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By Tom Owen | February 21, 2012In a campus-wide email on Tuesday, Director of Safety and Security and College Proctor Harry Kinne announced multiple laptop thefts in recent weeks.
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Alumni sign anti-hazing petition
By Tom Owen | February 20, 2012In a petition posted online on Saturday, approximately 90 alumni demanded that the College administration increase efforts to curb hazing on campus.
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‘Sex Week' attracts controversy
By Tom Owen | February 14, 2012Yale University's "Sex Week," an event held every other year in the week leading up to Valentine's Day and dedicated to sexual education and exploration, has inspired similar events at Brown University and Harvard University, but Dartmouth's sexual health peer advisors have no plans to bring comparable programming to the College, according to Sexpert Kate Taylor '13. Taylor said the Sexperts have mostly avoided heavy criticisms that Yale's Sex Week directors weathered this year from a group called Undergraduates for a Better Yale College, which opposes Sex Week's emphasis on the "unbridled pursuit of pleasure," according to UBYC co-founder Eduardo Andino.
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Security, EMS prepare for weekend
By Tom Owen | February 9, 2012Despite the absence of snow and below freezing temperatures and therefore the cancellation of traditional events that pose a risk of injury Safety and Security and Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services both plan to staff additional patrols during Winter Carnival, according to representatives from each organization.
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Women remain minority at Thayer
By Tom Owen | February 6, 2012PATTON LOWENSTEIN / The Dartmouth Staff Although Dartmouth's engineering program stands out for its relatively high number of female engineering students, students interviewed by The Dartmouth said the Thayer School of Engineering should do more to reach out to incoming female students who may be unsure of their academic interests. Nationally, less than 20 percent of engineering degrees are awarded to women, but approximately 33 percent of Dartmouth's engineering students are female, according to Thayer's assistant Dean for Academic and Student Affairs Carrie Fraser '87.
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Alumni express mixed reactions to hazing case
By Tom Owen | January 31, 2012Despite the strong hazing accusations recently leveled by Andrew Lohse '12 against his former fraternity in a Jan.
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Sororities extend over 70 bids in winter rush
By Tom Owen | January 18, 2012Approximately 73 percent of the 102 women who registered for sorority rush received bids at the conclusion of winter recruitment on Wednesday, according to Panhellenic Council Rush Chair Lauren Pace '12. About 27 percent of winter rush participants, or 28 women, dropped out of the recruitment process, a statistic that Pace described as "consistent" with the percentage of women who dropped out in the fall. Every woman who was invited to the last night of rush, or "pref night," received a bid, Pace said.
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By Tom Owen | January 15, 2012Reader to Reader, a nonprofit organization devoted to increasing literacy in under-served communities such as Native American reservations, announced a new partnership with Dartmouth in a blog post on Friday.
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Occupy seeks greater campus dialogue
By Tom Owen | January 12, 2012Correction appended Although Occupy Dartmouth's visible presence has decreased after the movement's Jan.
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Karger talks politics at Roth Center
By Tom Owen | January 10, 2012Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Sitting at the head of a table in the Koreman Library of the Roth Center for Jewish Life with a small group of students, Fred Karger, the first Jewish Republican presidential candidate, spoke about his presidential campaign, the importance of young voters and the issues facing the Republican Party in this election on Tuesday night.