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April 8, 2010

Nine Dartmouth Medical School students and two Thayer School of Engineering students have been chosen as Albert Schweitzer Fellows, according to a Dartmouth Medical School press release.

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Study: ‘lol' takes longer to process

By JOY CHEN | April 8, 2010

Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Texting "ttyl" instead of "talk to you later" may not save as much time as one might expect, according to a study conducted by Natalie Berger '09. As part of Berger's psychology honors thesis, Berger and Dartmouth education professor Donna Coch found that the brain is slower at processing text messaging language than standard written English. The study identified similarities and differences between the way the brain processes words in text message phrases and conventional written English. Although participants in the study processed text messages in nearly the same way as they would process any written language, an extra step was required for subjects' brains to process texting language. "The participants in the study were processing semantics of text messages in a way similar to their normal process," Coch said.

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Granit drops Student Body Pres. candidacy

By Emily Fletcher | April 8, 2010

With the campaign period for Student Assembly elections commencing today, Maya Granit '11 has withdrawn from the race due to personal concerns, she said in an interview with The Dartmouth on Thursday. "This position takes so much of your personal life, and it needs to be gratifying enough internally for whoever's in the position to make that OK," said Granit, who left the race yesterday.

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Staff e-mail to switch to Microsoft

By Kate Farley | April 7, 2010

Staff members in the College's administrative departments will switch to Microsoft Online Services for e-mail, calendar and collaboration services beginning in the Fall, Ellen Waite-Franzen, vice president of information technology and the College's chief information officer, announced in a Dartmouth Daily Update bulletin on Wednesday.

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Area vies for Google network

By Madeline Sims | April 7, 2010

Dartmouth has joined with the Upper Valley Fiber Initiative in order to bring a competitively-priced, ultra-high-speed broadband Internet network provided by Google to the Upper Valley.

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Speaker warns of use of implanted devices

By Brendan Dooley | April 7, 2010

Christopher Rhoades / The Dartmouth Staff Christopher Rhoades / The Dartmouth Staff From diabetes to Parkinson's disease, more and more chronic ailments are being treated with implanted medical devices that rely on wireless communication and Internet connectivity to transmit data directly from patient to doctor.

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New student group to assist hostel

By BRIDGETTE TAYLOR | April 7, 2010

In an effort to improve the living conditions of hospital patients residing at the Upper Valley Hostel on 17 South Street in Hanover, Dartmouth students have formed a new organization also called Upper Valley Hostel which aims to provide the hostel with important housework and fundraising services, according to UVH co-chair Justin Lee '11.

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Kim highlights global health past

By Katie Gonzalez | April 7, 2010

Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Drawing from his experiences as a leader in global health administration, College President Jim Yong Kim stressed the need to incorporate "health care delivery science" into undergraduate education during a lecture to community members held in Spaulding Auditorium on Wednesday. Dartmouth "definitely needs to get moving" on adapting programs where students can "think creatively about the biggest troubles of our times," Kim said in response to a question asked by an audience member after the lecture. "If we start teaching this at the medical school stage, it's too late," he said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Casey Aylward | April 7, 2010

New Hampshire has lost a larger percentage of jobs to China over the last decade than any other state, according to a report released by the Economic Policy Institute last month.

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SEIU files suit over issue at Hanover Inn

April 7, 2010

Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Service Employees International Union Local 560 has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations board, alleging that the College has failed to both negotiate with the union about contracts for Hanover Inn employees and be forthright with the union about its intentions for the future of the Inn, according to Earl Sweet, the president of the SEIU Local 560. The College's associate general counsel Kevin O'Leary, however, said Dartmouth administrators have kept the SEIU informed about their intentions and have been willing to discuss contracts. "The College works very hard to keep open lines of communication with the leadership of the SEIU," O'Leary wrote in an e-mail to The Dartmouth.

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College proposes benefit changes

By 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

By 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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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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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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Assembly launches course guide

By 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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