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Students revive Course Guide in time for spring

By Diana Ming | February 9, 2011

Correction appended A recovered version of the Student Assembly Course Guide, which had been inaccessible since October, is now available online, Ian Webster '11, a member of the College's Hacker Club, said in a campus-wide e-mail on Wednesday.

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Khouri breaks down Middle East tensions

February 8, 2011

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff Recently unraveling civil conflict in Arab countries such as Egypt and Tunisia is likely the result of widespread economic and political discontent, according to Rami Khouri, a veteran journalist and director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.

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Corporation acts as candidate

By James Peng | February 8, 2011

Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Following a failed run for a United States Congressional seat last year, five-year-old Murray Hill discussed the possibility of a 2012 Republican presidential campaign at a meeting with the College Democrats Tuesday evening.

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Reichl discusses food, society

By Isha Flores | February 8, 2011

Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Although diners today might cringe at the sight of blood dripping from a rabbit roasting on a spit, 4th century BCE societies were "unembarrassed by their own appetites and unafraid of a little blood," according to Montgomery Fellow Ruth Reichl.

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College sees budget results one year later

By Clare Coffey | February 8, 2011

One year following the College's announcement that it would cut $100 million from its fiscal years 2011 and 2012 budget, administrators are still in the process of developing "innovative" ways to reduce costs while improving efficiency, Executive Vice President Steven Kadish said in an interview with The Dartmouth. "As we started to work through the concepts, in a few cases the savings were greater, and in a few cases the savings did not materialize," he said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Laura Bryn Sisson | February 8, 2011

Former College Dean of the Faculty and current Tufts University Provost Jamshed Bharucha will serve as president of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art a higher education institution in New York City that offers free tuition to students The Boston Globe reported on Tuesday.

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Trustees discuss tuition over phone

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | February 7, 2011

Following its eight-hour conference call Friday, the Board of Trustees did not reach a final decision regarding the anticipated increase in tuition costs, College President Jim Yong Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Research shop localizes program with funding

By Diana Ming | February 7, 2011

Drafting proposals, conducting data-based research, compiling reports and preparing to testify before the New Hampshire state legislature are all in a day's work for Grace Hart '13, a participant in the College's Policy Research Shop at the Rockefeller Center.

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Kim reacts to student criticism of diversity

February 7, 2011

Meghan Cooney / The Dartmouth Meghan Cooney / The Dartmouth Students from various backgrounds crowded the living room of Cutter-Shabazz Hall to discuss challenges facing students from minority and low socioeconomic backgrounds with College President Jim Yong Kim and Chief of Staff David Spalding on Monday.

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Daily Debriefing

By Soumya Gupta | February 7, 2011

Almost half of the 65 charitable gifts of $5 million or more given last year went to colleges and universities, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported.

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Sustainable projects receive funding

By Sharla Grass | February 7, 2011

The Office of Sustainability has awarded two student grants of $2,000 one to support Joe Pearl '11 as he builds a root cellar at Dartmouth's Organic Farm, and another to assist Cristina Pellegrini '11 as she takes on issues of food-related sustainability at the College.

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Daily Debriefing

By Pallavi Kuppa-Apte | February 6, 2011

The U.S. Department of Education announced that 25 percent of students who took out federal loans to pay tuition at for-profit colleges have defaulted on their loans within three years of beginning repayment, The Washington Post reported.

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Digital library showcases life in Tibet

By James Peng | February 6, 2011

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff The Tibetan and Himalayan Library integrates various mixed-media resources to empower the local Tibetan community and educate the larger academic population regarding the region's cultural heritage, according to David Germano, a religion professor and codirector of the Tibet Center at the University of Virginia.

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College to host Reichl as Fellow

February 6, 2011

Despite growing up with her mother's disastrous culinary ventures including a concoction called "Everything Stew" Ruth Reichl went on to channel her affection for cuisine into a life-long career as a chef, food critic and author of several cookbooks and food-related memoirs.

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New bill in N.H. House examines death penalty

By Elise Quinones | February 3, 2011

A year after members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to criminalize the death penalty, legislators introduced a bill that would increase the scope of individuals eligible for capital punishment to include "home invaders with the intent of murder," according to State Rep.

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