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‘Restaurant: Impossible' starts Gusanoz rebuild

By Claire Groden | May 3, 2012

Food Network chef Robert Irvine and a team of designers will descend on Gusanoz Mexican Restaurant in Lebanon today to film an episode of "Restaurant: Impossible." Over the course of two days, the team aided by about 45 Dartmouth students will revamp the "failing" restaurant with only $10,000, according to associate producer Erin Hilgedick. Gusanoz applied to participate in the show and was chosen based on a variety of factors, including the menu, staff and owners' personalities, Hilgedick said. "One of the biggest things is that we're really looking for people who have the will to change," she said, adding that Gusanoz had both a need and a desire for change. "Restaurant: Impossible" will revamp the restaurant in every area needing improvement, from the physical space to the menu.

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Daily Debriefing

By Hannah Wang | May 3, 2012

Thirteen people were charged on Wednesday in the death of Robert Champion, a Florida A&M University student who was brutally beaten to death in a marching band hazing ritual last fall, The New York Times reported.

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Daily Debriefing

By Clifton Lyons | May 2, 2012

Brown University will pay $31.5 million to Providence, R.I. to offset the city's budget deficit and prevent a bankruptcy filing, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

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Alumni fill California demand for bagels

May 2, 2012

Three Dartmouth alumni, including the founder of The Basement an online platform designed to aggregate various Dartmouth student resources, including the now outdated "Web Blitz" have launched a startup San Francisco bagel company in conjunction with a former transfer student, using online technology and social media to market their New York-style bagels to Bay Area customers. Schmendricks, which translates to "stupid person" in Yiddish, has already sold out its May 10 launch party, despite lacking a physical store and having collected all orders and consumer data via online platforms, according to co-founder and psychologist David Kover '00. "We have all known that you can't get a quality bagel in the Bay Area, and we took it upon ourselves to make one," Kover, who dubbed himself "chief authenticity officer" due to his Brooklyn roots, said. The founders all live in the same San Francisco apartment building and comprise two married couples Kover and Dagny Dingman '02, and Dan Scholnick '00 and Deepa Subramanian, who spent two terms at the College as a transfer student from Smith College. The four began experimenting with bagel recipes in their homes two years ago.

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Vandewalle advises Libya on June election

By Sasha Dudding | May 2, 2012

Government professor and prominent Libya expert Dirk Vandewalle is serving as an advisor to the country's first national election in over 50 years in the wake of the death of longstanding dictator Muammar Qaddafi.

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Israel and Palestine Week's events aim to spur dialogue

By Heather Szilagyi | May 1, 2012

The first event of its kind, Dartmouth's Israel and Palestine Week, sponsored by the Dartmouth Avi Schaefer Delegation, seeks to promote dialogue and understanding between both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by showcasing the human element of the issue through films, comedy, poetry and cultural events, according to delegation members.

Nancy Malkiel, who served as the dean of the college at Princeton University for 24 years, related her accomplishments in undergraduate education on Tuesday.
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Princeton dean outlines initiatives

By Jenny Che | May 1, 2012

ERIN BECKS / The Dartmouth The creation of new residential colleges, expansion of the freshman seminar program and broadening of international opportunities were among the accomplishments highlighted by former Princeton University Dean Nancy Malkiel, who presented her work in developing undergraduate education during Tuesday night's installment of the "Leading Voices in Higher Education" strategic planning lecture series in Carson L01. In the first year of her 24-year tenure as the university's dean of the college, a position from which she stepped down last year, Malkiel implemented a new seminar program for first-year students intended to enhance interaction between undergraduates and faculty.

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Daily Debriefing

By Grace Sollender | May 1, 2012

The Upper Valley celebrated spring and social activism with May Day festivities held on the Lebanon Green and hosted by Occupy Upper Valley on Tuesday, according to the organization's website.

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NH hospitals call for Medicaid intervention

By Madison Pauly | May 1, 2012

Trustees of 10 New Hampshire hospitals, including the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health care system, claim that the state violated Medicare law by reallocating $130 million in federal Medicaid reimbursement funding to balance the state budget without analyzing the new plan's impact on access to care for Medicaid patients.

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Otto calls for more science in politics

By Diana Ming | April 30, 2012

The stigma against science in modern politics threatens the American democratic process, and it is necessary to reform public perception of scientific issues such as climate change, author and filmmaker Shawn Lawrence Otto said in a Monday lecture at the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center. Once viewed as a source of national pride, science has become a "discomforting" topic in current politics, he said in his lecture titled "Scientists, the Media and Politicians in the Climate Change Debate," which drew ideas from his newest book "Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America." During the 2007 Hollywood writers' strike, Otto, who is also a screenwriter, co-founded "Science Debate 2008," an initiative aimed at organizing a presidential debate to discuss science-related policies before the 2008 election, he said. "Virtually none of the presidential candidates were talking about science, and even though over 30,000 scientists signed onto our campaign, we couldn't get much media coverage or response from candidates," he said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Erin Landau | April 30, 2012

In an effort to gain support from college students and their parents, both Democrats and Republicans have begun to focus on rising interest rates on subsidized college loans, The New York Times reported.

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