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Thayer app. numbers increase by 35 percent

By Isobel Markham | February 15, 2012

While application rates for incoming classes at Dartmouth Medical School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have been consistent with those of previous years, the Thayer School of Engineering has seen a notable increase in its application pool, which grew by approximately 35 percent for the class entering in Fall 2012. At Thayer, PhD and master's programs received a combined 391 applications, up from 290 in 2011, according to Director of Public Information Catharine Lamm.

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Panel addresses student disabilities

By MICHAEL RIORDAN | February 15, 2012

Richard Yu / The Dartmouth Staff Six students personally affected by disabilities told their stories and encouraged greater campus-wide conversation about the stigmas associated with health-related issues in a panel discussion titled "Managing Disabilities and Health Issues at Dartmouth," held in Collis Common Ground on Wednesday. Panelists stressed the importance of seeking assistance from the College's various health resources.

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Daily Debriefing

By Leslie Ye | February 14, 2012

The availability of federal aid to for-profit colleges may be increasing those institutions' tuition costs, Inside Higher Ed reported.

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Crimp analyzes Andy Warhol films

By Stephanie McFeeters | February 14, 2012

Hunter Van Adelsberg / The Dartmouth Staff Andy Warhol's films, which enjoy a limited following due to their technical complexity, provide insight into the foundations of New York LGBT culture in the 1960s before gay and lesbian identities had become fully established in society, University of Rochester art history professor Douglas Crimp said in a lecture in Carpenter Hall Tuesday afternoon. Warhol's films represent "a relationship between a new form of cinema and a particular type of queerness," Crimp said. Crimp began his study of Warhol's films after witnessing a conservative movement in gay politics through his work fighting HIV/AIDS.

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Kopalle studies future of advertising in media

By Sasha Dudding | February 14, 2012

As newspapers and magazines grapple with shrinking readership and revenues, Tuck School of Business marketing professor Praveen Kopalle has found that print media outlets struggling to survive in the new world of online media have overlooked a crucial element of their product: advertisements.

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Lacy research indicates surprising voter trends

February 14, 2012

In an ironic twist at a time when Congressional Republicans are insisting on federal spending cuts, those states receiving the most federal dollars relative to their tax revenues are more likely to vote Republican in presidential elections, according to research conducted by government professor Dean Lacy.

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‘Sex Week' attracts controversy

By Tom Owen | February 14, 2012

Yale University's "Sex Week," an event held every other year in the week leading up to Valentine's Day and dedicated to sexual education and exploration, has inspired similar events at Brown University and Harvard University, but Dartmouth's sexual health peer advisors have no plans to bring comparable programming to the College, according to Sexpert Kate Taylor '13. Taylor said the Sexperts have mostly avoided heavy criticisms that Yale's Sex Week directors weathered this year from a group called Undergraduates for a Better Yale College, which opposes Sex Week's emphasis on the "unbridled pursuit of pleasure," according to UBYC co-founder Eduardo Andino.

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DHMC campuses offer decision-making tools

By Lindsay Ellis | February 13, 2012

Correction Appended Both Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the new Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua campus have sought to expand their centers for collaborative decision-making to help patients make difficult medical choices, according to Susan Berg, interim program director for the Center for Shared Decision Making at DHMC. "Sometimes there are two or more ways to go with how to treat things," DHMC-Nashua Medical Director Sanders Burstein said.

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Vandewalle talks Arab future

By Heather Szilagyi | February 13, 2012

While the Middle East will remain volatile for some time and reform movements are "far from done," there is reason to be optimistic about the region's future, government professor Dirk Vandewalle said in a lecture titled "The Middle East a Year Later: Business as Usual?" on Monday in Raether Hall at the Tuck School of Business. Vandewalle's lecture focused on the progress made by North African and Middle Eastern countries since the beginning of last year's popular uprisings.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Brigstocke | February 13, 2012

The recent job crisis in the United States has put pressure on history PhD programs nation-wide to track graduate students' progress more closely, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

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Baskin stresses need for Israeli peace

By ABBIE KOUZMANOFF | February 13, 2012

Richard Yu / The Dartmouth Staff Israeli-Palestinian peace can only be achieved through a joint partition agreement, Gershon Baskin, co-chairman of the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information, said in a lecture titled "Is Israeli-Palestinian Peace Still Possible?" in the Rockefeller Center on Monday. The tragedy of the conflict is that a territorial partition would easily resolve the disagreement if the Israelis and Palestinians genuinely believed that the other side also wanted peace, he said. "Today in Israel, we cannot organize a demonstration of more than a few thousand people for peace with the Palestinians, but we have 300,000 Israelis protesting the price of cottage cheese," Baskin said.

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Man arrested in student murder

By Felicia Schwartz | February 12, 2012

Courtesy of Katie Schade Spanish police arrested a man in Barcelona on Wednesday for the alleged murder of Crispin Scott '13, who was found dead in a Barcelona apartment on Jan.

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Campus Blotter

By Erin Landau | February 12, 2012

**Feb. 10, 8:41 p.m. Thompson Arena**### Safety and Security observed disorderly conduct by a student who was acting in an inappropriate manner at the men's hockey game.

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Interdisciplinary COCO courses lose enrollment

By MICHAEL RIORDAN | February 12, 2012

As course selection for Spring term comes to a close this week, College Courses introduced in the 1968-1969 school year to foster interdisciplinary studies across departments are projected to reach record-low enrollment numbers, according to College registrar Meredith Braz.

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Approx. 65 percent of applicants request aid

By Amanda Young | February 12, 2012

In keeping with trends from previous admissions cycles, approximately 65 percent of the 23,052 applicants for the Class of 2016 have indicated interest in financial aid, according to Director of Admissions Recruitment Dan Parish. The percentage of applicants who apply for financial aid varies each year but usually falls in the mid- to high-60s according to Director of Financial Aid Virginia Hazen. To date, the Office of Financial Aid has only reviewed applications of students who have been accepted through the early decision pool, given that regular decision candidates have not yet received admissions decisions, Hazen said.

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Race poses challenges to admissions

February 12, 2012

Following an August 2011 complaint filed against Harvard University and Princeton University by an Asian-American student, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights is investigating the allegation that the student who is of Indian descent was denied admission to the two universities due to his Asian heritage.

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