Seen & Heard

QUOTE/UNQUOTE Ordering a man to remove his turban is "like asking a woman to take off her bra." —ATTORNEY HARMEET DHILLON '89, WHO AFTER 9/11 FORMED A GROUP TO PROVIDE LEGAL ADVICE TO SIKHS AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THEIR CULTURE

In the wake of post-September 11 racial profiling, lawyer Harmeet Dhillon '89 is educating Sikhs across the United States about their legal rights and teaching the public about Sikh culture. The California-based Dhillon teamed with her brother and several Silicon Valley execu- tives to form the Sikh Communications Council after a Sikh-American software engineer was pulled off a train in Rhode Island September 12 and arrested on charges of concealing a weapon: a 4-inch ceremonial sword that orthodox Sikh men Wera as part of their religion. "As a lawyer I was horrified by this," Dhillon told The Recorder, a daily legal newspaper in northern California. "This could have happened to any of our brothers, fathers or husbands." The council was able to get the charges against the engineer dropped, but its greatest impact followed a meeting with U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, who subsequently issued airport security guidelines prohibiting personnel from searching people based on their appearance or requiring men to remove their turbans without probable cause....During the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Walter Bush '51 received the Olympic Order for his service to American and international hockey. "As a board member of USA Hockey for the past 43 years and as the organizations president since 1986, [Bush] has been involved in one way or another with the United States' three memorable hockey gold medals," reported The Salt Lake Tribune. His greatest legacy, however, may be his advocacy of women's hockey. As chairman of the International Ice Hockey Federation in the late 1980s, Bush organized the first women's world championship and eventually succeeded in getting women's hockey into the Olympics in 1998 (where the American women earned a gold). And in Salt Lake City, two Dartmouth pucksters benefited from his efforts. Forward Cherie Piper '05, playing for the Canadians, had an assist in her team's 3-2 gold-medal win over the United States. The silver-medal-winning U.S. team featured Sarah Tueting '98, one of two goalies used on a rotating basis. During the Paralympic Games in Salt Lake City a couple of weeks later, U.S. alpine skier Sarah Billmeier '99 won a gold medal in the ladies super-giant slalom and two silvers in the ladies downhill and slalom. It was Billmeier s fourth—and final—Paralympics, and she ends her racing career with a total of 13 medals, including seven gold medals... .On March 1, his 60th birthday, Louis Gerstner Jr. '63 stepped down as CEO at IBM. After assuming the post in 1993, Gerstner became "an icon of American business by transforming the once-battered computer maker into a steadily profitable technology behemoth," according to the Los AngelesTimes. His turnaround at IBM drew worldwide attention and even led to Gerstner s honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II last summer.... PeterWhite, Adv'76, who received a Ph.D. from Dartmouth in plant ecology, finds that a commitment to conservation often means ripping up certain plants by their roots. As director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, White has worked to replace showy East Asian import plants with native species. And now he is leading a national effort to stop the sprawl of out-of-control invasives. Whites advocacy may lead to the introduction of codes of conduct in the nursery industry that "could have a historic impact on what people plant in their backyards or patios all over the country," according to The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina....Sarah Konrad '89, who won three national road cycling championships last summer, has been named to the 2001 National Collegiate Cycling Association All-America squad. Konrad, who earned her Ph.D. in geology at the University of Wyoming last fall, was listed in the road racing category for capturing the Division II omnium (the combined placings in the women's road and criterium races, both of which Konrad won at the national championships). "Sarahs win will reinforce to those who aspire to do well that it is possible for someone no one has heard of, at a little school in the middle of nowhere, to be a national champ," Rob Godby, faculty advisor to the UW cycling club, told UWyo magazine. Konrad is now working two tracks, pursuing a post-doc at UW and cycling. "I just saw a job opening for the Yellowstone Park geologist, which is my ideal job," Konrad told UWyo. "I'd love to do that, except I'm just not ready to do it right now. I need to race."...Michael Gazzaniga '61 raised a few eyebrows when he and fellow members of President Bush's 17 member Council on Bioethics discussed cloning during their first monthly meeting. The council's goals, according to TheNew York Times, are to "explore the opportunities to prolong life and alleviate suffering—and to weigh them against the potential dangers to individual dignity and personal freedom—in this genetics generation's reach for human perfectibility." Gazzaniga staked out a controversial position by arguing that research scientists should regard human embryos the way doctors look at organs they intend to transplant. The director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the College, Gazzaniga drew an analogy between the use of embryonic cells and the transplantation of an organ from a brain-dead person to a living patient. "He asked: What is the moral distinction between that and using in treatment an embryo that had not yet developed a brain?" reported the Times....Entrepreneurs Ryan FitzSimons '96 and Craig Creelman '94 push the limits of non-traditional marketing with The College Kit, their welcome-to-college care package including everything from ramen noodles to coupons to deodorant, all packed into a 64-ounce cup. Businesses provide The College Kit with product samples or coupons and pay the pair for their unique advertising opportunity with the traditionally hard-to-target market of colleges students. The $10 million eventmarketing partnership began while the pair attended Dartmouth and is now New Hampshire's fastest-growing private company, according to Inc. magazines annual listing of Americas 500 fastestgrowing private companies. But the partners don't credit Dartmouth for their sales skills. "Dartmouth doesn't have [undergraduate] business or marketing courses," FitzSimons told The Union Leader newspaper of Manchester, New Hampshire. "We were psychology majors. Today, I could tell you how to make a dog salivate—that's about it."

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Contributors: Julie Sloane '99 and LauraTepper '02

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers." —SENATOR PETER FITZGERALD '82 TO FORMER ENRON CEO KEN LAY DURING CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS IN FEBRUARY