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By Sharla Grass | May 19, 2011

Student Body President Max Yoeli '12 and acting Student Body Vice President Rohail Premjee '14 released a report to the Alumni Council Student Affairs Committee on Thursday that outlines funding initiatives that Student Assembly conducted in the past and measures it plans to implement throughout the following year, Premjee said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Daily Debriefing

May 18, 2011

The small percentage of students from low-income and working-class families who complete their bachelor's degrees will prevent the United States from reaching the Obama administration's plan to have the largest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020, according to a study released by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education.

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Klein attacks political climate in Washington

By John Biberman | May 18, 2011

Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Washington Post columnist and blogger Ezra Klein entertained students and community members by lambasting the United States' political system which he said "seems to suck and keeps on sucking, no matter how often we ask it to stop sucking" in a lively lecture Wednesday. Speaking to a captivated audience in the Rockefeller Center, Klein said that in order to restore the system's effectiveness, more attention needs to be paid to the political process's tendency for obstructionism and brinkmanship, rather than to blaming individual politicians for the government's failure to produce policy. The most significant feature of the American political landscape today is the filibuster, Klein said.

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Speakers offer insights on health care reform

By Felicia Schwartz | May 18, 2011

Aki Onda / The Dartmouth Senior Staff To reform America's health care system, the nation must address rising costs and inequality in treatment, Elliott Fisher, director of The Dartmouth Institute's Center for Population Health and Dartmouth Medical School professor of community and family medicine, said in a presentation in Carson Hall on Wednesday.

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New library cafe to open in June

By Claire Groden | May 18, 2011

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff Gleaming kitchen appliances, plastic-covered furniture and unfinished, debris-speckled floors characterize the former Berry News Center as it enters the final stages of construction before reopening as a cafe in early June, according to Dean of Libraries Jeff Horrell.

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Women share experiences in panel

By Isha Flores | May 18, 2011

Six female seniors recounted the lessons they have learned from abusive relationships, financial struggles and issues of sexual identity, among other challenges, at the 22nd annual Women of Dartmouth panel held in Collis Common Ground on Wednesday.

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Robbie '69 emphasizes innovation, creativity

May 17, 2011

Winnie Yoe / The Dartmouth Design thinkers must use empathy, creativity, collaboration and playfulness when addressing complex problems, Thayer School of Engineering professor Peter Robbie '69 said during a Social Enterprise and Economic Development Society lecture Tuesday evening.

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Tax Form 990 outlines 2009 expenses, revenue

By Diana Ming | May 17, 2011

The College's fiscal year 2009 revenue totaled $864,555,839, marking an increase of over $200 million since the prior fiscal year, according to the College's May 16 federal tax filing the first IRS filing since College President Jim Yong Kim arrived at the College.

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Daily Debriefing

By John Biberman and Ross Brown | May 17, 2011

In the 23rd installment of the Presidential Lecture Series, comparative literature professor Lynn Higgins discussed her forthcoming book on filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier as well as her analysis of literature and film about France during World War II.

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Young appointed to VP position

By Nathan Yeo | May 17, 2011

Roderic Olvera Young was appointed the College's vice president for communications on Tuesday and will assume his role on June 10, according to a College press release.

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Daily Debriefing

May 16, 2011

Cornell University senior Brian Lo died in a fire on May 6 that may have been partially caused by improper fire safety precautions and that alcohol consumption may have been involved, Ithaca's Deputy Fire Chief Tom Parsons said, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.

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Undergrads win case competition

May 15, 2011

Teams of undergraduate and graduate students presented competing business strategies for rescuing the profits of Groupon, a site that offers customer discounts on various merchants' services at the first Dartmouth Case Competition at Tuck School of Business on Friday.

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Profs. demand details of budget breakdown

By Leslie Ye | May 15, 2011

The resolution requiring the College to publicize a report of the measures taken to close the College's $100-million budget gap since 2009, which was unanimously passed at Monday's Faculty of the Arts and Sciences meeting, has the potential to strengthen the relationship between administrators and faculty members and encourage administrative transparency, according to various professors interviewed by The Dartmouth. Native American studies and anthropology professor Sergei Kan, who has taught at the College since 1989, said the decision marked the first time in his memory that faculty had passed a resolution with "one voice." Religion professor Ronald Green, who proposed the resolution, said he first asked the administration for a detailed report of the distribution of the budget cuts at a Feb.

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New course teaches sign language

By Amelia Acosta | May 15, 2011

While some may learn French or Spanish in college, a class new to the College Courses department this spring has given a group of students the opportunity to learn to speak and translate American Sign Language and meet with the nation's top deaf poets and performers, while attending lectures by music professor Larry Polansky.

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