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Alcohol at the center of debate, parties
By Michelle Gregg | March 4, 1997"Should I have another drink?" Few questions seem so innocuous, yet few can be so dangerous. Alcohol changes people.
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New mascot, the Moose, unveiled at UPenn game
By Michelle Gregg | February 24, 1997The Big Green Backers, the coordinators of a search for a College mascot to accompany the Big Green nickname, unveiled their suggestion -- the Moose -- at Friday night's men's basketball game against the University of Pennsylvania at Leede Arena. Dressed in a green Dartmouth tank-top emblazoned with the number one and wearing a pair of white athletic shorts, the Moose also returned for Saturday night's contest against Princeton University. Hank Brier '98, a member of the Big Green Backers, said the moose is not an official mascot, but that the group "is just throwing it out there and if people like it they can support it and we'll go from there." He added that if students do not like the idea of a moose, the group will examine other options. Brier said the moose was "by far and away the highest vote-getter" in a recent survey of students.
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Halberstam reflects on Vietnam
By Michelle Gregg | February 18, 1997Montgomery Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam called the Vietnam War a "second American Civil War" before a standing-room-only crowd in Cook Auditorium yesterday afternoon. Halberstam, who won the Pulitzer for his Vietnam coverage for the New York Times, will be in residence at Dartmouth until Feb.
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Tribal leader shares caring nature
By Michelle Gregg | February 12, 1997When Native American Scholar in Residence Alyce Spotted Bear isn't teaching, reading or doing research for her dissertation, she spends time tending to the needs of students -- caring for others is what Spotted Bear does best. Spotted Bear has taken care of her people as tribal chairman of the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota.
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Alumni recall high times at Carnival
By Michelle Gregg | February 7, 1997Over its evolution, the Winter Carnival Weekend has always found students drinking, dancing, relaxing and enjoying the winter weather.
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No profs found for LACS classes
By Michelle Gregg | January 31, 1997Students interested in taking Latino Studies courses in the near future will have to wait a bit longer, because the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program has still been unable to find someone to teach them. LACS is currently working on drawing up a short list of candidates for a permanent tenure-track professor for Latino studies courses, and will soon invite individuals to visit the College, according to Marysa Navarro, chair of the LACS program. The College created the tenure-track position a year ago in response to student and faculty efforts to make Latino Studies a permanent part of the LACS program -- and the search for someone to fill the position has been underway ever since. The hurried search did not produce a sufficient pool of candidates immediately, and Brenda Bright, who had been teaching the courses on an interim basis, was compelled to leave the College when her contract expired last spring. The LACS program began a more extensive search last fall and Associate Dean of the Faculty George Wolford said he authorized the program to hire a temporary professor while the search continued. While there have been a few candidates interested, Wolford said none of them could be hired for one reason or another. "We could not find anyone to come and teach the courses for the year," Navarro said.
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Yale and Dartmouth cash in on insignias
By Michelle Gregg | January 29, 1997Yale University earlier this month decided to cash in on the University's name by collecting a 7.5 percent fee from retailers selling products bearing the Yale insignia. While Yale is just beginning to cash in on trademark fees, Dartmouth has been collecting trademark fees for years, at least since the early 1980s and probably since the late 1970s, College Counsel Sean Gorman said. Dartmouth makes money from use of the College insignia and the College name. "The name Dartmouth appearing on a sweatshirt is owed trademark protection and we are under royalty on that name," Gorman said. The seven percent fee results in a income of slightly more than $100,000 each year, Associate Treasurer Win Johnson said. "We do it for the same reason anyone with a valuable name does that," Gorman said.
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Chris Atwood '98, new CFSC president, is 'psyched' for job
By Michelle Gregg | January 28, 1997The subject of the interview brings along Rigsby, one of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity's dogs. Watching the two of them together makes his love for the animal obvious -- a big smile crosses his face as he reaches down to shake Rigsby's paw.
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N. H. man arrested for trespassing in Baker
By Michelle Gregg | January 15, 1997Hanover police arrested John H. Wunderlich, 40, of Sutton, N.H. for criminal trespassing in Baker Library shortly after 9 p.m.
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Thayer students to enroll in law classes
By Michelle Gregg | January 13, 1997An agreement signed last week between the Thayer School of Engineering and the Vermont Law School will soon allow students at either institution to take courses in environmental issues at the other school. Thayer School Dean Elsa Garmire said the agreement, which begins with the 1997-98 academic year, will continue for five years. Vermont Law School Dean Kinvin Wroth said he anticipates more law schools entering into such exchange agreements "as resources grow tighter for every institution and subjects become more specialized." The two schools expect students to take an average of three courses at the other institution, but no one is permitted to take more than three courses at the other school over a two-year period, Garmire said. Not every student interested in taking classes at the other school will have the opportunity to enroll -- students must apply to a committee of administrators and faculty from both schools and receive permission to enroll in the courses, Garmire said. "We want to make sure the students that take courses here are qualified and will pass," she said.