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Wheelan brings economic expertise

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Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Editors Note: This is the first installment in a series profiling visiting professors at the College. After graduating from Dartmouth, Charles Wheelan '88 travelled the world for nine months as a reporter for the Valley News and was paid $50 per article with Leah Yegian, another member of the Class of 1988.



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Lecture discusses Iranian women

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/ The Dartmouth Staff / The Dartmouth Staff Women in Iran have resisted attempts by the Islamic theocratic regime to render them second-class citizens following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Haleh Esfandiari said in her lecture, "Iran's Indomitable Woman." Abigail McGowan, a history professor at the University of Vermont, followed with a discussion about the instability in Kashmir on Wednesday morning in Spaulding Auditorium. Esfandiari, who was held in an Iranian prison for four months after refusing to confess to engaging in anti-government activities, said that Iranian women expected liberation after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. "Following the revolution, women aspired to equality under the law and instead became second-class citizens," she said. Laws dictated where women could travel, what they could wear, where they could be educated and how they could interact with men under the new regime, Esfandiari said.


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Conservative radio host, author and political commentator Laura Ingraham '85 appeared on "The Colbert Report" Tuesday evening to discuss her New York Times bestselling book, "The Obama Diaries." Ingraham defended her satirical piece while talk show host Stephen Colbert who has long claimed to be a Dartmouth alumnus despite never attending the College questioned her about the "terrible" writing quality and instances of racial insensitivity.




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River swimmers face little discipline

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Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Staff Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Staff Although the Connecticut River swim docks are closed for the Summer term due to safety concerns, students caught swimming in the river will face minimal consequences if they cooperate with Safety and Security officers, according to Harry Kinne, Director of Safety and Security.


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College brings end to salary freeze

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By raising financial benefits for College employees in the 2011 fiscal year, the College has ended its salary freeze for the 2010 fiscal year, Senior Vice President Steven Kadish said in an interview with The Dartmouth.


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Student group recognizes Wright

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Project RightChoice raised $60,000 for the Fisher House Foundation a non-profit organization that provides lodging for the families of wounded service men and women on the grounds of military veterans affairs hospitals at an event held in Boston this past Saturday, according to Wills Begor '12, Project RightChoice vice president and director of operations.



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Admins implement SPAHRC ideas

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Work towards implementing the recommendations made by the Student and Presidential Alcohol Harm Reduction Committee in May including the creation of an administrative team to review the recommendations has begun, though many recommendations will not be implemented until at least Fall Term, according to Acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears. "We're in the middle of working on the recommendations," she said in an interview with The Dartmouth.


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Clemens to serve as acting GLOS director

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Former Associate Director of Residential Education Kristi Clemens has taken over as acting director of Greek Letter Organizations and Societies, filling the vacancy created by the retirement of former GLOS Director Deborah Carney in June, Associate Dean of the College for Campus Life April Thompson announced in an e-mail to Greek presidents Monday. As acting director of GLOS, Clemens will work with students to improve the relationships between Greek organizations and the Town of Hanover, advocate for physical plants for new sororities and expand local alumni's involvement in Dartmouth's Greek houses, Acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears said in an interview with The Dartmouth. "I think [Clemens] has a very student-centered approach to her work, and I think it will be really important for her to find out what their needs are what their hopes are rather than to drive an agenda," Spears said. Clemens who came to the College last summer from New York University said she knows that the College's Greek system comprises "a huge part of the Dartmouth experience." She said she met with campus Greek leaders last week including representatives from the Greek Leadership Council, Panhellenic Council, Inter-Fraternity Council, Co-Ed Council and minority Greek houses and that her initial focus as acting director will be to continue conversations with students about their goals for the Greek system. "The College's Greek system is student-initiated and student-led in a way that organizations are not on other campuses," Clemens said.


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Alumna to speak at Convocation

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Thirty years after her own convocation at the College, Reverend Leah Daughtry '84 will address more than 1,100 members of the Class of 2014 in the keynote speech at the 2010 Convocation, according to a College press release. Daughtry, who grew up in Brooklyn, said she first "began to encounter diversity in political thought" at Dartmouth.


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College lifts salary freeze

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Non-unionized employees who meet or exceed expectations at the College will receive a 1 percent increase to their base salaries for the 2011 fiscal year, Provost Carol Folt and Senior Vice President Steven Kadish announced in an e-mail to the Dartmouth community on Friday.



