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Shattuck Observatory serves as student resource since 1854

By Ashley Ulrich | May 16, 2012

Although Shattuck Observatory may no longer be useful for research purposes, it has supplied astronomical and meteorological information to the College and National Weather Service and provided students enrolled in introductory astronomy courses a look at the night sky since it opened during Fall term 1854. Of the five main telescopes located on campus, the observatory is home to the oldest, according to the Dartmouth College Shattuck Observatory Meteorological Records.

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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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College hires Digital Pulp to redesign current website

By 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

By 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

By 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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‘Jim Gusanoz' remembered as outgoing and generous

By 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

By 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.

Swiss science journalist Samiha Shafy discussed the relationship between scientific and political issues in a Monday lecture at the Rockefeller Center.
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Shafy discusses science and politics

By 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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Ferriero talks role of National Archives

By 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

By 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.

The College's 40th annual Pow-Wow featured two days of dancing and drumming, as well as vendors representing a number of tribes.
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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

By 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

By 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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