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Athletic pressure affects self-image

November 17, 2010

*Editor's Note: This is the second part in a three-part series investigating eating disorders at the College.**## A 2009 study by the American College Health Association found that almost one in three college students can be classified as "either obese or overweight." But at prestigious academic institutions like Dartmouth, these trends do not hold true. Instead, Dartmouth students encouraged by an athletic culture that emphasizes fitness and measured eating often eat too little, exercise too much and push themselves toward dangerous illness, several students and counselors told The Dartmouth. "The percentage of fit people I see here is much greater than the number I saw in my high school," a male member of the Class of 2014 said.

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Daily Debriefing

By John Michel | November 17, 2010

Fewer minority students, particularly blacks and Hispanics, are being admitted to elite colleges and universities, instead being sent to less competitive schools, according to a new study by University of Michigan researchers, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

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Film highlights Senegalese children

By Jasmine Wang | November 17, 2010

For his new documentary, "This Is Us," Jeremy Teicher '10 combined his English major, theater minor and passion for storytelling to portray the lifestyles, hardships, fears and hopes of Senegalese children.

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Five senior men share stories, experiences

By Lindsay Brewer | November 17, 2010

Five senior men shared life stories and insights on identity in the annual "Men of Dartmouth" panel discussion, held in Collis Common Ground on Wednesday. The five men of the Class of 2011 Tom, Kyle, Angelo, Tim and Chris discussed their struggles and successes, and how those have contributed to their identity as men. The students' last names have been withheld on their request, due to the personal nature of the event. TOM Tom grew up in a household largely guided by females his mother and three sisters as his father spent much of his time and energy providing for the family. "I wasn't introduced formally to what it meant to be an American male," he said. Tom said he tried multiple "prepackaged identities" in middle and high school, including a "mohawk-wearing punk rocker" and an "Abercrombie and Fitch preppy boy." After he graduated from high school in 2002, Tom motivated by the Sept.

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Project tracks food consumption

By Emily Baer | November 17, 2010

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff Despite the diversity of daily food consumption across the globe, globalization and processed food have significantly affected people's diets worldwide, Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio said making their point with a pallet of photographs in their Wednesday night lecture, "Calories and Culture: A Worldwide Photographic Journey." The lecture was one of eight programs comprising Feast or Famine, the seventh annual Great Issues in Medicine and Global Health Symposium presented by the Dartmouth health care community. The lecture drew from Menzel and D'Aluisio's latest books, "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats" (2007) and "What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets," released in August.

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Daily Debriefing

By Sharla Grass | November 16, 2010

Eighty Wake Forest University students attending an off-campus Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity party were issued citations for underage drinking by Winston-Salem police early Sunday morning, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.

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Experts discuss Alaska's economy

By John Biberman | November 16, 2010

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff Although the economic concerns of Alaska residents often conflict with environmental imperatives, those who seek to address local economic issues have utilized the local ecosystem to produce sustainable solutions to these issues, according to University of Alaska Anchorage professor Steve Colt and Alaska Center for the Environment board member Anne Gore '91.

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Local companies take home grants from GE

By Angie Yang | November 16, 2010

IceCode a West Lebanon-based firm that has worked with the College to develop technology to remove ice from wind turbines has been named one of five companies that will receive $100,000 innovation awards from GE to develop their ideas, according to Business Wire.

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Assembly committees still working on recs.

By Emily Fletcher | November 16, 2010

In the seven months since Student Body President Eric Tanner '11 took office, Tanner and Student Assembly members have worked to organize a new issue-based committee system and have moved away from programming events fulfilling two of Tanner's campaign platforms.

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Reaccreditation team holds forums

By James Peng | November 15, 2010

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff As part of Dartmouth's reaccreditation process, students at open forum Monday afternoon discussed their concerns about issues ranging from Dartmouth's social life to the quality of health care for students.

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Prof. studies relationships, stress

By Hannah Kuhar | November 15, 2010

Scholars have recently begun to investigate a "new convergence" in the way intimate relationships affect the mental health of young men and women, according to Wake Forest sociology professor and researcher Robin Simon.

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Daily Debriefing

By Claire Groden | November 15, 2010

University boards awarded 30 leaders of private colleges over $1 million each upon their retirement or to correct for "underpayment," according to a review by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Local chef demos gelato production

November 14, 2010

Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Morgan Morano, owner and chef of Morano Gelato, wheeled out her prized gelato-making machine Friday night for a demonstration at Rosey Jekes cafe to an audience of 25 Dartmouth students.

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Campion's slated for closure, sale

By Isha Flores | November 14, 2010

Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff Campion's Women's Shop on Main Street a Hanover staple for as long as a century will close as soon as it sells its remaining inventory, according to store manager Teri Valentine. The current Campion's location has been open for 17 years, according to Valentine.

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