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By Angie Yang | February 10, 2010

Dan Susman '10, the director of this year's Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips, announced the Trips directorate on Wednesday.

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Hanover Police to delay alcohol law enforcement policy

By Conrad Scoville | February 10, 2010

Hanover Police will delay implementation of its alcohol law compliance check policy announced last week, pending discussions with the College and student groups, Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone announced in a press release Wednesday. "The Town shares with the College the goal of reducing the risks to student health and safety posed by excessive alcohol consumption," Giaccone wrote in the release.

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Panel questions social media power

By JOY CHEN | February 9, 2010

Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Social media technology has had a mixed influence on the effectiveness of political protest, according to members of the Tuesday panel "Activism in the Electronic Age: The Impact of Technology on Political Protest." The three panelists focused on the debate over the way blogs and other networking technologies are used by political dissenters, as well as the governments that attempt to thwart their protests. Bruce Etling, director of the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University; Elham Gheytanchi, a sociology professor at Santa Monica College; and Evgeny Morozov, a fellow at Georgetown University, presented information about the impact that social media has in the context of protest movements. The Internet and Democracy Project began by observing anecdotal evidence of technological influence on protests and later shifted its focus to a more analytical examination of the blogosphere, Etling said. "I want to introduce this concept of Newton's Third Law of the Internet,' that for every action there is an equal amount of reaction," Etling said. While blogs may represent members of a population pushing for change, research shows that more conservative groups also have an online presence, Etling said. Authoritarian countries are generally less successful when filtering information than the international community generally believes, he said.

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Budget splits student response

By Robert szypko | February 9, 2010

Following College President Jim Yong Kim's $100 million budget reduction announcement Monday, members of Students Stand with Staff voiced concerns about the proposed layoffs and lack of negotiations between the administration and staff, while other members of the Dartmouth community stood behind Kim's proposal. Kim's budget cut announcement was somewhat vague in its justification for layoffs and many details remain unclear, Eric Schildge '10, co-founder of Students Stand with Staff, said. "I think that the e-mail that he sent to the campus community was to a certain degree opaque and raised more questions than it answered," Schildge said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | February 9, 2010

Dartmouth will offer tuition-free education to a group of Haitian students whose studies were put on hold by the recent earthquake in their country, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in a press conference Monday.

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Overall, Kim's budget plan impresses alumni

By Greg Berger | February 9, 2010

Several alumni praised College President Jim Yong Kim's commitment to maintaining Dartmouth's academic standards and considerate approach to determining staff layoffs in the $100-million budget cut plan announced to the Dartmouth community on Monday.

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SA appeals to police to rethink plan

By PAULINA KARPIS | February 9, 2010

Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Staff Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Staff Student Assembly unanimously passed a resolution calling for Hanover Police to reevaluate the new alcohol enforcement policy Chief Nicholas Giaccone announced last week at their General Assembly meeting Tuesday night. The resolution, sponsored by the Student Assembly Executive Committee, calls for the Hanover Police Department and Hanover Town Select Board to negotiate with the College and students and develop policies that will maintain or improve students' safety.

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Students speak at Select Board mtg.

By Jamila Ma | February 8, 2010

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Greek leaders restated their opposition to Hanover Police's new alcohol enforcement policy at Monday night's meeting of the Hanover Board of Selectmen, prompting members of the Board to express concerns that current campus attitudes towards alcohol may lead to alcohol-related deaths.

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Kim's new plan will maintain academics

By Tatiana Cooke | February 8, 2010

College President Jim Yong Kim has continually emphasized the importance of maintaining the College's academic mission as he seeks to reduce inefficiency in College operations and cut $100 million from the budget for fiscal years 2011 and 2012.

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Faculty, Kim discuss budget cuts

By Christy O'Keefe | February 8, 2010

College President Jim Yong Kim outlined budget decisions to an anxious audience of faculty packed into Alumni Hall at a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Monday afternoon.

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Basri '13 describes childhood in Iraq

By Brendan Dooley | February 8, 2010

Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Murdered professors and daily car bombings are not experiences most Ivy League applicants have to consider including in their path to college admissions, but for Ihab Basri '13, these experiences were all too real.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Fletcher | February 8, 2010

President Barack Obama nominated Pamela Joyner '79, a member of the College's Board of Trustees, to be one of six new members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

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Kim's plan leaves implementation procedures to be specified by April

By Greg Berger | February 8, 2010

Correction appended Despite Monday's release of details concerning financial aid and layoffs which together account for $10 million of the $100-million total budget reduction several other aspects of the budget will be developed between now and the April Board of Trustees meeting, the College announced in a press release Monday. The budget plan approved by the Board of Trustees this weekend finds $25 million in savings in "administrative reorganization and restructuring," the largest single segment of the proposed cutback, according to the release.

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DHMC initiative cuts complications

By Tatiana Cooke | February 7, 2010

A new patient-monitoring system launched by a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center team has decreased the likelihood of post-operation complications by almost half and postoperative rescue calls by two-thirds, according to a paper written by DHMC anesthesiologist Andreas Taenzer and his colleagues. Patients in the study were monitored by oximetry finger probes, which measure blood oxygen levels and notify nurses when a patient's condition deteriorates, according to the paper, "Impact of Pulse Oximetry Surveillance on Rescue Events and Intensive Care Unit Transfers: A Before-and-After Concurrence Study," published in the February issue of Anesthesiology.

The new alcohol proposal, announced by Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone last week, has been condemned by Greek leaders and other students.
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Greeks respond to alcohol policy

By Jamila Ma | February 7, 2010

Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Students and alumni have been quick to condemn an announcement made by Hanover Police Thursday night that the department will begin alcohol law compliance checks at campus Greek organization events in the coming months.

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Medical teams recount efforts in Haiti

By Jamila Ma | February 7, 2010

Correction Appended Battling patients' sepsis, tetanus and renal failure, the Dartmouth Haiti Response emergency medical teams fought to deliver care in conditions "worse than Iraq," team members said in a panel discussion held in Cook Auditorium on Friday. A total of 20 physicians and nurses from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center traveled to Haiti to assist in relief efforts in Hinche and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following the Jan.

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Daily Debriefing

By JOY CHEN | February 7, 2010

Dartmouth was ranked No. 12 in the Peace Corps' top 25 list of small schools with alumni currently serving as volunteers, the College announced on Friday.

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Speaker warns of melting glaciers

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | February 7, 2010

It might take stunts like an underwater cabinet meeting conducted by the president of the Maldives to illustrate the potential consequences of rapidly increasing sea levels, according to glaciologist Robert Bindschadler of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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