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By Jenny Che | May 8, 2012

The U.S. Senate voted 52 to 45 on Tuesday to block a bill that would have prevented a doubling of student loan interest rates to 6.8 percent from 3.4 percent, The New York Times reported.

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Nine receive Fulbright grant offers

By CONNOR WATUMULL | May 8, 2012

Nine Dartmouth students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Grants by the U.S. State Department to conduct research or teach abroad, according to the College's Scholarship Advising Office.

Opinion

Couture: Perpetuating Partisan Rhetoric

By Amy Couture | May 8, 2012

In his recent column comparing President Barack Obama's slogans "Change" and "Forward" to Mitt Romney's "pathetic" catchphrase "Believe in America," Benjamin Schwartz uses overtly biased language and damaging assumptions to incorrectly characterize Romney's campaign and personal character ("What's in a Slogan?" May 7). Schwartz relates Romney's motto to the "birther movement," arguing that it taps into some of his supporters' racist and xenophobic sentiments as part of a larger intentional strategy calling on voters to "fear Obama's foreignness." By doing so, Schwartz contributes to the exact extremism he refutes, perpetuating the partisan rhetoric that runs rampant in our increasingly superficial political culture. It is outlandish to deduce such a hostile meaning from a phrase as generic as "Believe in America." Schwartz may be right to argue that Romney's slogan is unoriginal or mundane.

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Research quantifies literary trends

May 8, 2012

Math department chair and computer science professor Daniel Rockmore and a team of researchers, including James Hughes Adv '12 and Nicholas Foti Adv '12, studied the evolution of literary styles using mathematical and statistical analysis of English-language literature to explore a "rich area of collaboration," Rockmore said. In a published report of their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers concluded that the literary styles of modern authors vary from their predecessors more than authors of previous eras.

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Pre-coeducation class ‘adopts' female students

By Ashley Ulrich | May 7, 2012

Female students did not matriculate at Dartmouth until Fall term 1972, but the College brought a small number of women to campus for one-year exchanges between 1969 and 1973, according to Patricia Fisher '81, director of class activities for the Office of Alumni Relations.

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Project Z event hosts motivational speakers

By Erin Landau | May 7, 2012

In its inaugural year, the Project Z conference aimed to "excite, innovate and evolve" on Saturday, featuring speakers that included multi-millionaires, professors, ex-marines and professional athletes, according to Project Z social media coordinator Kyle Dennis '15.

Sports

Vann Island

By Corey Vann | May 7, 2012

If you were walking around campus last weekend, you didn't need 20/20 vision to notice that it was an exciting if not somewhat wacky time for our school.

Former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal '91 discussed the historical role of the solicitor general in federal court cases in a Monday lecture.
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Katyal talks history of solicitor gen.

May 7, 2012

Richard Yu / The Dartmouth Staff Former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal '91 addressed the historical role of the solicitor general within the court system at a lecture titled "The Solicitor General: From the Japanese-American Internment to Health Care" on Monday.

Lisa Rennels '14 defends Lindenwood University's Meghann Kopecky in the women's club water polo's game on Sunday.
Sports

Club water polo finishes seventh

By Taylor Malmsheimer | May 7, 2012

Courtesy of the Collegiate Water Polo Association The Dartmouth women's club water polo team placed seventh at the National Collegiate Club Championship in Tallahassee, Fla., upsetting the University of Notre Dame in the first round and defeating Lindenwood University in its final game on Sunday.

Opinion

Brooks: Learning from Tragedies

By David Brooks | May 7, 2012

On May 2, Junior Seau took his own life with a gunshot to the chest. His was the third in a string of suicides by former NFL players, and his death brought national attention to the subject of traumatic brain injury in football. I grew up on the border of California in the town of Yuma, Ariz.

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Gender-specific forums see success

By Amanda Young | May 7, 2012

Men's Forum and Women's Forum, founded in fall 2010 and this term, respectively, supplement other single-sex spaces on campus by providing a support network for both freshmen and upperclassmen.

Opinion

Yang: Performing Gender

By Lorelei Yang | May 7, 2012

We are categorized into a gender before we are even born, squeezed and confined into tightly defined conceptual boxes for the sake of easy identification.

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