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Hanover named Tree City USA
By Tim Fitzgibbons | April 24, 1996Town receives Arbor Day Foundation honor for 17th straight year
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Rash of bike thefts plagues Hanover
By Tim Fitzgibbons | April 24, 1996Five bikes stolen in under 24 hours, police investigation continues
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Freedman speaks at Sigma Nu fraternity
By Tim Fitzgibbons | August 18, 1995College President James Freedman spoke on the pleasures of taking a sabbatical and discussed the future of the Greek system and Dartmouth's social scene with about 25 students at Sigma Nu fraternity Wednesday night. The speech and discussion, part of Greek Week activities, began with Freedman telling students about his six-month sabbatical in Cambridge, Mass. The Boards of Trustees of many colleges are using the sabbaticals as tools to extend the terms of college presidents, which now average about five years, Freedman said. "The notion of sabbaticals for college presidents is really very new," he said. Freedman is now the senior president in the Ivy League.
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Sharpless '63 will speak at Convocation
By Tim Fitzgibbons | August 18, 1995K. Barry Sharpless '63, the William M. Keck Professor of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., will be the keynote speaker at this year's Convocation ceremony. During the ceremony, which will take place in Leede Arena on Sept.
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College assesses affirmative action
By Tim Fitzgibbons | August 4, 1995If recent events in the education community are any indication, Americans are beginning to question affirmative action as an educational and a social policy -- thirty years after it was instituted. Last month, the Board of Regents of the University of California voted to eliminate their affirmative action program for admissions and hiring. The University system had aimed to reflect the ethnic makeup of the state of California.
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Vermonter tries to stay on track
By Tim Fitzgibbons | July 27, 1995Despite a slow start, the Vermonter train, Amtrak's replacement for the now-defunct Montrealer train, is doing fairly well but still needs to increase its ridership, according to Vermont Transportation authorities. Vermont Deputy Transportation Secretary Glen Gershanek told the Valley News that Vermonter revenue during its first two months was $335,000, "within striking distance of achieving first-year receipts of $2.4 million, the point where the state subsidy could begin to be reduced." In the same article, Amtrak's marketing vice president Richard Donnely said the railroad company will try to market the train toward tourists, by having promotional fares, painted traincars and local advertisements. In June, Donnely said the train averages about 80 passengers a day.
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Take some advice, you clueless 'shmen
By Tim Fitzgibbons | July 26, 1995Your first academic year at the College can be a difficult thing, but in order to counter general first-year inexperience, the administration has set up an extensive system of advising to help you pick and choose your courses. The most important person in the system is the faculty advisor. Since the fall of 1990, all students have been assigned to a member of the faculty who assists in course selection and general academic planning, said Dean of Freshmen Peter Goldsmith. Students receive their assignment when they arrive on campus. Generally, efforts are made to match students with teachers in their area of academic interest, Goldsmith said. Due to a large number of students who plan to major in the sciences when they first arrive in Hanover, students planning to major in biology, chemistry and other similar fields may not receive an advisor in their academic concentration. The students are required to meet with their advisors at least twice: once during orientation to select fall courses, and again at the end of the Fall term to choose winter classes. After that, "the frequency of meetings is up to the individual student," Goldsmith said. Other resources exist in the advising system besides faculty advisors. Undergraduate advisors and class deans can also serve as valuable resources for advice about classes and choosing a major. "The deans are always available to students to talk about course choices," Goldsmith said. Undergraduate Advisors "have an official function in the academic advising system," he said.
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The history of Dartmouth: rich, colorful, controversial
By Tim Fitzgibbons | July 26, 1995As the nation's ninth oldest college, Dartmouth is older than the United States itself. During its long and rich history, the College has produced countless generations of people who were significant actors in the nation's development, but it has not avoided controversy along the way. Officially, the story of Dartmouth College begins Dec.
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Students play safe at Tubestock
By Tim Fitzgibbons | July 25, 1995More than 1,000 students, alumni and community members gathered in the water Saturday for Tubestock, Hanover's annual floating party on the Connecticut River. Hundreds of students, some sober and some not, participated in the festivities this year, frolicking in the river just north of the Ledyard Bridge and jumping off the porch of the house on the Connecticut known as the "River Ranch." Students who attended the event, a tradition that started in 1987, seemed pleased with their experience. Sarah Marone '97 said she felt the event actually lived up to its hype, probably due to the good weather. "It was fun," she said.
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Lamm warns of population growth
By Tim Fitzgibbons | July 17, 1995Montgomery Fellow Dottie Lamm spoke about the connection between slowing population growth and empowering women to an overflow crowd in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences Thursday night. A columnist for the Denver Post since 1979, Lamm served as a delegate to the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo last fall. In her speech, she warned the world's population is growing considerably faster than ever before, saying, "We are living at a time that is totally unprecedented." Environmental degradation and high global unemployment have changed the focus of the population problem, she said.