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The economic downturn has hurt businesses up and down Main Street.
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Local businesses adjust to recession

By John A. Alzate | January 29, 2009

Elisabeth Ericson / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended Leaning against the countertop at the bar, Mai Thai owner Sommay Vorachak quietly sighed and looked around his empty restaurant on a recent Tuesday evening.

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College to move ahead with renovation plans

By Rebecca Cress | January 29, 2009

The College has sufficient funds to move ahead with renovations on Delta Delta Delta sorority, Richardson Hall and the Gold Coast residence halls, according to Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman, but planned construction on Massachusetts Row will be delayed indefinitely due to the state of the economy. Redman, who expects to meet with Tri-Delt representatives this week, estimated that renovating the sorority house will cost between $700,000 and $900,000.

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Police Blotter

January 28, 2009

January 20, 3:10 p.m. S. Main Street A female student who was suspected of shoplifting $300 of merchandise from JuliAna's Boutique on Jan.

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Folt discusses faculty retention at SA meeting

By Ann Baum | January 28, 2009

Faculty retention at Dartmouth is "healthy" and comparable to retention at peer institutions, Dean of Faculty Carol Folt said at Tuesday night's Student Assembly meeting. The Assembly asked Folt to speak in response to student inquiries and to educate Assembly members, Student Body President Molly Bode '09 said. The recruitment of Dartmouth faculty by other universities is a sign of the quality of the College's professors, Folt said. "If our faculty aren't being recruited on a regular basis from some place else, that's a major failure," she said. At a small school like Dartmouth, faculty departures are also more noticeable than at larger universities, Folt said. In an overview of the College's tenure-selection process, Folt said Dartmouth takes into account both research and teaching when making tenure decisions. "They're going to have to have that dual role," she said.

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Tuck to offer undergrad courses

January 28, 2009

Dartmouth will begin offering Tuck School of Business classes exclusively for undergraduates this Spring term, along with a new international studies minor, Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt announced today.

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Daily Debriefing

By Shaun Akhtar | January 27, 2009

The Stanford Graduate School of Business has laid off 49 employees, approximately 12 percent of its non-faculty workforce, in response to economic downturn, according to the Stanford News Service web site.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker discussed social activism in his Monday lecture and called for Americans to take a greater interest in public service
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Booker discusses social activism

By Rob Szypko | January 27, 2009

Eric Tanner / The Dartmouth Frustrated by his own inability to reduce the drug trade in Newark, N.J., then city councilman Cory Booker pitched a tent and went on a hunger strike until the mayor took action.

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Task force to review assault on campus

By Ann Baum | January 27, 2009

A new College task force will review the incidence of sexual and physical assault on campus, evaluate means of prevention and victim support, and assess Dartmouth's reporting and adjudication procedures, Dean of the College Tom Crady announced on Monday. The task force, which is the result of a Student Assembly recommendation, will have a wider focus than many of the Assembly's previous efforts to study issues of assault at Dartmouth, Student Body President Molly Bode '09 said. The creation of the task force follows this fall's completion of a review of the Committee on Standards, the College's student disciplinary body. The task force will examine all of the College's policies about sexual and physical assault, not only the COS, Bode said. "There's never been a review of violent crimes on campus, in my institutional knowledge," she said. In her campaign for student body president, Bode had called for the "creation of a subcommittee of qualified individuals to look specifically at sexual assault." Plans to form the task force during Fall term were delayed after the Assembly became focused on advising the College about potential budget cuts, Bode said. The task force will address issues of sexual assault more successfully than the Assembly's previous attempts, which lacked "concrete" plans, Bode said. "The [new] task force has a charge; they have a mission," Bode said.

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No petition candidates to run in AoA election

January 27, 2009

All current members of the Association of Alumni executive committee will run unopposed in their 2009 bids for reelection, according to Diana Lawrence, director of communications for the Office of Alumni Relations.

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Geithner '83 confirmed, sworn in

By Nathan Swire | January 27, 2009

Courtesy of the Associated Press Timothy Geithner '83 was sworn in as secretary of the Treasury after being confirmed by the Senate on Monday night, almost a week after President Barack Obama took office.

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Daily Debriefing

By Rob Szypko | January 26, 2009

Dartmouth received a record 18,007 applications for the Class of 2013, according to a College press release.

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Prof. dispels single-father myth

January 26, 2009

SUJIN LIM / The Dartmouth Staff Most unmarried, low-income fathers strive to be good parents, Kathryn Edin, a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, said in a lecture at the Haldeman Center on Friday.

Professor Martin Favor, professor Annelise Orleck, Beth Robinson '86 and Jamal Brown '08 discuss gay rights in East Wheelock Residential Cluster on Friday afternoon.
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Profs., alumni consider gay rights, civil rights

By Jamila Ma | January 26, 2009

SUJIN LIM / The Dartmouth Staff Marriage is a fundamental civil right, panelists said in discussion about "Gay Rights as Civil Rights" held in East Wheelock Cluster on Friday afternoon. English professor Martin Favor, one of four panelists, opened the discussion by addressing the title of the panel.

Charles Wheelan '88 discussed his quest for an Illinois congressional seat during a lunch held in the Rockefeller Center on Friday afternoon.
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Wheelan '88 discusses campaign

By Vera Bergengruen | January 26, 2009

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Correction appended Charles Wheelan '88 described life on the campaign trail to a group of Dartmouth students, including several of his former pupils, at a lunch held in the Rockefeller Center on Friday afternoon. Wheelan is running in the March 3 Democratic primary for Illinois's 5th Congressional District seat.

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Pentagon pick Lynn '76 receives ethics waiver

By Neera Chatterjee | January 26, 2009

William Lynn '76, a former defense lobbyist and President Barack Obama's pick for deputy secretary of Defense, has cleared a major hurdle on his path to Senate confirmation after receiving an ethics waiver from the Office of Management and Budget.

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