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Big Green Bus completes national trip

August 24, 2009

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Fresh from a 41-city tour to promote energy efficiency, the vegetable oil-powered Big Green Bus and its contingent of Dartmouth students arrived in Hanover on Sunday.

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U.S. News report ranks College 11th nationally

By Drew Joseph | August 20, 2009

Dartmouth has maintained the No. 11 slot among national universities in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings, but tops a new category prioritizing a commitment to undergraduate education among national universities. Princeton University and Harvard University share the top spot in the rankings.

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English prof. passes away from illness

August 20, 2009

Courtesy of Dartmouth College Following a short illness, associate Professor of English Peter Cosgrove passed away on July 22, the Valley News reported. Cosgrove was a specialist in 18th century British literature.

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Daily Debriefing

By Turia Lahlou and Fan Zhang | August 20, 2009

As a trial for its Rivercrest development project, the College is selling two factory-built homes, one on Route 10 in West Lebanon and another on Grasse Road in Hanover, the Valley News reported on Tuesday.

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Liverpool proposes ‘18' rating on films with smoking

By Emily Goodell | August 20, 2009

The City Council in Liverpool, England has introduced legislation to prevent individuals under 18 from attending, renting or buying films featuring tobacco use based in part on research conducted by physicians at Dartmouth Medical School. The legislation was proposed because of research showing that tobacco use in movies has "a strong effect in encouraging young people to smoke," according to the Executive Case Summary provided by the Liverpool City Council on its web site.

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Spears to serve as Dean of the College for next two years

August 18, 2009

College officials have tapped Sylvia Spears, the current director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and acting senior associate Dean of the College, to oversee the Dean of the College's Office for the next two years while its structure is reevaluated and a permanent dean is chosen, Provost Barry Scherr announced on Tuesday.

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DrinkFit offers nutritional facts on drinks

August 17, 2009

A guy with an iPhone walks into a bar. If he wanted to see how many calories were in his favorite cocktail, he might use DrinkFit, an application designed for the iPhone by Justin Cooperman '10.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Goodell and Lauren Rosenbaum | August 17, 2009

A group of entrepreneurs has created a new program, Safe Start, which aims to reduce fear of student loan debt that could potentially prevent students from applying to college, according to the New York Times.

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Young Cons perform nationally

By Lauren Rosenbaum | August 17, 2009

"The Young Cons," the pair of Dartmouth students responsible for a popular viral video that sought to champion conservative political values this spring, have now released a second video, "The Power of the Individual." Josh Riddle '12 and David Rufful '12, who appeared on national television shows this summer in the wake of the first video's release, seek to "spread the love and logic surrounding true conservatism" with their performances, according to the pair's web site. Rufful and Riddle performed on the television show "The Strategy Room" on June 10, and then were featured on "Fox and Friends" on June 11.

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Student organizationsrally for consensual sex

By Emily Goodell | August 17, 2009

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Massachusetts Row beamed with colorful booths and booming music as crowds of students were able to participate in such activities as a condom dart throw, in the 7th annual Consent Day on Friday Afternoon. The aim of the event is to raise awareness about sexual assault, according to Chris Fletcher '11, a Sexual Abuse Peer Advisor who was a member of the Consent Day planning committee. "Sexual harassment still happens on college campuses, so I think it's really important to reaffirm that," Fletcher said.

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Program teaches healthy eating habits

August 17, 2009

Courtesy of Sarah Schewe For the past month, Sarah Schewe '12 and Julia Schneider '12 have worked with 40 students from fourth to eighth grade enrolled in South Bronx's Point Development Center's summer camp to help them learn from and cultivate fruit and vegetable plots at the Bryant Hill Community Garden.

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Prof. creates biotechnical company

By Emily Goodell | August 13, 2009

A Thayer School of Engineering professor has helped start a biotechnical company Adimab that is working to drastically reduce the time it takes to produce antibodies used in therapeautic drugs.

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Deans Offices merged to increase efficiency

August 13, 2009

The First-Year Office and the Upperclass Dean's Office have been merged together to create the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students in order to more consistently provide advising to students, the College announced Wednesday. Dean of the College Tom Crady was out of the office Thursday and unable to comment on how the decision was made to restructure the advising system or whether the restructuring was done in response to budget cuts. Each dean will work with an equal number of students from all four undergraduate classes, Rovana Popoff, one of seven deans in the new office, said. In the past, students were assigned a first-year dean when they arrived at the College and a different dean for their final three years.

Jules Feiffer participates in a panel discussion with acclaimed cartoonists Edward Koren, Edward Sorel and Jeff Danzinger.
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Feiffer discusses cartoons' transition

August 13, 2009

Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Staff They have taken on every president since Kennedy and getting on their bad side could have serious consequences. With blazing quick wit and withering cynicism, four of the most decorated cartoonists in American journalism Montgomery Fellow Jules Feiffer, Edward Koren, Edward Sorel and Jeff Danzinger discussed the past and future of illustrated political and social commentary in a Montgomery Fellow panel on Wednesday afternoon in Filene Auditorium. The four cartoonists, all based in New York City, began by displaying favorite examples of their work, running the gamut from early drawings, featuring Feiffer and Sorel's illustrations from the Village Voice, to syndicated newspaper political cartoons and cover illustrations for The New Yorker. Later, the panel engaged in a question-and-answer session about their work. At one point an audience member referred to the panel as men "of a certain age." "What the hell do you mean by that?" Feiffer joked, but the panelists acknowledged that the environment was changing for the older generation of political cartoonists. They agreed that changes in the newspaper industry pointing particularly the closing of several major newspapers and the increasing distaste for edgy content are making it nearly impossible for political cartoonists to make a living. The Internet and technology, likewise, have affected the way younger cartoonists approach their craft. "The next generation works on the Internet ... they work very quickly," Danzinger said.

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