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Tuck hosts Africa Highlight Week
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Sophia DiPaolo
| February 23, 2012
The hesitation among businesses to invest in Africa despite growing potential on the continent received attention in a series discussions held during Tuck School of Business' Africa Highlight Week, which took place Feb.
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Daily Debriefing
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Kristin Yu
| February 22, 2012
The New York Police Department has recently received criticism for monitoring websites associated with Muslim student organizations at 16 universities in the Northeast, including several in New York and at Ivy League colleges, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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Inn's renovation faces unexpected expenses
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Madeline Zeiss
| February 22, 2012
As the Hanover Inn undergoes changes to modernize its facilities, the renovations and construction that prompted the Inn's Dec.
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Deans pursue outreach, efficiency
February 22, 2012
Anna Davies / The Dartmouth Collectively known as "Deans To Go," a slew of new programs aimed at improving accessibility to student support services have experienced anecdotal success in the restructured Undergraduate Deans Office since their inception in the fall, according to Brian Reed, assistant dean of undergraduate students.
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Tuck alliance with West Point benefits students
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Stephanie McFeeters
| February 22, 2012
Over the last seven years, Tuck School of Business and the United States Military Academy at West Point have developed a relationship focused on negotiation and leadership strategies that apply to both military and business education, according to Jeff Weiss '86, a professor at both Tuck and West Point who has facilitated the unofficial partnership.
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Profs. reconsider Hamlet's dilemma
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Emily Brigstocke
| February 22, 2012
That Hamlet's famous dilemma of "to be or not to be" resists translation across languages is a result of linguistic, cultural and social differences, elements discussed by professors from the Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literatures department at Wednesday's colloquium, "To Be or Not To Be, That is the Question: The Problematics of Being' in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew and Japanese." The four languages represented in the lecture are characterized by contradicting conceptions of grammar, time, religion and philosophy that all diverge from those of English.
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Tillinger talk explores masculinity
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Erin Landau
| February 21, 2012
Erin Becks / The Dartmouth As a gay Dartmouth student in the 1980s, Werner Tillinger '86 never felt he belonged. "When I was here, being gay was under the radar and not something people talked about a lot," he said.
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Forum encourages ‘speaking out'
February 21, 2012
Yomalis Rosario / The Dartmouth Staff Ten female Dartmouth students shared anonymous and personal testimonials of their experiences with sexual assault, intimate partner violence, harassment and bullying at the College's annual Speak Out event, held in Collis Common Ground in front of a hushed, packed crowd on Tuesday night.
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Daily Debriefing
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Tom Owen
| February 21, 2012
In a campus-wide email on Tuesday, Director of Safety and Security and College Proctor Harry Kinne announced multiple laptop thefts in recent weeks.
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General Court debates gay marriage overturn
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Manav Raj
| February 21, 2012
Despite a recent uptick in the number of states that have legalized same-sex marriage across the nation, state representatives in the New Hampshire House are currently debating House Bill 437, which would repeal the same-sex marriage law passed in 2009.
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Bill could divert funds from hospital budgets
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Kristin Yu
| February 21, 2012
House Bill 1642-FN, which would exempt for-profit cancer treatment centers in the state of New Hampshire from state regulatory procedures and taxes to which existing hospitals are subject, is currently being debated in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
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Atlas expands scope of research
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Madison Pauly
| February 20, 2012
The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care will begin investigating health system performance for patients under the age of 65 in addition to their previous research on Medicare recipients, according to Dartmouth Medical School professor and co-principal investigator David Goodman. The Atlas, a collaborative project of Dartmouth professors, researchers and administrators, aims to explore the high degree of geographical variation in health system performance to raise awareness and stimulate policy changes that will improve the quality of care while decreasing costs, DMS professor Elliott Fisher, co-principal investigator of the Atlas, said. While the Atlas' past work was largely based on "20 years of groundbreaking analyses using national Medicare data sets," the new research will involve the analysis of health care for populations under 65 years of age, which are not covered in Medicare data sets, according to Goodman.
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Obama campaign will host campus training
February 20, 2012
U.S. President Barack Obama's reelection campaign will host a student summit at Dartmouth on Feb.
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Alumni sign anti-hazing petition
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Tom Owen
| February 20, 2012
In a petition posted online on Saturday, approximately 90 alumni demanded that the College administration increase efforts to curb hazing on campus.
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Daily Debriefing
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ABBIE KOUZMANOFF
| February 20, 2012
Florida's public universities are facing massive potential budget cuts and tuition hikes next year, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
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Kendal residents collect World War II memories
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Emily Brigstocke and Jessie Gerson
| February 20, 2012
Local World War II veterans and Dartmouth alumni recently compiled their memories and experiences in "World War II Remembered," a book of memoirs from 56 residents of the Kendal at Hanover retirement community published in October 2011.
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Frats finish hazing-connected probations
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Kelsey Anspach
| February 19, 2012
Dennis Ng / The Dartmouth Staff With discussions regarding hazing still dominating campus conversation, two fraternities have recently finished College-mandated probationary sentences for hazing violations that occurred during Fall term.
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Study shows prevalence of arsenic
February 19, 2012
In the search for healthier food options, many people choose foods labeled "organic," assuming that such products are both nutritious and free of toxins.