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Students rally for staff health care

By James Peng | April 5, 2011

Tina Ma / The Dartmouth Correction appended### Repeated chants of "People over profit" and "How much greed do you need?" echoed from the steps of Collis on Tuesday afternoon as approximately 100 students, staff and community members protested the recent cuts to healthcare benefits for the College's staff.

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Garthwaite to retire at end of term

By Joseph Singh | April 5, 2011

Throughout his 41 years at the College, but particularly in the 1970s when "the Middle East was not on everyone's mind," history professor Gene Garthwaite influenced many of his students' decisions to pursue graduate studies of the region, history department chair Margaret Darrow said.

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SA Amendment fails, EPAC ruling upheld

By Matthew McNierney | April 5, 2011

Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff In a tense, well-attended Student Assembly meeting in which deliberations forced students to stay 15 minutes past the allotted one-hour time frame, a proposed amendment that would have prevented the Election Planning and Advisory Committee from ruling on eligibility requirements for candidates in Assembly elections did not receive the two-thirds majority of votes needed to pass, failing 8-17. Will Hix '12, who announced his intentions to run for student body president last week, proposed the amendment in response to EPAC ruling that barred students who previously have been suspended from the College from running for the positions of student body president or vice president.

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Daily Debriefing

By Leslie Ye | April 5, 2011

Women earn 6.9 percent less than men in equivalent positions in higher education, according to a study published by Laura Meyers, a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, Inside Higher Ed reported.

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Campus Blotter

By Felicia Schwartz | April 4, 2011

April 1, 11:26 p.m.Webster AvenueSafety and Security officers noticed two people on the roof of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity with an open flame.

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Film dept. announces summer FSP in Scotland

By Gavin Huang | April 4, 2011

Students who travel to Edinburgh, Scotland, on the first-ever film and media studies Foreign Study Program during Summer 2012 will have the chance to attend the Edinburgh International Film Festival, collaborate with local bands to make a music video and learn about production techniques at "the state-of-the-art" Screen Academy Scotland, according to film and media studies professor Jeffrey Ruoff, who serves as the director of the FSP. Students will take production courses at the Screen Academy Scotland and will be taught by Academy staff in music video production and digital cinematography, according to Ruoff.

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Daily Debriefing

By Soumya Gupta | April 4, 2011

Correction Appended The University Senate of Columbia University endorsed the restoration of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps on campus, following its expulsion 40 years ago amidst anti-Vietnam War protests, the Columbia Spectator reported on Friday.

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Daily Debriefing

By Clare Coffey | April 3, 2011

The 2010 Faculty Work Life Survey found that minority professors' job satisfaction at Cornell University dropped 16 percentage points since 2005, while white professors' satisfaction increased by 5 percentage points during the same time period, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.

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Programming Board restructures

By Leslie Ye | April 3, 2011

Programming Board printed and distributed its first-ever calendar of events a publication made possible in part by a reorganization of its leadership structure during Winter term earlier this week, according to Tashzna Jones '12, who served as Programming Board's public relations director last term. Programming Board decided to restructure during a Fall 2010 retreat, and implemented the changes throughout the winter, Jones said. Programming Board previously funded groups belonging to the Council on Student Organizations, according to executive director Margaret McCue '11.

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Committee to assess COS assault response

By Emily Fletcher | April 3, 2011

College officials formed the Committee on Standards Sexual Review Committee to examine the COS procedures regarding sexual assault cases at the College, Assistant Dean of the College for Campus Life Kate Burke, who is chairing the new committee, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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DartMUN hosts annual conference

By Eliza Relman | April 3, 2011

Dennis Ng / The Dartmouth Staff Hordes of high schools students dressed in business attire descended on campus this weekend to participate in the sixth annual Dartmouth Model United Nations Conference, organized and hosted by DartMUN, Dartmouth's own model United Nations club.

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Panelists debate crop modification

By Claire Groden | March 31, 2011

Tina Ma / The Dartmouth Four expert panelists debated the benefits and drawbacks of using genetically modified foods to minimize wold hunger and increase the security of global food supplies at Dartmouth's first Ad Fontes Forum, hosted by the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science, in Moore Theater on Thursday. The audience reacted passionately to the panelists' opinions during the question and answer session by interrupting claims with accusations of falsehood and punctuating particularly well-received points with applause. Former Science and Technology Advisor to the U.S.

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