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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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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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