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Faculty votes to see budget report
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Amelia Acosta
| May 9, 2011
Aki Onda / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Dartmouth faculty members overwhelmingly passed a resolution proposed by religion professor Ronald Green which would require the College's administration to publicize an accounting report of the measures taken since 2009 to close the College's $100-million budget gap at Monday's Faculty of the Arts and Sciences meeting, Green said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
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Fall term to conclude before Thanksgiving
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Jenny Che
| May 9, 2011
Aki Onda / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Faculty members voted to approve changes to the academic calendar that will shift the last day of Fall term to before the Thanksgiving holiday at the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences meeting Monday.
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Fall term to end before Thanksgiving break
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The Dartmouth Staff
| May 9, 2011
Faculty members voted to approve proposed changes to the 2012-2013 academic term calendar at today's meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Police arrest student for possession of marijuana
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Diana Ming
| May 8, 2011
Correction appended Hanover Police arrested an undergraduate student for one count of acts prohibited for the possession of marijuana on May 5, according to a May 6 Hanover Police Department press release.
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Approx. 25 percent of seniors receive jobs
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Jenny Che
| May 8, 2011
One-fourth of graduating students surveyed by Career Services have obtained full-time jobs after graduation, reflecting a "fairly healthy" job market, but marking a decrease from last year's graduating class, according to Monica Wilson, acting co-director of Career Services.
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Tribes gather for annual Pow-Wow
May 8, 2011
Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff Members of over 50 Native American tribes gathered this weekend for the 39th annual Pow-Wow, during which dancers performed a special healing ceremony to celebrate women on Mother's Day and also honored Cody Lavender '10, a Native American student who died during his junior year at the College, according to Master of Ceremonies Alex Shepherd. A significantly larger crowd than in recent years amassed on the Green on Sunday to watch Native American dances, eat traditional fry bread and learn about the culture and history of various tribes, Daryl Concha '11, a member of the Pow-Wow committee, said.
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Daily Debriefing
By
Leslie Ye
| May 8, 2011
Former Dean of the Faculty Michael Gazzaniga '61 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, which recognizes scientists and engineers for "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research" on May 3, according to a College press release.
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Goldsmith to elevate Kim's leadership skills
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Emily Fletcher
| May 5, 2011
Leadership coach and adjunct Tuck School of Business Executive Education professor Marshall Goldsmith never stops moving.
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Fathi contrasts Iran's, Egypt's riots
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Jackie Donohoe
| May 5, 2011
Dennis Ng / The Dartmouth Staff Two weeks after Iran's 2009 presidential election, Nazila Fathi, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, realized she was under government surveillance and immediately left her home in Tehran with her husband and two children.
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Former Bolivian pres. to teach
May 5, 2011
Former Bolivian President Eduardo Rodriguez Veltze will spend Summer term at the College as a Montgomery Fellow, according to government department chair John Carey.
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Daily Debriefing
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Daniel Leder
| May 5, 2011
Results from the National Assessment of Education Progress exam a civic examination administered by the U.S.
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Darbee '75 Tu'77 resigns abruptly amid inquiries
By
Clare Coffey
| May 5, 2011
Peter Darbee '75 Tu'77 stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Gas and Electric on April 30 after a federal investigation of a gas pipeline explosion in September 2010 and an ongoing decline in the public's faith in the company, according to Brian Herzog, PG&E public relations representative.
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PRIDE Week entertains, educates
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Sam Rauschenfels
| May 5, 2011
Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth Staff Organizers of the College's fifth annual PRIDE Week sought to entertain and educate students and to unite various gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, questioning and allied groups across campus through lectures and interactive events, according to PRIDE Week co-chair Nick Pulito '11.
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Daily Debriefing
By
Isha Flores and Daniel Bornstein
| May 4, 2011
The Hanover Zoning Board of Adjustment voted unanimously on Wednesday night to approve the College's proposal to reopen the swim docks along the Connecticut River.
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Jung discusses imperialism in Asia
By
Gavin Huang
| May 4, 2011
Drawing examples from the United States' use of Asian labor, the Philippine-American War and immigration restrictions, Asian-American historian Moon-Ho Jung, a history professor at the University of Washington, linked American imperialism in Asia to the United States' "war on anarchy" during a lecture in Filene Auditorium on Wednesday. Jung noted the role of racism in shaping economic trade, revolutionary wars and immigration security in the United States. "Race and empire, in a sense, killed the president," Jung said, referring to the assassination of former President William McKinley by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
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Montgomery fellow delivers talk
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Diana Ming
| May 4, 2011
When Montgomery Fellow Louise Erdrich '76 wrote her first novel, "Love Medicine," in 1984, she did not think anyone would read it, Erdrich said in an interview with The Dartmouth.