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Hikers visit Hanover, DOC on trail

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Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff The Appalachian Trail which crosses through Hanover on its stretch from Maine to Georgia has brought hikers of all shapes, sizes and trail nicknames to campus this summer.


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Kim outlines ‘habits' for success

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ANNIE VILLANUEVA / The Dartmouth ANNIE VILLANUEVA / The Dartmouth In order to lead successful lives, students must be empathetic and take risks that benefit others, College President Jim Yong Kim told students, faculty and community members in the second and final installment of this summer's Presidential Lecture series on Thursday afternoon in Moore Theater.


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Afghan voices ‘silenced,' profs say

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Although six years of Taliban rule did much to damage the Afghan school system and diminish local women's rights movements, community-based efforts have made progress towards restoring education and women's rights to the war-torn country, geography professor Jennifer Fluri and gender and development researcher Lina Abirafeh said in a lecture held in Spaulding Auditorium on Wednesday. In the lecture, titled "Can a Broken System Produce Tomorrow's Leaders and Gender Balance?" Fluri and Abirafeh discussed the intersection of women's rights and education in Islamic culture. Women's rights as defined in Islam are "a lot better" than the current state of women's rights in Afghanistan, according to Fluri, who also teaches courses in the women and gender studies department. Since Islam is an integral part of Afghan culture, it can play a positive role in future women's rights movements, she said. "Islam is such a respected part of everyday life [and] an important vehicle to support women's rights," she said. Following the invasion of Afghanistan, the United States failed to understand the importance of the community over the individual in Afghan culture, Fluri said. "Thinking about yourself and thinking about your own personal wants and desires does not really make sense to people in Afghanistan," she said. The community-oriented culture puts the family at the center of social life and leaves women with a heavy domestic burden, making it difficult for them to pursue opportunities outside the home, according to Fluri. "We need to think about how to provide education and economic opportunity while considering [a woman's] household burden," Fluri said. The burqa, for example, has become a far too politicized issue in the west, Abirafeh and Fluri said, leading the burqa to be wrongly viewed by western nations as a "tool of oppression" used in Afghanistan. "My sense is that Afghan women long for choice the choice to wear a veil, a burqa or nothing at all," Abirafeh said. Fluri said that the burqa can have a positive practical application for women as it allows them to carry books and school supplies without getting harassed. Young women carrying books are often the target of Taliban attacks.


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DHMC nurses in talks with reps. to unionize

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Following complaints stemming from recent budget cuts and overcrowding at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, nurses at the hospital are considering unionization and are currently engaged in discussions with Massachusetts Nurses Association representatives, DHMC media relations manager Rick Adams said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Representatives from the Massachusetts Nurses Association first attempted to unionize DHMC in 2008, but those efforts ended in 2009, Adams said. The renewed interest in unionization was likely the result of a June "Management Action Plan" a six-step plan attempting to fill a $15 million gap in DHMC's budget for fiscal year 2010 that instituted policy changes that were unpopular with several nurses, Adams said. "We're seeing declining revenues, fewer patients," Adams said.


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Thirty students prepare to hike the 50 on Friday

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Students are stocking up on gorp, flair and moleskin in preparation for the 50 this weekend, in which a group of 32 hikers will embark on a 53.6-mile hike from Hanover to the Mount Moosilauke Ravine Lodge. Hikers interviewed by The Dartmouth said they are most looking forward to the opportunity to bond with their groups while on the trail, though some worry about the physical toll of such a long hike. "I'm really excited about being able to bond with people more than I normally get to do in day-to-day interactions," Ben Waller '12, who plans to hike the 50 this weeked, said. Emily Niehaus '12, a fellow student-hiker, said that the hike is a great opportunity to spend quality-time with close friends. "I think I'm most excited about doing [the 50 because of] the three girls that I'm hiking it with, to share the experience with them and go through it together," Niehaus said. Niehaus said she has been resting and eating healthily in preparation for this weekend. "I think it's going to be one of the hardest things I've ever done," she said. The 50 is extremely physically demanding on hikers, according to Heather Reiley '12, who has volunteered at support stations twice before and will also hike the 50 this weekend. "I've seen how beat up people's feet are," she said.