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Alysson Satterlund appointed new director of OPAL

By Marina Shkuratov | January 31, 2012

Alysson Satterlund, the current director for student organizations and interim director of the Women's Resource Center and PRIDE Center at California State University, Sacramento, will assume the position of director of the College's Office of Pluralism and Leadership on Feb.

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Daily Debriefing

By Heather Szilagyi | January 30, 2012

College officials and financial aid experts are raising questions about U.S. President Barack Obama's proposals regarding the affordability of college education, first outlined in last Tuesday's State of the Union address, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Lack of proof hinders hazing investigations

By Leslie Ye | January 30, 2012

Hazing allegations are rarely brought against Dartmouth Greek organizations, sports teams and other student groups due to the difficulty of finding witnesses to corroborate such accusations, according to Hanover Chief of Police Nicholas Giaccone.

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Prof. studies rare ‘face blindness'

By Jessie Gerson | January 30, 2012

Experts in psychology have long known that prosopagnosia a condition also known as face blindness is caused by brain damage, but it was unknown until recently that roughly 2 percent of the population is born with the facial recognition disorder, according to psychological and brain sciences professor Brad Duchaine, who devotes his time to studying the condition. People with prosopagnosia often cannot recognize the faces of close friends or even family members and have to rely on other clues, such as voice or gait.

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Trips directorate selected for fall 2012

By Daniel Leder | January 29, 2012

The 2012 Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips directorate, announced in a campus-wide email on Friday, will aim to extend a "sustainable welcome" to the Class of 2016, according to Trips director Emily Mason-Osann '11 Th '12. Farzeen Mahmud '12 will take on the role of assistant director.

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Daily Debriefing

January 29, 2012

A recent survey of college freshmen suggests that student emotional health is at its lowest levels in 25 years, The New York Times reported last week.

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Topic of hazing elicits mixed student views

By Clare Coffey | January 29, 2012

While 97 percent of students surveyed by The Dartmouth acknowledged that they are aware that hazing occurs on campus, only about 55 percent said that the administration should take increased action to discourage hazing.

Four Dartmouth alumni and the student group Students for Africa were recognized for their social justice work on Friday.
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Alumni and student orgs. honored for justice work

By MICHAEL RIORDAN | January 29, 2012

YOMALIS ROSARIO / The Dartmouth Staff Four alumni, whose undertakings have ranged from providing legal aid for overseas refugees to addressing poverty in the Dominican Republic, received this year's Social Justice Awards, given by the College's Social Justice Committee, at a Friday ceremony in Collis Common Ground.

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Prof. talks roots of Monroe Doctrine

By Stephanie McFeeters | January 26, 2012

The Monroe Doctrine, often perceived as a founding policy of American diplomacy, influenced not only international relations but also internal domestic politics throughout the 19th century, complicating America's relationship with the notion of "empire," Oxford University history professor Jay Sexton said to a crowd of students and professors on Thursday in Carson.

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Davidson pushes for greater school reform

By Leslie Ye | January 26, 2012

Emily Brigstocke / The Dartmouth Current educational methods need to be updated in order to remain useful to the students who will be graduating in the next few years, author and humanitarian scholar Cathy Davidson said in a lecture to a crowd of mostly faculty members and strategic planning committee members in Filene Auditorium on Thursday.

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Dartmouth United Way sets fundraising record

By Clare Coffey | January 26, 2012

The Dartmouth United Way Steering Committee has set a new record following its most recent fundraising campaign for Upper Valley-based Granite United Way, according to Diana Lawrence, co-chair of the steering committee.

Volunteers have started constructing the Winter Carnival snow sculpture, which this year will take the form of a cupcake, reflecting the
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Sculpting proceeds despite weather

By Madeline Zeiss | January 26, 2012

Hunter Van Adelsberg / The Dartmouth Staff Though recent temperatures have hovered above freezing, student construction crew members continue to work multiple hours a day to complete the construction of this year's snow sculpture a model of a cupcake before Winter Carnival. The cupcake design complements the carnival theme, "Carnival in Candyland The Sweetest Carnival Ever," according to Eric Ramsey, director of the Collis Center and advisor to the Winter Carnival Council. The plan for the sculpture begins long before the first snowfall, and theme ideas were discussed early in the Fall term, Ramsey said. Although students started building the sculpture this week, Ramsey said they have held "many student meetings and weekly council meetings" in preparation. The crew will work on finishing touches until moments before the opening ceremony starts, according to Ramsey.

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Daily Debriefing

By Kira Witkin | January 26, 2012

Over 70 percent of provosts at colleges and universities nationwide have indicated that they believe the quality of higher education is declining, even if the quality of their own institutions is stationary, according to a survey released by Inside Higher Education.

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Daily Debriefing

By Lindsay Ellis | January 25, 2012

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama proposed ideas and issued warnings to national colleges and universities regarding the affordability of higher education, Inside Higher Education reported on Wednesday.

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Harvard prof. discusses the nature of friendship

By Madison Pauly | January 25, 2012

"The Republic," Plato's major philosophical work, can offer insight into the puzzles of friendship, Harvard University philosophy professor Rusty Jones suggested to attendees of the latest installment of the Sapientia Lecture Series.

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