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Carnival chairs plan big weekend

By Mark Bubriski | January 29, 1999

Amy Pogoriler '00 and Andy Louis '00 are planning one of Dartmouth's biggest weekends of the year. As chairs of this year's Winter Carnival Committee, the two will be in charge of overseeing the construction of the snow sculpture as well as the most of the programming for the weekend. Pogoriler said she had a blast at Winter Carnival her freshman year.

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'Civil Action' co-counsel gives speech

By Andrew Marnell | January 29, 1999

Anthony Roisman '60, co-counsel with Jay Schlictmann in a 1979 trial that set the tone for the novel and film "A Civil Action," used the case to portray the inequities in the American legal process in a lecture in 101 Collis yesterday. "When enough is at stake, companies will do anything" -- such as employing unethical tactics to give their clients the litigative advantage, Roisman said.

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College researchers experiment on monkeys

By Ritika Nandkeolyar | January 28, 1999

College researchers have been conducting research on Rhesus monkeys for over a year, The Dartmouth learned yesterday. The monkeys, also known as Macaques, are being fitted with surgical implants in order to monitor their reactions to different stimuli.

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Panelists discuss race at teleconference

By Austin Zalkin | January 28, 1999

Panelists discussed the importance of addressing race in higher education and in corporate America in a live PBS teleconference entitled "Racial Legacies and Learning" in Collis Commonground yesterday afternoon. The studio audience and viewers around the country saw brief videos on efforts to build racial harmony in various settings in addition to the panel discussion.

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Assembly approves A-Lot shuttle

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | January 27, 1999

With unanimous support, the Student Assembly passed a resolution last night to fund a weekend shuttle to A-lot and with little opposition passed another to create a Culture and Curriculum Task Force. While Safety and Security will supply the A-lot shuttle vehicle as well as shuttle drivers, the Assembly must fund driver wages and gasoline expenses.

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Abu Zayd speaks on Islamic govt.

By Jay Krehbiel | January 27, 1999

Nsar Hamid Abu Zayd, a professor of Islamic literature at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, traced the history of Islamic government in Egypt yesterday and spoke about the possibilities for secular states in the Islamic world -- a topic which is so unpopular in his own country he has gone into exile abroad. Abu Zayd left Egypt after his works came under critical fire and it became too difficult to continue his work in his native country. "This conference could not happen in Cairo," Abu Zayd said. In his speech Abu Zayd spoke on Egyptian transition in the context of its own history and interaction with Europe. There are two factions in the Islamic world each with differing views on Islam -- one claiming that Islam is an alterable, changing religion, capable of adapting to a more modern, secular era, the other saying it is based on permanent principles and cannot change. The problems exist with the interpretation of the Qur'an itself, and the argument of whether the Qur'an was created by man or not, Abu Zayd said. If the Qur'an was created, then it could be interpreted with human rules, as those who wished for a more secular state would believe.

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Plans for Hovey Grill face challenges

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | January 27, 1999

The Student Assembly voted last week to establish a Social Space Task Force to explore converting the Hovey Grill, the currently vacant area in the basement of Thayer Dining Hall, into "a new space tailored to the needs of the campus" -- but history has shown similar plans have failed for numerous reasons. With the Assembly's endorsement, the Task Force will canvass students through Hinman Boxes within the next two weeks to garner student opinion regarding possible functions.

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Argument erupts at NEA speech

By Mitch Yashiro | January 26, 1999

A heated argument concerning minority arts funding erupted between African-American students and Harvard English Professor Robert Brustein following Brustein's speech entitled "Government vs.

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Boston schools tighten alcohol policies

By Mark Bubriski | January 26, 1999

Twenty-four Boston colleges, including Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have signed a 53-point plan to decrease underage and campus binge drinking -- and students at these schools are reacting negatively. The plan contains an agreement to limit alcohol deliveries to undergraduate residence halls and increase the availability of college housing for freshmen to reduce the attraction of living in fraternity housing early in their college careers. This plan occurs at a time when colleges across the country are reexamining their campus policies concerning alcohol after the two high-profile 1997 drinking deaths of MIT student Scott Krueger and Louisiana State University's Benjamin Wynne, and a series of other alcohol-related deaths in 1998. "The general consensus seems to be that the signing was just a big political and media play to make it appear that something is actually being done," an MIT sophomore told The Dartmouth.

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DMS finds calcium helps reduce cancer

By Philip Gerwin | January 26, 1999

A Dartmouth Medical School report published earlier this month provides scientific evidence that the use of calcium supplements reduces the chance of developing colorectal adenomas and subsequently cancer. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Jan.

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Kennedy resigns from board

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | January 25, 1999

Hanover Planning Board member Christopher Kennedy, whose architectural firm has been hired by the College real estate office, has recused himself from the controversial Chase Field case to avoid any appearance of impropriety. Kennedy said he stepped down because "there might be some people who see potential conflict," especially with both the College and the town appealing the Planning Board's controversial decision on the construction of Chase Field. "To make things easier, I stepped aside rather than having this become as an issue," Kennedy told The Dartmouth. Shortly after the Planning Board's controversial Nov.

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