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CFSC announces new alcohol ed. plan

By Deborah Bernstein | October 15, 1999

The Coed Fraternity and Sorority Council is currently revising their alcohol education program for new members of the system, meaning next year's pledge classes will receive a Dartmouth- specific program designed by the CFSC. Margaret Smith, coordinator of Alcohol and Other Drug Education programs and a consultant for the committee, said the study of new member education programs was initiated by the CFSC to address specific Dartmouth issues. The committee will also discuss ongoing alcohol education efforts of the CFSC. This year's pledge classes, like previous years' classes, will be trained by undergoing the Training Intervention Program, a nationally-designed program that emphasizes serving alcohol in bar-like settings, Kevan Higgins '00, CFSC treasurer said. Smith said the TIPS program is a good one, but that the CFSC has recognized the need to focus on a wider range of issues when informing new members. "We want a program that will be useful to everyone in the system," Smith said. In designing the program, the committee will be meeting with Safety and Security officers, Hanover Inn employees and DHMC staff, as well as Smith and Susan Marine, the coordinator of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program. Higgins said the new alcohol education will focus on Dartmouth issues like ways to serve beer in fraternities safely and legally, as well as the campus resources available to students in the case of health problems and emergencies. Smith said the program will incorporate information about other drugs and the role alcohol can play in sexual assault. She said the goal was for "people to know how to have a really good time, and at the same time have resources and information on alcohol and other drugs." Marine said new training would also include information on recognizing and intervening in situations that could lead to potential sexual abuse. This year, Higgins said the CFSC is considering having Safety and Security Officer Bobby Young speak to both new and old members at every CFSC house. In addition, Marine said this year's education about sexual assault will include more general programs on encouraging healthier relationships and sexual communication. Higgins said the CFSC hopes Dean of the College James Larimore and members of the Board of Trustee's steering committee will come to speak with the group so they can discuss ways the CFSC has been improving over the past year, including the new education program planned for next year.

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Bike route from DHMC to Hanover proposed

By Amit Anand | October 14, 1999

A bicycle route from Hanover to the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center may soon be under construction if the town's legislature accepts a committee's proposal early next week. The committee, charged in 1997 with developing a plan to promote an alternative to automobiles, will finalize the proposal today and present it to the town on Monday. The bike route will start at the corner of the Dartmouth Food Co-Op, and end at the DHMC, according to Dr. William Young, the Recreation Department representative to the committee.

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Hanover doubles parking meter rates

By Lauren Howard | October 14, 1999

Parking meter rates in downtown Hanover were doubled to 50 cents an hour on Monday following the outcome of a July vote by local business owners. The increase will affect meters in town parking lots as well as most of Lebanon Street, which had previously used 25 cents an hour.

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Controversial Princeton professor defends views

By Julia Levy | October 13, 1999

Princeton University's Bioethics Professor Peter Singer, who garnered national media attention this summer for justifying euthanasia for severely disabled infants, stirred controversy from the moment he was hired last year. In his first public forum since arriving at the University this fall, Singer squared off last night against Adrienne Asch, a blind professor from Wellesley College. Singer's presence at Princeton has prompted campus-wide debate and discussion this year, according to Princeton senior Dan Powell, a bioethics major who helped organize last night's event sponsored by the Bioethics Forum of Princeton University. Powell said the views Asch expressed last night were in sharp contrast to Singer's.

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Wuthnow speaks on American spirituality

By Amit Anand | October 13, 1999

Princeton University Sociology Professor Dr. Robert Wuthnow spoke on the evolution of religion in the 20th century and likened spirituality to hamburgers during yesterday's 23rd annual Orr Lecture held in 2 Rockefeller Center. The lecture, entitled "The Gods We Deserve?

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Ivy endowments on the rise in last decade

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | October 13, 1999

If the start of the 1990s bore witness to several universities raising 10-digit sums of money for the first time, it seems as though there will be no trailing off at the decade's end. Last week, Harvard University President Neil L.

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Greeks adopt 'wait- and-see' attitude

By Mark Bubriski | October 13, 1999

Fraternities and sororities across campus have essentially adopted a "wait-and-see" attitude concerning the forthcoming decision on social space by the Trustees' Steering Committee. The impending decision has some worried about the place of the Greek system in Dartmouth's future.

