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Kim suggests initiative to reduce alcohol abuse

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | January 27, 2011

College President Jim Yong Kim will pursue a nationwide initiative to reduce binge drinking, he said in an interview on New Hampshire Public Radio on Jan.

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Power plant adjusts for weather

By Sam Rauschenfels | January 26, 2011

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff Beneath the giant smokestack visible from every end of campus lies a hidden world of tubes, transistors and turbines that work to heat, cool and power Dartmouth's campus.

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Sayre '93 seeks faculty input on sexual assault

January 26, 2011

As part of the College's ongoing effort to address sexual assault, Jennifer Sayre '93 met with Dartmouth faculty to gather feedback regarding the prevalence of sexual assault on campus on Wednesday.

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Daily Debriefing

By Soumya Gupta | January 26, 2011

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center named Alan R. Weston, former vice president and corporate manager for human resources at Liberty Mutual Group, as its chief human resources officer on Wednesday, according to a DHMC press release.

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Karger discusses possible candidacy

January 26, 2011

Courtesy of fredkarger.com Political consultant and gay rights activist Fred Karger a Republican who said he is "seriously" considering running for president in 2012 announced for the first time his intention to introduce a 28th Amendment to the U.S.

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Community remembers Zantops 10 years later

By Jenny Che | January 26, 2011

On the tenth anniversary of the murder of College professors Susanne and Half Zantop, members of the Dartmouth community interviewed by The Dartmouth said they will privately commemorate the lives of the College professors. The Zantops were murdered in their home on Jan.

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Ellis to work to diversify staff

By Lindsay Brewer | January 26, 2011

Correction appended Evelynn Ellis, former director of equal opportunity and affirmative action, has been appointed the vice president for institutional diversity and equity, Provost Carol Folt announced in a campus-wide e-mail on Wednesday.

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Ellis appointed vice president for diversity and equity

By Lindsay Brewer | January 26, 2011

Evelynn Ellis, former director of equal opportunity and affirmative action, has been appointed the vice president for institutional diversity and equity, Provost Carol Folt announced in a campus-wide e-mail Wednesday afternoon. In her new position, which she assumed earlier this month, Ellis will lead initiatives involving diversity and equity, including the development of a diverse workforce and the reinforcement of College compliance with affirmative action and equal employment opportunity requirements.

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Proposed bill bans student votes

January 25, 2011

State Rep. Gregory Sorg, R-Grafton, proposed legislation that would bar college students in New Hampshire from voting in their college's town by altering the requirements for voter eligibility, according to the text of the legislation. The bill changes the definition of domicile, requiring that an individual's residence for voting eligibility "be the most recent place where he or she as an adult or where his or her parents or legal guardians with whom he or she resided as a minor established physical presence" demonstrating an intention to keep that place as "his, her, or their principal and continuous place of physical presence," according to the bill. As students in New Hampshire would be effectively unable to vote in their college's state, their only voting option would be through an absentee ballot submitted to their primary home residences. SUPPORT FOR THE BILL State Rep.

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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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