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Unknown group targets fraternities

By Allison Robbins | January 30, 1998

An anonymous group sent approximately 500 flyers criticizing behavior at "frat parties" through Hinman mail to every freshman female last week. None of the flyers had a return address, but Hinman Post Office Postmaster Howard Durkee said clients who send more than 500 pieces of mail have to complete a bulk-mailing form which includes a return address. Durkee said perhaps the only way the flyers could have reached the Hinman boxes without a return address is if they were sent in smaller batches, and the Hinman Post Office staff was "really busy" and missed them. The flyers include a "schedule of events" which implies that sexual assault occurs every night at the College.

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Bonner decries Russian human rights abuses

By Jennifer H. Lee | January 30, 1998

Corruption and a poor economy have created almost "death-camp"-like conditions in Russia's jails and equally poor conditions on its streets, human rights activist and author Elena Bonner told a crowd of 100 people in Rockefeller Center yesterday afternoon. Bonner, the widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, spoke through an interpreter -- her daughter, Tatiana. She said conditions in Russia's prisons and detention centers, where suspects can await trial for two to three years, "can be compared just with the Nazi death camps except that the Nazis used gas." In Soviet Russia, Bonner faced repression and human rights abuses, but she said those "only seem a drop in the ocean of today's problems," including meager salaries and impoverished education, healthcare and criminal justice systems. Bonner's parents were imprisoned as traitors of the state when she was only 14.

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Evaluations utilized unevenly

By Sarah Gerry | January 29, 1998

Students are not the only ones being graded at the end of each term -- most professors turn the tables on their classes and ask them to evaluate course on the last day. But the way departments use evaluations varies as much as the different subjects they teach. Evaluating the evaluations "I personally feel that we deserve to get feedback from students," Engineering Professor Francis Kennedy said.

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College never shuts down for snow

By Eun Lee Koh | January 29, 1998

When a record-setting 26 inches of snow pounded the New York metropolitan area overnight in January 1996, New York City was nearly paralyzed. The entire New York City Public Schools system as well as Columbia University, New York University and surrounding colleges shut down completely for the first time since February 1978 -- when the last record high snowfall hit the area. But in Hanover, the show went on. In New Hampshire, snow is a common occurrence that rarely cripples the Dartmouth community.

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Palaeopitus meets with Search Committee

By Edward Thomas | January 29, 1998

Six members of the Presidential Search Committee met with Palaeopitus this past weekend in an effort to elicit more student input in the search process. The hour-long meeting, which was led primarily by committee chairman William King '63, disclosed little information on the search, but provided an opportunity for Palaeopitus -- a group of senior leaders who advise and make recommendations to the President and Dean of the College -- to voice opinions on what students are looking for in the next president. In a letter from all twenty members of Palaeopitus to the search committee, Palaeopitus highlighted their desire for a "charismatic leader" who is also a friend to students.

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Past DHMC doctor faces suspension

By Eun Lee Koh | January 28, 1998

The New Hampshire Board of Medicine disciplined William Morain, a former surgeon at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, for kissing and soliciting improper relationships with one of his patients. Morain's license to practice medicine has currently expired, and if he decides to renew his license, Morain will be subject to a three-month suspension, according to the settlement agreement with the medical board. According to the settlement agreement, the female patient first consulted Morain in September 1994, about an earlier breast implant surgery. Three visits later, in March 1995, Morain "discussed the possibility of entering in to a social relationship with her when and if she obtained a divorce from her husband" then kissed her on the "cheek and lips," according to the agreement. DHMC spokesman George Packard said Morain officially resigned from the hospital staff in on June 1, 1996. Morain is the second Dartmouth doctor to be disciplined by the New Hampshire medical board within a year. Last June, the New Hampshire Board of Medicine suspended the medical license of Hanover psychiatrist and former Dartmouth Medical School Professor Michael Gaylor for one year as a result of Gaylor's sexual involvement with a student. In that case, Gaylor developed sexual relationship with a student who sought his psychiatric help.

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President's speech helps shift focus

By Nicole Tsong | January 28, 1998

The highly publicized allegations of a sexual relationship between President Bill Clinton and a 21-year-old White House intern garnered more student and faculty interest for President Clinton's annual State of the Union Address yesterday evening, but for many in the audience, the speech shifted focus away from the allegations to the actual issues addressed. The speech, which students and faculty viewed at the Rockefeller Center, the Hyphen and the Collis Student Center, among other places, focused on education, health care and IRS reform, but certain aspects of the speech still brought the allegations to mind. Shannon Marimon '00 said whenever the president mentioned family values or when the broadcasters showed First Lady Hillary Clinton, she thought about the allegations. "I thought he skirted the family issues really well by talking about diversity instead," she said. The scandal influenced other audience members to a lesser extent.

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Rosenberg says free speech is threatened

By Kathrin Weston | January 28, 1998

University of Chicago professor Gerald Rosenberg '76 raised questions concerning government control over campaign financing in a speech titled "Free Speech, Campaign Finance Reform and Constitutional Rights" to an audience of about 50 people yesterday afternoon in the Rockefeller Center. Rosenberg launched his talk with a discussion of his research on the United State's Supreme Court and Australia's High Court, citing several cases in which courts had protected the First Amendment by striking down laws restricting or prohibiting paid political advertisements in campaign financing. These laws were instituted to control both runaway spending and the corruption it leads to, Rosenberg said, as well as because of concerns that the effects of money on politics necessitated laws limiting the influence of corporate wealth on the government. "Government regulation can be a threat to free speech," he said.

