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Bartlett Hall undergoes redesign, modernization

March 31, 2008

Within the aged brownstone walls of Bartlett Hall, the upper two floors -- which have languished for nearly 40 years without improvements -- has undergone extensive construction during the past eight months. Bartlett houses the department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures and the Arts and Humanities Resource Center, which offers language resources to students and assists faculty with research and media presentations. The construction has modernized and redesigned the upper floors of the building. "It needed a complete overhaul of the electrical, air conditioning, wireless and Ethernet infrastructures," said Otmar Foelsche, director of the resource center.

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Assembly candidates begin campaigning

By Susan Matthews | March 31, 2008

Student Assembly's election season officially began this weekend as presidential and vice-presidential candidates have begun to campaign to improve Student Assembly's image on campus. This year, the election falls earlier in the term than in previous years.

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Daily Debriefing

By Allyson Bennett | March 28, 2008

The probability that a college freshmen will withdraw from a university increases significantly when large, introductory courses are taught by part-time, adjunct professors, according to a study presented at this year's meeting of the American Education Research Association on Wednesday, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

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Tuck student Chat explores Iran

By Drew Joseph | March 28, 2008

Many Americans hold the common misconception that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats towards the United States and Israel represent Iran's final say in the matter, but the unelected Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei really has ultimate authority in the nation's policies, according to Saba Deyhim Tu'09. "Iranians don't take [Ahmadinejad] seriously," Deyhim said in her Country Chat about Iran at the Tuck School of Business on Thursday.

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Jager-Hyman '00 shadows college applicants in new book

March 28, 2008

Courtesy of Joie Jager-Hyman As the anxiety and competition surrounding college admissions increase, even an Olympic-bound gymnast and world-class pianist have found themselves uncertain of receiving one of the coveted "fat envelopes" from Harvard University.

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India Queen owner calls Hanover 'family'

By Julie Kim | March 28, 2008

Editor's Note: The following article is the first in a weekly series profiling different members of the Upper Valley community. When Bhavnesh Kaushik, owner of India Queen and honorary member of the Tabard co-ed fraternity, offers refreshments to guests at his establishment, a polite refusal is not permitted. "You have two choices " lassi or chai tea," said Kaushik, who sports long, feathered hair and six gold rings.

Student Assembly passed legislation to serve alcohol at Assembly-funded alternative space parties at its first meeting of the term Thursday.
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SA presidential candidates named

By Susan Matthews | March 28, 2008

Elisabeth Ericson / The Dartmouth Staff Student Assembly held its first meeting of the term Thursday night, voting to allow alcohol at alternative space parties and to allocate funding for a student-alumni luncheon and the Ivy Council's spring trip.

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Speaker looks critically at tobacco companies

By Nathan Swire | March 28, 2008

LEBANON, N.H -- Joking that he was "making up for past family sins," Michael Cummings, a researcher at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the grandson of a cigarette company employee, criticized the tobacco industry in a lecture at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Thursday. Focusing on the public health implications of tobacco use rather than the science behind these issues, Cummings addressed the expansion of smoking worldwide, the history of cigarettes, the reasons people smoke and how governments can combat tobacco use. Cigarette smoking causes 7,500 deaths each week, Cummings said. "Imagine if those deaths were caused by the 'evil-doers' out there, we'd probably do a lot more to fix it," he said. Images of the Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar, Osama bin Laden and the founder of Phillip Morris then flashed on the screen behind him. Cummings colored his lecture with a series of videos and jokes.

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Alums at Bear Stearns fear firing

By William Schpero | March 28, 2008

As JPMorgan Chase managers filed into the lobby of Bear Stearns headquarters following the latter bank's near collapse earlier this month, Dartmouth alumni working on the floors above began to question whether their jobs were in jeopardy.

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Daily Debriefing

By Drew Joseph | March 27, 2008

The United States Department of Education submitted a plan to define the circumstances in which universities are able to divulge confidential information about potentially dangerous students, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

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Eighth graders shadow Dartmouth employees

By Emily Goodell | March 27, 2008

Baking chocolate eclairs does not figure into the usual schedule of a middle school students, but that was the assignment for several eighth graders who shadowed professionals in the kitchens of the Hanover Inn as part of a "Job Shadow Day" on Wednesday.

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Real Beauty Initiative tackles body image

March 27, 2008

Noting the power of a six-inch Barbie doll to breed unhealthy beauty standards in young girls throughout the country, the 20 students involved in Dartmouth's newly formed Real Beauty Initiative aimed to humorously readdress Barbie's body-image standards with their newly purchased 7'2'' "life-sized" Barbie, complete with a 40-inch bust and 22-inch waist. The group, which announced its presence on campus this term with a colorful exhibit in the Collis Center and promotions for its first dinner event, hopes to start campus-wide discussion on healthy and unhealthy concepts of beauty. "Having a negative body image detracts from all areas of life," Kelly Everhart '09, the project's student intern and leader, said.

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Farid founds 'digital forensics'

By Michael Coburn | March 27, 2008

COURTESY OF THE DARTMOUTH AEGIS With $100 Photoshop software and a little training, computer users can drastically alter digital photos, shedding a few pounds from a high school prom picture or removing a tumor from a medical image.

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Daily Debriefing

By Rebecca Cress | March 26, 2008

After failing to negotiate a new three-year contract with the University of Michigan, teaching assistants staged a walkout, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported yesterday.

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