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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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Sharlet examines fundamentalism in new book

October 13, 2010

People should engage in an informed debate with Christian fundamentalists rather than alienating them, English professor Jeff Sharlet wrote in his latest book, "C Street: The Fundementalist Threat to American Democracy." Sharlet expressed his ideas using the example of a secretive organization known as the "Family," which has worked out of a residence in Washington, D.C., since the late 1980s. In his book, Sharlet chronicles the C Street House, a Washington, D.C., residence that has acted as both a religious sanctuary and political space for a secretive organization that "sees itself as a ministry for the benefit of the poor, by way of the powerful," and "believes its members are placed in power of God," Sharlet wrote in "C Street." "Fundamentalism isn't a person," Sharlet said in an interview.

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Men's rush finishes over weekend

By Leslie Ye | October 13, 2010

Despite recent legal action taken against several fraternities, Inter-Fraternity Council President Tyler Brace '11 said that the number of students who participated in men's rush this weekend did not decrease, although he had not seen final numbers for all fraternities. Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity saw 28 men sink bids; Alpha Delta fraternity, 35; Beta Alpha Omega fraternity, 21; Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity, 20; Chi Heorot fraternity, 15; Phi Delta Alpha fraternity, 23; Psi Upsilon fraternity, 30; Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, 24; Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, 29; Theta Delta Chi fraternity, 31; and Zeta Psi fraternity, 17, according to numbers provided by the IFC.

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Daily Debriefing

By Claire Groden and Sharla Grass | October 12, 2010

Inge-Lise Ameer, associate dean of the College for student support services, and April Thompson, associate dean of the College for campus life, asked for feedback from freshmen about their Orientation and early Fall experiences at Tuesday night's freshmen-only Student Assembly meeting.

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New professorship goes to physics prof. LaBelle

By Sam Rauschenfels | October 12, 2010

Editor's Note: This is the first installment in a four-part series profiling professors who were recently awarded endowed chairs. Though he had long studied electromagnetics, physics and astronomy professor James LaBelle said he had often suspected that there was something more than meets the eye about the Earth's radio emissions. "It's always been in the back of my mind, you know, could it be possible to see these really strong radion emissions from the surface of the Earth?" he said. For his work studying Earth's radio emissions, LaBelle has been honored with the Lois L.

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College ranks 77th in NSF report on funding

By Conrad Scoville | October 12, 2010

Although Dartmouth placed 77th among national institutions in a recent National Science Foundation report on federal research spending, the College would likely place higher in surveys that consider statistics that account for an institution's size and type like research dollars per faculty member according to faculty and staff members interviewed by The Dartmouth. The NSF report, which was released last month, only considered the raw overall numbers for science and engineering spending. "I'm virtually certain [Dartmouth] would rank higher," chemistry professor and department chair Peter Jacobi said, referring to a survey that would consider factors other than just total research spending. Dartmouth's size and the College's emphasis on undergraduate education in addition to research puts it at a disadvantage in broad measures such as the NSF report, biology professor and department chair Thomas Jack said. "The size of the research enterprise isn't the size that it is at other schools," he said. It is also important to consider the scope of the report, Jacobi said.

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Kuster '78 stumps at Dartmouth

By Alison Polton-Simon | October 12, 2010

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth In an address before a College Democrats meeting on Tuesday, Ann McLane Kuster '78 the Democratic nominee for New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District sought to contrast herself with her Republican opponent, former Rep.

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Petit won't testify at sentencing

October 11, 2010

William Petit '78 said in a statement Friday that he will not testify at the sentencing of Steven Hayes, who was convicted last week of murdering Petit's wife and two daughters in a July 2007 home invasion, CNN reported.

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College receives funds to rename fitness center

By Gavin Huang | October 11, 2010

Following a $9 million contribution from an anonymous donor, the second floor of Alumni Gym will now be called the Zimmerman Fitness Center, according to a College press release. The College chose to name the area after Charles Zimmerman '23 Tu'24, former chairman of the College Board of Trustees, according to the release. Zimmerman served on the Board from 1952 to 1972 and was chairman from 1970 to 1972.

