Dinner kicks off V-Time festivities

RIANNA STARHEIm / The Dartmouth Correction appended### Women should band together to achieve sisterhood and "leave men in the gutter," Jennifer Sargent, chief disciplinary counsel for the New Hampshire Supreme Court Attorney Discipline Office and former visiting writing professor at the College, said at the "Proud to be a Woman" dinner on Monday, soliciting laughter from the all-female audience.

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Kloppenberg '73 analyzes Obama

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff President Barack Obama's moderate politics an anomaly in today's "hyper-partisan" political climate are a product of the intellectual shift toward flexible, nuanced thinking that took place in the United States during the period of Obama's collegiate and legal education, Harvard history professor James Kloppenberg '73 said in Filene Auditorium on Monday. While Obama generally occupies a moderate political position, he is "demonized" by both Republicans and Democrats because he does not display the stark partisanship of the current era, Kloppenberg author of "Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition," an intellectual biography of Obama said.

New service to combat application plagiarism

Although Turnitin for Admissions a service that detects plagiarism in college applications by using pattern-matching technology may be incorporated into the Common Application review system, the Dartmouth Admissions Office has no plans to use the service, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Laskaris declined to speculate on what actions the College would take if the Common Application were to adopt Turnitin, but said the Common Application "does a great job of surveying the member institutions before making major policy decisions." Laskaris said she would be concerned about the Common Application's adoption of Turnitin because she prefers the Admissions Office to believe "in the honesty and integrity of the students and the process." "It presumes that everybody's dishonest from the get-go," Laskaris said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

Troubleshooters work with campus

DENNIS NG / The Dartmouth When a heating coil burst in McCulloch Hall in December, the College's Troubleshooters an around-the-clock team of six employees tasked with addressing emergency electrical, plumbing and heating situations were on call to respond. "Antifreeze and water leaked out of the system," Dale Ordway, a Troubleshooter of nine years, said.