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Huntsman visits Jesse's in Hanover

By Madeline Zeiss | May 24, 2011

As a long line of Dartmouth students and Upper Valley residents snaked outside of Jesse's Steaks, Seafood and Tavern on May 19, visitors were expecting much more than food, according to Jennifer Packard, director of corporate relations for the Blue Sky Restaurant Group, which owns Jesse's.

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Daily Debriefing

In the last Student Assembly meeting of the term attended by six students, three of whom were elected officers Student Body President Max Yoeli '12 outlined the issues he will discuss with College President Jim Yong Kim and Chief of Staff David Spalding in his first meeting with Kim on Friday.

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Speaker traces cultural history of Libyan Jews

By Diana Ming | May 24, 2011

Meghan Cooney / The Dartmouth Libyan Jews comprise one of the smallest ethnic Jewish populations in the world today and possess a deeply rooted and unique cultural identity, Harvey Goldberg, an anthropologist from Hebrew University in Israel, said in a lecture in Kemeny Hall on Tuesday.

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Digital game helps tag College photo archives

May 24, 2011

Correction appended Metadata Games, a set of two video games recently co-designed by digital humanities and film and media studies professor Mary Flanagan, will allow users to help staff members at Rauner Special Collections Library tag and archive thousands of photos when the software is released in summer 2011.

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Robots transform war, speaker says

By Taha Adib | May 24, 2011

Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth Staff While showing a video of a robot scaling the side of a cliff with its arthropod-like shell, modern warfare expert Peter Singer warned students, professors and community members that what was once considered science fiction has entered the realm of reality.

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Daily Debriefing

By Madeline Zeiss | May 23, 2011

Lawyers for two university presses and an academic publisher proposed an injunction that would prohibit Georgia State University professors from providing students with unlimited copyrighted material without paying licensing fees to publishers, Inside Higher Ed reported.

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Weekend results in 10 medical emergencies

By Soumya Gupta | May 23, 2011

During Green Key weekend, Safety and Security handled over 60 emergency calls concerning a range of incidents, including theft, property damage, false fire alarms and alcohol and drug use, according to reports submitted by officers to Director of Safety and Security and College Proctor Harry Kinne and obtained by The Dartmouth. The weekend seemed "slightly busier" for Hanover Police officers than previous Green Key weekends, Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone said.

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CWG interviews director candidates

By Sam Rauschenfels | May 23, 2011

Four candidates for the Center for Women and Gender director position recently traveled to the College to present their ideas on "best practices" for a variety of issues important to the Center for Women and Gender, according to an email sent from Mentors Against Violence co-director Leah Scrivener '11 and obtained by The Dartmouth.

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Facebook chooses Farid's photo-recognition tool

By Emily Baer | May 23, 2011

Facebook became the first online service to implement PhotoDNA a photo recognition software developed by computer science professor Hany Farid in 2008 to quickly identify images of child pornography circulated on the web to target illegal photos and their distributors, Facebook announced on May 19.

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Scholars examine Brut Chronicle

By Jenny Che | May 22, 2011

Dennis Ng / The Dartmouth Staff Scholars well-versed in the Brut tradition the process of compiling British history convened on campus this weekend to discuss their work on the Brut Chronicle, a 15th century manuscript detailing British history, in a three-day conference entitled "From Medieval Britain to Dartmouth: Situating the English Brut Tradition." The event explored topics ranging from the development of book-making to the significance of the manuscript's marginal annotations all centered around the narrative of Dartmouth's Brut Chronicle, a 121-leaf manuscript written in Middle English prose. The story traces the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in the 9th century and the Norman conquests of the 11th century, and also includes many well-known tales, such as those of King Lear, King Arthur and Henry V., according to comparative literature professor Michelle Warren, who organized the conference.

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Daily Debriefing

By Sam Rauschenfels | May 22, 2011

A joint study of an "anonymous elite American university" by researchers from Cornell University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem found substantial differences in grading between Democratic and Republican professors, according to Inside Higher Ed.

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College releases budget details

By Diana Ming | May 22, 2011

College officials predict a $2.6 million dollar surplus in the College's budget for the 2012 fiscal year, according to a finance report that will be presented at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting on Monday.

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Yield for Class of 2015 decreases to 52 percent

May 22, 2011

A total of 1,114 students accepted Dartmouth's offer of admission to the Class of 2015, representing 52 percent of the 2,179 students who received admission to the College in March, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris.

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Koop Institute offers health training

May 22, 2011

Although the College's recent establishment of the national Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking has attracted national headlines, Dartmouth's C.

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1,114 students accept offer of admission

May 19, 2011

A total of 1,114 students accepted Dartmouth's admission offer, representing 52 percent of the 2,179 students who received admission to the College in March, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Two students co-author study abroad book

By Pallavi Kuppa-Apte | May 19, 2011

Courtesy of Dan Hochman Over the course of two years, two Dartmouth seniors Dan Hochman '11 and Mike Lewis '11 coauthored a phrasebook entitled "Can We Swim Here (Naked)?: The College Student's Phrasebook for Having Fun Abroad." The pocketsize guidebook, which became available in Barnes and Noble on May 2, consists of a collection of "funny but functional" phrases translated into French, Italian and Spanish editions, Hochman said. "When you're abroad as a college kid it's the most unbelievable time you're completely free and everyone's looking to do ridiculous stuff," Hochman said.

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