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Programmers meet for ‘hackathon'

By Gavin Huang | April 24, 2011

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended### Over the course of a 12-hour "hackathon," members of the Hacker Club discussed the creation of their latest, most complicated program Course Picker, an application designed to make course selection easier for students.

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Tanner administration focused on policy work

By Emily Baer | April 24, 2011

Aki Onda / The Dartmouth Senior Staff During his yearlong tenure following a contentious election cycle, former Student Body President Eric Tanner '11 drastically altered Student Assembly by replacing the previous four committees with seven specialized committees and shifting the Assembly's focus from programming to policy.

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Daily Debriefing

April 24, 2011

Blythe George '12 received the 2011 Beinecke Scholarship, which is awarded to 20 juniors across the country and will provide George with $4,000 before she begins graduate school in the social sciences, arts or humanities and $30,000 while she is enrolled in graduate school, according to a College press release on Friday.

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Cox discusses religious gay therapy programs

By Jenny Che | April 24, 2011

In front of a standing-room-only crowd in the Rockefeller Center this Friday, Ted Cox presented his work as an undercover journalist in Christian gay-to-straight conversion programs. Halfway through his presentation, Cox asked a male audience member to lean and sit between the outstretched legs of another male volunteer while four others sat nearby with their hands on other volunteers' arms, chests and legs.

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Daily Debriefing

By Leslie Ye and Nathan Yeo | April 21, 2011

Following a dismissal of their case by the New Hampshire Supreme Court last week, the group of alumni bringing a lawsuit against the College Board of Trustees filed a motion for reconsideration with the Court on Thursday, according to attorney for the plaintiffs Eugene Van Loan.

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Job vacancies persist in College divisions

By Emily Fletcher | April 21, 2011

Due to the recent creation of new student health-related positions in the Dean of the College division, the College is currently operating with an unusually high number of job openings, according to Gavin Henning, director of administration in the Dean of the College division.

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Novelist discusses use of identity

By Christy O'Keefe | April 21, 2011

Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth Staff Nelly Rosario struggled with her Dominican-American identity while writing her 2002 award-winning novel, "Song of the Water Saints," but by conducting research and drawing inspiration from other books, she was able to craft a story in which she "found humanity" and illustrated the history of the Dominican Republic, she said in a lecture in Kemeny Hall on Thursday. Rosario's novel takes place in her native country, the Dominican Republic, a place she said is defined by its reliance on trade and commerce.

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Hanover Police arrest undergraduate student

By Jenny Che | April 21, 2011

A female undergraduate student was arrested Thursday afternoon at Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority on a misdemeanor charge for the fraudulent use of a credit card, Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Hanover Police obtained a search warrant for the student's room in the sorority's house and began the search on Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m.

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Former prof. Copenhaver '46 dies

By Leslie Ye | April 21, 2011

Biology professor emeritus John Copenhaver '46 died April 19 of a stroke in the Kendal at Hanover retirement community, according to Marion Copenhaver, his wife of 64 years.

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N.H. House votes to cut budget

By Elise Quinones | April 20, 2011

While the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted on a budget for the next fiscal year last Thursday, 2,500 demonstrators rallied outside the State House in Concord, N.H., to protest cuts to social programs.

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College offers services for pregnant students

By Sam Rauschenfels | April 20, 2011

Although the College will continue to offer assistance to pregnant undergraduate and graduate students, budget cuts proposed by state officials and federal legislators may affect the "convenience" of care for some pregnant students, Dick's House family nurse practitioner Elizabeth Morse said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Jaar emphasizes power of artwork

By Jane Cavalier | April 20, 2011

The image of hundreds of brightly-lit silhouettes of dead and living Chileans remains with viewers long after they emerge from artist Alfredo Jaar's underground installation in Santiago, Chile.

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Daily Debriefing

By Claire Groden | April 20, 2011

Philosophy professor Adina Roskies received the 2011 Stanton Prize awarded to scholars who have made "significant contributions to interdisciplinary research" from the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, according to the Society's website.

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Daily Debriefing

By Barbara Richards | April 19, 2011

Presidents of colleges and universities whose state funding could be slashed by 45 percent if the New Hampshire House's new budget is passed asked a state Senate committee Monday to reconsider the changes, The Boston Globe reported.

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College's disaster response varies

By AMELIA ACOSTA and SOUMYA GUPTA | April 19, 2011

While members of the Dartmouth community have come together twice in the past two years to respond to major natural disasters the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the Japan earthquake and tsunami last month the College's response to the situation in Japan has been more limited than its response to Haiti's crisis due to logistical challenges, according to Presidential Fellow Molly Bode '09, a coordinator and advisor for both relief efforts. "The main difference we have seen so far between the situations in Haiti and Japan is that Dartmouth had a connection to an on-the-ground non-governmental organization in Haiti, but we did not have that connection in Japan," Bode said.

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Retirees flock to Hanover for classes

By Diana Ming | April 19, 2011

MEGHAN COONEY / The Dartmouth Unlike most students in history professor Edward Miller's class on the Vietnam War, 79-year-old Everett Marder's knowledge of the material extends beyond any textbook.

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Alum. wins Pulitzer for editorial writing

By Alison Polton-Simon | April 19, 2011

Joseph Rago '05 was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing on Monday. Rago, who studied American history at the College, received the award for 10 editorial pieces he wrote for the Review & Outlook section of The Wall Street Journal that challenged President Barack Obama's health care reform. Rago served as the editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review as an undergraduate and currently serves on its advisory board, according to The Review. Rago's prize, which included $10,000 and was administered by Columbia University, was the first awarded to a Wall Street Journal writer since Rupert Murdoch's purchase of The Journal in 2007, according to The New York Times.

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