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Folt to serve as acting provost
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Nate Yeo
| October 14, 2009
JESSICA GRIFfEN / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Correction appended### Dean of Faculty Carol Folt has been appointed acting provost, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in a campus-wide e-mail on Wednesday.
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Law helps ill students retain health insurance
October 14, 2009
A new federal law will allow college students with serious health conditions to take a one-year medical leave without losing their health insurance.
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Folt appointed acting provost
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Nate Yeo
| October 14, 2009
Dartmouth Dean of Faculty Carol Folt has been appointed as acting provost, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in a campus-wide e-mail today.
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83 women drop out of fall rush
By
Brendan Woods
| October 13, 2009
Correction appended Over 80 women dropped out of sorority rush this year, with just 227 out of 335 women receiving bids.
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Profs., students express concern about budget
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Christy O'Keefe
| October 13, 2009
Fallout from College President Jim Yong Kim's announcement on Friday of impending budget cuts has been noticeably muted, with members of the Dartmouth community saying they are concerned, but not shocked about the institution's 23-percent endowment loss.
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Daily Debriefing
October 13, 2009
Brown University President Ruth Simmons took a 10 percent cut in her annual compensation this past year, The Brown Daily Herald reported on Tuesday.
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DMS students weigh in on health care
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Emily Fletcher
| October 13, 2009
Just years away from becoming full-fledged health care providers, students at Dartmouth Medical School said they find the U.S.
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Speaker discusses chemistry's tensions
October 13, 2009
CURIE KIM / The Dartmouth Chemistry affects people's everyday lives in often antithetical ways for example, by providing both new medicines and creating pollution Nobel Prize-winning chemist, writer and Fall 2009 Montgomery Fellow Roald Hoffmann said at a lecture in Filene Auditorium on Tuesday.
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Activist discusses Afghanistan war
October 13, 2009
Eight years following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the human rights situation has not improved, Zoya, a representative of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, said in a lecture in Carpenter hall on Tuesday.
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College research funds increase
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Katie Paxton
| October 12, 2009
The College's Council on Sponsored Activities which handles the College's efforts to obtain research funding and grants has seen a $37-million dollar increase in research funding over the past year, according to findings presented at a meeting of the Steering Committee of the General Faculty on Monday. The Steering Committee consists of the five Councils of the General Faculty, which work with College President Jim Yong Kim, Provost Barry Scherr and Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt.
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SA announces SEMP committee members
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Mitch Davis
| October 12, 2009
The Student Assembly Membership and Internal Affairs Committee announced the nine students who will review the College's Student Event Management Procedures on Monday evening.
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Tuck attracts ‘historic' percentage of women
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Elise Quinones
| October 12, 2009
sujin lim / The Dartmouth The number of women pursuing master of business administration degrees at the Tuck School of Business remains at an "historic level," Tuck Dean Paul Danos told The Dartmouth on Friday.
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Daily Debriefing
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Laura Bryn Sisson
| October 12, 2009
The Princeton Review's 2009 Business School ranking rated the Tuck School of Business the second "Most Family Friendly" and the eighth "Best Administered" business school in the country, according to an Oct.
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Buckey calls for gas tax to stimulate use of alternative energy
October 11, 2009
ZACH INGBRETSEN / The Dartmouth Staff The federal government should impose a gas tax to encourage the use of alternative sources of energy, Dartmouth Medical School professor Jay Buckey told a filled Spanos Auditorium in his Friday lecture, "Tax Gas Now." The United States' dependence on foreign oil benefits countries that do not have American interests in mind and contributes to global warming, Buckey, a former astronaut and one-time U.S.
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Dartmouth's endowment drops 23 percent
By
Greg Berger
| October 11, 2009
College to implement second round of budget cuts
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Gusanoz targeted in Friday robbery
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Conrad Scoville
| October 11, 2009
ALICE ZHAO / The Dartmouth Gusanoz Mexican Restaurant in downtown Hanover was robbed at gunpoint early Friday morning, according to Hanover Police.