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By 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

By 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

By 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.

Steven Megli, a vice president at Intel, explained on Friday how the company has managed to thrive and excel in its field.
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Intel VP advocates for innovative ideas

By 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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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

By 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.

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Wong documentary features SEAD

By Ann Baum | April 1, 2010

Despite struggles with foster care, an unstable home life and an absent father, Sharifea Baskerville is able to make her way to Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth, a program offered through the College for students from under-resourced schools, as represented in Christopher Wong's documentary "Whatever It Takes." The documentary, which airs on New Hampshire public television April 2, chronicles the challenges faced by Baskerville and other students and faculty at the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics.

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Daily Debriefing

By Elise Quinones | April 1, 2010

Etta Pisano '79 was appointed as the next dean of the Medical University of South Carolina on Wednesday, according to a University press release.

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Smith '88 endorses Asch '79 in letter

By Madeline Sims | April 1, 2010

In a mailing sent to thousands of alumni earlier this week, College Trustee Stephen Smith '88 endorsed petition trustee candidate Joe Asch '79 and criticized Asch's opponent, Alumni Council-nominated trustee candidate John Replogle '88, urging alumni to vote for Asch in the ongoing election for the Board seat.

Dartmouth's increase in applicants was part of a larger trend toward larger applicant pools among peer institutions.
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Admissions rate hits record low

By BRIDGETTE TAYLOR | April 1, 2010

Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The College has admitted 11.5 percent of applicants to the Class of 2014, the lowest acceptance rate in College history.

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Search committee calls for provost candidates

By Katie Gonzalez | April 1, 2010

Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff A seven-person search committee which held its first meeting on March 30 has begun accepting nominations to permanently fill the position of College provost, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in an e-mail to members of the Dartmouth community on Thursday.

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Cutting-edge surgery aids student

By PAULINA KARPIS | April 1, 2010

After a doctor at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center told Matthew Balaguer '11 that he could not be treated for the chronic back pain that forced him to quit the crew team and frequently miss class, Balaguer continued consulting with physicians until he was referred to Kevin Pauza, co-founder of the Texas Spine and Joint Hospital.

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Speaker warns of nuclear danger

By Nathan Yeo | March 31, 2010

Curie Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Curie Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Helen Caldicott, co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, warned of the medical hazards posed by nuclear power and called on Vermont to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in a lecture in Filene Auditorium on Wednesday. Making frequent use of the blackboard to illustrate her points, Caldicott described the ways in which each stage of the production of nuclear power, from the mining of uranium to the storing of nuclear waste, can release dangerous, cancer-causing chemicals into the environment. Radiation exposure can lead to uncontrollable cancerous cell growth, Caldicott said. The radioactive isotope tritium, for example, is released into rivers and groundwater after it is used in nuclear reactors.

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Coburn describes travels in Nepal

By Molly Turner | March 31, 2010

Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Researcher and author Broughton Coburn spent August 2008 leading a "rag-tag expedition" through the mountains of Nepal, a journey that was "reminiscent of the Indiana Jones series of movies," he said in a lecture to Hanover residents and Dartmouth students Wednesday evening in the Howe Library. In his lecture, "The Secrets of Shangri-La," Coburn described how he and his team discovered many ancient artifacts in man-made complexes in the Mustang region of Nepal, he said. Coburn described his research and film expedition as a "scientific, cultural, spiritual, artistic mission." Coburn and his team discovered pre-Buddhist illuminated manuscripts, ancient shrines and murals depicting mystical yogis, which Coburn showed in a slide show during his talk.

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