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Rocky director gives Bush high marks on Social Security plan

By Matthew Beale | February 4, 2005

In the wake of Wednesday's State of the Union address, which focused heavily on President Bush's proposed Social Security reforms, economics professor and Rockefeller Center Director Andrew Samwick expressed support of plans to partially privatize Social Security, the most controversial piece of the President's proposed overhaul. Samwick, who recently returned to the College from an advisory position as chief economist on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors to the President in Washington, concurs with many of Bush's proposals but is concerned about the lack of implementation details. Although Samwick disagrees with Bush's State of the Union characterization of Social Security as "headed towards bankruptcy," he said he believes the system is in trouble.

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Dartmouth wins NSF grant for neuroscience center

By Kelsey Blodget | February 4, 2005

A team of Dartmouth researchers headed by former Dean of the Faculty and cognitive neuroscience pioneer Michael Gazzaniga beat out dozens of colleges across the nation Tuesday to receive the National Science Foundation's $21.8 million grant, the largest peer-reviewed grant ever awarded to the College, to establish a new Center for Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience. The competitive applicant pool was comprised of 60 colleges including other Ivy League institutions and prestigious universities, but NSF ultimately chose Dartmouth, Carnegie Mellon University, Boston College, and the University of Washington to accommodate the new neuroscience centers. "It doesn't mean that the other schools are at all bad, they just didn't have everything integrated as well as we did," Gazzaniga said. Dartmouth's CCEN will study the relationship between the science of learning and the practice of learning in the classroom. "For years, someone would come up with an idea for teaching something, find out the method doesn't work five years later, and then move onto the next fad," education and psychology professor Kevin Dunbar, one of the CCEN's co-principal investigators, said.

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Greek GPAs fall just short of College average

By Dax Tejera | February 4, 2005

The average Fall term GPA for houses in the Coed, Fraternity and Sorority system was just narrowly below the entire undergraduate College average, according to Office of Residential Life data obtained by The Dartmouth.

Sports

Big Green men's hockey ready for Ivy faceoffs this weekend

By Evan Meyerson | February 4, 2005

This weekend marks Dartmouth's first meeting of the season with No. 10-ranked Harvard (13-5-2, 10-4-1 ECACHL) and the up-and-coming Brown Bears (11-6-3, 6-5-2 ECACHL). The Bright Center in Cambridge, Mass., will be the scene of Dartmouth's most consequential league battle of the year.

Opinion

For the Record...

By Todd Rabkin Golden | February 4, 2005

To the Editor: As the Student Assembly Executive Board -- Chris Bertrand '07, Todd Rabkin Golden '06, David Hankins '05, Russell Lane '06, Mats Lemberger '06, Kirsten Murray '07, Sebastian Restrepo '07, Dax Tejera '07 and Santiago Vallinas '07 -- we had hoped the anger and confusion surrounding the dismissal of Brian Martin as Alumni Affairs chair would have died down by now and we could get back to more important issues [Tejera is a member of The Dartmouth Staff]. But there is a lot of misinformation out there, and we want to set the record straight. First, one fact that has been consistently overlooked about our decision to remove Brian was that the decision was made by over two-thirds of the Executive Board in accordance with our constitution.

Opinion

Follow The Money

By N. Alex Tonelli | February 4, 2005

In weeding through the opinion pieces over the last few weeks, it is easy to see that there are many areas at Dartmouth in need of better funding.

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College policy renders seventh sorority unlikely

By Matthew Abbott | February 3, 2005

A record-high turnout for female rush this year forced the Panhellenic Council to turn away 21 disappointed sophomore women, prompting some members of the Dartmouth community to mull the possibility of lifting the moratorium on new sororities. But even with the limited capacity of current sororities and unusually large pledge classes, the Student Life Initiative poses a formidable obstacle to the creation of a seventh Panhell sorority. There are currently six sororities that are members of Panhell, and a number of these houses had pledge classes exceeding 50 women during the Fall term. Despite these large pledge classes, there were still several women who did not receive bids at sororities. According to Zobeida Torres '06, Panhell's vice president of recruitment, between 240 and 300 women rushed houses during Fall term.

Opinion

Getting Real About Humanism

By Cory Helgeson | February 3, 2005

Hello again, friends, and welcome back to our research into the new philosophy of Humanism. Today, let us begin by establishing the basic truth that each of us is autonomous since we are neither physically nor mentally linked to anyone else.

Opinion

Indepedence Abroad

By Anne Cloudman | February 3, 2005

To the Editor: John Campbell hit the nail on the head yesterday when he noted that students should be aware of the independent nature of exchange programs before deciding to participate ("Study abroad programs leave some students embittered," Feb.

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Yo-Yo Ma's sister tells of the healing powers of music

By Jennifer Garfinkel | February 3, 2005

Yeou-Cheng Ma, sister of famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, discussed the beneficial effects of music on health during a lecture Wednesday night in Filene Auditorium. Ma called music "a universal language," in that everyone starts off as bilingual, accustomed to the music of a mother's high voice and cooing in addition to language. "It's just a matter of whether or not you keep it," Ma said. She pointed out that the temporal lobes in the back of the head deal with music, but in professional musicians it is the left side of the brain that deals with music.

Opinion

BMar's Defender

By Rawson Daniel | February 3, 2005

To the Editor: Tuesday's article on SA ("SA rolls out 34 public computers," Feb. 1) operates more as slander against former SA Vice President of Alumni Affairs Brian Martin than anything else.

Arts

Canada's Arcade Fire wrap up American tour in Boston

By Lindsay Barnes | February 3, 2005

Yes, it's wrong to stereotype, but goshdarnit, Canadians are such nice folks! They've contributed so much to American culture for so long (Dan Aykroyd, four-fifths of The Band, Molson, numerous cold fronts, the list goes on) that it's a wonder one nation could be so generous.

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Rocky staffer runs for Lebanon City Council

By Alex Belser | February 3, 2005

The infamous "scream" speech may have brought former Vermont governor Howard Dean's campaign for the White House to an end, but it has not silenced the young voters who helped give him legs during the race -- people like Rockefeller Center student activities coordinator Karen Liot Hill '00. After taking part in the grassroots charge for Dean and then jumping on the John Kerry bandwagon, Hill is now campaigning for herself in an effort to land a spot on the Lebanon City Council. Hill, 26, said she is running because she wants to become more involved in the town where she lives and to bring a younger perspective to the council. "The people that are active tend to be of a certain generation," Hill said of the council.

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