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By Emily Fletcher | May 6, 2010

Students are more likely to disrespect and disrupt professors that are female and inexperienced than instructors who are male and experienced, according to a study by three education professors at the University of Redlands in California, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Tuesday.

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Talks highlights security issues of Google Health

By Bobby Ni | May 5, 2010

Galen Pospisil / The Dartmouth Galen Pospisil / The Dartmouth Google Health, Google's new health information system, allows patients, doctors and pharmacists to share medical information over the Internet, but the sensitive nature of medical information presents unique security challenges, according to Google security engineer Umesh Shankar.

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One year later, swine flu fears have subsided

By Casey Aylward | May 5, 2010

Despite the rapid response to what College officials feared would be a severe and highly-contagious H1N1 flu outbreak this past Fall, most infected Dartmouth students experienced only "relatively mild illness," according to College Health Services Director Jack Turco.

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By Christy O'Keefe | May 5, 2010

Twenty students at the University of California, Berkeley began a hunger strike Monday, demanding that UC President Mark Yudof and that UC chancellors denounce a recent Arizona immigration law which orders police to question anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant that students deemed racist, The San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday.

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Students respond to Qinghai quake

May 5, 2010

Correction Appended In response to the recent earthquake in the Qinghai province of China, Dartmouth students, faculty and members of the community have collectively raised more than $1,400 for various non-governmental organizations that are supporting the relief effort, according to Connie Hu '11 and anthropology professor Sienna Craig, who has served as an adviser to several clubs and student organizations involved in the effort. On April 14, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Yushu County in the Qinghai province, killing 617 people by April 15, according to The New York Times. The earthquake struck two days before a Buddhism and Medicine seminar at Dartmouth, and Craig decided to use the event as a means of leveraging funds for the relief effort, she said.

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Tanner clarifies new health care act

By Angie Yang | May 4, 2010

Laura Diez / The Dartmouth Staff Laura Diez / The Dartmouth Staff Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, broke the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act down to the basics at a lecture titled, "Health Care Reform: What Just Happened?!?" held at the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday.

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Career Services reports increase in job offers

By Madeline Sims | May 4, 2010

Employers and students have expressed a "cautious sense of optimism" regarding the current job market, and a higher percentage of Dartmouth seniors have reported securing post-College employment than they did at this time last year, according to Monica Wilson, associate director of employer relations at Career Services.

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Topside, Food Court to relocate

By Ann Baum | May 4, 2010

Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Thayer Dining Hall will be completely closed for renovations this Summer, and all Food Court operations will be relocated to the Courtyard Cafe in the Hopkins Center, according to acting Director of Dartmouth Dining Services David Newlove.

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Students discuss liberal arts in Kuwait

May 3, 2010

Malina Simmers / The Dartmouth Malina Simmers / The Dartmouth The American University in Kuwait, the country's first private liberal arts university, faces a challenge in establishing a liberal arts curriculum in the divergent educational culture of Middle East's Gulf Region.

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Kidder spotlights refugee in talk

By Molly Turner | May 3, 2010

Curie Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Curie Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Having survived the horrors of genocide in his home country, a young man named Deogratias fled Burundi only to live as a homeless refugee in New York City, spending his nights sleeping in Central Park.

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By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | May 3, 2010

Dartmouth was ranked at the top of the list of "Tech's 29 Most Powerful Colleges" as the school with the undergraduates most likely to become leaders in technology, The Daily Beast reported Monday.

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Carnival for a Cause raises $2,200

May 2, 2010

Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff In what may become an annual event, Carnival for a Cause attracted approximately 300 participants and raised $2,200 for the National Down Syndrome Society on Saturday, according to event organizer Kyle Battle '11.

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Study: Regional trends found in cardiology test

May 2, 2010

Cardiologists' fears of malpractice suits may contribute to the regional differences in cardiologists' tendency to prescribe tests and treatments for patients' problems, according to a recent study by a team that included two Dartmouth professors, "Variation in Cardiologists' Propensity to Test and Treat," published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

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