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SAT tutoring holds appeal for students seeking income, impact

By Chris Leech | May 15, 2014

Though most at the College have put the days of SAT prep books behind them, Johns and a number of other Dartmouth students work as SAT tutors, some as local volunteers and others with national and international companies.

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Diversion program participation drops

By Josh Schiefelbein | May 14, 2014

Participation in the Hanover Alcohol Diversion Program fell by around 30 percent between 2012 and 2013, dropping from 91 students in 2012 to 62 in 2013. The number of Dartmouth undergraduates taking part in the program — which offers first-time underage drinking offenders an educational alternative to court — nearly halved, with 45 students participating in 2013 compared to 87 students the previous year.

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Reflecting on race, students talk identity and stigmas

By Michael Qian | May 14, 2014

Despite growing up in a county where around one-fifth of the population identified as Asian — more than three times the national percentage — Fischer Yan ’14 said she felt like she lived in a white suburb. Before an audience of over 100 people in Collis Common Ground yesterday night, Yan and four other panelists — Saaid Arshad ’14, Karima Ma ’14, Francis Slaughter ’16 and Maan Tinna ’13 — spoke about their experiences as Asians and Asian Americans both at Dartmouth and beyond.

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College to announce MOOCs this month

By Marina Shkuratov | May 14, 2014

The College will announce its first four massive open online courses, hosted in partnership with the edX online learning platform, later this month. Though the College originally hoped to launch its first MOOC this fall, followed by three additional courses during the 2014-15 academic year, director of digital learning initiatives Josh Kim said the College now plans to release its first course early in 2015.

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French and Italian conference draws Great War scholars

By Sara McGahan | May 14, 2014

Following last night’s monologue performance of Futurist manifestos, the French and Italian department will kick off a conference commemorating the upcoming centennial of World War I this afternoon. The conference examines the war’s political and cultural ramifications from a breadth of perspectives.

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UFC distributes $1 million student activities fee to organizations

By Amelia Rosch | May 13, 2014

Next year’s funding allocated to Student Assembly dropped to $40,000 from this year’s allocation of $58,000, the UFC announced Tuesday. The committee said in a press release that some of the assembly’s proposals “were not in the spirit of the Student Activities Fee.”

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Hanover approves $22.1 million budget at annual meeting

By Nancy Wu | May 13, 2014

The Hanover Finance Committee proposed an amendment to decrease the town’s budget at Hanover’s annual town hall meeting Tuesday night, but attendees dismissed the initiative, eventually approving a $22.1 million operating budget for 2014-15.

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College lags behind other Ivies in publishing course evaluations

By Sean Connolly | May 13, 2014

Colleges across the Ivy League have faced student pressure to release course review results to students, with many universities offering online open assessments in some form. Of the eight institutions, all except Dartmouth offer some sort of institutionalized method for students to see course evaluations.

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Fairbrothers’s Tuck departure prompts petition, backlash

By Erica Buonanno | May 12, 2014

Gregg Fairbrothers ’76, the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network’s founding director who teaches at the Tuck School of Business, will officially leave Tuck June 30. Students, alumni and faculty have rallied as news spread, circulating a petition that garnered over 270 signatures as of press time to keep Fairbrothers at Dartmouth.

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Series's final event addresses FSPs

By Miguel Pena | May 12, 2014

About 30 people discussed current and future global experiences at the College and abroad at yesterday’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” conversations. Topics covered at the session, the last in the series, included new foreign study programs in Ghana and South Africa.

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Boosted by grants, researchers study arsenic testing in wells

By Kate Bradshaw | May 12, 2014

About 40 percent of the state’s 1.3 million residents obtain their drinking water from private wells, which do not require regulation, and around 20 percent of these wells have arsenic levels higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety standard.

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Over 500 gather for 42nd annual powwow

By Rebecca Asoulin | May 11, 2014

The steady pulse of drums beat across campus as the festivities of the 42nd annual Dartmouth powwow concluded this weekend. The gathering drew more than 500 spectators and participants on the Green on Sunday, with a slightly lower attendance at Saturday’s events, held in Leede Arena due to rain.

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Trying to cull feedback, campus issue talks see low student attendance

By Sera Kwon | May 11, 2014

The final set of “Campus Conversations” will take place today, concluding the Office of the President’s series of biweekly public talks with a discussion of global learning experiences at the College. Approximately 415 people have attended the talks since they began in February under the banner of “Moving Dartmouth Forward,” according to the office of public affairs, and the videotaped sessions have garnered a total of over 3,000 views.

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Summit considers role of the humanities

By Treeman Baker | May 11, 2014

The current role of the humanities in academia, both in the U.S. and around the globe, is in flux. Scholars gathered at Dartmouth this weekend for a summit that tackled challenges currently facing humanities departments and scholars.

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College hosts Special Olympics

By Roshan Dutta | May 11, 2014

About 80 athletes competed, supported one another and celebrated their accomplishments during this year’s Hanover area summer games, held Saturday at Leverone Field House and the Upper Valley Aquatic Center.

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Charles Collis ’37 remembered

By Josh Koenig | May 8, 2014

Charles Collis ’37, a lifelong supporter of the College, died Tuesday at the age of 99. Remembered by family and friends as modest and down-to-earth despite his prolific accomplishments in business and philanthropy, Collis always credited Dartmouth with teaching him to think and setting him on a path to success.

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Turnover to continue with Johnson departure

By Amelia Rosch | May 8, 2014

Since former College President Jim Yong Kim started his tenure in 2009, the senior administration has seen significant structural changes and 18 of 24 high-level positions transition leadership, some as frequently as three times.

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Poll predicts Hassan win, competition for Shaheen

By Michael Qian | May 8, 2014

Presidential competition for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a tough re-election race for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and a safe win for Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., are among the predictions made by the Rockefeller Center’s seventh annual “State of the State Poll,” released today.

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Edward Kim fills Pan-Asian student advisor role temporarily

By Miguel Pena | May 8, 2014

Edward Kim, who began in early April as the interim assistant dean and advisor to the Pan-Asian community in the office of pluralism and leadership, will serve in that role through the end of June. His appointment followed the departure of former assistant dean Aeriel Ashlee, who left for medical reasons. OPAL has put together a search committee and hopes to fill the position this summer.

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Q&A with Andrew Friedland

By Nancy Wu | May 8, 2014

Earlier this week, Stanford University announced that it would divest its endowment from coal companies, becoming the most prominent university to make the decision so far.

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