Kim calls for budget restructure

College President outlines plans for dining hall renovation

MLK speaker highlights a ‘non-racial' America

Doctors must embrace patients' backgrounds

Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff The audience reacted with intermittent bursts of laughter as Danielle Ofri, professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine and internist at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, recounted her experiences with cultural rifts between doctors and patients in her Thursday night lecture "Journeys With Our Patients: Multiculturalism in a Two-Person Canoe." In order to treat their patients more effectively, doctors should work to be more cognizant of the cultural backgrounds of their patients, Ofri said. Ofri began with a reading from her book, "Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients," which told the story of Nazma Uddin, a 35-year-old woman from Bangladesh, who repeatedly visited Ofri's office complaining of countless ailments.

After fire, Phi Delt starts recovery

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Phi Delta Alpha fraternity has continued to receive donations to help its members cope with the aftermath of the Sunday morning fire that left its physical plant severely damaged and uninhabitable, Phi Delt Vice President Ethan Lubka '10 told The Dartmouth.

Labor leaders decry effects of budget cuts

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Panel discusses mobile device future

Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Enter a hotel room a few years from now and one's mobile device will automatically communicate one's personal viewing preferences to the television, at least according to a panel of experts gathered Wednesday at the Tuck School of Business's ninth annual Tech@Tuck event. The Tech@Tuck program this year focused on mobile strategy and included vendor demonstrations and a speaker panel focused on mobile technology's present state and projected changes over the next few years. The panel included Terry Kramer, regional president of Vodafone Americas, Emily Green, president and CEO of Yankee Group Research, a technology research firm, Mark VandenBrink, vice president of technology solutions at Samsung Telecommunications America, and Kevin Bradshaw, CEO of buzzd, a mobile social networking company. VandenBrink predicted that converged devices, or devices that communicate and coordinate their activity, will be the future of mobile technology. "The big opportunity in mobile is how do you rethink convergence," VandenBrink said.

Applications reach record numbers

Deidra Willis / The Dartmouth Staff Deidra Willis / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth has received a record 18,500 applications for the Class of 2014 so far this year, an increase of 4 percent from this time last year, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris. College administrators are currently deciding whether to increase the size of the incoming first-year class, which will ultimately determine the overall acceptance rate, Laskaris said. "Right now, we're looking at an 11-to-12 percent rate of admission," she said.