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Steering Committee hears council updates
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Drew Joseph
| October 14, 2008
The First Year Office received more complaints regarding BlitzMail than any other issue last year, according to a meeting of the Steering Committee of the General Faculty held at the Rockefeller Center on Monday. The Steering Committee meets annually to hear different councils' reports on what they have been working on during the past year. A faculty survey from last spring revealed that of the 99 faculty members that responded, 78 were using another e-mail client by itself or in addition to BlitzMail, according to members of the Council on Computing.
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Davis runs for ASL research funds
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Katie Gonzalez
| October 13, 2008
When restaurant manager Ben Davis lost a co-worker and a fellow triathlon runner to Lou Gehrig's Disease, he channeled his grief into a 2,175-mile run of the Appalachian Trail, spanning 60 days, to raise awareness of the disease and money for research. Davis passed through Hanover last Thursday, and met with Dartmouth students who planned to join him on a part of his run. Emily Koepsell '09, Peter Shellito '09, Cody Doolan '10 and biology graduate student Tom Morrison, all members of the Dartmouth Endurance Racing Team, attempted to run with Davis for the few miles of the Appalachian Trail that pass through Hanover, but missed Davis on the trail. "I thought it would be a great team event and since I'm a leukemia survivor I understand where he is coming from," Koepsell, the club's president, said. The team wanted the opportunity to explore Dartmouth's connection with the Appalachian Trail and meet a fellow endurance runner, members of the group said. "All the through-hikers I've met are really eccentric," Shellito said, referring to hikers on the Appalachian Trail.
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Daily Debriefing
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Carol Brown
| October 13, 2008
Inebriated students will now have more difficulty sending inappropriate e-mails to faculty members, parents and former consorts, thanks to the new Google application "Mail Goggles," the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
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Garre '87 takes office as solicitor general
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Zoe Friedland
| October 13, 2008
Gregory Garre '87 was sworn into office as the new United States Solicitor General last week, replacing former solicitor general Paul Clement, who resigned in May.
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Voter suppression made felony in N.H.
October 13, 2008
Voter suppression -- purposefully preventing a specific group of people from voting -- is now a class B felony in New Hampshire, after a bill proposed by state Rep.
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Groups support return of ROTC to Ivy League
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Vera Bergengruen
| October 13, 2008
In the most recent incarnation of a controversy that has reappeared in various forms since the Vietnam War, advocacy groups continue their battle to reinstate the Reserve Officers Training Corps at the multiple Ivy League institutions where they are currently banned.
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'Kumar' rallies action for Obama
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Neera Chatterjee
| October 13, 2008
Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Actor Kal Penn, known by most college students for his marijuana-fueled antics as Kumar in the Harold and Kumar movies, set aside his on-screen "stoner" persona to campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama in the lounge of Fahey residence hall on Sunday.
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Daily Debriefing
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Rachel Sarnoff
| October 10, 2008
A new report released by the American Council of Education on Thursday presented contradictory data regarding minority involvement in American higher education, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Dell engineers work to fix GreenPrint problems
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Emma Fidel
| October 10, 2008
Three Dell engineers visited campus Tuesday to resolve the jamming problems that have plagued Dartmouth's new GreenPrint printers since they were installed this summer.
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Panel links humanities and democracy
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Katie Gonzalez
| October 10, 2008
JONATHAN ERDMAN / The Dartmouth Staff Humanities and politics merged at the Cultures of Democracy conference held in the Haldeman Center Thursday.
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Tuck students eye shaky economy
October 10, 2008
As financial chaos whirls through the world, students and administrators at the Tuck School of Business await signs that might indicate whether the economic outlook is better -- or worse -- than commentators predict, as students prepare to enter the business world. Tuck students, faced with the failure of several prominent investment banks and increasing volatility in the international markets, must make their own predictions about what the financial world will look like in two years. "We're doing a lot of talking about how this issue is going to play itself out," Paul Granada Tu'10, a member of the Tuck investment club, said.
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Fraternities prepare for fall rush weekend
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Neera Chatterjee
| October 10, 2008
Dartmouth's 14 fraternities will open their doors to approximately 275 sophomore, junior and senior men for fall rush this weekend, according to Taylor Holt '09, vice president of recruitment for the Interfraternity Council.
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Daily Debriefing
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Emma Fidel
| October 9, 2008
The average tuition at American universities has increased at a moderate rate over the past two years, according to a report released by the U.S.
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Whitehouse praises Obama health plan
October 9, 2008
If elected, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will move quickly to reform the American health care system, Sen.
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Drive registers Dartmouth voters
By
Elise Quinones
| October 9, 2008
Andy Foust / The Dartmouth Staff Vote Clamantis, a nonpartisan political awareness group, hosted a voter registration drive in Collis Common Ground on Wednesday to facilitate student participation in "one of the greatest elections of our time" by making the voter registration process as painless as possible, Jessica Guthrie '10, the organization's president, said.
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Search comm. reacts to student concerns
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Susan Matthews
| October 9, 2008
Sam McIntire / The Dartmouth Staff In response to student concerns that the presidential search committee's leadership statement does not fully represent undergraduate needs, Student Body President Molly Bode '09, the only student representative on the committee, said the Student Assembly will create a Visions Report Statement, which will focus on qualifications students wish to see in the College's next president.
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Daily Debriefing
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Katie Gonzalez and Jen Buchholz
| October 8, 2008
Female faculty members and graduate students in the political science department at Rutgers University believe that they are being unfairly treated because of their gender, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Alpha Kappa Alpha re-establishes College chapter
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Rebecca Cress
| October 8, 2008
After five years of inactivity, Dartmouth's chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., was officially re-established this fall by nine current Dartmouth students.