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College President Jim Yong Kim met with the Japanese finance minister as part of his worldwide tour to garner support from key World Bank countries.
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Kim praised in Japan, South Korea

By Blaze Joel | April 3, 2012

Courtesy of Treasury.gov College President Jim Yong Kim has reached the halfway point of his worldwide listening tour, which will take him around the world in just under two weeks to meet with leaders of eight countries to discuss his candidacy for World Bank president.

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Daily Debriefing

By Jackie Wei | April 3, 2012

The editor-in-chief of The Daily Free Press, Boston University's independent student newspaper, resigned on Tuesday following the release of the paper's April Fools' Day edition, according to the paper's website.

Anya Gleizer '14 hopes to be the youngest person ever to kayak the circumference of Lake Baikal, the world's largest lake by volume.
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Gleizer aims to set kayaking record

By Claire Groden | April 2, 2012

Courtesy of Populartourism.com While the majority of the Class of 2014 will stay on campus next term for sophomore summer, Anya Gleizer '14 will be kayaking around the outer edges of Siberia's Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume.

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Sherman talks effects of war stress

By ABBIE KOUZMANOFF | April 2, 2012

A soldier's "moral injuries" inflicted in the line of duty can cause paralyzing guilt and shame even after he or she returns home, Georgetown University philosophy professor Nancy Sherman said in a lecture in Thornton Hall on Monday.

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Smith, noted Big Green football star, dies at 59

By Emily Brigstocke | April 2, 2012

Ronald Smith '74, a founding brother of the Theta Zeta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Dartmouth and a member of the Big Green football team that won the Ivy League Championship during all four years he played, died on March 22 after fighting multiple sclerosis and cancer for several years, his brother Donald Smith '74 said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Daily Debriefing

By Leslie Ye | April 2, 2012

Although many student senates at universities in North Carolina have condemned a referendum on the state legislature's ballot to ban gay marriage and civil unions, institutions of higher learning treat LGBT rights in a variety of ways, as they follow differing regulations to the types of benefits they are allowed to offer their employees' domestic partners, Inside Higher Ed reported.

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Class of 2016 includes diverse student body

By Lindsay Ellis | April 1, 2012

Kevin Cheng, of Bethesda, Md., didn't have to tell his parents he was accepted regular decision to Dartmouth. "They heard it definitely when I saw online," Cheng, who is deciding between Dartmouth, Williams College, the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University, said. Cheng was one of 1,715 students who were notified of their acceptance to the College's Class of 2016 on Thursday when Dartmouth released its admissions decisions online. The Admissions Office accepted a total of 2,180 high school seniors in both early and regular decisions and aims to fill a class of between 1,100 and 1,110 students, according to a Thursday press release.

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High schoolers come to College for Model UN

By Emily Brigstocke | April 1, 2012

As evidenced by the throngs of well-dressed highschoolers meandering across the Green, Dartmouth Model United Nations hosted its seventh annual conference this weekend, drawing 500 students from 33 high schools across the country for the largest conference in DartMUN's history. DartMUN, which originated as a conference of 140 delegates in April 2006 and has since grown to include almost 400 participants, aims to provide high school students with an opportunity to discuss international issues, meet other students with similar interests and learn public speaking and diplomatic skills. Delegates arrived for the three-day conference on Friday afternoon for the opening ceremonies and their first committee sessions.

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DFC program receives Kramer Prize

By James Peng | April 1, 2012

When Sarah-Marie Hopf '12 discovered she had over $300 in her Declining Balance Account at the end of Spring term in 2010, she decided not to splurge the money by treating herself to overpriced steaks and Odwalla juices.

JuliAna clothing boutique and the Gap's Hanover location will both close this spring, the latest in a long chain of local business closures.
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Two more Hanover shops to close

By Kristin Yu | April 1, 2012

Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Two Hanover stores JuliAna clothing boutique and the Gap's Main Street location will close their doors this spring as the latest casualties in a recent string of local business closures. The Gap located at 20 South Main Street will officially close on April 22, Kimberly Terry, senior manager at Gap Brand Engagement, said in an email to The Dartmouth.

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Daily Debriefing

By Kelsey Anspach | April 1, 2012

Emma Smith '13 has been chosen as a 2012 Harry S. Truman Scholar, which provides juniors who are interested in careers in government and public service with up to $30,000 for future studies as well as career counseling, according a College press release.

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College drops all SAE charges

By Manav Raj | April 1, 2012

The Undergraduate Judicial Affairs Committee dropped all 27 hazing charges against members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on Friday, according to former SAE president Brendan Mahoney '12.

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Wade discusses pitfalls of hook-ups

By Marina Shkuratov | March 29, 2012

The dissatisfaction with "hooking up" and the culture associated with it, not the act itself, is what causes social problems on college campuses, Occidental College sociology professor Lisa Wade said in a lecture to a packed audience on Thursday afternoon in the Rockefeller Center. Although modern media has increased its focus on hook-up culture recently, the practice has existed on campuses for a long time, Wade said. "Your generation did not invent casual sex," she said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Hannah Wang | March 29, 2012

Santa Monica College, a community college in California, has proposed instating a "two-tier" tuition structure that would charge a higher price for more popular classes, according to The New York Times.

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Dartmouth admits 9.4 percent of applicants

By Diana Ming | March 29, 2012

The College offered admission to 2,180 students for the Class of 2016 out of a pool of 23,110 applicants, signifying a record-low acceptance rate of 9.4 percent, according to a College press release.

The College's new Visual Arts Center will be renamed in honor of Debra and Leon Black '73, who donated $48 million to fund its construction.
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Black contributes $48 million to VAC

March 29, 2012

Aki Onda / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Leon Black '73 and his wife Debra Black have donated $48 million for the new visual arts center, set to open in September 2012, the Office of Public Affairs announced in a press release on Thursday. The 105,000 square-foot Black Family Visual Arts Center will house the studio art department, film and media studies department and the recently established digital humanities program. "The Black Family Visual Arts Center will be a powerful force at Dartmouth for years to come," Provost Carol Folt said in the press release.

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