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College proposes benefit changes
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Ann Baum
| April 6, 2010
Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff In an effort to reduce spending on employee benefits and compensation by $9 million over the next two fiscal years, College administrators proposed changes to the current benefits package provided to faculty and staff on Tuesday.
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Talk urges protection of endangered languages
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Christy O'Keefe
| April 6, 2010
Alice Zhao / The Dartmouth Staff Alice Zhao / The Dartmouth Staff Linguists have both a moral and scholarly obligation to attempt to preserve endangered minority languages in isolated communities that seek to maintain their cultural and linguistic heritage, according to David Bradley, linguistics professor at La Trobe University in Australia and featured speaker at a lecture on Tuesday in Reed Hall. Bradley drew from personal experience working with two Asian communities to explain how linguists should use documentation, interaction between isolated communities and advocacy on behalf of minority groups to help such communities. Linguists must consider the sense of identity of the people, the vitality of the language, the setting of the community, the domains or genres in which the language exists and government policy when examining minority languages, Bradley said. Bradley spoke about his work with the Gong community in Thailand, an ethnic group in which approximately 100 out of the 500 members speak the Gong language.
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Students tell of struggles with eating
By
Elise Quinones
| April 6, 2010
Students presented personal stories of self-starvation, binge eating and the emotions that eating disorders perpetuate on Tuesday night in Collis Common Ground.
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Daily Debriefing
April 6, 2010
Correction Appended A team of Dartmouth researchers has helped to map out the genome sequence of Hydra magnipapillata, a simple freshwater organism, according to a Tuesday College press release.
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College announces proposed changes to employee benefits
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The Dartmouth Staff
| April 6, 2010
In an effort to reduce spending on employee benefits and compensation by $9 million over the next two fiscal years, College administrators announced on Tuesday proposed changes to the benefits package provided to faculty and staff.
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Speaker calls for fairness in medicine
April 5, 2010
Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff Health care developments in the 21st century must address issues of equity in patient treatment, Fitzhugh Mullan, head professor of health policy at George Washington University, said in a lecture on "The Social Mission of Medicine" held Monday.
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Dartmouth employees may see cut in benefits
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Laura Bryn Sisson
| April 5, 2010
Dartmouth employees may soon receive cuts to their health and retirement benefit plans as administrators struggle to reduce the College budget, faculty committee chairs announced Monday at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting.
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Assembly launches course guide
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Grace Afsari-Mamagani
| April 5, 2010
Student Assembly will replace the student-run online Course Guide with the privately-owned CourseRank web site as the main vehicle for student course assessment, according to several members of Student Assembly.
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Daily Debriefing
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Emily Fletcher
| April 5, 2010
The Legal Defense Coalition, with the support of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, filed a lawsuit April 1 calling for an increase in programming funds for Georgia's three public historically black colleges, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday.
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Hunt for missing kayaker continues
April 5, 2010
Officials are continuing to search for a missing 65-year-old kayaker, Alan Benjamin, who is presumed to have drowned after disappearing on March 25, a representative from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department told The Dartmouth on Monday.
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NSF grants College $2.5 million to fund outreach
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Robert szypko
| April 5, 2010
The National Science Foundation has awarded the College a $2.5 million grant to an fund educational outreach program, in which Dartmouth graduate students will educate local middle school students in science, technology, engineering and math, according to several members of the program team. The grant, which was announced in early March, provides funding for the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education Program, which refers to teaching in science, technology, engineering and math.
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Panel: Times shaped Lincoln's acts
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Casey Aylward
| April 5, 2010
Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff Although Abraham Lincoln has gone down in history as a staunch anti-slavery advocate, the 16th president had to find a middle ground between his personal belief in racial equality and the racist sentiments of many Americans during this presidency, according to three College professors in a panel discussion on "Lincoln and his Legacy." Contradictions between Lincoln's public actions and private opinions should be viewed in light of the time in which the president lived, the panelists said in the Rockefeller Center on Monday. Lincoln's ability to "accommodate and even blur the differences" between varying opinions regarding slavery helped to make him a "skillful politician in an internally divided country," panelist and history professor Robert Bonner said. Lincoln viewed the question of racial equality as separate from that of slavery, history professor Leslie Butler said.
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SSWS plans week of ‘teach-ins'
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Ann Baum
| April 4, 2010
Students walking to class this week may encounter a variety of "teach-ins" discussing the effects of the ongoing budget cuts on College staff.
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Intel VP advocates for innovative ideas
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Brendan Dooley
| April 4, 2010
Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff A focus on technological innovation and research has allowed the microprosessor giant Intel to become one of the most successful corporations in the world, amassing over $37 billion in revenue in the past year, Steven Megli, the vice president and general manager of Intel's assembly test manufacturing, said in a lecture on Friday.
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Health care bill could hurt Dems. in elections
By
Christina Wray
| April 4, 2010
Backlash over the recently-passed national health care bill may adversely affect the campaigns of top New Hampshire Democrats in upcoming midterm elections, several media outlets have reported. Rep.
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Daily Debriefing
By
Angie Yang
| April 4, 2010
In response to the difficult job market, all Loyola Law School students' grade point averages have been retroactively raised by one-third of a letter grade, Dean Victor Gold announced in a memo, according to Above the Law, an online legal blog.
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Petit suspect asks court to OK his guilty plea
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Angie Yang
| April 4, 2010
Steven Hayes who is currently on trial for the murders of Hayley Petit, who was to matriculate with the Class of 2011, and her mother and sister has submitted a request to change his plea to guilty, according to multiple media reports.
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Senate candidate speaks to students at College
By
JOY CHEN
| April 1, 2010
Former N.H. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, a Republican candidate for New Hampshire's Senate seat, visited the College on Thursday and spoke with several students, including members of the College Republicans.
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College to lay off six, cut working hours
By
Jamila Ma
| April 1, 2010
The College will lay off six additional employees while reducing the working hours of six others this month, and will potentially eliminate up to 30 additional positions later this year, acting Provost and Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt and Senior Vice President Steven Kadish announced in a campus-wide e-mail detailing budget reduction initiatives on Thursday.