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Press discusses defense spending

October 23, 2011

If the United States were to decrease defense spending in light of rising budget deficits, it would force a more "modest" national security strategy that would then lead to increased spending by the United States' allies, government professor Daryl Press said in a lecture on Saturday.

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Tuck apps rise despite nat'l drop

October 23, 2011

In a year that saw the volume of applications to full-time MBA programs decrease by nearly 10 percent nationwide, the Tuck School of Business bucked the trend, and was instead one of three top-10 MBA programs to experience an increase in the number of applications, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. Over two-thirds of MBA programs nationwide surveyed by the Graduate Management Admission Council reported a decrease in the number of applications they received in the 2011 admissions cycle, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

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Upperclassmen pick smaller meal option

By Madison Pauly | October 23, 2011

Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth Staff Close to two-thirds of upperclass students living on campus downgraded their Fall term meal plans from 14 to five meals per week, a switch that Associate Dean of Campus Life April Thompson said will impact future revisions to the new dining system.

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Students succeed in touching fire

By John Biberman | October 23, 2011

MAGGIE ROWLAND / The Dartmouth Staff Seven students were arrested on the Friday and Saturday of Homecoming weekend, marking fewer arrests than previous years, according to Assistant Director of Safety and Security Keiselim Montas.

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Daily Debriefing

By Lindsay Ellis | October 23, 2011

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center honored four caregivers with the 2011 James W. Varnum Quality Award, according to a Thursday DHMC press release.

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Daily Debriefing

By Jayant Subrahmanyam | October 20, 2011

Brown University President Ruth Simmons upheld the university's current policy which prohibits the Reserve Officers' Training Corps from maintaining an on-campus presence following a report conducted by the university's Committee on ROTC which was made available to the public in September, The Brown Daily Herald reported.

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Businesses bounce back after Irene

By Madison Pauly | October 20, 2011

Restaurants and business owners from West Lebanon to White River Junction, Vt., continue to reconstruct their storefronts and their livelihoods following damage caused by Hurricane Irene, which hit the New England region as a tropical storm in late August, according to community members interviewed by The Dartmouth. Tastes of Africa, a catering and food preparation company, was on the cusp of completing a major business expansion project in White River Junction when Hurricane Irene decimated its facilities and forced owners Melvin Hall '91 and Damaris Hall to reconsider the business' future. "Essentially we had shut down in terms of operations as we finished expanding our finished kitchen facility and we were working on expanding," Melvin Hall said.

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Congress likely to cut Pell Grants, experts say

October 20, 2011

KATIE TAI / The Dartmouth As both Congressional chambers develop proposals to preserve the $5,550 maximum award for Pell Grants in light of recent budget cuts, students of different income levels face varying consequences that will depend on which plan is eventually signed into law, according to Amanda Wintersteen, the assistant director for government relations at the National Association for College Admission Counseling. The House of Representatives' proposal to narrow the eligibility criteria for federal Pell Grants which would render the highest-income beneficiaries in the program's current form ineligible would not affect Dartmouth students, Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid Laura McClay said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Warner applauds U.S. tobacco control efforts

By Stephanie McFeeters | October 20, 2011

Progress made in the field of tobacco control is "probably the greatest public health success story of the past half century," Kenneth Warner '68, former dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, said in the second annual C.

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Location sought for LGBT house

By Pallavi Kuppa-Apte | October 20, 2011

A preliminary location search for a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender affinity house is underway as students and administrators continue to finalize plans for such a house, according to Pam Misener, advisor to LGBT students and the acting director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership. Students have been working with administrators to launch an affinity program focused on the LGBT community that can offer "an experiential education opportunity," Misener said. "I think this house will certainly have the potential to help all students become skilled and practiced in understanding gender identity and the complexity of our experiences, and that can only be a good thing," she said.

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Experts discuss cyber operations

By Sasha Dudding | October 20, 2011

Ricahrd Yu / The Dartmouth Despite the growing importance placed on cyber operations and security, the field still has an air of "magic" surrounding it, Martin Libicki, a senior management scientist at the policy think tank RAND Corporation, said in a Thursday evening panel in the Rockefeller Center. During the lecture, three leading cyber security experts discussed the background of current cyber operations technology and the degree to which governments and citizens should be concerned.

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PayScale lists College sixth in annual rankings

By Blaze Joel | October 19, 2011

Falling from first and second-place finishes in recent years, Dartmouth placed sixth in PayScale's 2011-2012 College Salary Report, which ranks schools according to their graduates' average salaries at various points in their careers.

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Daily Debriefing

By Kristin Yu | October 19, 2011

The nationwide shift from purely need-based financial aid to merit-based funding has decreased the percentage of all aid given to students from low-income families, according to a report realeased Tuesday by the U.S.

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Students form new Thai culture group

By Erin Landau | October 19, 2011

The Tuk-Tuk Dartmouth Thai Association a new student group awaiting official approval from the Council on Student Organizations formed to unite students interested in Thai language and culture, serve as a resource for international students and raise money for individuals impacted by the extreme monsoons that have ravaged Thailand's central provinces in recent months, according to Earth Chariyawattanarut '14, one of the organization's founding members. The new group hopes to make it easy for students with similar interests and concerns pertaining to Thai culture and history to locate one another, collaborate on events and organize fundraising efforts, Chariyawattanarut said. "Before the creation of this club, it's been up to us to find each other independently," he said.

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Author analyzes King James Bible

By ABBIE KOUZMANOFF | October 19, 2011

The King James Bible was written not only to transmit God's words to future generations, but also in an attempt to bind together the people of England during the 17th century, Adam Nicolson, author of "God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible," said in a lecture celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Bible's creation.

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Campus Blotter

By Tom Owen | October 19, 2011

Oct. 14, 4:52 p.m.Russell Sage Residential ClusterSafety and Security officers received a report from Fahey Hall of a stolen iPhone being used to send offensive messages.

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Coed fraternities accept larger incoming classes

By Sharla Grass | October 18, 2011

The recently concluded recruitment period brought larger pledge classes to coeducational fraternities compared to Fall recruitment events in previous years, Coed Council president Serena Nelson '12, who also serves as Alpha Theta coed fraternity membership chair, said. This term's large coed pledge classes are the result of escalated efforts by Alpha Theta, Phi Tau coed fraternity and the Tabard coed fraternity to increase their visibility on campus, according to Nelson. "I know all three houses have added more open events to their schedules," Nelson said.

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