Alex Got In Trouble: No Limit

For Leon Chang '08, the big moment came sophomore winter in a Toulouse internet cafe. He'd been playing poker since freshman fall, when he first played for money in one of the Choates common rooms.

Betting on the Wrong Horses

If you've been paying any attention to the news for the past few weeks, you're probably aware that Pakistan is steadily but surely sending itself straight to hell in a handbasket.

Daily Debriefing

Dartmouth's Gay Straight Alliance has changed its name to Gender, Sexuality, XYZ (GSX) after a week of debate, the group announced in its weekly e-mail message to members on Nov.

Academic Crime and Punishment

The recent publicity surrounding Hanover High School students' attempt to cheat on a final exam has generated a great deal of sympathy from the press.

Telecom company sues Hanover

A local telecommunications company, SegTEL, is suing Hanover over the development of a municipal fiber optics network that would link the Hanover and Lebanon police dispatch centers.

Dartmouth eschews Clinton grant, pursues own eco-goals

The William J. Clinton Foundation has arranged to provide $5 billion in loans for institutions of higher education who have signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment to fund projects reducing carbon emissions, Bill Clinton announced on Nov.

New Tuck program to aid minority women

Tuck business administration professor Ella Bell launched ASCENT: Leading Multicultural Women to the Top last week in front of a crowd of 200 people at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City.

DMS prof. tops health policy field

John Wennberg, professor of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, received the 2007 Emory Codman Award for his leadership in the area of regional variations of health care quality.

North Hall to become green living center

Sustainable dining projects see setbacks

Apple releases showy new operating system

Apple has just announced a new operating system, and it comes with both new attractions and new headaches.

Vox Clamantis ... on a cell phone?

What ever happened to the good old days of skipping tipsily into Novack to check Blitz on your way to Frat Row, or of sneaking upstairs in a frat to blitz your crush on some brother's computer?

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New course features prison trips

Dartmouth students used to making the daily walk from Reed Hall to Dartmouth Hall for class now have a longer trek to negotiate when they travel to the Southeast State Correctional Facility in Windsor, Vt., for the new course "Inside Out: Prison, Women and Performance." The course stems from a community service project founded by Pati Hernandez in 2005, in which students helped women inmates write and act in plays based on the inmates' own experiences. "The women were amazingly articulate about where their lives got off -track and the social factors that led them to be where they are," Caroline Roth '08, a volunteer last year, said.

Facebook co-founder pulls for Obama

Describing the online world as the new venue for political campaigns, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes explained how he left the social-networking website to work for Sen.

Daily Debriefing

A team of researchers at the Dartmouth Medical School has found that small quantities of arsenic, similar to amounts found in the drinking water of some regions in the United States, can suppress the activity of key hormones involved in human development, including testosterone and estrogen.

'Busiest year ever' for Early Decision apps. flood 41

Correction appended. Early Decision applications to the College rose by 8.7 percent over last year, marking for what Dartmouth's top admissions officer called "the busiest year ever." The Office of Admissions received Early Decision applications from 1,428 high school students across the country and the globe -- an increase of 8.7 percent over last year and the largest number of early applications ever, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris said.