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Smith plans polar trek for blindness charities

By Gavin Huang | October 11, 2010

Like many Tuck graduates, Richard Smith Tu'11 will begin working at a financial consulting firm after he receives his MBA next year. Unlike many Tuck graduates, he plans to take a break from work to spend 70 days dragging a sled across Antarctica. Smith is part of a team of five men who will trek across the world's most inhospitable continent next December during the austral summer, pulling a 100-pound sled 600 miles while on skis.

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Prof. discusses causes of glacial melt

By John Biberman | October 11, 2010

Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth Portland State University professor Andrew Fountain was aware that Washington state's South Cascade glacier was retreating when he studied it in 1986, but he never expected his study subject would disappear entirely. "Maybe for you, this is an academic interest; but for us in the West, glaciers are where we get our water from," Fountain told the audience. Fountain addressed rapidly shrinking glaciers and their effect on the rest of the world's ecosystems in a lecture Monday afternoon at the Haldeman Center, "The History of Glacier Discovery in the U.S., and their Role in Global Sea Level Change." Contrary to conventional wisdom, glacial recession is not caused by warmer air temperatures, Fountain said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Isha Flores | October 11, 2010

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in September that the First Amendment does not protect the job security of college and university deans who speak out against their administrations, Inside Higher Ed reported.

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Team develops ethanol technique

By Jay Webster | October 10, 2010

Researchers in the Thayer School of Engineering have developed a more efficient way of chemically changing plant cellulose into ethanol to be used as fuel, according to Dan Olson '04 Th'06, who led the research team.

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Kim lauds College's focus on liberal arts

October 10, 2010

Aki Onda / The Dartmouth Staff Aki Onda / The Dartmouth Staff The liberal arts which face cutbacks across the country due to lack of funding and increasing emphasis on research over teaching are essential to Dartmouth's identity and deserve financial support, College President Jim Yong Kim said in a speech on Saturday. Kim's speech punctuated by frequent applause from an audience composed mostly of alumni was part of the Faculty Chalk Talk Series, in which faculty members lecture on topics in their fields of study on the mornings of home football games.

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Daily Debriefing

By Sharla Grass | October 10, 2010

Dartmouth College joined HathiTrust, a "digital repository for the nation's great research libraries," on October 5, Library Journal reported.

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Student competes as ‘strongman'

October 10, 2010

Strongman Mike Piccioli '08 shudders when asked how much he can bench press or bicep curl. "Those are things you see a lot of people doing," said Piccioli, who spends most days splitting time between training at the River Valley Club in Lebanon and taking classes at Dartmouth Medical School, where he is in his first year.

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Students respond to SAE charge

By Laura Bryn Sisson | October 7, 2010

Students and town residents interviewed by The Dartmouth expressed concern that the felony charge of serving alcohol to a minor leveled against Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity this week after a Good Samaritan call was made from the fraternity could make students reluctant to place Good Sam calls in the future. "We are very worried about the undermining of the Good Sam," Student Body President Eric Tanner '11 said. Although the College's alcohol policies, which include the Good Sam program, are intended to reduce potential harm to students, the Hanover Police Department has no legal obligation to comply with those same policies, Katherine Burke, assistant dean for campus life, said Thursday in an interview. "Local officials are concerned about the risks of excessive drinking [on Dartmouth's campus,]" Burke said. Tanner is in the process of conducting discussions with College administrators and town officials on the issue, he said. "What we can do is convince the town [Select] Board that we don't need the Hanover Police Department snooping around our fraternities and sororities, and to do that we can come up with some internal policy changes showing the town we are doing our best," he said. The Student and Presidential Alcohol Harm Reduction Committee, which published findings about the College's alcohol policy in May, operated under a similar mandate. According to Tanner, students and the College have similar opinions about the issue of harm reduction. "I think the College and students are really on the same page with this," Tanner said.

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