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Coed rush numbers remain steady

By Wendy Yu | October 12, 1999

The number of people rushing the five College coeducational societies and houses this term has not significantly increased compared to past years, despite what appears to be a positive alignment between their charters and the coeducational principle of the Trustees' Residential and Social Life Initiative. The Trustees' Five Principles, calling for a "substantially coeducational" environment, seem to correlate with the non-exclusive, non-gender biased nature of Panarchy, Amarna and to a slightly lesser extent, Tabard, Alpha Theta and Phi Tau. "If what [the Trustees] want is what they say they want, then Tabard is what they want," former Tabard Rush Chair Corrine Keating '00 said. Though all organizations recognized the fact that their charters conformed to the guidelines of the Initiative, the societies and houses chose not to advertise that fact to the campus because they were uncertain as to what the effects of the Initiative would be. "We've considered [advertising the coeducational element of the house], but decided to hold off on that for the moment," Alpha Theta President Michael Holmes '00 said.

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Robert Dove offers election predictions

By Jeremy Skog | October 12, 1999

United States Senate Parliamentarian Robert Dove, who described himself as being "notoriously bad about predictions," offered a forecast of the 2000 elections during his speech on the "Pendulum Theory of Elections" in One Rockefeller Center yesterday. Although Dove predicted that major party-shifts will not occur during next year's election, he said there are several Senate races worth following, including the Senate race in New York where First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani are likely candidates. Most political scientists, "would pay for such a race," as either winner will immediately emerge as a hero for their own party. Dove also scrutinized the presidential elections, saying a race between Arizona Senator John McCain and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley would be the ideal situation. "The country couldn't lose," Dove said. Dove said both candidates possess dynamic personalities and have ideas that resonate with voters. Dove also predicted that the 2000 Senate race will probably not be a "swing election" -- a race where the party holding power changes.

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Festival celebrates Latino culture

By Stella Lee | October 12, 1999

The second annual La Alianza Latina Fall Festival will bring issues faced by Latinos in America to the forefront at Dartmouth. The week-long festival, which began last Friday, is in celebration of the National Hispanic Heritage Month that extends from Sept.

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Fahey reflects on his life at Dartmouth

By Jay Krehbiel | October 12, 1999

Dartmouth pulses through the family tree of Trustee Peter Fahey '68. As Fahey stepped onto campus in 1964 as a freshman for the first time, he started what has become "a great Fahey family tradition." Not only was Fahey the first to earn a college degree in his family, but he was also the first of three brothers to attend Dartmouth.

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Twenty complete Moosilauke hike

By Jennifer Thomas | October 11, 1999

Blisters and bruises, hunger and hallucinations didn't stop 20 of the 24 official hikers from completing the annual 53-mile walk from Hanover to Mount Moosilauke on Saturday. Fervent enthusiasm pervaded Robinson Hall last Friday afternoon, where the zealous participants gathered for the start of their hike, and organizers called the trek "an absolute success." "I've been meaning to do this hike for four years now," said hiker Case Dorkey '99, who is in his fifth year at the College.

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Students to get limited answers in Tues. forum

By Deborah Bernstein | October 11, 1999

Although student representatives to the steering committee will be open to questions from the Dartmouth community at a forum tomorrow night, they are bound by the committee's confidentiality policy forbidding the release of details of deliberations and discussions at their meetings. As a preview to Tuesday's panel, the 2003 Class Council is sponsoring an information session in an effort to update first-year students on the Student Life Initiative tonight in Cook auditorium. The student representatives to the steering committee -- chemistry graduate student Jesse Fecker, Hillary Miller '02, Matthew K.

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Dentzer reflects on Dartmouth life

By Jay Krehbiel | October 11, 1999

Trustee Susan Dentzer '77 never thought she would be a pioneer, but her Dartmouth experience indicates otherwise. Perhaps this pioneering spirit was what Dentzer -- a member of the second coeducational class at Dartmouth and the first female graduate elected by alumni to serve on the Board of Trustees -- clung to when she and other members of the Board decided in February to initiate proceedings to revolutionize the College's residential and social life. Into the wild When Dentzer first stepped onto campus in the fall of 1973 her freshman year, the male to female ratio was 8 to 1, and she, like many other women on campus at the time, felt the glaringly wide gender gap. Male students who were angry with the College's decision to coeducate Dartmouth in the fall of 1972, often took their frustrations out on women, she said. Late at night, some of these men, after they had been drinking heavily, would belt "a very loud rendition of Men of Dartmouth outside of the women's dormitories," Dentzer said. During the spring of Dentzer's freshman year, a "very loud hockey player" walked up to her with two beers, and proceeded to pour them on her head -- "one for being a coed and one for being at Dartmouth." Dentzer had also tried her hand at student journalism, but found the experience unpleasant. "I had written for The Dartmouth for one term, but at the time it was a pretty male dominated environment," Dentzer said.

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