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College ends need-blind admission for international students

By Noah Goldstein and Erin Lee | September 17, 2015

International applicants to the Class of 2020 will be considered under a “need-aware” policy, as opposed to the “need-blind” policy used for the past eight years, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email. The admissions office had been need-blind for international students from the Class of 2012 through the Class of 2019.

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Professor DeSilva part of human fossil discovery

By Bob Wang | September 17, 2015

Incoming professor of anthropology Jeremy DeSilva, who joined the College faculty this year, describes himself as a “New Englander” attracted to “a campus in the mountains.” But to students of anthropology, he is perhaps better known as a member of a global team of 60 scientists that recently found evidence of a new human ancestor, Homo naledi, in the form of over 1,600 fossils in South Africa’s Rising Star Cave.

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Sam's Little Larks

By Sam Van Wetter | September 17, 2015

SCENE: Collis porch. 9:39 a.m. The first day of classes. Sept. 10, 2012 and Sept. 16, 2015 simultaneously. PRESENT SAM sits reading the Valley News and eating a bomb-ass breakfast sandwich. PROTO SAM enters with a bottle of orange juice and cup of frozen fruit from the smoothie bar. It’s not what he intended to get. His backpack is unzipped.

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Joe Kind, A Guy

By Joe Kind | September 17, 2015

Drake is a prophet. We all know this. In some respects, though, he fails to describe my life well. I didn’t start in the six with my woes, but to his credit, the pace of my life has sped up considerably since starting college — probably not quite 0 to 100, but maybe from cruise control to slightly above the speed limit?

Alexander Lopez ‘15 took an unconventional path before his fifth year and shares his tips.
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TTLG: Fifteen Lessons From a Fifth-year '15

By Alexander Lopez | September 17, 2015

I still have a lot to learn, I’ve been around the world and I still can’t answer a simple question — how do I want to live my one and only life? I can’t tell you how to live, either. What I can do is share some stories and tell you what I’ve learned. With that, here are my 15 life lessons from a fifth-year ’15.

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Football to kick off season with battle against Georgetown

By Alexander Agadjanian | September 17, 2015

Long removed from its heights of Ivy League dominance in the 1990s, the football program has endured a lengthy revival period. After a 13-year drought between winning seasons that was snapped in 2010, the Big Green have steadily improved in nearly each subsequent season, only dipping down as far as a .500 winning percentage in 2011. With expectations higher than ever, that development could reach its zenith in 2015 with the potential for Dartmouth’s first Ivy League championship in 18 seasons.

The general Assembly will vote on whether to confirm Dari Seo ’16 as Student Assembly vice president.
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Student Assembly will vote on whether to confirm Dari Seo '16 as VP

By Katie Rafter | September 16, 2015

Student Assembly will discuss the confirmation of its new vice president over the next two weeks, Assembly president Frank Cunningham ’16 said. Cunningham announced in June that he was nominating Dari Seo ’16 as vice president, immediately following the resignation of then-vice president-elect Julia Dressel ’17.

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Class of 2019 is first class to sign Citizenship Pledge

By Kelsey Flower | September 16, 2015

The Class of 2019 became the first group of Dartmouth students to sign the Dartmouth Citizenship Pledge, a document of 136 words outlining community values that was borne out of College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative.

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