in minority and non-minority groups -- have called the WCI vague and ambiguous. "You can create committees and say you're concerned with diversity, but that's been done over and over," SA President Jorge Miranda '01 said. The original WCI suggested permanent staffing, funding and space to enrich programming for the community, but failed to delegate the responsibility for those charges to any group or office on campus. Since the Initiative was released, however, Dean of the College James Larimore has increased part-time positions for advisors to many minority groups on campus to full-time positions. Larimore is also chair of the World Cultures Initiative Committee, which has been charged with giving a report to the College's provost in May regarding diversity in the community. Despite those changes and the creation of the committee, students have not seen concrete long-term plans or financial outlines for the support of diversity issues at the College.

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Smith College considers own SLI

By Kelly Cameron | April 4, 2001

Can you imagine other schools implementing a plan similar to Dartmouth's Student Life Initiative after all of the controversy that it has caused? In fact, some schools have looked to Hanover to see what has happened with the change. "Dartmouth is not alone in looking at what we want to offer students outside of the classroom," Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia said. Sateia points out that the College has gone out to try something different.

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Admissions mails letters to '05s today

By Jennifer Thomas | April 4, 2001

Today the Office of Admissions will mail decision letters to what has the potential to be the most diverse class in Dartmouth's 232-year history, according to Dean Karl Furstenberg. The term "highest in history" was perpetually on the tip of Furstenberg's tongue as he described the number of minorities, women and international students of all applicants admitted this year. In all, 22.8 percent of applicants received letters of acceptance.

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