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Petit murder trial starts in case against Hayes

By Conrad Scoville | September 14, 2010

Three years after the murder of Hayley Petit, who was to matriculate with the Class of 2011, proceedings against Steven Hayes, one of her alleged killers, began Monday in New Haven, Conn. Hayes is one of two men charged with killing Petit, her mother and sister in a 2007 home invasion.

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College converts 44 double rooms to triples for freshmen

September 14, 2010

The College has converted 44 doubles in Fahey and McClane residence halls to triples to accommodate the rise in the number of students this year, and has started major renovations on the former Thayer Dining Hall, now called the Class of 1953 Commons. The College decided to change the rooms from two-room doubles to triples to accommodate the Class of 2014, which has roughly 50 more students than previous classes. These rooms were only offered to incoming freshman who indicated a preference for two or more roommates, Director of Residential Operations Woody Eckels said in an interview.

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Wagner appointed vice president of finance

By Emma Fidel | August 26, 2010

Michael Wagner, chief financial officer of Dartmouth Medical School, has been appointed to serve as the College's vice president of finance, effective September 2010, according to a College press release. The position of executive vice president for finance and administration was previously held by Adam Keller.

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Students learn about consent issues

By Katie Gonzalez | August 23, 2010

Courtesy of Shaun Akhtar Courtesy of Shaun Akhtar Over 17 Greek and community organizations staged informational booths and games such as sex-position twister and lubricant tasting during this year's annual Consent Day, which took place on Friday afternoon.

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Orientation to include new learning programs

August 23, 2010

Before many members of the Class of 2014 begin their first classes at the College, they will experience a whirlwind of pre-orientation and orientation programming planned by the College and the student-run Orientation Team.

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Independent film will showcase Hanover area

By Brendan Dooley | August 23, 2010

Although the town of Hanover is not easily confused with Hollywood, Calif., the independent film "Brief Reunion" (2011) was exclusively filmed in the Upper Valley this summer and will include several scenes that were shot at Dartmouth, according to "Brief Reunion" producer Ben Silberfarb '90. Written and directed by John Daschbach, the film is a psychological thriller that tells the story of a middle-aged man who reconnects with an old friend through a social networking site, only to see his life slowly dismantled through their rekindled relationship, Silberfarb said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The idea for the film was developed a year and a half ago, when Daschbach contacted former high-school classmate Silberfarb over Facebook with an idea for a new project.

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Daily Debriefing

By Ann Baum | August 23, 2010

Economics professor Douglas Irwin was selected as the lecturer for the 23rd annual Ohlin Lectures, a two-day lecture series at the Stockholm School of Economics in Stockholm, Sweden, according to a College press release.

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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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