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Harris links media, climate debate

By Matthew McNierney | October 18, 2010

Eunice Lee / The Dartmouth Staff Eunice Lee / The Dartmouth Staff The international debate about climate change has focused too much on the existence of a problem rather than finding solutions and journalists deserve a share of the blame, National Public Radio reporter Richard Harris said in a lecture Monday in Filene Auditorium. Harris, who has been covering climate change for 30 years, said he has traced the progression of the way information about global warming has been communicated to the public. At first, people spoke of global warming only in the abstract, he said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Campbell Sechrest | October 18, 2010

Mortimer Mishkin '46 and Marye Ann Fox, who received her Ph.D in Chemistry from the College, were two of 10 researchers awarded the National Medal of Science, President Barack Obama announced Friday.

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College committee discusses assault

By Rashelle James | October 18, 2010

Alexis Monroe / The Dartmouth Staff Alexis Monroe / The Dartmouth Staff In an open discussion Tuesday hosted by the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault in One Wheelock, students discussed sexual assault on campus and possible ways to educate the Dartmouth community about the issue.

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Lynch speaks before students, Democrats

By Lindsay Brewer | October 18, 2010

Alex Kim / The Dartmouth Alex Kim / The Dartmouth Surrounded by a crowd of students at a lectern in the Hinman Forum of the Rockefeller Center, New Hampshire Democratic Governor John Lynch discussed his experiences as governor, asked about students' political concerns and answered questions about his vision for New Hampshire's future at an event co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center and the Dartmouth College Democrats. The event, described as a "meet and greet," allowed students to share with the governor the issues most important to them, according to Ryan Tincher '12, president of the College Democrats. "It wasn't a campaign stop, and he wasn't here to tell people to vote for him," Tincher said.

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Diversions reduces net revenue for police dept.

October 18, 2010

Despite some students' concerns over the costs of the Hanover Police Department's Alcohol Diversions Program, the department makes less money from the program than they would if participants instead were arrested and went through the court system, according to Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Fletcher | October 17, 2010

The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education has awarded the Policy Research Shop at the Nelson A.

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Researcher discusses life on moons

By James Peng | October 17, 2010

Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth The presence of water on some of Jupiter and Saturn's moons may mean they have the potential for extraterrestrial life, senior NASA researcher Robert Pappalardo said in a Friday lecture, "Ices and Oceans in the Outer Solar System: Considerations for Habitability," in Spanos Auditorium. Pappalardo, who has worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab since 2006, considered the presence of water one of the factors needed for potential life.

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Gerzina describes story that ‘consumed' her life

By Katie Kilkenny | October 17, 2010

It took Dartmouth professor Gretchen Gerzina seven years to track down a Vermont couple that died over 200 years ago. Ever since she first heard the tale of a nearly-blind black woman from Guilford, Vt., who traversed the state every year on horseback to visit her husband's grave, Gerzina said she made it her goal to find out about the couple and the story behind them. "How could I not go looking for them?" she said. Gerzina, chair of the English Department, described her seven-year quest to unveil the tale of Lucy and Abijah Prince in a speech on Saturday.

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Coed organizations gain new members

By Joseph Singh | October 17, 2010

Correction Appended Membership in coeducational fraternities appears to be on the rise, with two of the three coed fraternities offering more bids and registering more students to rush than in previous years, according to Coed Council President Andrew Manns. Manns said the increase in membership has been "an ongoing trend" over the last several years.

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Cobell says trust funds mismanaged by government

By Amelia Acosta | October 17, 2010

Elouise Cobell has spent the last 14 years suing the federal government. In the course of her lawsuit which aims to recover billions of dollars of Native American claimants' money, lost to federal mismanagement she has had to deal with disappearing court documents and the questionable removal of a presiding judge, she said in a speech Friday. As the keynote speaker for the Tuck Native American Leadership and Economic Development Conference, which coincided with the 40th anniversary of Dartmouth's Native American Program, Cobell argued that the political system in Washington, D.C., could not be trusted. "I don't think we can change things until there's some sort of discipline put towards Congress," Cobell said.

