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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.

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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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$300 House Project targets Haiti

By Isobel Markham | January 25, 2012

DENNIS NG / The Dartmouth Staff DENNIS NG / The Dartmouth Staff Facing a packed lecture hall in the Tuck School of Business, international business professor Vijay Govindarajan, the pioneer of the $300 House Project, welcomed the 40 participants of the four-day design workshop, as well as Dartmouth students and members of the public.

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Cabin and Trail plans for ‘Winter Weekend'

By Erin Landau | January 25, 2012

HUNTER VAN ADELSBERG / The Dartmouth Staff As Winter term enters full swing, Cabin and Trail a Dartmouth Outing Club sub-group that boasts the highest membership rate of any DOC program is gearing up for a variety of outdoor activities, including the annual DOC winter weekend, according to co-leader Charlie Governali '12. "There's more to Cabin and Trail than cabins and trails," member Krystyna Oszkinis '14 said at the group's meeting on Monday night. Aside from hiking and camping trips, Cabin and Trail offers its members a variety of outlets through which to engage with the outdoors, including "hiking trips, eating trips, basically any sort of trip," co-leader Billy Zou '12 said. At their most recent weekly meeting, members presented various events that they would be leading throughout the week.

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Student group prioritizes eloquence

By Kira Witkin | January 25, 2012

Madison Rezaei '12 was met with three rounds of applause by the end of her four-minute speech at the Wednesday night VoxMasters meeting.

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Doctors want focus on social justice

By Clare Coffey | January 24, 2012

PATTON LOWENSTEIN / The Dartmouth Staff Influenced by the contrast between dissecting cadavers at an elite medical school and keeping armed vigil over a fire-bombed church in Mississippi during his summer as a civil rights worker, Fitzhugh Mullan a professor of medicine and health policy at George Washington University began to explore the link between medicine and social justice.

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Student accuses frat of hazing violations

By Laura Bryn Sisson | January 24, 2012

Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth Staff Administrators failed to adequately respond to November 2010 allegations of "dehumanizing" hazing at a campus fraternity, Andrew Lohse '12, the student who made the allegations, said in a statement to The Dartmouth.

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Kramer discusses LGBT activism

By Daniel Bornstein and Tom Owen | January 24, 2012

Award-winning author and playwright Larry Kramer has made a name for himself with his confrontational style in advocating for the public to address the American HIV/AIDS crisis, directing his anger at both the gay community and political leaders.

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Daily Debriefing

By Erin Landau | January 24, 2012

In a recent study regarding the relationship between racial discrimination and risky sexual behavior, psychological and brain sciences professor Megan Roberts found that racism adversely affects African-American adolescent sexual behavior, according to The Good Therapy Blog, a blog focused on therapy and clinical psychology.

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Students seek to reapply King legacy

By ABBIE KOUZMANOFF | January 24, 2012

Katie Tai / The Dartmouth Strong connections can be made between the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s and today's Occupy movement, according to a panel in Collis Common Ground on Tuesday night.

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Five fraternities extend bids during winter rush

By Jen Dalecki | January 24, 2012

Five campus fraternities extended bids during winter recruitment, which ended Monday night, according to Hunter Dray '12, Inter-Fraternity Council rush chair. Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity saw one man sink a bid; Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, five; Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, seven; and Sigma Nu fraternity, two, according to Dray.

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Reporters recall early War on Terror

By Sasha Dudding | January 23, 2012

Although the United States knew very little on 9/11 about Al Qaeda many top-level government members asked "Al who?" when told about the attacks its counterterrorist strategy has since evolved to include the entire government, veteran New York Times reporters Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker said in a lecture in the Haldeman Center on Monday evening.

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Lunar New Year festivities begin

By Claire Groden | January 23, 2012

Richard Yu / The Dartmouth Staff Monday marked the first day of the New Year for nearly one-fifth of the world's population, as well as for many Dartmouth students.

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College seeks broader sustainability efforts

By Kristin Yu | January 23, 2012

The Office of Sustainability, previously known as the Sustainability Initiative, is currently involved in a number of projects that range from the overarching sustainability strategic planning process to smaller scale projects around campus, according to sustainability director Rosi Kerr '98.

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Keeshan, noted ad exec. and loyal alumnus, dies

January 23, 2012

Advertising tycoon Michael Derek Keeshan '73 Tu '75, who devoted over 35 years to the advertising and marketing industry and became one of the youngest presidents and chief operating officers of Saatchi & Saatchi New York, died of a sudden heart attack on Jan.

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Daily Debriefing

By Isobel Markham | January 23, 2012

Occupy Stanford members joined more than 1,500 protestors in Occupy Wall Street West's Friday march on the San Francisco financial district, according to The Stanford Daily.

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