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Student Assembly will try to improve outreach, social spaces
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Kira Witkin
| September 17, 2012
Correction appended This term, Student Assembly leaders plan to focus on improving the Assembly's reputation by increasing communication and offering valuable programs in response to criticisms of its perceived inactivity on campus.
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Daily Debriefing
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Emily Brigstocke
| September 17, 2012
A College Board-financed study reaffirmed the SAT as an accurate predictor of academic success by looking at the correlation between students' SAT scores and their grade point averages in high school and freshman year of college, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Panhell implements new recruiting rules
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Michael Riordan and Noah Reichblum
| September 17, 2012
Tracy Wang / The Dartmouth Staff The formal fall sorority recruitment process, for which over 400 students have already registered, will see the implementation of new changes this year.
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College growth affects atmosphere, professors say
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Ashley Ulrich
| September 16, 2012
Despite its tradition of maintaining a compact campus centralized around the Green, Dartmouth has recently undertaken a number of projects including the 1978 Life Sciences Center and Black Family Visual Arts Center meant to expand classroom and research resources for students that have created hubs of student activity in farther reaches of campus. While such resources have helped Dartmouth maintain its world-class academic caliber, they may also contribute to a growing student body and the erosion of the small college atmosphere, according to former music professor Jon Appleton, who began teaching at the College in 1967 and left in 2009. "Over the last 20 years, Dartmouth has gone from a small college to a university," Appleton said.
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Black Family Visual Arts Center opening attracts community
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Lindsay Ellis
| September 16, 2012
Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff The Black Family Visual Arts Center opened Friday to speeches by former trustee Leon Black '73, whose family donated $48 million for the center's completion, Interim College President Carol Folt, Chair of the Board of Trustees Stephen Mandel '78 and visual arts faculty. Rows of folding chairs lined the new Maffei Arts Plaza, and the crowd of hundreds of attendees including trustees, donors, faculty, architects, students and community members stretched toward Lebanon Street as Folt dubbed the VAC a "crown jewel" of Dartmouth's visual arts legacy.
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Zantop killer's motion awaits court response
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Clifton Lyons
| September 16, 2012
A recent motion filed with the Grafton Superior Court by public defender Richard Guerriero requesting a hearing on Robert Tulloch's sentence of life imprisonment without parole is still pending, and no hearing has been scheduled at this time.
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Daily Debriefing
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ABBIE KOUZMANOFF
| September 16, 2012
Actor John Cho spent Sunday canvassing on campus with the College organization Dartmouth for Obama and met with students to discuss the importance of the youth vote in the upcoming presidential election.
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Trustees gather for weekend retreat
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Stephanie McFeeters
| September 16, 2012
Members of the Board of Trustees gathered for their first meeting of the academic year Sept. 14-16 to discuss the College's strategic planning process and outline the year ahead, according to Director of Media Relations for the College Justin Anderson. The trustees met with Interim College President Carol Folt and other senior members of the administration this weekend to consider the future of strategic planning a process that has been ongoing for 18 months and that aims to improve the College's educational methods and student life policies, according to Anderson. The trustees did not address the College's presidential search as part of their retreat given that former College President Jim Yong Kim's replacement is being sought by the separate Presidential Search Committee, established in May and led by trustee Bill Helman '80. "The Board is concerned with making sure that Dartmouth is moving in the right direction," Anderson said. The trustees emphasized the importance of expanding the faculty and improving students' educational experience inside and outside the classroom, preparing students to learn continually even after graduation, Anderson said.
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James Nachtwey named inaugural Roth scholar
September 13, 2012
Internationally acclaimed war photographer and humanitarian James Nachtwey '70 was appointed as the first Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar on Sept.
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Daily Debriefing
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Erin Landau
| September 13, 2012
Some of the Harvard University students involved in a cheating scandal last spring took a leave of absence instead of facing a possible one-year suspension, according to The New York Times.
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BASICS alcohol program instated
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Marina Shkuratov
| September 13, 2012
Despite student concerns about the increased requirements for undergraduate advisors to report rule-breaking, the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students that was extended to all first-year Dartmouth students this term has been met with approval by administrators and students. The BASICS program consists of a 20-minute online survey about alcohol and drug use followed by a one-on-one interview with one of six trained BASICS providers.
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Plans move ahead for LGBT affinity house
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Kira Witkin and Lindsay Ellis
| September 13, 2012
An LGBT affinity house is expected to open for student use and residence in 2013 or 2014, according to Pam Misener, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership's advisor to LGBTQA students.
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Visual Arts Center opening rounds out Arts District
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Jennifer Dalecki
| September 13, 2012
Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff More than two years after construction began in spring 2010, the Black Family Visual Arts Center will officially open its doors to the Dartmouth community on Friday.
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Recent graduates live, work in Hanover
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MADELINE ZEISS and KRISTIN YU
| September 12, 2012
Despite the completion of their undergraduate degrees, many members of the Class of 2012 continue to populate the Green, Dartmouth's graduate school campuses and fraternity basements as they explore academic and employment opportunities in Hanover. Marietta Smith '12, who returned to Hanover in the middle of Summer term, will spend a gap year serving as a teaching and research assistant to engineering professor Joseph Rosen and applying to medical schools.
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The College reflects on 40 coed years
September 12, 2012
In the fall of 1972, the College enrolled 200 full-time female students, making Dartmouth one of the last Ivy League schools to become coeducational.
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EKT holds second open rush process
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Manav Raj
| September 12, 2012
Tracy Wang / The Dartmouth After the success of last year's event, Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority will hold another open rush process this year, according to EKT president Carla Galarza '13. In a process similar to men's rush, members of the Class of 2015 have been invited to EKT's physical plant on Sept.
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Daily Debriefing
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MICHAEL RIORDAN
| September 12, 2012
U.S. News and World Report ranked Dartmouth 10th among its 2013 national university rankings, released Wednesday, according to a College press release.
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Great Issues program gains new components
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Heather Szilagyi
| September 12, 2012
The Great Issues Scholars program was created by the Dickey Center for International Understanding in 2009 with the intent of engaging first-year students, and it has since provided an opportunity for participants to pursue their global ambitions both on campus and around the world, according to Dickey Center Student Programs Officer Amy Newcomb. Before the creation of the program, administrators at the Dickey Center realized that most events and programs in international affairs were targeted at upperclassmen, according to Acting Director of the Dickey Center and government professor Christianne Wohlforth.