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Rauners give $1.3 mil. to start scholarship fund
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Clare Coffey
| October 31, 2011
Windy City residents will benefit from the newly-created Rauner Scholarship, which supports graduates of Chicago public high schools who qualify for financial aid at Dartmouth, according to Christen O'Connor, scholarship coordinator for the Financial Aid Office.
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Fulbright scholars thrive despite cuts
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Diana Ming
| October 30, 2011
Amid increasing threats to the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Program budget, seven recent Dartmouth graduates are currently pursuing academic research and cross-cultural exchanges as Fulbright scholars.
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Daily Debriefing
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Marina Shkuratov
| October 30, 2011
Lee Forest, who was hired by Harvard University in September as its first director of bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender student life, declined the position citing personal and professional reasons just days before he was slated to assume the role, The Harvard Crimson reported.
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Symposium examines colonial independence
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Clare Coffey
| October 30, 2011
Independence in Latin America is an ongoing process rather than a single event, according to scholars at the three-day Independence Effect Symposium hosted at the College this past weekend and sponsored by the Spanish and Portuguese department.
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Donation to fund writing courses
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Kelsey Stimson
| October 30, 2011
The College's Institute of Writing and Rhetoric will use recent anonymous donations to fulfill its longstanding goal of requiring all incoming freshmen to enroll in a Writing 5 or Writing 2/3 course in addition to a First-Year Seminar beginning Fall 2012, according to Christiane Donahue, director of the Institute.
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Money stolen in Hanover Town Clerk's office burglary
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The Dartmouth Staff
| October 28, 2011
An "undetermined amount of cash" was stolen from the Hanover Town Clerk's office in a burglary during the late hours of Thursday night or early Friday morning, according to Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone.
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PharmaSecure receives $3.9 million
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Felicia Schwartz
| October 27, 2011
PharmaSecure an international company founded by two Dartmouth alumni in 2007 that prints unique barcodes on consumer drugs to verify their authenticity received additional funding this week, bringing its total awarded amount to $3.9 million over the past two months, co-founder and CEO Nathan Sigworth '07 said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
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McCarthy, former math prof., dies at home at 84
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Daniel Leder
| October 27, 2011
Former Dartmouth math Professor John McCarthy, a pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence who organized the first Dartmouth conference on the subject, died in his home on Monday in Stanford, Calif., at the age of 84, The New York Times reported.
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Daily Debriefing
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Marina Shkuratov
| October 27, 2011
Police officers in Hartford, Vt., and Lebanon, N.H., were called on the evening of Oct. 9 to investigate a disturbance that may have been associated with an instance of fraternity hazing at the College, Hartford Police officer Karl Ebbighausen said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
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New alcohol policies take effect
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Ashley Ulrich
| October 26, 2011
In the first five months since the creation of the Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking an initiative launched in May 2011 as part of the National College Health Improvement Project Dartmouth has begun targeted efforts to reduce alcohol abuse on campus by promoting individual intervention and improving data collection about student drinking, Aurora Matzkin '97, who leads the College's 12-person campus improvement team in coordination with NCHIP, said in an interview with The Dartmouth. As part of the ongoing collaborative, representatives from every participating college meet for a "face-to-face learning session" with alcohol abuse experts before spending six months trying to implement and improve policies at their college, Lisa Johnson, NCHIP managing director, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
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Increased tuition prices part of larger nat'l trend
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Sasha Dudding
| October 26, 2011
As the cost of attending college continues to increase across the nation, Dartmouth was ranked the 13th most expensive college in the nation up from 42nd last year making it one of the most expensive schools in the Ivy League, second only to Columbia University, according to rankings released by Campus Grotto on Oct.
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Daily Debriefing
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Edward Harvey and Michael Riordan
| October 26, 2011
The music department's Foreign Study Program, which had previously been hosted in London and Vienna, will now travel to Beijing starting in Spring 2013, according to music professor Kui Dong.
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Young alum. designs, sells new toy
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Madeline Zeiss
| October 26, 2011
Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Few Dartmouth students find a career that enhances both business and soccer skills, but Molson Hart '09, who founded the company Kikbo Kick Shuttlecocks after graduation, combined his two interests with colorful, hacky sack-like toys that became available for purchase in Hanover on Monday. "If you Kikbo a lot it actually improves your fitness and really brings up your foot-eye coordination," Hart said.
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Legislators to discuss proposed voting laws
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Blaze Joel
| October 26, 2011
During the upcoming session of the New Hampshire Legislature, State Senate and House members will debate two bills proposed by State Rep.
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Greek orgs. evaluate pledge term activities
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Jenny Che
| October 25, 2011
In light of administrators' and faculty members' concerns over pledge term activities, Greek leaders were recently asked to re-examine the value of various new member activities, according to Wes Schaub, director of Greek Letter Organizations and Societies.
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Thompson discusses COS revisions
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Jayant Subrahmanyam
| October 25, 2011
Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Associate Dean of the College for Campus Life April Thompson facilitated a discussion with students regarding the Committee on Standards Sexual Assault Review Committee's recommendations for revisions to the College's sexual assault policies at a Student Assembly meeting Tuesday evening.