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Town approves proposed budget for 2017

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Earlier this week, the town of Hanover voted to approve the proposed budget for fiscal year 2017, following modifications in the municipal general tax rate and social agency funds. In FY2016, the town had $16,757,539 in total expenditures.



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Thayer club hosts competition

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Last Friday, the Thayer Consulting Club hosted its sixth annual case competition, where 50 undergraduate and graduate students competed in groups of three or four for cash prizes and first-round interviews with prestigious consulting firms L.E.K.


Computer science professor Xia Zhou received the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship.
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Professor Xia Zhou receives Sloan Fellowship

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Computer science professor Xia Zhou was awarded the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship on Feb. 21, a professional distinction given to early-career scientific researchers that, this year, came with a two-year, $60,000 fellowship to support their research.







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Bootleggers & The Boom Boom Lodge

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It is just after one o’clock in the morning when one Dartmouth student kills another over a quart of whiskey. The year is 1920, and the 18th Amendment, which prohibits the sale, transport and consumption of alcohol in the United States, has been in effect since January.



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Wien: Basically Animal Farm

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Hello! Welcome to week eight. (Nine? Eight. Nine?) It’s not that I have nothing to report from my room. It’s that a lot of the information is not of the nature that should be printed. When you live with people for four years, there is a proximity to their private lives that is at first unsettling, then comforting, then integrated, which is to say their private lives become so entangled with yours that you begin to take on parts of their personalities. When my roommates and I talk, dress or gesture like one another, we call this “leaking,” as though are bodies are closed vessels that are breaking open at the seams and contaminating one another. Gross, right?


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Forbidden fruit

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If you’ve ever been in a position of power, you know that getting people to follow the rules is a complicated and often elusive pursuit.



Out of 334 respondents, 49.3 percent said social programming events have a somewhat positive impact on their time at Dartmouth. (Note: Data is in percentages.)
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Student survey examines social programming

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A survey released to the student body found that social programming events, such as those hosted at the Collis Center, had a positive impact on 61.5 percent of students who responded, whereas 33.6 percent said that the programming had no impact on their lives.



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Q&A with biology professor Kevin Peterson

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Professor of biological sciences Kevin Peterson is currently researching microRNAs — a form of non-coding RNA that is involved in regulating gene expressions — and their role in the macroevolution of metazoan body plans.