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Kim addresses budget in staff forum

March 7, 2011

Tina Ma / The Dartmouth Although the College has not fully closed its budget gap for fiscal year 2011, Dartmouth has exceeded its expectations in reducing its $100 million budget gap, College President Jim Yong Kim said in a staff forum hosted by Kim and Provost Carol Folt on Monday.

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Daily Debriefing

By Claire Groden | March 6, 2011

Harvard University signed an agreement with Navy Secretary Ray Mabus that formally re-established a Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps on its campus on Friday, The Harvard Crimson reported.

French and Italian professor John Rassias was honored for his contributions to the Peace Corps' language program during the organization's 50th anniversary celebrations on Saturday.
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Peace Corps recognizes Rassias

March 6, 2011

Courtesy of Dartmouth.edu / The Dartmouth Staff The Peace Corps recognized French and Italian professor John Rassias for his "lifetime accomplishments" at a ceremony at the John F.

The Dartmouth Ethics Bowl Team competed in the fifth annual Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl in Cincinnati on Thursday.
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Team travels to Ohio for Ethics Bowl competition

By Angie Yang | March 6, 2011

Courtesy of Aine Donovan The Dartmouth Ethics Bowl team debated issues including animal rights, stem cell research, the mortgage crisis and Four Loko production in the 15th annual Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl in Cincinnati on Thursday, according to Aine Donovan, Ethics Bowl coach and executive director of the Ethics Institute. After a second-place finish at the Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl on Nov.

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Dartmouth, peers work to hire minority faculty

March 6, 2011

Editor's Note: This is the second part in a two-part series on recent campus discussions regarding diversity. While Dartmouth's percentage of overall minority faculty is comparable to that at other New England liberal arts colleges, it is the lowest in the Ivy League, according to the most recent Common Data Sets of the respective universities.

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Symposium analyzes advertising

By Jackie Donohoe | March 3, 2011

Tina Ma / The Dartmouth Advertisements bring out the worst in people by promoting the individual without regard for the well-being of the overall community, keynote speaker Sut Jhally said at AdMad, the 2011 Bildner symposium on advertising on Thursday afternoon.

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Students sell futon rental company

By Leslie Ye | March 3, 2011

The founders of Dart Dorm, one of two student-run futon rental services at the College, sold the company to a new group of owners Monday, according to co-founder David Fink '11.

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College to implement accessibility initiatives

By Angie Yang | March 3, 2011

The College will implement a search to fill the position of assistant director of Student Accessibility Services, establish a note-takers program and provide informational material and workshops for faculty about accommodating students with disabilities, Provost Carol Folt announced in a campus-wide e-mail on Thursday. The Accessibility Steering Committee, created by the Arts and Sciences Faculty's Committee of Chairs, was charged with identifying strategic initiatives to improve the overall student experience after it was founded last spring, Folt said in an interview with The Dartmouth. College officials chose to begin developing the Committee's suggestions that were ready for immediate implementation, Folt said.

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Medical team returns from hospital in Haiti

By Claire Groden | March 3, 2011

In the small town of Cange, Haiti, last week, six Upper Valley medical professionals performed 35 operations on Haitian patients many of whom arrived for surgery dressed in their best clothes because they were so grateful to be treated.

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Departments adjust to budget cuts

By Leslie Ye | March 3, 2011

More than a year after the College announced its plan to cut $100 million from its budget, academic departments continue to adjust to reduced funding in a variety of ways, according to several department chairs interviewed by The Dartmouth.

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Daily Debriefing

Office of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs Program Coordinator Marilyn Sturman resigned from her position as of March 1, according to e-mails sent by Undergraduate Judicial Affairs Office Manager Laurie Welch and Director of Judicial Affairs Nathan Miller and obtained by The Dartmouth.

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Vacancies strain College division

Following staff member departures and the creation of several new positions, the Dean of the College division is now in the process of filling 17 administrative and assistant-level positions, according to College officials interviewed by The Dartmouth. The vacancies have forced some staff members to assume more work than they would otherwise take on, acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears said. "We've had to work differently," Spears said.

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Kim announces plans for Diversity Council

March 2, 2011

*Editor's Note: This is the first part of a two-part series on recent campus discussions regarding diversity.**## In response to student concerns regarding faculty and administrator diversity, the College will revive its long-inactive Diversity Council, assemble a diversity action plan to be shared with the Board of Trustees and expand the First Year Student Enrichment Program for next Fall term, College President Jim Yong Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth Editorial Board. The Diversity Council, which was established in the early 2000s, has not met in recent years "partly because of all the craziness around budget reductions that we had to go through for two years," Kim said.

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Penner backs ‘death with dignity'

By Ross Brown | March 2, 2011

Former Dartmouth religion professor Hans Penner, who was recently diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, is a self-proclaimed strong advocate of "death with dignity" legislation currently under consideration by Vermont legislators.

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McConnell lectures on freedom of association

By Lindsay Brewer | March 2, 2011

The expansion of the concept of discrimination and a loss of distinction between permissible actions in public and private spheres have eroded individuals' First Amendment freedom of association, Stanford University Constitutional Law Center director Michael McConnell said in a lecture at the Rockefeller Center on Wednesday. "If we prevent the government from regulating the content of what we say, but allow it to regulate and control the membership, leadership or institutional structure of the groups that are the seedbed of ideas and communication, we will have given the government a powerful instrument for controlling speech, press, religion, assembly and petition," McConnell said. McConnell represented the Christian Legal Society in the 2010 Supreme Court case Christian Legal Society v.

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Baker-Berry renovations proceed

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | March 2, 2011

Courtesy of Justin Anderson Piles of steel beams and exposed insulation hide behind translucent plastic tarps in what remains of the Berry News Center, which is scheduled to open as a coffee bar and social space during Spring term, according to Dean of Libraries Jeffrey Horrell.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Baer and Taha Adib | March 1, 2011

Correction appended The Elections Programming and Advisory Committee announced three major changes to the elections process during an informational meeting Tuesday night.

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