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Blitz lockout leads to new procedure
May 16, 2012
The six-hour lockout from Microsoft Office 365 on May 1 affected users across many campus departments and led to the development of new problem escalation procedures at Microsoft, according to a report from Dartmouth Computing Services.
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Daily Debriefing
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Michael Riordan and Sam Rauschenfels
| May 15, 2012
The College experienced a campus-wide power outage Tuesday night, beginning around 7:20 and lasting for approximately one hour.
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College hires Digital Pulp to redesign current website
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Clifton Lyons
| May 15, 2012
After serving as the online face of the College since 2006, the current Dartmouth website is being redesigned by award-winning website design company Digital Pulp. The website design team held a forum yesterday for the Dartmouth community to discuss plans for the ninth iteration of Dartmouth's website.
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Benedict talks female war experience
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Amanda Young
| May 15, 2012
Helen Benedict, the author of a novel, nonfiction book and play about women serving in the war in Iraq, met with students, faculty, staff and the greater community through luncheons and dinners on Monday and Tuesday as the Center for Women and Gender's annual visionary-in-residence.
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College files annual tax forms for fiscal year 2011
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Diana Ming
| May 15, 2012
The College's fiscal year 2011 revenue totaled $959,207,208, an increase of about $95 million since the last fiscal year, according to the College's May 15 federal tax filing, the first filing reporting a full year of College President Jim Yong Kim's tenure.
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Gillette '91 selected for White House position
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Blaze Joel
| May 14, 2012
U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Jodi Gillette '91 as his senior policy advisor for Native American affairs on April 27.
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‘Jim Gusanoz' remembered as outgoing and generous
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Leslie Ye
| May 14, 2012
Jim Dupuis was more than just a delivery man. Described by students and his former employer as a staple of the Dartmouth community, the news of his death in Montreal last Saturday elicited dozens of shocked and saddened messages on his Facebook wall and the sense that Hanover had lost a pillar of the community. Known to many students as "Jim Gusanoz," Dupuis spent four years at the restaurant with whose name he would become synonymous.
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Daily Debriefing
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James Peng
| May 14, 2012
New Hampshire Attorney General Mike Delaney and Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell met on Monday at the Ledyard Bridge to reaffirm the legality of the Connecticut River as the dividing line between the two states, according to Vermont Public Radio.
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Shafy discusses science and politics
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Taylor Malmsheimer
| May 14, 2012
Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Science is inseparable from social and political issues and becomes more interesting when examined from a political perspective, journalist Samiha Shafy said in a Monday lecture.
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Wybourne picked for interim provost post
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Jenny Che
| May 14, 2012
Vice Provost for Research and physics professor Martin Wybourne will assume the role of interim provost on July 1, Provost Carol Folt announced Monday in a campus-wide email.
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Ferriero talks role of National Archives
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Sasha Dudding
| May 14, 2012
Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Discussing both the Declaration of Independence and Michael Jackson's patent for anti-gravity shoes, Archivist of the United States and "collector-in-chief" David Ferriero spoke on Monday afternoon about the array of challenges he faces helping to digitize and declassify the 12 billion papers under the National Archive's control.
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Wybourne named interim provost
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The Dartmouth Staff
| May 14, 2012
Martin Wybourne, vice provost for research and a physics professor at the College, will serve as Dartmouth's interim provost beginning on July 1, current Provost Carol Folt announced Monday afternoon in a campus-wide email.
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Professors consider nature of religion
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ABBIE KOUZMANOFF
| May 13, 2012
American and European university professors gathered this weekend to debate the controversial concept of religious violence during a three-day conference hosted at the Rockefeller Center May 11-13.
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Green Team data suggest progress
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Matthew McNierney
| May 13, 2012
In a series of attempts to combat high-risk drinking on campus, the College has initiated a number of programs that facilitate the collection of data on student alcohol consumption.
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Pow-Wow celebrates Native cultures
By
Kelsey Anspach
| May 13, 2012
Tracy Wang / The Dartmouth Sounds of drums reverberated across the Green this weekend, attracting students, faculty members and Hanover residents to the 40th Annual Dartmouth College Pow-Wow.
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Kim notifies campus of harassment incidents
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Stephanie McFeeters
| May 13, 2012
Safety and Security, the Dean of the College Office and the Office of Pluralism and Leadership are currently investigating two incidents of harassment reported last week in accordance with the College's Bias Incident Protocol, according to OPAL Director Alysson Satterlund.
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Symposium addresses marijuana legalization
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Madison Pauly
| May 13, 2012
Policymakers, doctors and professors from across New England debated the merits and pitfalls of legalizing medical marijuana at the eighth annual Dartmouth Symposium on Substance Abuse, held on Friday in Collis Common Ground.
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Daily Debriefing
By
James Peng and Sasha Dudding
| May 13, 2012
Former Dean of the College Sylvia Spears was named vice president for diversity and inclusion at Emerson College on Friday, according to Emerson radio station WERS.