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For the first time, affinity housing is under the umbrella of living learning communities.
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Fewer students apply for living learning communities

By Katie Rafter | April 9, 2015

The number of students who applied to live in living learning communities for the fall decreased from 844 last year to 575, but assistant director for living learning and academic initiatives Katharina Daub said that she hopes this means more students will be placed in their first-choice community.

Prospective members of the Class of 2019 mingle in Collis Common Ground
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Dimensions of Dartmouth welcomes 150 prospective students today

By Sean Connolly | April 9, 2015

An inch of snow coats the Green today as dozens of prospective students stroll along its muddy walkways for the first session of Dimensions of Dartmouth, an annual program that offers a slate of events for prospective students. The College will welcome approximately 350 guests this weekend, including 150 potential members of the Class of 2019, dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said.

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A Dining Club For Scholars

By Caroline Berens | April 9, 2015

Standing outside the Choate House, the simple building with a white clapboard exterior, simple cement walkway and forest green shutters, looks little more remarkable than a prototypical suburban home. Students and faculty alike scurry past. They hardly glance at it.

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Boots and Rallies

By Aaron Pellowski | April 9, 2015

Over the break, I had the opportunity to have my eyes retested since, to me at least, my vision had deteriorated enough in the harsh palms of winter so as to render everything I saw like one of Monet’s haystacks.

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Fridays with Marian

By Marian Lurio | April 9, 2015

When reflecting about the state of humanity the other day, I realized that there is no shortage of lies and deceit in this world. Nowhere is this more true than in the state of Florida.

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The D Runs the Numbers

By Charlie Rafkin | April 9, 2015

13 — The number of librarians, specialists and archivists at Rauner Special Collections Library alone \n 189,000+ — The number of “sheet maps” inthe Evans Map Room \n 25 — The number of institutions, facilities and departments that report to the Provost \n 6,000+ — The number of words in the College’s charter \n 210 — The number of ampersands in the College’s charter

Chris England ’15 prepares to deal in Tuesday’s game against Boston College.
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Baseball falls to Boston College

By Gayne Kalustian | April 9, 2015

A loss assigned to a pitcher is — in a perfect world — supposed to indicate fault. At times the loss can be telling of a pitcher’s performance, but it can also be a misleading statistic — a sting felt by no one more than Chris England ’15 last Tuesday after taking the start against Boston College. The Big Green ultimately dropped the game 2-0 to the Eagles, but fault in this case goes beyond the simple winning and losing pitching record as England, in 6.1 innings, allowed two runs — one earned. “You just go out there and you try and pitch well every time,” England said.

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Islam Awareness Week kicks off today

By Rebecca Asoulin | April 8, 2015

In preparation for Islam Awareness Week, Saaid Arshad ’14Th’18 stumbled upon something he never thought he would find anywhere, let alone at Dartmouth — a 1,000-year-old Quran manuscript. Arshad, the graduate student representative for Al-Nur — Dartmouth’s Muslim students association — said that seeing and touching the manuscript of the sacred religious text, available for viewing through Rauner Special Collections, was a “transcendental experience.”

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