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Distributive requirements encourage exploration

October 9, 2012

Dartmouth's distributive course curriculum which requires students to complete at least one course in eight different broad educational categories encourages student exploration and exposure to hidden interests, according to students and deans.

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Daily Debriefing

By Axel Hufford | October 8, 2012

While the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear a challenge to race-based affirmative action at the University of Texas on Wednesday, India's Supreme Court is hearing a case on caste-based affirmative action, The New York Times reported.

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BADA celebrates 40 years as College organization

By Michael Rhys | October 8, 2012

The Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association, founded in 1972 during a time of social change in the United States that prompted the College to begin admitting more black students, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year as a network for black students and alumni.

Ariel Diaz '02 Th'04 created a startup called Boundless, which offers students free materials in textbook form.
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Alumnus creates textbook alternative

By Karna Adam | October 8, 2012

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Ariel Diaz '02 Th'04 is offering students across the country an alternative to buying costly textbooks every term through his new startup, Boundless.com, which offers students free compilations of non-copyrighted material in a textbook form. Boundless does not provide actual e-textbooks, but rather uses a mix of government and nonprofit open-licensed content, according to Diaz, who started working on the idea two and a half years ago with co-founder Aaron White. Diaz said that his goal is not only to give students a less costly way to learn, but also to "create an education system that lets every individual perform and learn at their potential and speed." Boundless currently features review videos, flashcards and note-taking tools in addition to textbook information.

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Orozco murals reopen after updates to room

By Jasmine Sachar | October 8, 2012

CECELIA SHAO / The Dartmouth The Orozco Room, home to a famous mural by Jose Clemente Orozco and the library course reserves, reopened to the public on Saturday after undergoing almost four months of renovations, including the installation of a state-of-the-art lighting system, new furniture and desk lamps. The new LED lighting system, installed by Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design, is intended to better display the murals, according to art history professor Mary Coffey.

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Daily Debriefing

October 7, 2012

A newly revamped Common Application will debut Aug. 1, 2013 as part of an $8-million project to accommodate the increasing volume of applications from around the world, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

Former College President James Wright was one of several speakers at a symposium on military service held on Friday and Saturday.
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Symposium discusses veterans' issues

By Colby Ye and Sean Connolly | October 7, 2012

CECELIA SHAO / The Dartmouth The nature of modern war has widened the chasm between civilians and the armed forces, former College President James Wright said at a history symposium, "Military Service and National Obligation," this weekend.

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PAAR raises funds for CHaD event

October 7, 2012

Philanthropic All American Rush, the Inter-Fraternity Council and the Panhellenic Council are collaborating with the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth in its annual CHaD Hero Half Marathon and Ripcord 5K that will take place on Oct.

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WitsON program offers mentorship to women

October 7, 2012

Dartmouth is one of 72 undergraduate institutions with students currently participating in Women in Technology Sharing Online, a web-based forum where students can interact with other students and female mentors in science, engineering, math and technology, according to Piazza Vice President of Operations Phil Soffer.

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Student creates EyeBook directory

By Kyooeun Jang | October 7, 2012

Josh Schoenbart '16 is the founder and CEO of the EyeBook, a new online optometric directory that provides a tailored search enabling patients to find eye care specialists based on categories like insurance, treatments, location and brands of eyeglasses and contacts in stock. Schoenbart took an interest in the optometric industry from an early age under the influence of his father, an optometrist.

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Daily Debriefing

By Iris Liu | October 4, 2012

A recent Gallup survey shows that the majority of college admissions directors are content with the current average amount of undergraduate loans despite widespread concern regarding college students' rising debts, according to Inside Higher Ed.

Women's rights activist Zainab Salbi criticized the United States for the Iraq War's detrimental effects on Iraqi women in a Thursday lecture.
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Salbi discusses Iraqi women's rights

By Ester Cross | October 4, 2012

Yomalis Rosario / The Dartmouth Staff Zainab Salbi, the founder of the nonprofit humanitarian organization Women for Women International and author of "The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival and Hope," criticized the United States for contributing to Iraqi women's diminishing social position in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq in a lecture in Filene Auditorium on Thursday. The conflict in Iraq changed the culture of the nation by empowering the country's more religious and radical elements, Salbi said.

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Professor creates phone app for safer driving habits

By Hannah Wang | October 4, 2012

Emerging from a senior thesis project by Thomas Bao '12, CarSafe, an Android application that promotes driver safety, has since grown into a collaborative international project that represents the first application to use a smartphone's dual camera data to analyze a person's driving habits, according to computer science professor Andrew Campbell, faculty advisor to the department's Smartphone Sensing Group. The application analyzes drivers' physical motions, such as head turning and blinking rates, as well as the safety of their driving, monitoring their following distance and lane changing, Campbell said. "The goal of this project is to detect dangerous driving conditions using dual camera phones," Bing You, a visiting researcher from Taiwan's Academia Sinica, said.

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College switches insurance plans

By Amelia Rosch | October 4, 2012

On Jan. 1, the College will formally switch its employee health insurance provider from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to CIGNA after the College Benefits Council voted unanimously to make the change earlier this year.

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Administration developing student health program

By Lindsay Ellis | October 4, 2012

A comprehensive wellness program that aims to leverage existing campus resources for students will likely be in place by the end of this academic year, Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson said. The College is currently seeking to hire a wellness director by Winter term to lead the program, which is tentatively called Wellness First and will encompass physical and psychological wellness as well as civic engagement, according to Johnson.

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