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2,176 offered admission for Class of 2020

By Amanda Zhou | April 4, 2016

Dartmouth offered 2,176 acceptances to the Class of 2020, a group that includes the highest ever percentage of students of color. The number of applicants totaled 20,675 — representing less than a 1 percent increase from the Class of 2019 — bringing the 2020 admission rate to 10.5 percent.

About 60 people attended the fifth annual Symposium on Sexual Assault on Monday.
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SPCSA hosts fifth annual Symposium on Sexual Assault

By Amanda Zhou | April 4, 2016

Yesterday’s fifth annual Symposium on Sexual Assault, held in Collis Common Ground and hosted by the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, aimed to gather feedback on the College’s new sexual violence prevention and education program. The four-year sexual assault education program, implemented under College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative, is slated to begin in the fall.

All Trips end at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, fondly known as the Lodj.
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DOC Trips begins choosing volunteers

By Alyssa Mehra | April 4, 2016

Hopeful Trip leaders and Croo members are not evaluated on their dancing skills, but if accepted to volunteer for Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips, those skills will most likely be used as they welcome freshmen and spend time in the outdoors this coming fall.

History professor Udi Greenberg recently won the 2016 European Studies Book award.
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History professor Udi Greenberg wins book award

By Carter Brace | April 4, 2016

History professor Udi Greenberg’s own family history helps to explain why he chose his field of study. His grandparents were refugees from Nazi Germany who fled to South Africa. In the process, his family went from racially persecuted Jews under the Nazis to elite whites under the apartheid regime. His parents, objecting to the racism in South Africa, then left for Israel. Growing up in Israel, Greenberg himself never thought of himself as white, as race was not talked about because people mostly divided themselves by religion, he said.

sheba performs at the 2016 dance-a-thon this saturday
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Dance-A-Thon raises $2,000 for charity

By Megan Clyne | April 4, 2016

This past Saturday, students at the College put on their dancing shoes and boogied all night in Dartmouth’s first ever Dance-A-Thon, raising around $2,000 for WISE, the Upper Valley Haven and Project VetCare.

The DEN forum took place all day on Friday.
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DEN hosts Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum

By Joe Regan | April 3, 2016

In a sold-out Alumni Hall, the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network Innovation Center hosted the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum last Friday, a bi-annual conference and startup competition that takes place at Dartmouth in the spring and San Francisco in the fall. This year’s attendance had to be capped at 380 people, in what Jamie Coughlin, director of the DEN, called “a tremendous response” in comparison with last year’s attendance of 312. At the event, there were 32 speakers and two keynotes, as well as 50 contestants in the competition.

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Experts discuss College tuition hike

By Joyce Lee | March 31, 2016

Despite being around a percent higher than the 2.9 percent tuition increase for the 2015-2016 academic year, experts say that the 3.8 percent increase in tuition, mandatory fees and room and board approved by the Board of Trustees for the 2016-2017 academic school year remains in line with national trends of rising costs for higher education.

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Match Day reveals what is next for Geisel students

By Daniel Lee | March 31, 2016

Four years of medical school culminated with Match Day, when 81 students at the Geisel School of Medicine discovered where they will move on to fulfill their residency training after graduation. Friends and families gathered with the graduating students on March 18 to celebrate their next step toward becoming a physician.

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Students push for comedian John Oliver as Commencement speaker

By Samantha Stern | March 31, 2016

A recent petition, written by Zac Hardwick ’16 and Ben Wood ’16, urged the College to invite English comedian, political commentator and television host John Oliver to be the commencement speaker for this year’s graduation ceremony. The petition said that Oliver would continue Dartmouth’s rich history of inviting speakers “who bring an interesting, non-traditional perspective on life” to the graduating class.

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Alums build dating app for black singles

By Sungil Ahn | March 31, 2016

Not every demographic has kept up with the pace of growth in online dating — a study on data from the dating site OkCupid revealed that black men and women face particular bias. One year ago, the team behind BAE — “before anyone else” — built a smartphone dating app to help black singles in the dating world. The team includes two Dartmouth students, chief technology officer and co-founder Jordan Kunzika ’16 and chief marketing officer Justin Gerrard Tu’16.

Ron Taylor was called "notoriously social" by those who knew him.
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Loved ones, friends remember Ron Taylor

By Noah Goldstein | March 30, 2016

Geisel School of Medicine professor Ron Taylor wanted to be known as somebody who never said no. A lifelong scientist and dedicated colleague, he was devoted to his research pursuits and the community that surrounded him, his partner and fellow microbiology professor Paula Sundstrom said. Taylor died of a heart attack at the age of 62 on Saturday. He had been at Dartmouth since 1993.

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College sees high veteran enrollment

By Joe Regan | March 30, 2016

Ten veterans will join the College’s Class of 2020 through a partnership with the Posse Foundation’s Veterans Program. The “posse” of seven male and three female veterans will be funded and supported throughout their four years of college. Dartmouth is one of three schools to participate in the program.

Rex Woodbury '15 smiles while running the half-marathon.
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Rex Woodbury ’15 runs suited half-marathon

By Alyssa Mehra | March 30, 2016

Last December, Rex Woodbury ’15 came across an article about a recent Guinness World Record for the fastest half-marathon run in a business suit. The record was held by Gihan Amarasiriwardena — co-founder of menswear company, Ministry of Supply — set at 1 hour 24 minutes and 41 seconds. On March 21, Woodbury put on a suit and ran 13.1 miles in 1 hour, 18 minutes and 41 seconds.

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Library of Congress to replace term ‘illegal aliens’

By Sonia Qin | March 28, 2016

The Library of Congress will replace the term “illegal aliens” with “noncitizens” and “unauthorized immigrants” in its subject headings, a decision that was announced on March 22. This change, which was initially proposed by Dartmouth’s Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers, will lead to a sweep of heading changes for all libraries in the United States and Canada that use records distributed by the Library of Congress. The changes will come into effect no earlier than May 2016.

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Paganucci program receives $3 million endowment

By Alexa Green and Michael Qian | March 28, 2016

Earlier this month, the Sherman Fairchild Foundation permanently endowed the Paganucci Fellows Program with $3 million. The program, which started in 2006 and is directed by the Tuck Center for Leadership, is an undergraduate development initiative that provides students with opportunities to participate in immersive learning projects.

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Services offer iPhone repairs

By Megan Clyne | March 28, 2016

An icy sidewalk, a dropped phone, a shattered screen. Many Dartmouth students experience challenges associated with a broken cellphone each term, but new local resources aimed at repairing phones could help.

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