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Green Team members monitor campus party

By Diana Ming | February 21, 2011

Members of Green Team, a student-run bystander intervention program aimed to reduce alcohol harm on campus, monitored their first event on Friday at Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority, according to Cyrus Akrami '11, co-chair of the Student Assembly Alcohol Crime and Reduction Committee.

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Gov't must limit aid, speaker says

By Clare Coffey | February 21, 2011

Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Long-term solutions to the federal budget crisis will only be found in politically unpopular reforms of Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, Keith Hennessey, research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said in a lecture in the Rockefeller Center on Thursday. The massive growth in government spending stems from the three programs that comprise 47 percent of spending Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security according to Hennessey. "The big three entitlements are growing so fast that they are completely overwhelming everything else government does," he said. Drastic reforms to entitlement programs are inevitable if the country is to stay fiscally functional, Hennessey said. "The numbers are going to force us," he said.

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Campus Blotter

By Felicia Schwartz | February 21, 2011

Feb. 18, 5:23 p.m.Native American HouseAn employee of the College reported that ice had hit electrical support wires on the house.

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Daily Debriefing

By Claire Groden | February 21, 2011

Annette Gordon-Reed '81 was appointed as a member of the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, according to a press release on the Commission's website.

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Pillar analyzes trends in Middle Eastern tensions

By Leslie Ye | February 21, 2011

The recent political turmoil in the Middle East may be a "wonderful blow to the future of international terrorism," Paul Pillar '69, director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, said in a lecture on Monday in the Haldeman Center. The current lack of political and economic freedom for Middle Eastern citizens contributes to a strong association with international terrorism, according to Pillar.

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Pillar analyzes trends in Middle Eastern tensions

By Leslie Ye | February 21, 2011

Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth The recent political turmoil in the Middle East may be a "wonderful blow to the future of international terrorism," Paul Pillar '69, director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, said in a lecture on Monday in the Haldeman Center. The current lack of political and economic freedom for Middle Eastern citizens contributes to a strong association with international terrorism, according to Pillar.

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Professor discusses political activism

By Christy O'Keefe | February 21, 2011

In an effort to gain the right to sit on juries, women "in coats and high heels" disrupted legislatures across the country between 1920 when the federal government granted women the right to vote and the early 1970s, Holly McCammon, sociology professor at Vanderbilt University, said in a lecture about political activism in Silsby Hall on Monday. "Most people think that once women won the right to vote, they won the right to sit on juries too," McCammon said.

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Gov't must limit aid, speaker says

By Clare Coffey | February 21, 2011

Long-term solutions to the federal budget crisis will only be found in politically unpopular reforms of Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, Keith Hennessey, research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said in a lecture in the Rockefeller Center on Thursday. The massive growth in government spending stems from the three programs that comprise 47 percent of spending Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security according to Hennessey. "The big three entitlements are growing so fast that they are completely overwhelming everything else government does," he said. Drastic reforms to entitlement programs are inevitable if the country is to stay fiscally functional, Hennessey said. "The numbers are going to force us," he said.

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Green Team members monitor campus party

By Diana Ming | February 21, 2011

Members of Green Team, a student-run bystander intervention program aimed to reduce alcohol harm on campus, monitored their first event on Friday at Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority, according to Cyrus Akrami '11, co-chair of the Student Assembly Alcohol Crime and Reduction Committee.

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Water flea offers key scientific info.

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | February 20, 2011

Despite its size, Daphnia pulex a crustacean less than a few millimeters in length may revolutionize scientists' understanding of the relationship between genes and the environment, according to a paper written by members of the Daphnia Genomics Consortium, an international group that includes Dartmouth researchers.

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Five students share personal stories

By Gavin Huang | February 20, 2011

/ The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended### The inaugural People of Dartmouth panel featured testimonies from five students who spoke about their experiences at the College and encouraged listeners to reevaluate the role of community at Dartmouth as well as their individual roles within their own smaller communities.

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Congressional plans to alter financial aid

By James Peng | February 20, 2011

Two recent proposals by President Barack Obama and Republicans in the United States House of Representatives to cut federal funding for university financial aid programs during fiscal year 2012 would significantly impact aid at the College, according to Director of Financial Aid Virginia Hazen.

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College to offer Georgian this spring

February 20, 2011

As part of a research project aimed at improving the methodology of teaching Georgian to non-native speakers, Ramaz Kurdadze, chair of the modern Georgian department at Tbilisi State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, will offer Georgian language instruction at the College this Spring term. Kurdadze, who is visiting the College as a fellow of the Open Society Institute an international organization that encourages cross-border alliances through various programs said the techniques required to teach Georgian differ substantially from those required to instruct students who grew up speaking the language. Kurdadze, who has been on campus since the beginning of Winter term, will remain at the College through June to work with students who will study Georgian as an independent study in linguistics.

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Barber to visit College as Montgomery Fellow

February 20, 2011

Although he feeds large crowds in his popular New York restaurant, Blue Hill, chef Dan Barber only uses produce from small-scale local farms because he recognizes industrial agriculture's vulnerability to increasing energy prices, Barber said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Daily Debriefing

By Felicia Schwartz | February 20, 2011

Brown University will become the first university in the nation to stop investing in HEI Hotels and Resorts, a hotel company that has been accused of violating workers' rights, according to a press release issued by the Brown Student Labor Alliance, an affiliate of United Students Against Sweatshops.

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Class of '53 Commons to feature new stations

By Isha Flores | February 20, 2011

Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The brightly-painted mural that currently partitions the Food Court seating area will be taken down before Spring term to reveal new windows, improved insulation and renovated seating, according to Dartmouth Dining Services Director David Newlove.

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Henderson encourages students to 'stay local'

By Jackie Donohoe | February 17, 2011

Individuals born between 1980 and 2000, who comprise the millenial generation, are particularly suited for work in public service because they tend to be achievement-oriented team players capable of adjusting to an innovative society, Bethany Henderson, founder and executive director of City Hall Fellows a nonpartisan service group that recruits college graduates to work in city governments said in a lecture at the Rockefeller Center on Thursday afternoon. Few young people pursue careers in local government due to the widely held perception that such institutions are inefficient, hindered by unnecessary bureaucratic layers and plagued by a general lack of employee enthusiasm, Henderson said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Soumya Gupta | February 17, 2011

DePaul University announced Thursday that its applicants will no longer have to submit SAT or ACT scores, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

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U.S. must reduce coal use, Luce says

By Jenny Che | February 17, 2011

Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Society must make an effort to use cleaner energy sources while addressing environmental problems that might result from new technologies, according to Ben Luce, a physics professor in the sustainability department at Lyndon State College in Vermont.

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