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Students present cross-cultural experiences in forum

January 20, 2014

At the fifth annual Student Forum on Global Learning on Monday, dozens of students spoke about cross-cultural experiences that ranged from domestic internships and research opportunities to international service trips and study abroad programs.

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Sorority rush changes fit in larger narrative

By Brian Chalif | January 20, 2014

Changes to this year’s winter sorority recruitment reflect minor shifts in a long, evolving history of rush processes at the College. This year, a talk on dues, philanthropy and financial aid, as well as an anonymous question-and-answer session, replaced song-and-dance routines.

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Library pursues digitization efforts, expands electronic collection

By Roshan Dutta | January 20, 2014

The College’s libraries will grow its collection of online texts and expand its electronic resource offerings in a campaign to diversify its collection of roughly 639,000 e-books. The initiative, which will also focus on digitizing pictures and texts, follows a fall 2012 pilot program.

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Department of Education to visit campus in Title IX investigation

By The Dartmouth | January 20, 2014

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights seeks to speak to students, faculty, administrators and alumni about issues of sexual assault and sexual harassment at the College later this month.

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Academic boycott of Israel contested

By Zac Hardwick | January 16, 2014

Every Ivy League university president has publicly opposed the association’s decision, many through statements sent to their respective campuses and others by signing the Association of American Universities’ anti-boycott response.

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N.H. House first to pass bill legalizing marijuana

By Heather Szilagyi | January 16, 2014

After a lengthy and heated debate, the House voted 170 to 162 for initial approval of the bill, though it still faces serious hurtles before becoming law.

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Student center renovations reach final stage this term

By Chris Leech | January 16, 2014

One year and millions of dollars later, the newly renovated Collis Center for Student Involvement is seeing its finishing touches. The three-part process, which started with the center’s temporary closure last winter, has transformed its dining, studying and lounging spaces.

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Ramirez ’14 launches new Collis Consulting Group

By Hannah Hye Min Chung | January 16, 2014

With a student body that’s constantly in flux, campus organizations face leadership deficits each term. Andres Ramirez ’14 was working on a project for his Tuck School of Business undergraduate marketing course in the fall when he conceived a solution. His new student-run organization, the Collis Consulting Group, launched this term and aims to consult for other College groups.

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College to hire new Title IX coordinator

By Sean Connolly | January 15, 2014

The provost’s office and general counsel are seeking a Title IX and Clery Act compliance officer, a newly created administrative position. The new hire will be responsible for implementing a program to educate campus safety personnel, faculty, staff and students on the College’s sexual assault policies and ensure that Dartmouth complies with federal guidelines.

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Group to discuss Asian and Asian-American identity

By Michelle Li | January 15, 2014

A weekly discussion group will examine the model minority stereotype, cultural expectations of masculinity and other issues faced by Asian and Asian-American students at Dartmouth.

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Research team launches data-collecting balloons

By Rebecca Rowland | January 15, 2014

Carefully constructed, technologically advanced balloons soar in the Antarctic sky, transmitting space weather updates to a team of scientists. For the past month, physics and astronomy professor Robyn Millan has lived on the southernmost continent, using instrument-laden balloons to gather data on radiation belts that impact space activity around the Earth.

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Sustainability efforts focus on older campus buildings

By Michael Qian | January 15, 2014

From the south side of campus, the Dartmouth College Heating Plant releases wispy plumes of steam into cool air. The plant, which supplies approximately 45 percent of the electricity on Dartmouth’s main campus, is just one part of a large network of heating and sustainability programs.

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College doubles salting efforts in icy season

By Priya Ramaiah | January 14, 2014

Massachusetts Row became an ice rink. Students stumbled across the Green. Webster Avenue threatened to trip any who braved its slick sidewalks. Though Campus Planning and Facilities has used 515 tons of salt in de-icing efforts so far this winter, more than double the amount used by this time last year, the season’s weather has made it more difficult than usual to ensure safe walking conditions, said campus planning and facilities labor shop supervisor Greg Frost, adding that this is the worst winter he has witnessed in the past 20 years.

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Spectra boosts LGBTQ social life on campus

By Jorge Bonilla | January 14, 2014

Spectra, a new campus organization, seeks to enhance community among LGBTQ students by holding social events throughout the term. Andrew McKee ’15 and Jacqueline Panichello ’16 founded the group in the fall after hearing rumors that Gender Sexuality XYZ, was disbanding.

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Boral '16 launches new leadership program

By Michael Qian | January 14, 2014

Freshmen will discuss leadership and their roles at the College in a new program created and facilitated by other students. The Leadership Attitudes and Behaviors program, launching on Jan. 27, will combine peer bonding and student-facilitated discussions to encourage students to consider new meanings of leadership.

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Panhell holds discussion

By Sera Kwon | January 13, 2014

Approximately 40 students gathered at the Center for Gender and Student Engagement on Monday evening to discuss the decision of five Panhellenic Council executives to abstain from this week’s sorority recruitment.

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New seminar series to explore economics and government

By Roshan Dutta | January 13, 2014

Over a meal of summer steak and buffalo chicken burritos, students interested in the link between government and economics gathered in the Rockefeller Center on Monday night for the first of a series of faculty-student dinner seminars hosted by the College’s new Political Economy Project. An interdisciplinary academic initiative launched in the fall, the program aims to further the study of political economics at the College.

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Student body shifts from Blackboard to Canvas

By Priya Ramaiah | January 13, 2014

Almost half of undergraduate students have begun the switch from Blackboard to Canvas, a new online learning management system, following a positive response to the 13-class pilot last term, assistant director of educational technologies Barbara Knauff said. A total of 110 courses transitioned to Canvas this winter, and an additional 150 faculty members are slated to adopt Canvas in the spring. Knauff said she expects Blackboard to be phased out by the end of the calendar year.

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Phi Sigma Nu approaches approval

By Hannah Hye Min Chung and Emily Rutherford | January 13, 2014

Though Preston Wells ’15 has worked for over a year to establish a charter of the historically Native American fraternity Phi Sigma Nu at Dartmouth, he said the fact that the organization is coming to fruition feels surreal. Wells and two other students received provisional approval to form a chapter from the fraternity’s chief council last November, and members say they hope to receive an official College charter by this fall.

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Sororities add aid talk, Q&A to winter rush

By Sera Kwon | January 12, 2014

Sorority presidents sent an email to members of their respective houses on Sunday evening announcing changes made to this year’s winter recruitment cycle. These changes include replacing the choreographed song-and-dance presentations that traditionally follow recruitment parties with financial aid presentations and anonymous question-and-answer sessions, as well as relaxing dress code expectations.

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