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ORL program creates interest-based housing

By Claire Daly | February 4, 2014

Students passionate about subjects varying from television to triathlons can to live with peers with similar interests in a new housing initiative that will launch this fall. The program will allow 15 or more students who share a common interest or hobby to apply to live together, according to the office of residential life’s website.

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Peer advising may cover gender, sexuality

By Ashley Manning | February 4, 2014

Recognizing a potential gap in current peer advisory programs, students and staff are discussing the establishment of a new group that would focus on gender and sexuality. At a workshop late last month, around 20 students gathered to discuss the possibility and the needs the program would address.

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TALES links students, patients

By Jordan Einhorn | February 4, 2014

Twice a month, 20 Dartmouth students meet with Alzheimer’s patients to chat, sip a cup of coffee or go for a hike. The program, which aims to educate individuals about the disease, matches pairs of students with Alzheimer’s patients, or learning partners, for at least three terms.

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College to hold memorial for Torin Tucker '15 Wednesday

By The Dartmouth Staff | February 3, 2014

A memorial service for Torin Tucker ’15 will be held in Rollins Chapel on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. The service will include student reflections, and Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson will also speak. A candle-lighting ceremony on Baker Lawn and a gathering in Collis Common Ground will follow the service.

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Web entrepreneur delivers talk

By Rebecca Rowland | February 3, 2014

Though a Yahoo official once dismissed Reddit’s number of users as “a rounding error,” last year the website garnered about 731 million unique visitors and 56 billion page views. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian asked the audience to take advantage of the immense accessibility of the Internet to learn skills and reach their full potential in a lecture that filled Filene Auditorium on Monday.

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Veterans pick Dartmouth for community, academics

By Zac Hardwick | February 2, 2014

Before coming to Dartmouth, Christopher Allen ’15 spent a year patrolling the streets of Iraq as a combat engineer, searching for improvised explosive devices that he was responsible for disarming. Allen, like the other seventeen veterans on campus, is a nontraditional student who opted out of the conventional college pipeline to serve his country.

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Alpha Phi residents relocate to the Lodge

By Rebecca Asoulin | February 2, 2014

The 23 residents of the Alpha Phi sorority house were forced to temporarily relocate on Friday due to water damage caused by a blockage in the house’s pipes, according to residential operations director David Eckels.

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Mock trial succeeds at regionals

By Bryn Morgan | February 2, 2014

A Dartmouth Mock Trial Society team earned an honorable mention and a chance to advance to the next round of the American Mock Trial Association’s national tournament at a regional competition this weekend at St. Anselm College in Manchester. Dartmouth sent two teams of 10 students to the competition.

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D’Souza ’83 debates Ayers

By Zac Hardwick | January 30, 2014

In front of over 400 students, faculty and community members, conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza ’83 and former antiwar activist Bill Ayers expressed their conflicting ideologies while debating America’s role in the world on Thursday night.

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Over 700 participate in winter recruitment cycle

By Victoria Nelsen | January 30, 2014

More than 700 students submitted over 8,200 applications in this winter’s corporate recruiting cycle, and about 340 of these applications have so far resulted in interviews, said Monica Wilson, the Center for Professional Development’s associate director. Wilson said that employers will conduct around 1,000 interviews in total, with half taking place on campus and the other half via phone or Skype.

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Innovation center construction stalls

By Rebecca Rowland | January 30, 2014

Work began this week on the Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator, an initiative announced in College President Phil Hanlon’s inaugural address in September. Despite delays in the construction permit approval process, the College aims to complete construction by spring term, new venture incubator programs director Jamie Coughlin said.

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Q&A with William Wohlforth: Sochi Olympics

By Chris Leech | January 30, 2014

With the Winter Olympics set to begin next week, The Dartmouth sat down with government professor William Wohlforth to discuss security preparations in Sochi, Russia and the possibility of a terrorist attack.

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College employee pleads not guilty to criminal threatening

By The Dartmouth Staff | January 30, 2014

David Barr, a College employee who works at the Hinman Mail Center, pleaded not guilty to a charge of criminal threatening at his arraignment on Thursday morning, according to acting Hanover Police chief Frank Moran. Hanover Police arrested Barr around noon on Wednesday at the Hinman Mail Center after Barr allegedly posted a threatening message on his Facebook account.

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