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Prof. seeks to prevent head injuries

By Angie Yang | September 27, 2010

With some studies showing 15 percent of U.S. soldiers suffering from severe head injuries, the Defense Department has begun funding contractors including the Lebanon-based company Simbex to create sensors that measure the impact of improvised explosive devices, such as roadside bombs, according to Invention and Technology News.

The College endowment rebounded after a steep decline in fiscal year 2009, returning to a level of just under $3 billion.
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Endowment rises by 6 percent

September 26, 2010

Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The value of the College's endowment increased by an unanticipated 6 percent over the 2010 fiscal year to reach a value of just under $3 billion as of June 30, College officials announced in a press release on Friday.

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Alumni report addresses issues in Greek system

By Eliza Relman | September 26, 2010

Greek organizations suffer from a lack of alumni and faculty engagement, deterioration of physical plants and lack of long-term planning, according to a report on the current state of the College's Greek system by the Dartmouth Alumni Council.

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Tanner launches new issue-based committees

By PAULINA KARPIS | September 26, 2010

Student Body President Eric Tanner '11 will continue with plans implement a new issue-based committee system in Student Assembly this term, having already selected two co-chairs for each of the seven new committees, he said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The change was necessary because while many campus organizations focus on programming, the campus needed an organization that could deal primarily with policy issues, according to Tanner. Last spring, the General Assembly approved constitutional bylaw amendments that replaced the previous committee system, which consisted of four committees, centered around programming and events.

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Daily Debriefing

By Robert szypko | September 26, 2010

Officials at the University of California, Berkeley announced on Tuesday that they will eliminate roughly 200 jobs in early 2011 to save $20 million, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

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College endowment increases by 6 percent

By The Dartmouth Staff | September 24, 2010

The value of the College endowment increased by 6 percent over the 2010 fiscal year, to reach a value of just under $3 billion as of June 30, College officials announced in a press release on Friday. The endowment enjoyed a 10 percent return on the fiscal year, with a net increase of $173 million after increases in the value of investments, new donations and disbursements for operating expenses are accounted for, according to the release. Executive Vice President Steven Kadish said College officials were "pleased" by the endowment return, since endowment managers had attempted to manage the endowment to "provide ample liquidity and maintain a prudent level of risk." The increase follows a 23 percent loss in fiscal year 2009, which saw the value of the endowment decline to $2.8 billion from a height of $3.66 billion, an $835 million loss. Over the past two fiscal years, College administrators have worked to reduce outlays, in order to limit spending and deficits created by the endowment loss, as well as to reduce the portion of the endowment that goes toward operating expenses. College President Jim Yong Kim said in January that the administration would budget in expectation of a 5 percent return on the endowment for fiscal year 2010.

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Staff benefit changes reflect national trends

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | September 23, 2010

Correction appended Although College officials have been criticized for changes made to employee benefits during recent budget reduction efforts, benefits changes fall in line with similar national trends, such as rising health care premiums for college and university faculty and staff.

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Daily Debriefing

By BRIDGETTE TAYLOR | September 23, 2010

Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust announced Wednesday that the institution will approve an on-campus Reserve Officer Training Corps unit if the U.S.

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Jessica Sasha Bright '09 dies at 24

By Laura Bryn Sisson | September 23, 2010

Jessica Sasha Bright '09, known as Sasha to friends and family, passed away on Sept. 11, her father, Arthur Bright, wrote in an obituary for her on the Marlatt Funeral Home website. Bright, who majored in psychology and minored in English with a concentration in creative writing, was born in Seattle and lived in Renton, Wash., according to her father's obituary. Bright loved to write from childhood, her mother, Mildred Bright, said in an interview with The Dartmouth. "She would get into the flow and wouldn't mind staying up until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, writing," Mildred Bright said. In her last terms at Dartmouth, Bright was excited to enroll in the writing classes she had always wanted to take, according to Pam Misener, assistant dean of student life in the Office of Pluralism and Leadership. "There were things about Dartmouth that Sasha loved, but she also loved being from the Pacific Northwest," Misener said.

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Titcomb reconstruction continues over summer

September 22, 2010

Courtesy of Greg Sokol Courtesy of Greg Sokol While many Dartmouth students spent their summers working, participating in internships or taking summer classes, one group of students spent its time on a somewhat less conventional project cabin construction.

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Dartmouth researchers find race, mortality link

By Christy O'Keefe | September 22, 2010

Black patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer commonly known as colon cancer face a greater risk of mortality than white patients affected by the same disease, according to a study published in August by a team of researchers led by Samir Soneji, an assistant professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

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Dining hall renovations push ahead

September 22, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff As renovation work on the Class of 1953 Commons formerly known as Thayer Dining Hall continues, students have alternately voiced concerns about the limited seating during the renovation process and found the temporary arrangements in the dining hall to be more spacious, several students interviewed by The Dartmouth said.

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New site advocates social privacy

By BRIDGETTE TAYLOR | September 22, 2010

For students worried about snooping parents or potential bosses with penchants for Facebook stalking, a new social networking site available only to college students, CollegeOnly, may provide a solution, according to its founder, Josh Weinsten.

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Daily Debriefing

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | September 22, 2010

The United States produces relatively few college graduates, placing the United States behind other major countries, with only 37.9 percent of Americans between the ages of 25 and 60 holding two- or four-year degrees in 2008, according to a report released by the Lumina Foundation for Education, according to a Tuesday report by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

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