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HELP sends engineers to aid African villages

By Tatiana Cooke | August 19, 2010

Although they are spending summer in Hanover thousands of miles away from Africa, members of Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects have used this term to increase their presence in impoverished, villages overseas and are working to create a small-scale hydroelectricity system in Rwanda and improve wood burning and waste disposal technology in Tanzania, according to HELP member Ted Sumers '12.

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Prof. teaches writing techniques

By Emma Fidel | August 19, 2010

SUJIN LIM / The Dartmouth Staff SUJIN LIM / The Dartmouth Staff Editors Note: This is the second installment in a series profiling visiting professors at the College. As an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, Montgomery Fellow and visiting English professor Alex Kotlowitz "made the mistake" of taking organic chemistry.

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Professor appointed to associate deanship

By Greg Berger | August 19, 2010

Nancy Marion, former chair of the economics department and economics professor, has been appointed associate dean of the faculty for the social sciences, Dean of Faculty Michael Mastanduno announced in an e-mail on Monday.

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Speaker discusses Jewish law origins

August 19, 2010

Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Staff Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Staff While the current Jewish and Islamic codes of law are often considered as two independent, unrelated entities, centuries of close interaction between Jewish and Muslim populations resulted in a number of similarities between the two legal doctrines, according to Hebrew University of Jerusalem law professor Gideon Libson.

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Gifted students experience college

By Conrad Scoville | August 19, 2010

High school students uncovered footprints, identified blood evidence and dusted for fingerprints in a mock crime scene on Wednesday for the class "Crime Scene Investigation" a part of the Summer Institute for the Gifted Program at Dartmouth.

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Daily Debriefing

By Tatiana Cooke | August 16, 2010

Dartmouth professor and former director of the College's Neukom Institute for Computational Science Richard Granger has filed a countersuit in Grafton County Superior Court in the ongoing litigation with the Newport Harbor Lutheran Church.

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Ben and Jerry's will be replaced by local shop

August 16, 2010

Jon Erdman / The Dartmouth Staff Jon Erdman / The Dartmouth Staff Twenty years after Ben & Jerry's opened its doors on Lebanon Street, a new ice cream store has come to replace the franchise, and students and Upper Valley locals will now look to Carnival I Scream as a Hanover ice cream source. Although Ben & Jerry's just closed on Sunday, the new franchise is scheduled to open in its place on Wednesday, according to Gusanoz Taqueria employee Matt Verdine.

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Attendance drops for Fieldstock festivities

By Conrad Scoville | August 16, 2010

This past weekend, students dressed in flair were seen playing tug-of-war outside of Baker, eating inordinate amounts of mozzarella sticks on Collis lawn and volleying serves on the Green as a part of the College's fifth annual Fieldstock weekend, which allowed students to form teams and compete against one another. Despite the chariot race's long history as a Dartmouth tradition, the competition saw a decline in participation this year, though this summer's Fieldstock competition was deemed successful by organizers and most Fieldstock chairs interviewed by The Dartmouth. The chariot race featured only six teams, while over 10 teams competed last year, according to Student Assembly Fieldstock chair Amrita Sankar '12. The chariot race and the eating competition were two of the most well-attended Fieldstock events, Sankar said. The large time commitment required by the competitions may have dissuaded many students from participating, according to Chad Hollis '12, Fieldstock chair for Gamma Delta Chi fraternity.

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Dartmouth ranked 9th nationally

August 16, 2010

Dartmouth placed ninth in the 2011 U.S. News and World Report annual "Best University" ranking, improving from its 11th-place ranking of the past three years, the U.S.

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Library upgrades borrowing system

By Jamila Ma | August 16, 2010

Jon Erdman / The Dartmouth Staff Jon Erdman / The Dartmouth Staff The College library will launch a new interface for Borrow Direct a service that allows Dartmouth faculty, students and staff to request and borrow books from five Ivy League libraries on Aug.

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New SAAP coordinator announced

By Conrad Scoville | August 12, 2010

Kristin Baxivanos, a member of Yale University's Class of 2010, was named interim coordinator for the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program, according to a Thursday e-mail from Department of Health Promotion director Bryant Ford to members of Mentors Against Violence.

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Daily Debriefing

By Jamila Ma | August 12, 2010

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $26 billion grant for school districts that will prevent teacher layoffs on Tuesday, The New York Times reported.

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Students and inmates produce play

By Ann Baum | August 12, 2010

Courtesy of Patricia Lee Courtesy of Patricia Lee Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, seven of the 14 students enrolled in College Course 12 venture down Interstate 91 to the Sullivan County House of Corrections in Unity, N.H., where they collaborate with female inmates to produce a play that will be performed at the end of the term.

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Limit petroleum use, Nadeau says

By Christina Wray | August 12, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Due to the historic connection between high fuel costs and global economic recessions, politicians must decrease their nations' dependence on oil to preserve a crucial subterranean layer, according to petroleum geologist Paul Nadeau.

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Parsa explores causes of 1979 Iranian Revolution

By Brendan Dooley | August 12, 2010

Despite widely held beliefs, the 1979 Iranian Revolution was not a popular movement in support of Islamic fundamentalism at its outset, but instead began as a revolution for social justice supported by a broad coalition of secular interests, according to sociology professor Misagh Parsa.

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SEIU approves new contract with College

By Ann Baum | August 9, 2010

Members of the Service Employees International Union Local 560 approved a two-year contract on Friday that "protects existing bargaining union members from layoffs during the term of the contract," according to Kevin O'Leary, associate general counsel for the College, who helped lead negotiations between the College and the union.

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Daily Debriefing

August 9, 2010

Kaplan, Inc. announced last week that it will suspend new enrollment at two of its Kaplan College campuses, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Friday.

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