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Students seek employment at fair

By John Biberman | September 28, 2011

Ying-Qi Wong / The Dartmouth The 2011 Employer Connections Fair attracted a total of 104 public and private organizations to the Hopkins Center for the Arts, where employers set up booths to offer information and advice to students.

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Campus Blotter

By Amelia Acosta | September 28, 2011

Sept. 24, 2:15 a.m. Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity Safety and Security officers responded to a Good Samaritan call and found an intoxicated male identified as member of the Class of 2008.

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Profs. use sabbaticals for continued research

By Amelia Acosta and Rachel Aragon | September 28, 2011

Editor's note: This is the first installation of a two-part series on College professors' sabbaticals. While the D-Plan allows undergraduate students to leave the College to explore new opportunities throughout the year, Dartmouth professors can similarly take time off to conduct research, rejuvenate after long terms of teaching and meet new academic experts outside of the Upper Valley community as part of the College's sabbatical program. For Dartmouth professors who are just "students with gray hair," the sabbatical experience is "tremendously exciting, fulfilling and enriching," according to religion professor Susan Ackerman. "Sometimes professors become professors because they could never get over being students," Ackerman said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Leslie Ye | September 28, 2011

University of New Hampshire president Mark Huddleston announced Monday that UNH would stop selling energy drinks on campus, but then reneged on his statement the same day, Inside Higher Ed reported.

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College endowment increases by $415 mil.

By Matt McNierney | September 28, 2011

Dartmouth's endowment increased by 18.4 percent in the last fiscal year, increasing in value by $415 million to $3.413 billion as of June 30, according to a College press release. The increase in the endowment up from a 10 percent return in fiscal year 2010 is partially due to a "strong equity market rally" at the beginning of the fiscal year, and strong positions in global public equities and venture capital, Pamela Peedin, the College's Chief Investment Officer, said in the press release.

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Daily Debriefing

By Daniel Leder | September 27, 2011

Princeton University plans to rewrite its policy on sexual harassment and sexual assault, Provost Chris Eisgruber announced Monday, according to The Daily Princetonian.

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SA leaders announce new rep. policy

September 27, 2011

In response to criticism that Student Assembly inadequately represented students' interests last year, Student Body President Max Yoeli '12 and Student Body Vice President Amrita Sankar '12 announced plans to improve efficiency and solicit increased student feedback at the term's first General Assembly meeting Wednesday evening.

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Daily Debriefing

By Amelia Acosta | September 26, 2011

Plans for a bake sale on Thursday hosted by the College Republicans at University of California, Berkeley, ignited campus-wide controversy when organizers announced that the event would feature a pay scale determined by the race of the buyer, according to The Daily Californian.

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Young alums join administration

September 26, 2011

Richard Yu / The Dartmouth Now in its third year, the Presidential Fellows Program has hired four recent College graduates to work behind the scenes during the 2011-2012 academic year, assigning them to certain projects that further Dartmouth's mission, according to Nariah Broadus, special assistant to College President Jim Yong Kim. This year, Katie Horner '11, Mayuka Kowaguchi '11 and Kalina Newmark '11 are serving as fellows, and Jennifer Murray '09 is serving as a senior fellow, in the President's Office, the Advancement Office and the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, according to Broadus. Horner and Newmark both work for the President's Office.

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Study finds drug misconceptions

By Emily Baer | September 26, 2011

A "surprisingly" high number of Americans misunderstand the effectiveness of various types of medication and the side effects of drugs approved by the Federal Drug Administration, according to Lisa Schwartz, professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. In a Sept.

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