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Class-Giguere presents new room draw system

By Emily Baer | January 25, 2011

Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Director of Undergraduate Student Housing Rachael Class-Giguere explained the College's motivations for investigating online room selection services and solicited student opinion concerning the current in-person process during the second General Assembly meeting of the term on Tuesday. The new online program would assign students a 10-minute window, based on their priority number, to select housing.

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Lecture addresses Job's connection to suffering

By Claire Groden | January 25, 2011

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff by CLAIRE GRODENThe Dartmouth Staff The Book of Job is a useful vehicle for exploring ways to find justice in human suffering, Einstein Forum Director Susan Neiman said in her lecture "Job, God and the Problem of Evil," held in Filene Auditorium on Tuesday. "We're moved by this Book because we take the text at face value because something about it rings true," Neiman said.

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NASA alliance yields opportunities

By Amelia Acosta | January 25, 2011

On the third floor of Wilder Hall, in the little-visited Room Nine, students huddle around technology-cluttered lab benches as they build balloons that will be released into the sky to monitor atmospheric conditions.

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Rowland discusses online access

By Leslie Ye | January 25, 2011

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff If a blind student needs to find the room where his University of Antarctica Biology 250 class is held, he might use a screen reader to interpret the information he cannot see.

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Daily Debriefing

By Sharla Grass | January 25, 2011

Legislation introduced today by two Massachusetts state legislators will "promote transparency" at Massachusetts private colleges and universities by requiring them to be more detailed in their financial reports, The Boston Globe reported.

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Campus Blotter

By Elise Quinones | January 25, 2011

Jan. 22, 12:43 a.m.Mid-Massachusetts HallA female member of the Class of 2013, who was incapable of standing on her own, was taken from Mid-Mass Hall to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in an ambulance following Safety and Security's response to a Good Samaritan call.

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Fraternities receive new members

By Claire Groden | January 24, 2011

Campus fraternities accepted a total of 28 new members this term, with Sigma Nu fraternity sinking the largest number of bids, according to Interfraternity Council President Tyler Brace '11. The numbers were "fairly in line with what was expected," according to IFC rush chair Bill Mergner '11. Eight fraternities accepted new members this term Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity saw two men sink bids; Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, six; Sigma Nu fraternity, seven; Zeta Psi fraternity, five; Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity and Theta Delta Chi fraternity, one; and Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and Chi Heorot fraternity, three. Several houses chose not to host winter fraternity recruitment this year, according to representatives interviewed by The Dartmouth. Most of the houses that don't participate in winter rush "get what they want" in the fall, Brace said. Psi Upsilon fraternity, Alpha Delta fraternity, Beta Alpha Omega fraternity, Bones Gate fraternity, Gamma Delta Chi fraternity, Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity did not offer any bids to new members over the weekend. Although Phi Delt opened its doors to potential new members, no one attended the fraternity's rush event, Peter de Boursac '12 said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth. SAE rush chair Taylor Sipple '13 cited "precedent" as the fraternity's reason for choosing not to hold winter recruitment.

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Panelists discuss patient experiences

By Matthew McNierney | January 24, 2011

PATTON LOWENSTEIN / The Dartmouth Staff Drawing on personal experiences with health care delivery, panelists discussed the role that patient-doctor relations play in addressing inequalities in the United States health care system during the forum, "The Underserved and Their Efforts to Access Quality Healthcare," held Monday evening at Dartmouth Medical School. Panelist Erik Esselstyn said that doctors are at least partially to blame for not adequately addressing these less tangible aspects of patient care.

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Daily Debriefing

By Leslie Ye | January 24, 2011

The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education on Friday in response to the implementation of new rules regarding enrollment and recruiting, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

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Harvard, MIT to join Borrow Direct system

By Leslie Ye | January 24, 2011

Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth Correction appended### Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined the Borrow Direct inter-library loan program, which will increase volumes available to students from 30 million titles to 50 million by the time both institutions are fully integrated into the program, Dean of Libraries and Librarian of the College Jeffrey Horrell said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Borrow Direct merges the libraries of Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Princeton University, Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania with the offerings in Baker-Berry Library.

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Former Tea Party activist leads GOP

By Elise Quinones | January 24, 2011

Jack Kimball, a former Tea Party activist, will take over as New Hampshire's Republican Party Chairman on Saturday following his victory over Juliana Bergeron on Jan.

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College hires second SAAP coordinator

By Felicia Schwartz | January 24, 2011

The College will hire two permanent Sexual Abuse Awareness Program coordinators following the reallocation of resources in the College's 2011-2012 budget to fund the positions, according to Director of Health Services Jack Turco.

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Special Olympics draw record athlete turnout

January 23, 2011

It was 10 degrees below zero outside the McLane Family Lodge at the Dartmouth Skiway, the location of the ninth annual Special Olympics Upper Valley Regional Winter Games on Saturday.

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Films affect smokers, study finds

January 23, 2011

The influence of mass media on smoking and other human behaviors may make quitting more difficult, according to a recent study, "Spontaneous Action Representation in Smokers When Watching Movie Characters Smoke," conducted by Dartmouth researchers.

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College preps for capital campaign

By Joseph Singh | January 23, 2011

College administrators are focusing their efforts on strategic planning and small-scale fundraising initiatives in anticipation of a future capital campaign under College President Jim Yong Kim, according to Senior Vice President for Advancement Carolyn Pelzel.

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Daily Debriefing

By Sam Rauschenfels | January 23, 2011

Taking tests helps students learn and retain information better than other studying methods, according to a Purdue University study published last Thursday in Science.

A fellow of the China Education Initiative addresses her middle school class in Yunnan Province, China.

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Education initiative in China bridges cultures

By Soumya Gupta | January 23, 2011

Courtesy of Sarabeth Berman Students selected as fellows in the China Education Initiative Teaching Fellowship program which brings together recent Chinese and American college graduates from higher education institutions to teach middle school students in rural areas of Yunnan Province, China received notification of their acceptance last Friday.

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Obama taps Immelt '78 for post

By Gavin Huang | January 23, 2011

Chief Executive Officer of General Electric and College Trustee Jeffrey Immelt '78 will serve as the chair of the newly-created Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, President Barack Obama announced in Schenectady, N.Y., on Friday. The council, formed by an executive order, will replace the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, of which Immelt was a member.

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Obama chooses Immelt to chair new council

By The Dartmouth Staff | January 21, 2011

Chief Executive Officer of General Electric and College Trustee Jeffrey Immelt '78 will serve as the chair of the newly-created Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, an executive order expected to oversee a panel of economic advisers, according to The New York Times.

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Daily Debriefing

By Claire Groden | January 20, 2011

Michelle Obama endorsed the Obama administration's effort to encourage higher education institutions to increase the number of students who study abroad in China, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.