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Students form sports business org.

By Soumya Gupta | October 14, 2010

Although Dartmouth does not have any course offerings for students interested in sports industries, undergraduates can now turn to the newly formed group Sports Business at Dartmouth a student-run organization that aims to provide students with information and contacts for those interested in a career in sports, according to Kyle Battle '11, co-director of alumni relations for SB@D. The first group of its kind at the College, SB@D plans to promote a variety of jobs in sports-related industries, such as careers in media, management, marketing and sports medicine. "Our major problem is that since we don't have a sports business major, or any sports management or sports marketing or things like that [at Dartmouth], we are inherently at somewhat of a disadvantage," Battle said. To fill this need, SB@D trying to "bridge the gap" between Dartmouth students and those of other Ivy League institutions, Battle said. Dartmouth is the last of the Ivy League institutions to establish a sports business awareness group for its students, according to Battle.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Baer | October 14, 2010

SustainX, a technology company that develops energy grid systems, announced on Wednesday that it was named a Global Cleantech 100 company, an honor reserved for those private clean-technology companies that experts predict will have the largest market impact in the near future, according to a company press release.

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Group works to improve bonfire

By Laura Bryn Sisson | October 14, 2010

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Correction Appended### The typical Homecoming bonfire experience of heckling at the hands of upperclassmen, who insist that first-year students must "touch the fire" or are the "worst class ever," may be too intimidating for some, according to several upperclassmen currently trying to make the bonfire a more positive event for first-year students. "I want Homecoming to be more mutually enjoyable," Callista Womick '13, a member of the group, said in an interview.

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Class of 2014 elects class council

By Jenny Che | October 14, 2010

The Class of 2014 elected Sebastian DeLuca '14 as the 2014 Class Council president and Andres Ramirez '14 as vice president on Thursday, according to an e-mail sent out to the Class of 2014 from the council.

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Sororities see increase in PNMs

By Joseph Singh | October 14, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Of the 385 women registered in the sorority rush process, 301 were offered bids on Thursday night, according to Panhellenic Council President Anna Sonstegard '11. The proportion of potential new members receiving bids 78 percent marks an increase from last year's fall rush, in which 68 percent of women received bids, The Dartmouth previously reported. "Last year, we had a high dropout rate," Sonstegard said. The number of women registered to rush this year shows that female interest in the Greek system has increased significantly compared to previous years, she said. Alpha Xi Delta sorority extended bids to 42 women; Kappa Kappa Gamma, 43; Sigma Delta, 42; Kappa Delta Epsilon, 40; Kappa Delta, 25; Alpha Phi, 42; and Delta Delta Delta, 40.

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Daily Debriefing

By Sam Rauschenfels | October 13, 2010

Newsweek ranked Dartmouth first among the 25 "most desirable rural schools" and eighth overall in the magazine's 2010 College Rankings.

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Nearburg '72 pursues passion for speed racing

By John Michel | October 13, 2010

Courtesy of Charlie Nearburg Courtesy of Charlie Nearburg Charlie Nearburg '72 Th'74 always knew he wanted to race cars. The Thayer School of Engineering graduate said he first felt the rush of competition in go-kart races in junior high school.

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Sachs: Investment can fight poverty

By Jasmine Wang | October 13, 2010

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Wealthy countries like the United States should use targeted investments, rather than undirected aid, to decrease poverty rates in Africa, Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey Sachs told students in a lecture Wednesday. The levels of funding of each of the "three pillars" of American foreign policy defense, diplomacy and foreign aid are deeply unbalanced, Sachs said in his talk, "Ending Poverty in Our Generation: Still Time if We Try." "I find it weird that with all the tools we have, there is still widespread poverty," Sachs said.

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