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Kosovo president addresses students

By Erin Landau | March 6, 2012

Atifete Jahjaga, the president of the Republic of Kosovo, discussed her country's struggle for independence with an excited crowd of students, faculty and community members gathered in the Hopkins Center's Moore Theater yesterday.

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EPAC amends election eligibility requirement

By Felicia Schwartz | March 6, 2012

Richard Yu / The Dartmouth Staff The Elections Planning and Advisory Committee finalized the process of changing eligibility requirements for Student Assembly president and vice president to permit students "who have faced a suspension-level charge and been found in violation" to run for student body president and vice president on Monday, according to an EPAC press release.

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College pilots new UGA policy

By Kira Witkin | March 6, 2012

Katie Tai / The Dartmouth Undergraduate advisors will be required to patrol the floors of Russell Sage Hall next term to "interrupt" and submit formal reports of "pregaming" drinking in residence halls prior to attending outside social events to the Dartmouth College Health Improvement Project and the Office of Residential Life, according to Director of Residential Education Michael Wooten. This procedure changes current UGA roles by requiring advisors to actively seek out rule-breaking and report it.

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College donations see slight drop

By Lindsay Ellis and Hannah Wang | March 6, 2012

Charitable contributions to the College fell from $152,419,767 in fiscal year 2010 to $146,756,731 in fiscal year 2011, according to a survey done by the Council for Aid to Education's, which collects information about funding to private educational institutions.

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UFC reallocates $10,000 to Programming Board

By Amanda Young | March 6, 2012

Hunter Van Adelsberg / The Dartmouth Staff Programming Board approached the Undergraduate Financial Committee with a request that funds allocated to other groups be redirected to Programming Board, UFC Chairman Rohail Premjee '14 said in an email to The Dartmouth.

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Athletes enjoy full range of Dartmouth experience

By Blaze Joel | March 6, 2012

Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a three-part series about Dartmouth's athletic programs. Nearly three-quarters of the Dartmouth student body is involved in athletics, which has varying influences on social and academic components of the Dartmouth experience.

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Yasumura resigns advising post

By ABBIE KOUZMANOFF | March 5, 2012

Nora Yasumura, assistant dean and advisor to Asian and Asian-American students in the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, announced her resignation on Saturday in an email to the Diversity Peer Program.

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Teams seek greater national prestige

March 5, 2012

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff *Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part series about Dartmouth's athletic programs.**## In a competitive college athletics environment, Dartmouth's sports teams, which have historically used previous success to attract recruits, have begun to adopt a more realistic and financially-reliant model over the last decade, using outside donations to improve the athletic program.

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Satterlund hopes to fix OPAL staff shortages

By Stephanie McFeeters | March 5, 2012

Aki Onda / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Addressing the professional vacancies in the College's Office of Pluralism and Leadership including the advisor to black students and the advisor to Asian and Asian-American students is one of OPAL's most immediate tasks, according to OPAL Director Alysson Satterlund, who assumed the position on Feb.

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Daily Debriefing

By Sasha Dudding | March 5, 2012

California State University has unveiled a new program for online learning, called Cal State Online, according to Inside Higher Ed.

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Crews continue work on Burke renovations

By Katie Tai | March 5, 2012

Christina Chen / The Dartmouth With costs totaling $8.5 million, construction at Burke Laboratory, which houses the chemistry department, is the biggest current project for the College's various sustainability organizations, according to Ken Packard, co-chair of the Dartmouth College Energy Task Force and assistant director of engineering and utilities.

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Trustees raise no-loan threshold

By Sam Rauschenfels | March 4, 2012

The cost of attendance for the upcoming academic year and the budget for fiscal year 2013 were the primary topics of discussion at the Board of Trustees' termly meeting on Friday and Saturday.

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College charges SAE for hazing violations

By Ashley Ulrich | March 4, 2012

Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended### The College has charged Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity with allegedly violating hazing regulations, but charges have not yet been finalized, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College.

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Graduate students win consulting competition

By Kristin Yu | March 4, 2012

Graduate students from the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth Medical School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as well as a number of undergraduate students, presented their recommendations to improve the five-year growth of Kiva, a non-profit organization that links lenders and innovators via the Internet, as part of the Oliver Wyman Case Competition on Friday. The competition organized by the Thayer Consulting Club, the Dartmouth Society of Investment and Economics and the Graduate Consulting Club marks the second case competition hosted by the College, according to Thayer Consulting Club member Rezwan Khan Th '13, who was involved in the event's organization. The competition was comprised of three rounds, with 29 teams and a total of 107 students entered in the initial mini-case round.

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Athletic recruiting reflects Ivy norms

By Noah Reichblum and Blaze Joel | March 4, 2012

Editor's Note: This is the first installment in a three-part series about Dartmouth's athletic programs. For Dartmouth, the intermixing of athletics and academics to produce a well-rounded education can be traced back to the Ivy League's founding.

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Daily Debriefing

By Lindsay Ellis | March 4, 2012

Christine Hull Paxson, a Princeton economist and dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, was named Brown University's 19th president on Friday, the Associated Press reported.

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Board votes to raise no-loan financial aid threshold

By The Dartmouth Staff | March 3, 2012

The Board of Trustees voted at its termly meeting on Friday and Saturday to eliminate loans from the financial aid packages of students with family incomes of $100,000 per year or less, an increase from the $75,000 cutoff that has been in place since the 2011-2012 academic year. This policy will take effect for eligible current and incoming students at the beginning of the 2012-2013 academic year, according to a press release from the Office of Public Affairs. "[The $100,000 threshold] is double the median income of the United States, and we feel very good about that," College President Jim Yong Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Kim noted that the average indebtedness of Dartmouth students coming out of college is about half the average indebtedness of college students in the state of New Hampshire. The College decided in February 2010 to resume issuing student loans for students whose families earn at least $75,000 per year.

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Researchers to focus on mentally ill

By Madison Pauly | March 1, 2012

Adults living with serious mental illnesses can improve their physical fitness, increase their lifespan and even alleviate their psychiatric symptoms by participating in a program known as In SHAPE, according to Stephen Bartels, director of the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging.

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Apologia gains nationwide presence

By Hannah Wang | March 1, 2012

Katie Tai / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth Apologia, the College's journal for Christian thought founded five years ago, hosted a lecture on Tuesday afternoon regarding medical decision-making and the personal aspects of health care titled "Looking for Certainty in All the Wrong Places: Faith and Reason in Medical Decision Making." At the event, Director of the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Service Al Mulley '70 recounted his experiences with reason and religion in the medical world. The Apologia aims to examine the intersection of faith and reason in order to demonstrate that religion and faith are "100 percent compatible with the modern academy," current editor-in-chief Brendan Woods '13 said. The journal was founded by Andrew Schuman '10 and has since become a wide-reaching organization with a biannual journal, weekly blog and influence on college campuses nationwide. "When I came to campus as a freshman, I saw pretty quickly that there was a real interest to have a space on campus where vibrant intellectual life could grow together with faith," Schuman said. Schuman worked with several friends to start the publication, releasing the first edition in spring 2007. Within a few years, The Apologia became an established campus presence and eventually spread to other institutions. "When he founded Apologia, Andrew really started a movement across college campuses, in the Ivy League and across the country," Woods said.

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Movies influence teen drinking, research finds

By Sophia DiPaolo | March 1, 2012

Teenagers who watch movies with scenes depicting alcohol consumption are twice as likely to begin drinking as those who are not exposed to on-screen drinking, according to a study conducted by researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

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