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Construction of the proposed Visual Arts Center was made possible by an anonymous $50 million donation.
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Arts Center approaches construction as planned

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Courtesy of www.dartmouth.edu Courtesy of www.dartmouth.edu Construction for the College's Visual Arts Center is proceeding towards its scheduled completion in spring 2012, according to Chief Facilities Officer Linda Snyder. Site work on the Center began shortly after Commencement in June 2009, according to Snyder. The building will take approximately 22 months to complete, and should be open and ready for use during Fall term 2012, she said. "We will have plenty of time to move the film and media studies and studio art departments into their new home," she said. A series of site-enabling projects have to be completed before actual construction of the Center can begin, Snyder said.


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Personal trainers test fitness at gym

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Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Correction Appended### Students, College employees and members of the general public can now receive hour-long physical fitness assessments from personal trainers at the Fitness Center, according to Fitness Center director Hugh Mellert.



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High-tech tool to help stop art fraud

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A new method of image analysis developed by three Dartmouth researchers may help art historians distinguish more easily between authentic artwork and forged copies, according to Daniel Graham, a post-doctoral researcher in mathematics and one of the tool's developers. The model, which uses a technique known as "sparse coding" to quantify artistic style, was also co-developed by Daniel Rockmore, a mathematics and computer science professor, and James M.



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Christ metaphor united followers, professor says

CURIE KIM / The Dartmouth Staff CURIE KIM / The Dartmouth Staff In order to fully understand the Middle Ages, it is necessary to study the prevailing religious doctrine of the time, University of Vermont history professor Charles Briggs said in a speech discussing his book, "Christ's Broken Body: A Unifying Myth and Narrating the End of the Middle Ages." The lecture, which took place Monday afternoon at the Haldeman Center, was hosted by the Leslie Center for The Humanities. Briggs' book, which is scheduled to be released this May, discusses the later years of the Middle Ages, specifically the 14th century, using the metaphor of the "body of Christ." According to Briggs, the body of Christ metaphor, incorporating imagery of the Crucifixion and the Last Supper, was used to imply a single, unified Christian community in Medieval Europe, and was commonly seen in the artwork and pageantry of the era. Briggs cited the Catholic ritual of the Eucharist and the Medieval Feast of Corpus Christi as examples of this phenomenon.


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Daily Debriefing

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The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has rewritten its "retreat rights" policy for departing University administrators to prevent them from receiving large leave payments if they do not return to teaching, The Charlotte Observer reported.


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Morning fire damages Phi Delt

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Daily Debriefing

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The proportion and total number of black and Mexican-American students enrolling in U.S. law schools decreased between 1993 and 2008, according to a study by Columbia Law School professor Conrad Johnson, The New York Times reported Wednesday.


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Prof. links glaciers with speciation

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Akikazu Onda / The Dartmouth Staff Akikazu Onda / The Dartmouth Staff Glacial development and geographic change could be one piece of the puzzle explaining the staggering number of species in a single ecosystem, biology professor Mark McPeek argued in a lecture to the biology department in Gilman Hall on Friday.



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Alumni group pushes for AoA petition slate

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A slate of petition candidates is in the process of soliciting signatures to allow the slate's inclusion on the Association of Alumni executive committee ballot, according to an e-mail obtained Friday by The Dartmouth. The e-mail was originally sent by John MacGovern '80 at the Hanover Institute on Jan.



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Dartmouth completes $1.3 billion campaign

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Zach Kuster / The Dartmouth Staff Zach Kuster / The Dartmouth Staff After a seven-year fund-raising effort, the College reached its $1.3 billion target for the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience by the Dec.


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Medical education must improve, speakers say

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Medical centers around the country must alter their continuing medical education practices to improve the overall health-care system and ensure that medical professionals are free from bias, according to Richard Rothstein, associate dean for continuing education at Dartmouth Medical School, and Mary Turco, director of the Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The doctors spoke at a DHMC Grand Rounds event on Thursday in a lecture called "Continuing Health Sciences Education in the Era of Health-care Reform." Rothstein emphasized the need to reduce lecturing and increase active engagement in classes. "Too much continuing education relies on standing here as a talking head," he said. Clinicians should also incorporate new knowledge into their practices instead of relying on familiar but potentially less effective practices, according to the speakers. Many government and medical leaders question "the value of continuing medical education credit and accreditation in assuring valid content free of commercial bias," Rothstein said. The lecturers also highlighted the need for a revised relationship between health-care professionals and industry.


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Alumni react to trustee candidates

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Courtesy of www.foxnews.com and www.erie.psu.edu Courtesy of www.foxnews.com and www.erie.psu.edu The two candidates nominated by the Alumni Council for the two open alumni-elected seats on the Board of Trustees Morton Kondracke '60 and John Replogle '88 will refrain from deciding whether they support maintaining parity between alumni-elected or charter-selected trustees on the Board until after the election, both candidates said in interviews with The Dartmouth. The issue of parity between alumni-elected and charter-selected trustees has been at the center of College governance debates since the Board voted to end the parity between trustees in 2007, and has been the crux of two lawsuits brought against the College, one of which is ongoing. Some alumni have contended that the Board's decision to increase the number of Board-selected members is a violation of an 1891 Board resolution which they say legally requires parity between the two types of trustees. "My view is that I do not have a yes or no' answer on parity, simply because I am still listening to the arguments on both sides," Kondracke said.


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Daily Debriefing

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Lei Zhang, a 2002 graduate of the Yale School of Management, donated a record $8,888,888 to the school, the Yale University Office of Public Affairs announced in a press release Monday.


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U.S. harmed by "commoditization"

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As national economies become more globalized, companies risk becoming less competitive, causing products and services to lose their uniqueness, according to Tuck School of Business professor Richard D'Aveni.


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Dartmouth completes $1.3 billion capital campaign

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Zach Kuster / The Dartmouth Staff Zach Kuster / The Dartmouth Staff Following a seven-year fund-raising campaign, the College announced Thursday that it had reached the $1.3 billion target in the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, a capital campaign aimed at raising funds for academic enterprises, residential and campus life, and financial aid. A press release posted on the College's web site stated that the campaign had received $1.308 billion as of the official Dec.