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By Alison Polton-Simon | November 1, 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case regarding university rights to faculty inventions at the urging of the Obama administration and a collection of research universities, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

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Students fall victim to anonymous ‘blitzjacks'

By Campbell Sechrest | October 31, 2010

Correction Appended Students across campus received an e-mail Thursday night apparently from their own BlitzMail accounts purporting to be a "blitzjack" and directing them to a website labeled "Bored at Berry." The source of the e-mails, which appears to also be behind an e-mail sent out to campus Sunday that seems to be sent from College President Jim Yong Kim's account, remains unclear as of Sunday night. Although students have long sent messages from logged-on BlitzMail accounts not belonging to them a practice referred to as "blitzjacking" the e-mails sent Thursday and Sunday are the first to be sent to such a large group in recent memory. The first e-mail, sent out late Thursday evening, had the subject line "blitzjack?" and appeared to be sent by the recipient of each e-mail.

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Ross: Investment spurs health care

By Joseph Singh | October 31, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Despite a decade-long decline in funding, venture capital will continue to play an important role in driving health care industry innovations, according to Thayer School of Engineering board member Michael Ross '71.

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By John Biberman | October 31, 2010

The family of late Tuck School of Business professor Leonard Morrissey has made a donation to Hanover's Howe Library that will allow it to be open seven days a week, the Valley News reported.

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Freshmen rush field, touch fire

By Gavin Huang | October 31, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff At least three students touched the bonfire and five students rushed the football field during Homecoming weekend, according to multiple students interviewed by The Dartmouth.

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Professors get grant for radiation study

By Claire Groden | October 28, 2010

Dartmouth Medical School researchers are taking charge in the field of assessing radiation exposure in survivors of radioactivity-related disasters, according to Dartmouth Medical School radiology professor Harold Swartz. As the principal investigator and director of the Dart-Dose Center for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation, Swartz negotiated a $16.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, which was awarded to the Center to fund research over the next five years.

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Hayes asks to die for Petit murders

By Eliza Relman | October 28, 2010

Steven Hayes who earlier this month was convicted of murdering Hayley Petit, her mother and her sister in 2007 has exhibited "suicidal tendencies" and expressed his desire to receive the death penalty for his crime, CNN reported.

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Ethicist talks campaigns and voters

By Matthew McNierney | October 28, 2010

Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth The ethics of political campaigns should not be judged by their fairness, but instead by whether voters retain their free choice, Dennis Thompson, director of the Edmond J.

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Science and theology converge at College's Veritas Forum

By Jasmine Wang | October 28, 2010

Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth Staff Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth Staff Both speakers and audience grappled with the challenge of finding a common ground between science and theology at Thursday's Veritas Forum, "Are We Significant Figures?" Dartmouth physics and astronomy professor Marcelo Gleiser and Massachusetts Institute of Technology nuclear science and engineering professor Ian Hutchinson co-led the panel, with Dartmouth classics and linguistics professor Lindsay Whaley serving as moderator. Gleiser started his portion of the panel by harkening back to 1543, when "Copernicus was on his deathbed." Prior to Copernicus's heliocentric theory, humans believed that God had created humans as the "cream of the crop," Gleiser said.

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College bucks national trend of regional staff

By Jenny Che | October 28, 2010

Although colleges and universities nationwide have recently begun increasing the numbers of off-campus regional admissions officers on staff, Dartmouth has bucked the trend by maintaining only one admissions officer working remotely, and has no immediate plans to expand, according to the College admissions office. A recent study by The Chronicle of Higher Education found that colleges across the nation were placing full-time representatives in distant zip codes in the hopes of attracting a greater number and diversity of applicants. Dartmouth is one of several colleges not following this pattern.

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Daily Debriefing

October 28, 2010

Harvard Medical School has announced that it will soon open a primary care research center using a $30 million anonymous gift, according to an HMS release.

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Faculty praise Kim's topic choice for talk

By BRIDGETTE TAYLOR | October 28, 2010

When College President Jim Yong Kim addressed the issue of alcohol abuse and sexual assault at Monday's termly Faculty of Arts and Sciences general meeting breaking from the trend of focusing on academics and the College's financial standing many professors in the audience appreciated his departure from the budget conversation, professors interviewed by The Dartmouth said. "I thought it was a really interesting presentation," John Carey, the chair of the government department, said.

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Students lack access to older course evals.

By Sharla Grass | October 28, 2010

Update Appended The Student Assembly Course Guide which hosted rankings and ratings of courses at the College until it was replaced with the independent CourseRank service in spring 2010 is no longer available online, leaving students without access to the guide's course reviews from previous years.

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Daily Debriefing

By Katie Kilkenny and Leslie Ye | October 27, 2010

Dartmouth received an A- on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card, and was named one of 52 "Overall College Sustainability Leaders," according to the organization's website.

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Team makes evolution discovery

By James Peng | October 27, 2010

Correction Appended A team led by Dartmouth biology professor Kevin Peterson may have just resolved a long-standing debate in the scientific community over the evolution of vertebrate animals. Peterson along with University of Bristol professor Philip Donoghue, graduate students Alysha Heimberg and Richard Cowper Sal Lari and University of Lyon professor Marie Semon published a study that refutes the popular view that the lamprey, a jawless vertebrate, was the most closely related creature to subsequent vertebrate species.

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Candidates campaign across state

By Gavin Huang | October 27, 2010

Gavin Huang/The Dartmouth; Zach Ingbretsen/The Dartmouth Senior Staff Gavin Huang/The Dartmouth; Zach Ingbretsen/The Dartmouth Senior Staff As Election Day approaches, politicians in New Hampshire are making their final attempts to attract voters' support.

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