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Weeks receives $800,000 settlement

By Christy O'Keefe | October 25, 2010

Dartmouth Medical School psychiatry professor William Weeks who was acquitted of conflict-of-interest charges brought against him by the federal government in April was awarded $800,000 in a settlement with the federal government this week as compensation for "violations of human rights and privacy," he said. As a result of the April charges, Weeks filed the lawsuit against the government for unlawful suspension from his position at the Department of Veterans Affairs and improper investigation into the charges brought against him. The federal government had accused Weeks of initiating five fixed-priced contracts in 2003 on behalf of the VA and performing the work as the College's principal investigator.

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‘Wicked' author explains methods

By Hannah Kuhar | October 24, 2010

Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff Gregory Maguire never quite knows where he is. During a lecture in Alumni Hall on Sunday, Maguire the bestselling author of "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" said his work has made him feel like he has been living in Oz for the past four months. "I'm going crazy," Maguire said.

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Panel: Parties will decide election

By Isha Flores | October 24, 2010

Kavin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kavin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Candidates' parties will have more of an effect on the results of this year's midterm elections than their campaign messages, panelists said in a discussion held Friday at the Rockefeller Center. Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, highlighted the influence that national forces including the national congressional ballot, presidential approval and the state of the economy will have on this year's midterm elections.

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Prof. finds link between functional disease, sleep disorders

By Nathan Yeo | October 24, 2010

Patients suffering from functional dyspepsia, a gastrointestinal disease, are more than three times more likely to develop sleeping disorders than healthy patients, according to a study entitled "Functional Dyspepsia: A Risk Factor for Disordered Sleep" conducted by Brian Lacy, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School.

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Daily Debriefing

By Jay Webster | October 24, 2010

McMaster University's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine has adjusted its admission criteria in order to increase enrollment of male applicants, The Globe and Mail of Toronto reported.

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Kim discusses drinking, assault

By Emily Fletcher | October 24, 2010

College President Jim Yong Kim has been working extensively with the town of Hanover to determine the best ways to ensure student safety, but students must take the lead in addressing binge drinking and sexual assault on campus, Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth Editorial Board on Friday. Through conversations with students and community members, Kim said he has realized that it is an "ethnographic reality" that Hanover Police's recent charges against Greek organizations would deter Good Samaritan calls. Kim said his first priority is still to ensure that students call for help when someone is dangerously intoxicated, although dealing with the problem also requires curtailing the culture of binge drinking that leads to Good Samaritan calls. Kim is having "intensive discussions" with Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone and the town's Board of Selectmen to figure out the best way to ensure students' safety, he said. "Every single day we're having multiple conversations with the town to try to come up with some way to accomplish our goals, and they're two-fold eliminate any obstacle to calling for help and tackle binge drinking," Kim said.

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Stella discusses five-decade long art career

By Soumya Gupta | October 21, 2010

Legendary American painter and sculptor Frank Stella explained his series of abstract paintings, "Irregular Polygons," emphasizing the flatness in his work and highlighting how the thick bands of color surrounding geometric shapes created illusions of dimensionality in a flat space, in a lecture on Thursday. Brian Kennedy, former Director of the Hood Museum and curator of the series, led the talk with Stella, a Montgomery Fellow, as images from the series were projected onto a screen behind him.

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Sustainability chair appointed

October 21, 2010

The College has appointed Rosi Kerr '98 as its new director of sustainability, according to an announcement from College Provost Carol Folt. Kerr will report directly to Folt and will work closely with Linda Snyder, vice president for campus planning and facilities, as well as environmental studies department chair Andrew Friedland, according to the statement. "[Kerr] will partner with academic, student and administrative leaders to develop aspirational goals and lead Dartmouth toward a sustainable future," the release stated. Kerr previously served as the director of sustainability at GreenerU, a company that works to help colleges and universities lessen their environmental impacts and become "environmental leaders," according to the statement.

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Democrats descend on Dartmouth

By Joseph Singh | October 21, 2010

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth David Plouffe the acclaimed chief campaign manager behind Barack Obama's 2008 presidential victory told the College Democrats on Thursday that the Democrats' platform this midterm election is the only one that will move the country in a positive direction, adding that this election will be crucial in determining the successful implementation of Obama's agenda. Plouffe also implored students to vote on Nov.

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Daily Debriefing

By Soumya Gupta | October 21, 2010

The 2010 "State of College Admission" report of theNational Association for College Admission Counseling found that 47 percent of colleges reported an increase in early decision applications for 2009.

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Prof. discusses Internet and crime

By Jenny Che | October 21, 2010

Many of the fears associated with cyber crimes which have become an integral part of our daily lives are in fact culturally construed, David Wall, a professor of criminology at Durham University in England, said in a lecture Thursday. Wall identified three types of cyber crimes in his lecture.

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Prof. uncovers DNA code secrets

By Gavin Huang | October 20, 2010

For the past six years, biology professor Albert Erives and a team of student researchers have been cracking a code. In 2004, Erives in collaboration with genetics professor Michael Levine of the University of California, Berkeley discovered a new layer of regulatory code in DNA that controls the functions of different body cells. After six years of work, Erives' team discovered how this code works and how it has evolved over time, producing a paper on "Dynamic Evolution of Precise Regulatory Encoding Creates the Clustered Site Signature of Enhancers," which appeared in the Oct.

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Daily Debriefing

By Claire Groden | October 20, 2010

The college completion rate for men has stagnated, while the completion rate for women continues to rise, according to a report by the American Council on Education, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

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Prof. details racial migration trend

By Amelia Acosta | October 20, 2010

Chloe Teeter / The Dartmouth Chloe Teeter / The Dartmouth Black migration in the 1940s and 1950s continues to shape current population trends, according to Leah Bouston, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Students cause stir with Obama

By Gavin Huang | October 19, 2010

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth BOSTON A group of Dartmouth and Harvard students interrupted President Barack Obama on Saturday to demand more federal funding for global AIDS relief as the president stumped in Boston for Democratic Gov.

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