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Students participate in coed recruitment

By Ashley Manning | January 26, 2014

Four students accepted bids from Alpha Theta coed fraternity, which extended six bids total. Five students accepted bids from the Tabard coed fraternity and one student accepted a bid from Phi Tau coed fraternity, which extended three bids in total.

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TIPS program aims to fight teen substance abuse issues

By Caroline Hansen | January 26, 2014

The Teen Intervention Program against Substance Abuse, known as TIPS, is directed by two Geisel School of Medicine psychiatry professors and focuses on individual counseling for teens. Some participants will also receive additional, more experimental treatments that will evaluate the success of monetary incentives and a working memory treatment.

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Sunstein talks personal data sharing

By Priya Ramaiah | January 23, 2014

In a lecture on Thursday afternoon, Sunstein explored the advantages and disadvantages of impersonal default laws, generic data rules applied en masse, versus active choosing, where the consumer decides which information to share with retailers.

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Thayer grad applies to Mars mission

By Sara McGahan | January 23, 2014

Fagin is one of 1,058 individuals chosen by Mars One — a program that aims to establish a permanent human settlement on the Red Planet — to advance into the second round of its application process.

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Tengatenga begins role at Mass. divinity school

January 23, 2014

After a whirlwind of controversy surrounding the revocation of his offer to become Tucker Foundation dean, the Right Rev. James Tengatenga started his position as a presidential fellow at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. this month.

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D’Souza ’83 accused of campaign finance fraud

By The Dartmouth Staff | January 23, 2014

Dinesh D’Souza ’83 was indicted for campaign finance fraud on Thursday in relation to a 2012 U.S. Senate election. Although no candidates were named in the indictment, news organizations report that the race concerned was between Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88, D-N.Y. and Republican challenger Wendy Long ’82.

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College joins online learning platform edX

By Chris Leech | January 23, 2014

The College announced today that it will begin offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, through the online learning platform edX. DartmouthX will launch its initial course this fall and plans to offer three additional MOOCs during the 2014-2015 year.

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Tuck ranked third in facilities

By Hannah Hye Min Chung | January 21, 2014

Tuck School of Business was recently ranked third-best worldwide and number one in the U.S. in facilities and services, according to a survey conducted by The Economist, which asked students to assess their schools based on the quality and availability of services and administrators’ attitudes.

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Students opt for smaller meal plans after fall term

By Jorge Bonilla | January 21, 2014

Just 12.1 percent of undergraduates purchased the SmartChoice20 plan this term, compared to the 32.5 percent who purchased it in fall 2013. For the past three years, a consistent portion of students who purchased the SmartChoice20 meal plan in the fall has opted for smaller and cheaper meal plans in the winter.

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Game adds metadata to digital collections

By Elizabeth Smith | January 21, 2014

Academic institutions nationwide have digitized their archives for years, but many lack a way to catalogue their collections efficiently. Dartmouth’s Tiltfactor Laboratory created Metadata Games to solve this problem and is launching its newest version of the program, Metadata Games: Mobile, today.

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UGAs to host coffee talks with upperclass residents

By Sera Kwon | January 21, 2014

In an effort to boost one-on-one interaction between upperclassmen and their undergraduate advisors, the office of residential education has been working over the past year to change the upperclass UGA model to emphasize individualized interactions instead of traditional programming and floor events.

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Protest stalls MLK keynote

By Jasper Bingham | January 20, 2014

Roughly a third of the audience participated, unfurling large colorful signs. “Enough distraction — where is the action?” read one. Another protester held up the Anarchist movement’s symbol, an encircled “A.”

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