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Kappa Delta or Delta Zeta to come to College

By Kate Farley | May 14, 2009

JAMIE MCCOY / The Dartmouth The College's Panhellenic Council will offer either Delta Zeta sorority or Kappa Delta sorority the opportunity to become Dartmouth's eighth sorority, according to Jessica Lane '09, extension committee chairperson and former president of Panhell.

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Muirhead to join College faculty

May 14, 2009

Political theorist Russell Muirhead has been named the inaugural Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics at Dartmouth, the College announced on Wednesday.

University of Wisconsin Law School professor Asifa Quraishi discussed Islamic and constitutional law in a lecture on Tuesday.
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Islamic, constitutional law similar, prof. says

By Jamila Ma | May 13, 2009

ANDREW FOUST / The Dartmouth Staff The methods used to interpret Shari'a, or Islamic law, and secular law are more similar than most people would expect, University of Wisconsin Law School professor Asifa Quraishi said in a lecture held in the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday.

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Daily Debriefing

May 12, 2009

Several private U.S. colleges have announced that their admission yields for the Class of 2013 will mirror last year's trends, despite fears that the economic downturn might deter from students from attending private institutions, The New York Times reported Sunday.

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'Cully's run' honors student's life

By Madeline Sims | May 12, 2009

More than 150 students, alumni and community members woke up early Sunday morning to participate in "Cully's Run" to honor Katy "Cully" Cullinan '08, a rugby player who took her own life this past August after battling an eating disorder for several years.

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Board has not yet met to discuss amendment

May 12, 2009

The Board of Trustees has not yet met to discuss how the amendment to the Association of Alumni constitution, passed on Saturday, will affect the replacement of alumni-elected trustees, according to a statement from Board Chairman Ed Haldeman '70.

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Mexico LSA returns to Hanover

By Greg Berger | May 12, 2009

The 11 Dartmouth students who were evacuated almost two weeks ago from the Language Study Abroad program in Cholula, Mexico, following the swine flu outbreak, returned to campus on Monday.

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DMS professor to plead not guilty

By Emma Fidel | May 12, 2009

William Weeks, a Dartmouth Medical School professor of psychiatry and community and family medicine, will plead not guilty to federal conflict of interest charges for his involvement with contracts between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the College, according his attorney, Robert O'Neill. Weeks, a physician at the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt., was charged on Friday with five federal misdemeanor counts by acting U.S.

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Russian department chair dies at 71

By Katie Gonzalez | May 12, 2009

Dartmouth Russian department chair Lev Loseff, a world-renowned poet and scholar of Russian literature, died last Wednesday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center of multiple illnesses, according to his son Dimitry Loseff.

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Kim taps Kadish for strategic adviser post

By Susan Matthews | May 12, 2009

Courtesy of Joseph Mehling 69 Steven Kadish, the director of global health equity at Harvard University-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, will serve as senior vice president and strategic adviser to President-elect Jim Yong Kim, Provost Barry Scherr, who leads Kim's transition team, announced on Monday.

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Profs. discuss Constitution's creation

By Greg Berger | May 11, 2009

A stagnant economy and a weak national government contributed to the failure of the Articles of Confederation, a panel of American history scholars told an audience of 50 in the Rockefeller Center on Friday.

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DMS prof. faces federal charges

By Emma Fidel | May 11, 2009

Courtesy of Dartmouth Medical School William Weeks, a Dartmouth Medical School professor of psychiatry and community and family medicine, is facing federal conflict of interest charges for his involvement with contracts between the Department of Veterans Affairs and the College, according to a U.S.

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