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Murray speaks of new white underclass

By Paul Hung | May 20, 1994

Welfare expert and author Charles Murray warned about how widespread illegitimacy has led to an emerging white underclass which will have dire social implications. Murray, who is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, spoke to about 50 people in 105 Dartmouth Hall last night in a speech postponed from Winter Term. Citing statistics from 1991, Murray said 22 percent of all white births are out of wedlock.

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Painting seniors by numbers

By Paul Hung | June 13, 1993

As you spend the last minutes of your life as a College undergraduate and wait for your name to be read, do you have the feeling that you don't really know most of your classmates?

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James Hornig delivers inaugural lecture

By Paul Hung | May 27, 1993

Chemistry Professor James Hornig delivered an Inaugural Lecture honoring his endowment as the Dartmouth Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies yesterday. Speaking to a crowd of about 40 administrators, professors and graduate students in 13 Carpenter Hall, Hornig focused on the integral role of environmental studies in the global agenda and in the Dartmouth education. He said environmental studies is ideally designed for Dartmouth's liberal arts education.

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Panelists discuss the future of liberal arts

By Paul Hung | May 25, 1993

Participants in a panel discussion last night called "Dartmouth Undying" lashed out against the College's current liberal arts education and offered visions of the future. Religion Professor Susan Ackerman, Senior Class President Doug Chia, English Professor William Cook, Susie Lee '94 and Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia comprised the panel, which often focused on how much emphasis the College should give to traditionally marginalized academic voices. Jay Heinrichs, editor of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and moderator of the event, opened the panel by saying that while the traditional liberal arts concept has changed, it still focuses on the national elite. Lee said there is a syndrome of "preaching to the choir" at discussion events like last night's panel.

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UCLA prof will head biochem dept.

By Paul Hung | May 24, 1993

Dr. William Wickner, a cell biologist and medical doctor at the University of California Los Angeles will become the new biochemistry department chair at Dartmouth Medical School July 1. The biochemistry department has been without a regular chair since retired DHMC President Henry Harbury left that position in June 1989.

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