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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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Daily Debriefing

By Hannah Wang | February 12, 2012

A 2011 Tuck School of Business graduate received the highest total starting compensation package of students graduating with MBA degrees last year, business blog Poets and Quants reported last week.

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Daily Debriefing

By Sophia DiPaolo | February 9, 2012

Andrew Lohse '12, who recently gained widespreadattention for his allegations of hazing at his former fraternity, pled guilty on Monday to charges of disorderly conduct stemming from an October 2011 incident on the Green.

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Tabard seeks better campus outreach

By ABBIE KOUZMANOFF | February 9, 2012

The Tabard coed fraternity, the only coed house with a physical plant on Webster Avenue, has began recently trying to spread its message of inclusiveness and freedom of expression to revamp its reputation, according to Tabard president Chris Valleau '12.

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Admissions recruiters find variable success

By Stephanie McFeeters | February 9, 2012

The admissions office visits 500 to 600 schools and hosts 65 to 80 information sessions both joint sessions and Dartmouth-specific sessions over the course of a typical year, according to Director of Admissions Recruitment Daniel Parish '89.

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Greek orgs. see growth at Ivies

By Madeline Zeiss | February 9, 2012

Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Interest and participation in Greek life has recently increased at Dartmouth and several other Ivy League institutions, reflecting national increases in the number of affiliated college students.

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Lack of snow results in event cancellations

February 8, 2012

Due to a lack of snow and dangerous, icy conditions, the snow sculpture contest, Carni Classic and human dog sled race have been canceled for this weekend's Winter Carnival, according to Winter Carnival Council co-chair Mandy Bowers '14. The Polar Bear Swim will still take place barring warm temperatures at night, which are unlikely based on current temperature forecasts. Occom Pond is evaluated on a daily basis and a final decision regarding the Polar Bear Swim will be announced Friday morning, Eric Ramsey, director of the Collis Center and advisor to the Winter Carnival Council, said in an email to The Dartmouth. The decision to cancel three Winter Carnival events was made on Wednesday afternoon following a meeting with members from leadership groups including Programming Board, the Collis Center, the Office of Alumni Relations, the Office of Residential Life, Safety and Security and the Office of Facilities, Operations and Management, according to Bowers. "We held out in making final decisions on hosting these events until the last possible moment," Ramsey said. The lack of snow on the golf course made the cancellation of the Carni Classic, a three-kilometer ski race open to all members of the Dartmouth community, a "no-brainer," Bowers said.

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Thayer team redesigns solar tech.

By Kira Witkin | February 8, 2012

Researchers at the Thayer School of Engineering are pursuing a full patent for solar energy technology that makes future dependence on renewable resources more realistic, according to engineering professor Jifeng Liu, who led the research team. The group which included Liu, Haofeng Li Th '15 and Thayer research scientist Xiaoxin Wang has developed a process to create less expensive solar cells that are up to twice as efficient as the current technology, according to Liu. Because current methods can harness only a "very small portion" of solar energy, amounting to less than 10 percent, the team's findings could be "groundbreaking" in the field of renewable energy studies, Li said. "The sun gives so much energy," he said.

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