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April 21, 2010

Participation in National Collegiate Athletic Association sports continues to rise, according to the association's yearly Sports Sponsorship and Participation Rates Report.

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Problems stall Vt. psychiatric hospital

By Casey Aylward | April 21, 2010

A February plan in which Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Medical School would license a psychiatric facility at the White River Junction Veterans Hospital is now "in limbo" after Medicaid licensing conflicts and funding requirements halted the proposal, Vermont Mental Health Commissioner Michael Hartman told The Dartmouth. The Vermont State Hospital Futures Master Plan called for the Vermont state government to open a 33-bed facility at the Veterans Hospital using $15 million from a one-time allocation of federal Medicaid funding.

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LGBTQ mentoring program started

By Christy O'Keefe | April 21, 2010

In hopes of filling a "necessary" role on campus, students have formed a new peer mentoring program aimed at offering resources to current and incoming LGBTQ students, and at unifying Dartmouth's diverse gay community, according to co-founder Rob Avruch '11.

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After exit, Vernon '10 reflects on presidency

By Ann Baum | April 21, 2010

Maria Apagakis / The Dartmouth Staff Maria Apagakis / The Dartmouth Staff In a year that saw major changes to Dartmouth from a new College president to wide-ranging budget reductions former Student Body President Frances Vernon '10 has worked toward several of the goals she outlined as a candidate in last year's presidential elections.

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Community marches to take back the night

By Eliza Relman | April 21, 2010

Chris Parker / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Chris Parker / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Approximately 40 students, administrators and community members participated in Wednesday evening's 38th annual "Take Back the Night" event, an effort to promote sexual assault awareness coordinated by the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program. "Claim our bodies, claim our rights, take a stand, take back the night," participants chanted as they marched across the College grounds. The mission of the event was to "provide a space for people to break the silence about sexual assault and for survivors or those affected to come forward in a public space," the College's SAAP coordinator, Michelle de Sousa, said. The night began with a rendition of Ani DiFranco's "Gratitude" by the Rockapellas in front of the Hopkins Center.

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Tech. changes how students cheat

By PAULINA KARPIS | April 21, 2010

*Editor's note: This is the second installment in a three-part series examining cheating at Dartmouth.**## Tech-savvy Dartmouth students are finding new methods to cheat through digital means, from looking up answers during restroom breaks to searching on the Internet for answers to problem sets and take-home tests. "Technology really makes it easier for people who want to cheat to do so," said Teresa Fishman, director of the Center for Academic Integrity, a national forum with 360 member institutions.

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Lab works to increase tank safety

By Angie Yang | April 21, 2010

Researchers at the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover are creating a simulator to teach soldiers how to handle army vehicles on rough terrain, according to Barry Coutermarsh, research engineer for the project.

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Tanner '11 assumes presidency

By Emily Fletcher | April 20, 2010

Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Under the direction of newly-elected Student Body President Eric Tanner '11 and Vice President Brandon Aiono '11 who were officially inaugurated at Tuesday's General Assembly meeting Student Assembly could undergo a major reorganization of its current committee system as outlined in Tanner's campaign platform.

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DMS prof. acquitted of all charges

By Ann Baum | April 20, 2010

Dartmouth Medical School professor William Weeks, who was accused of conflict of interest in contracts involving the College, was acquitted on Tuesday of all five counts filed against him by federal prosecutors.

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Talk focuses on Indian relations

By Casey Aylward | April 20, 2010

Chris Parker / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Chris Parker / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Reinterpretations of the Constitution based on national, commercial and expansionist interests have led to legal battles over Native American tribal authority, according to Frank Pommersheim, professor of law at the University of South Dakota and speaker at a lecture on Tuesday.

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Profs. expect students to uphold honor code

By Paulina Karpis and Ping Khuan Sim | April 20, 2010

Editor's note: This is the first installment in a three-part series examining cheating at Dartmouth. Once while grading exams, chemistry professor Jon Kull discovered a test booklet missing its cover page and containing one page that was folded into eight pieces, as if it had been stuffed into a pocket.

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Daily Debriefing

By Katie Gonzalez and Angie Yang | April 20, 2010

College President Jim Yong Kim has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences placing him among 229 newly recognized leaders from the sciences, humanities, arts, business world, public affairs and nonprofit sector, according to a College press release.

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Tanner, Aiono to lead Assembly

By Emily Fletcher | April 19, 2010

Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Eric Tanner '11 was elected student body president on Monday by a margin of over 300 votes, while Brandon Aiono '11 won the vice presidency by only seven votes over Will Hix '12, the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee announced Tuesday morning at around 2 a.m. Voter turnout was higher than in past years, with 2,508 students casting ballots this year compared to 2,136 votes last year. Additionally, Georgia Travers '13 was elected 2013 Class Council president with 442 votes over incumbent Suril Kantaria '13, who received 304.

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Daily Debriefing

April 19, 2010

Grade inflation is more pronounced in private colleges and universities than in public institutions, according to a study conducted by Teachers College Record, The New York Times reported Monday.

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Greer discusses ‘Starting from Scrap'

April 19, 2010

Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Staff Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Staff Long before anyone outside of finance had heard of subprime mortgages, Stephen Greer had already learned how to thrive during a recession. Despite the initial failure of several business ventures in the harsh economic climate of the 1990s, Greer was able to find a commodity in high demand scrap metal developing a trading company that made him a multimillionaire by the age of 28.

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Broecker advocates for climate fix

By Laura Bryn Sisson | April 19, 2010

Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff The capture and storage of carbon dioxide may be the best solution for the problem of fossil fuel emission, Columbia University Newbury professor of geology Wallace Broecker said in a lecture held in a full Filene Auditorium on Monday.

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Daily Debriefing

By JOY CHEN | April 18, 2010

The Elections Planning Advisory Committee has issued a tier-one warning to Student Body presidential candidate Elena Falloon '11 and Student Body vice presidential candidate Will Hix '12 after a supporter of both candidates sent a recipient-repressed e-mail encouraging recipients to vote for Falloon and Hix, which is a violation of campaign rules.

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