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Sudikoff indicted on federal charages

By Eun Lee Koh | January 27, 1998

Dartmouth alumnus Jeffrey Sudikoff '77 plead not guilty earlier this month to federal charges he faked millions of dollars in profits to inflate the value of his company's stock. Sudikoff, who donated over $3 million for the construction of the College's Sudikoff Laboratory for Computer Sciences in 1993, was indicted last month by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles for allegedly selling millions of dollars in fraudulent stock from his Los Angeles-based communications firm. Sudikoff, the chief executive of IDB Communications Group, Inc., and Edward Cheramy, IDB's president, were indicted on 19 counts, including conspiracy, fraud and false filings to the U.S.

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Search committee nears completion

By Jacob T. Elberg | January 27, 1998

College President James Freedman will choose two students early next week for the Dean of the College Search Committee, which will be chaired by Dean of the Faculty Ed Berger. The Committee, which will also include three administrators, three faculty members and Student Assembly President Frode Eilertsen '99, is charged with finding a replacement for Dean of the College Lee Pelton, who is stepping down to assume the presidency of Willamette University in Salem, Ore. Freedman will select the two students from the group of six nominees the Student Assembly gave him Monday.

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Past intern Whitney '97 calls affair 'unlikely'

By Jacob T. Elberg | January 27, 1998

Andrea Whitney '97, one of the few interns who had close contact with President Bill Clinton during the months of his alleged sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, said such an affair would have been "extremely unlikely." In an exclusive interview with The Dartmouth last night, Whitney said she thinks it is "nearly impossible" that Clinton could have engaged in a sexual relationship with an intern. Whitney, who worked in the Immediate Office of the President from January through March of 1996, said she was one of only two or three interns who "worked at a really personal level" with the president.

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Phonathon fails to reach this year's goal

By Jennifer H. Lee | January 26, 1998

The 21st annual Alumni Fund student phonathon raised almost $500,000 this year, but fell short of its goal by more than $75,000. The callers were more productive this year and brought in a larger number of pledges, according to Alumni Fund Assistant Director Chris Boffoli. The callers raised $498,995.64 this year, which was also short of last year's total, $568,000 and their goal for this year, which had been $575,000. Boffoli cited scheduling conflicts as a key reason for the $70,000 decrease from last year's phonathon. The phonathon concluded its nine-day run last Thursday amidst a flurry of other activities, such as Winter rush and football playoff games. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Dorms may have cable by Fall term

By Sarah Rubenstin | January 26, 1998

Dean of the College Lee Pelton will decide by Spring term whether to implement recommendations from the College's Committee on Cable Television in order to provide cable service to all residence hall rooms beginning in the fall. In order to install it by fall 1998, Pelton and other senior officers will have to make the final decision by May 1. The committee's chair, Director of Instructional Services Michael Beahan, said within a few weeks, the committee will give Pelton a report on the cost and benefits of providing cable to dorm rooms. The committee, which has met 10 times since October, is most concerned with the technical aspect of providing cable to the rooms. Director of Residential Operations Woody Eckels, a committee member, said, "The worst thing we could do is go through all of the work we've done, and give [students] a picture in your room that's fuzzy." Campus TeleVideo, a consulting firm specializing in college cable television systems, came to the College and evaluated its existing cable system. The College presently connects cable to dorm lounges and classrooms.

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Students try to develop Korean studies

By Nicole Tsong | January 26, 1998

Students working to develop Korean language and culture studies programs at the College met Friday with several deans to discuss bringing a Korean studies specialist to Dartmouth as a visiting professor. The deans offered the students an opportunity to discuss additional options for Korean Studies after the Humanities Division Council voted down a proposal to offer Korean classes and a Korean Language Study Abroad Program in October of last year. One of the issues is the lack of resources in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literature.

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Snow sculpture makes progress

By Jennifer Hickey | January 26, 1998

Mobsters, machine guns, a getaway car and ice are elements of the snow sculpture taking shape in the middle of the Green in preparation for Winter Carnival. The sculpture compliments this year's carnival theme, "The Roaring '20s," a pun celebrating Hanover's winter temperatures and the Jazz Age. The 20-foot long, nine-foot wide and 20-foot high sculpture will depict a car from the 1920s with a cartoon face on the front grill and mobsters hanging out of the windows. The snow sculpture's co-chair, Todd Garfield '00, created the design for the car and met with professors and students from the Thayer School of Engineering earlier this winter to plan the structure. The sculpture's planners are working carefully to prevent a repeat of last year's Winter Carnival sculpture, which collapsed. Last year's sculpture was supposed to depict a knight on horseback rearing up and stepping on a dragon, but warm and sunny weather caused the horse structure to fall in on itself the Thursday before Winter Carnival weekend. Workers then changed the scene to depict the dragon's victory -- the knight and horse were converted into a coffin. This year, the Winter Carnival committee plans to build the majority of the sculpture as a solid chunk of snow.

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