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Sororities extend over 70 bids in winter rush
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Tom Owen
| January 18, 2012
Approximately 73 percent of the 102 women who registered for sorority rush received bids at the conclusion of winter recruitment on Wednesday, according to Panhellenic Council Rush Chair Lauren Pace '12. About 27 percent of winter rush participants, or 28 women, dropped out of the recruitment process, a statistic that Pace described as "consistent" with the percentage of women who dropped out in the fall. Every woman who was invited to the last night of rush, or "pref night," received a bid, Pace said.
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Daily Debriefing
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ABBIE KOUZMANOFF
| January 18, 2012
On Wednesday, MTV launched a new Facebook application that enables prospective college students to search for information about scholarships and financial aid through their online profiles, The New York Times reported.
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Piracy acts could impact students
January 18, 2012
The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act two pieces of legislation aimed at curbing internet piracy would likely affect Dartmouth students who pirate media or frequent smaller websites that link to external content, according to professors and students interview by The Dartmouth. The House and Senate bills, introduced in October and May of 2011, would allow the U.S.
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Speakers to highlight changes in higher ed.
January 18, 2012
Following last Summer term's well-attended, though sometimes controversial, "Leading Voices in Politics and Policy" lecture series, the College announced the continuation of its "Leading Voices in Higher Education" series, which began in the fall and will focus on scholarship, globalization and ways to improve the student learning experience, according to Denise Anthony, a sociology professor and the chair of the committee.
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Hanover shops close amid economic woes
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Erin Landau
| January 16, 2012
MEGHAN COONEY / The Dartmouth Staff Only the latest casualty in a string of recent business closures in Hanover, Hanover Outdoors will be shutting down in the near future, according to owner Tom Ciardelli.
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Prof. analyzes ancient Greek religion
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Stephanie McFeeters
| January 16, 2012
Religion and cult worship played a central role in civic and political life in the ancient Greek city-state of Kolophon, Brown University classics professor Ryan Boehm said in a lecture Wednesday afternoon in Reed Hall. Kolophon was a city in present-day Turkey located near the ancient city of Ephesus that flourished during the late fourth century B.C.
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Madden discusses new gender health services
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Emily Baer
| January 16, 2012
Jennifer Madden, a family practitioner interested in medical care and hormone therapy for transgender individuals, discussed the history of transgender health care and research and current practices for primary practitioners providing care for transgendered patients in a lecture to Dartmouth Medical School students and other members of the Dartmouth community in Chilcott Auditorium, on Tuesday. The lecture is the second installment in a series of events celebrating the work of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Daily Debriefing
January 16, 2012
Wikipedia will go offline on Wednesday to protest two congressional bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act, referred to as SOPA, and the Protect IP Act, known as PIPA, The New York Times reported.
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Brison discusses free speech limits
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Sasha Dudding
| January 16, 2012
HUNTER VAN ADELSBERG / The Dartmouth Staff Americans often think of free speech as the most important right granted in the Constitution, but it is no more fundamental than any other right, and, thus Americans do not appropriately address the consequences of hate speech, philosophy professor Susan Brison said in a lecture at the Haldeman Center on Tuesday. "Free speech is not a special right," Brison said.
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Students share cultural experiences
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Michael Riordan and Madison Pauly
| January 15, 2012
Thirty-six students shared their cross-cultural experiences with a crowd of about 300 at the third annual Student Forum on Global Learning held in Kemeny Hall and the Haldeman Center on Monday afternoon.
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Students participate in resume drop
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Kira Witkin
| January 15, 2012
Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Last week, a record-high 625 students participated in winter resume drop, submitting their resumes to Career Services in hopes of being selected for one of 103 entry-level jobs and internships available through the recruiting website DartBoard, according to acting co-director of Career Services Monica Wilson, who manages the recruiting program. The number of students who applied is about the same as last year's 615 winter applicants, according to Wilson.
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Nashua welcomes new unified DHMC campus
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Lindsay Ellis
| January 15, 2012
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center opened its new Nashua facility for its first day of full operations on Monday, according to Sanders Burstein, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua's medical director.
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Daily Debriefing
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Tom Owen
| January 15, 2012
Reader to Reader, a nonprofit organization devoted to increasing literacy in under-served communities such as Native American reservations, announced a new partnership with Dartmouth in a blog post on Friday.
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Friends recall Scott's humor, zeal
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Madeline Zeiss
| January 12, 2012
Courtesy of Dartmouthrugby.com Courtesy of Dartmouthrugby.com Crispin Scott, a member of the Class of 2013 who died in Barcelona last weekend while studying abroad, was known among friends for his intelligence, sense of humor and generous spirit.
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Powell hails benefits of sweatshops
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Jayant Subrahmanyam
| January 12, 2012
Many living in the developed world perceive sweatshops as factories that contain inhumane working conditions and desperate laborers toiling away for unlivable wages, according to Suffolk University economics professor Benjamin Powell.
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Hathaway wants better intl. law policies
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Stephanie McFeeters
| January 12, 2012
Richard Yu / The Dartmouth Staff The way the United States government creates international law is flawed and concerns not only international law scholars but also impacts ordinary Americans on a daily basis, Yale Law School professor Oona Hathaway said in a Wednesday lecture at the Rockefeller Center titled "Our Foreign Affairs Constitution: The President, Congress, and the Making of International Law." In today's world, international and domestic law are converging to the point that almost no aspect of domestic law is unaffected by international law, according to Hathaway. "Every state designs its own structure of international law," she said. The American process of international lawmaking differs in many ways from that of other countries and includes "inconsistencies and oddities" that need to be addressed, she said, adding that the U.S.