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Vietnam War veterans visit College

By Bryn Morgan | February 16, 2014

On Monday — nearly 50 years after accepting their military commissions — Chilcote, McGrath and fellow veteran James Laughlin ’64 will return to speak to Miller’s class for a second time and to give a public lecture.

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Students to launch The Box in spring

By Kate Bradshaw | February 16, 2014

Serving lunch, dinner and late-night fare, The Box is a student-run food truck that will offer locally-sourced Mediterranean cuisine starting the first week of spring term. The joint venture will be run by eight Tuck School of Business students and over 15 undergraduates.

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Geisel suspends M.D./Ph.D. applications

By Jordan Einhorn | February 13, 2014

The Geisel School of Medicine has suspended admissions to its M.D./Ph.D. program, Geisel School Dean Wiley Souba announced in an email to the Geisel community Thursday morning. Since the decision was first revealed in a Feb. 6 meeting, around 1,000 students and faculty have signed a petition outlining concerns.

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Financial aid office clarifies application forms

By Hannah Hye Min Chung | February 13, 2014

The letter, based on an investigation by the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Oversight, named 111 schools that might give students the inaccurate impression that they must complete the CSS/Financial Aid profile, a College Board-created form that requires a submission fee to receive any financial aid.

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Q&A with Jeff Sharlet: Russia's anti-gay legislation

By Elizabeth Smith | February 13, 2014

spent my days talking to ordinary people and also activists, and at nights I would go out to the queer nightlife in Saint Petersburg and Moscow and talk to people there. In the day, it would be one kind of story of horror, and at night, another. And that was the most difficult part, that accumulation of such sorrow.

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S.A. to leave ‘invisible legacy’

By Rebecca Asoulin | February 12, 2014

This year, Student Assembly has focused on encouraging student participation in the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative and developing institutional memory, said student body president Adrian Ferrari ’14 and vice president Michael Zhu ’14.

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Rassias emphasizes drama in languages

By Ashley Manning | February 12, 2014

Professor John Rassias punctuates his stories with spontaneous gestures and sporadic onomatopoeia — much like the language instructors who conduct their morning drill sessions using the method Rassias pioneered about 50 years ago.

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Researchers combat astronaut blues

By Josh Schiefelbein | February 12, 2014

To help those in remote areas, like outer space, find relief from depression, Geisel School of Medicine professors Mark Hegel and Jay Buckey and psychology professor Jay Hull developed a computer-based therapy program called the electronic problem-solving treatment, or ePST.

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Media scrutiny suggested as cause for application decline

By Zac Hardwick | February 11, 2014

College consultants and students suggested that recent media attention and the cost of tuition could have caused this year’s decline in applications to the College. Dartmouth received 19,235 applications to the Class of 2018, a 14 percent decline from applications to the Class of 2017, and the second year in a row that the number has dropped. Last year, 3 percent fewer students applied to the Class of 2017 than had to the Class of 2016.

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Office for Civil Rights to visit amid U.S. debate

By Sean Connolly | February 11, 2014

As part of the ongoing Title IX investigation into Dartmouth’s handling of sexual assault cases, representatives from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights will revisit the College from Feb. 24 to Feb. 28. The federal attention comes as lawmakers in Congress are calling for increased transparency from the Office for Civil Rights.

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Kappa Delta house construction aims for July completion

By Josh Schiefelbein | February 11, 2014

Despite weather-related delays in December and January, construction on the Kappa Delta sorority house remains on schedule, its frame standing three stories tall amidst the snowdrifts on Occom Ridge. Sorority members should be able to tour the house within a month, and the project should be completed by July, said senior project manager Joe Broemel.

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GLC policy follows 'Bloods and Crips' party

By Joshua Schiefelbein | February 10, 2014

A new policy will expect Greek organizations that receive complaints regarding standards of community violations to adjudicate the accused individuals in-house or participate in mediation sessions with the complainants. The Greek Leadership Council and Greek organization presidents unanimously approved the bylaw at a meeting on Monday.

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Library to conduct survey on services, resource usage

By Brian Chalif | February 10, 2014

The College’s library is conducting its triennial survey this week, an examination that in past years has led the library to extend its hours from midnight to 2 a.m. and add more group study rooms. The survey, conducted by the Dartmouth library assessment committee, will be sent to 1,528 undergraduates and 771 graduate students over the next few days.

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