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Daily Debriefing
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JOY CHEN
| March 31, 2010
President Barack Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 into law on Tuesday.
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College admits 11.5 percent of applicants
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The Dartmouth Staff
| March 31, 2010
After choosing from its largest-ever applicant pool -- a 3.5-percent increase over last year -- Dartmouth has offered 2,165 applicants admission to the Class of 2014, according to a press release issued yesterday by the College.
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Study: Low self-esteem alters neural responses
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Casey Aylward
| March 31, 2010
Having low self-esteem changes the way the brain responds to social feedback, according to a new study by Dartmouth researchers published online Monday in the Oxford Journal Cerebral Cortex.
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Skutch '41, television game show pioneer, dies at 88 in Calif.
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Katie Gonzalez
| March 30, 2010
Television director and producer Ira Skutch '41 who helped create and popularize the modern game show format through his work on television series including "Match Game" died of lymphoma on March 16 in Silver Lake, Calif., according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Law to change student lending
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Grace Afsari-Mamagani
| March 30, 2010
Following Tuesday's enactment of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, the College's financial aid program will shift to accommodate direct lending of student loans from the federal government rather than from private lenders, a process which will streamline the lending process, according to Virginia Hazen, College director of financial aid. Historically, the federal government provided funds to private lenders to encourage loans to students, with the government assuming the loans' risk but receiving no returns from the loans.
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Orgs. fund Trustee, AoA campaigns
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Greg Berger
| March 30, 2010
Two alumni-run nonprofit organizations The Hanover Institute and Dartmouth Undying, groups which have supported opposing candidates in recent Board of Trustees and Association of Alumni elections each raised about $500,000 in donations in 2008 for election efforts, according to representatives from both organizations.
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Daily Debriefing
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BRIDGETTE TAYLOR
| March 30, 2010
Julia Griffin, Hanover town manager, is joining efforts to expand broadband networks in the State of New Hampshire.
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Health care reform law to affect DHMC, DMS
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Elise Quinones
| March 30, 2010
Zach Ingrebretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingrebretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The sweeping health care reform law enacted last week will allow Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Medical School to provide higher quality care and increase patient accessibility, according to Frank McDougall, DHMC vice president for governmental relations.
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SPAHRC to release report in April
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Emily Fletcher
| March 30, 2010
Correction Appended The Student and Presidential Alcohol Harm Reduction Committee will deliver its report on student drinking to the administration at the end of April, SPAHRC student co-chair Will Schpero '10 said at the Student Assembly meeting Tuesday.
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New technology to fight fake drugs
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Laura Bryn Sisson
| March 30, 2010
Technology developed by Ashifi Gogo, a Ph.D. candidate in the Thayer School of Engineering's Innovation Program, could potentially eliminate the threat posed by counterfeit drugs with the help of a simple text message.
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Daily Debriefing
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Laura Bryn Sisson
| March 29, 2010
The number of New England colleges and universities charging over $50,000 a year for tuition, room and board will double next year, The Boston Globe reported Sunday.
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Lawsuit appeal divides candidates in AoA race
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Greg Berger
| March 29, 2010
With little more than a week remaining in the Association of Alumni election voting period, the race has become more divided after news of continuing legal action against the Board of Trustees.
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Founding AOL investor discusses financial crisis
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BRIDGETTE TAYLOR
| March 29, 2010
Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff When he graduated as a history major from Dartmouth, Doug Peabody '74 said he did not know a stock from a bond.
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Pfeiffer abandons election plans
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Nathan Yeo
| March 29, 2010
Retired Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Mark Pfeiffer '70 has decided not to make a bid for Rhode Island's open House of Representatives 1st District seat, Pfeiffer said in an interview with The Dartmouth, despite speculation in several media outlets that he was considering a run.
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Student plans Marshallese outreach
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Madeline Sims
| March 29, 2010
Courtesy of Derek Summerville Courtesy of Derek Summerville After spending the Winter term in the Marshall Islands on the Dartmouth education department's volunteer teacher program, Derek Summerville '11 launched an effort to bring a group of highly-motivated students from the Marshall Islands to the YMCA Youth Conference on National Affairs this summer.
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Study: place affects cancer death rate
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Jamila Ma
| March 29, 2010
Courtesy of Dartmouth.edu Courtesy of Dartmouth.edu A new study by Dartmouth researchers may help to explain why the rate of cancer-related death is higher among black patients.
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Haitian students study at College
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Hannah Kuhar
| March 29, 2010
Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The day before Daphnee Charles was scheduled to take an exam at her university in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the university building collapsed in the devastating earthquake that struck the city on Jan.
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Alumni appeal parity case decision
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Greg Berger
| March 28, 2010
Correction Appended A group of alumni, led by B.V. Brooks '47, is planning to file an appeal with the New Hampshire Supreme Court that seeks to reverse the January dismissal of the group's lawsuit against the College Board of Trustees by the Grafton County Superior Court, according to the group's lawyer, Eugene Van Loan. The plaintiffs in the previous case Brooks, John Steel '54, Kenneth F.
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Orosz '00 pioneers solar projects for health clinics
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Emily Fletcher
| March 28, 2010
Matt Orosz '00 was a government major as an undergraduate until he read a book by late Dartmouth environmental science professor Dana Meadows.