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Community College

By Ethan Wang | February 8, 2010

Thursday night, Dartmouth students organized a candlelight vigil on the Green to protest the potential staff layoffs and to express our concerns for the wellbeing of local community ("Layoff fears spark candlelight vigil," Feb.

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Kim's plan leaves implementation procedures to be specified by April

By Greg Berger | February 8, 2010

Correction appended Despite Monday's release of details concerning financial aid and layoffs which together account for $10 million of the $100-million total budget reduction several other aspects of the budget will be developed between now and the April Board of Trustees meeting, the College announced in a press release Monday. The budget plan approved by the Board of Trustees this weekend finds $25 million in savings in "administrative reorganization and restructuring," the largest single segment of the proposed cutback, according to the release.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Fletcher | February 8, 2010

President Barack Obama nominated Pamela Joyner '79, a member of the College's Board of Trustees, to be one of six new members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

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Basri '13 describes childhood in Iraq

By Brendan Dooley | February 8, 2010

Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Murdered professors and daily car bombings are not experiences most Ivy League applicants have to consider including in their path to college admissions, but for Ihab Basri '13, these experiences were all too real.

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Faculty, Kim discuss budget cuts

By Christy O'Keefe | February 8, 2010

College President Jim Yong Kim outlined budget decisions to an anxious audience of faculty packed into Alumni Hall at a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Monday afternoon.

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Kim's new plan will maintain academics

By Tatiana Cooke | February 8, 2010

College President Jim Yong Kim has continually emphasized the importance of maintaining the College's academic mission as he seeks to reduce inefficiency in College operations and cut $100 million from the budget for fiscal years 2011 and 2012.

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HEAR AND NOW: The Who-were-those-old-guys?

By Divya Gunasekaran | February 8, 2010

Courtesy of Sun-Sentinel.com Courtesy of Sun-Sentinel.com There are three reasons people watch the Super Bowl: the football game, the commercials and the halftime show, roughly in that order. For the game, viewers got to see this year's underdogs, the New Orleans Saints, defeat the Indianapolis Colts to gain their first Superbowl victory.

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What's Next?

By Nana Amoah | February 8, 2010

Immediately after Jan. 12 every major media house had its attention on Haiti. The international community rallied aid and logistical support with the United States showing leadership by taking control of the situation.

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Students speak at Select Board mtg.

By Jamila Ma | February 8, 2010

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Greek leaders restated their opposition to Hanover Police's new alcohol enforcement policy at Monday night's meeting of the Hanover Board of Selectmen, prompting members of the Board to express concerns that current campus attitudes towards alcohol may lead to alcohol-related deaths.

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Track and field athletes post impressive individual finishes

February 8, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Members of the Dartmouth men's and women's track and field teams competed on Saturday in their last regular-season home meet at the Dartmouth Indoor Classic, held in Leverone Field House. Men's head coach Barry Harwick said that while the large meet may have been an organizational accomplishment Leverone hosted 11 teams the athletes' performances were the real exception. "Our officials did a great job in putting on a very large meet," Harwick said.

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Skiing remains perfect with close win over Catamounts

By Manisha Apte | February 8, 2010

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Trailing after Friday and Saturday's races, the Dartmouth ski team surged to a victory on the final day of competition at the University of Vermont Carnival, just barely pulling ahead by eight points. The Big Green's Nordic team concluded the Carnival with the 10-kilometer free technique race, where a victory for the women and a second-place finish for the men pushed the Big Green into the lead. Returning from a two-week break and reunited with six Nordic skiers who competed in the World Junior Championships and Under-23 Championships in Germany, the Big Green traveled to Stowe, Vt., to defend its title as the Vermont Carnival winner. While Dartmouth dominated the Catamounts' carnival last year, gliding past the hosts by 120.5 points, the team struggled this year and just slipped away with its closest win of the season. TDartmouth took first in the St.

The new alcohol proposal, announced by Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone last week, has been condemned by Greek leaders and other students.
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Greeks respond to alcohol policy

By Jamila Ma | February 7, 2010

Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Students and alumni have been quick to condemn an announcement made by Hanover Police Thursday night that the department will begin alcohol law compliance checks at campus Greek organization events in the coming months.

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A View From The Top

By Paul Glenn | February 7, 2010

My younger brother sent me a text message Friday afternoon that said, "Who sucks more? You guys or Penn?" Like many, my brother was making his picks in ESPN's awesome Streak for the Cash game, which gave Friday's basketball game a bit of national attention since it was listed as an option. Whether ESPN chose to include the game in its daily menu of pick 'em's because of the two teams' embarrassingly bad records (Penn was 2-14 and Dartmouth was 4-14 at the time), the recent spotlight on the Ivy League due to No.

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Internet Meme of the Week: "Take U to Da Movies" by Bangs

By sydney ayers | February 7, 2010

With almost two million views on his first video, Sudan-born, Australia-based Bangs is just beginning his rise to Internet fame.According to the 19-year-old artist's official web site, Bangs8.com, "[Bangs] writes about life, love and hope and his music grows with him till the end of life." A YouTube search for "Take U to Da Movies" the most popular track off his first professional album "Hard to be Up" yields a music video replete with cheesy backgrounds, plenty of bling, awesome visual effects, an oddly high voice and tons of Bangs.

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