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Kim looks to lead new initiatives

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Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff *Editor's note: This is the final installment in a series of articles reflecting on College President Jim Yong Kim's first year in office.**## Beginning next year, College President Jim Yong Kim will focus on a new "strategic planning process" to shape a long-term vision for the College, according to College officials.


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Crewe to direct search for next dean of faculty

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Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The search for the Dean of the Faculty is underway, led by English professor Jonathan Crewe, head of a six-person committee that will select a new dean of the faculty, Crewe told The Dartmouth in an interview.


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Poll reveals voters' budget concerns

New Hampshire residents showed concern about the state economy and a growing dissatisfaction with elected officials in the third annual "State of the State Poll" conducted in late April by students involved with the Rockefeller Center Policy Research Shop.





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Tabard faces two alcohol charges

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The Tabard coed fraternity has been charged with two counts of alcohol service to underage individuals, according to a Hanover Police press release. Tabard is being charged as an organization, according to the release, meaning the charges constitute felonies and carry fines as high as $100,000 for each count. Tabard President Paloma Ellis is scheduled to appear before the Lebanon District Court on June 28, the release stated. On Thursday, a 20-year-old Dartmouth student was arrested by police for alcohol possession.



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Students lead local theater project

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Chloe Teeter / The Dartmouth Chloe Teeter / The Dartmouth This June, theater professor James Rice, along with 12 Dartmouth student directors, will help fifth and sixth graders "come out of their shells and find their voices as actors" as they assume the roles of the confused lovers and fairies of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," according to class member Jay Ben Markson '10.


Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig described the influence of lobbyists and campaign donors on public policy.
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Lessig warns of lobbyists' influence

Galen Pospisil / The Dartmouth Galen Pospisil / The Dartmouth Wealthy campaign donors and lobbyists continue to exercise a disproportionate amount of influence on lawmakers, Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig said Thursday evening in the lecture "Rebooting Democracy." Lessig said the influence is part of a set of "completely predictable, understandable results" of a democracy centered on a flawed system of electoral campaign finance. The United States has experienced a "radical change in the industry of lobbying" in recent decades, Lessig said, explaining that members of Congress have become "increasingly dependent on campaign cash" as the costs of campaigning increase.


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Kim led budget cuts, faced Trustee dispute

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*Editor's note: This is the fourth installment in a series of articles reflecting on College President Jim Yong Kim's first year in office.**## In the year since he assumed leadership of Dartmouth, College President Jim Yong Kim has faced $100 million budget cuts, staff layoffs and a fiercely contested Board of Trustees race.


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Daily Debriefing

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The College will begin renovating Thayer Dining Hall immediately after Commencement and Reunion with a $12 million gift from the members of the Class of 1953, according to a College press release.



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Kim's work attracts media attention

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Editor's note: This is the third installment in a series of articles reflecting on College President Jim Yong Kim's first year in office. The media frenzy that accompanied College President Jim Yong Kim's appointment last year has shown no signs of fading as he comes to the end of his first year in office.


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Foster links pro-life views, abortion

Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Pro-life and pro-choice advocates crowded into the Rockefeller Center Wednesday to see Serrin Foster, president of the pro-life group Feminists for Life, discussed the connection between feminism and the pro-life position.



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Daily Debriefing

Ardis Olson, a Dartmouth Medical School professor of pediatrics and community medicine, was named the 2010 N.H.


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Lewin details Supreme Court cases

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Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff A fierce defender of the First Amendment, attorney Nathan Lewin has advocated for freedom of religious expression in several cases before the Supreme Court.


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Kim's background has helped shape first year

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Editor's note: This is the second installment in a series of articles reflecting on College President Jim Yong Kim's first year in office. When College President Jim Yong Kim was chosen as a the first Asian-American to direct an Ivy League institution, his appointment was lauded in the Korean press and hailed by many as a landmark achievement.


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Irwin: Smith's views explain poverty

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John Odland / The Dartmouth John Odland / The Dartmouth Modern attempts to confront global poverty overlook many of the basic economic tenets of 18th century philosopher and economist Adam Smith, according to economics professor Douglas Irwin.


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