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Dartmouth Dining Services reviews menu prices every summer.
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Rising food costs hit DDS budget

By Julie Kim | May 7, 2008

Marina Agapakis / The Dartmouth Staff While increasing food prices have forced colleges across the nation to increase the price of meal plans or alter their menus, Dartmouth Dining Services will likely make less dramatic changes, due to its individual retail system, which allows students to pay only for the food they buy. "Over the summer months, we review every single item to see if there are any pricing adjustments necessary," DDS Director Tucker Rossiter said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Josh Roselman | May 6, 2008

USA Today is discontinuing several of its "All-Star" scholarship programs, including the All-USA College Academic Team and the All-USA Community College Academic Team.

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Versions of Hippocratic Oath debated at panel

By Kat Richardson | May 6, 2008

The Hippocratic Oath is commonly misinterpreted due to mistranslations of the original Greek text, Ronald Green, a professor of religion and director of the Ethics Institute, said at a panel discussion at Dartmouth Medical School Monday evening. New doctors traditionally recite the Hippocratic Oath, commonly believed to have been written by Hippocrates in 400 BC, to pledge dedication to the patients' well-being and the sanctity of the physician-patient relationship, Green said. "Every translation is a betrayal," Green said.

Harvard divinity professor Amy Hollywood examined the multiple roles of Mary Magdalene for the annual Suzanne Zantop Memorial Lecture Monday.
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Hollywood's speech honors Zantop

By Aoife Duffy | May 6, 2008

Andy Foust / The Dartmouth Staff Harvard Divinity School professor Amy Hollywood analyzed conflicting interpretations of Mary Magdalene for the annual Suzanne Zantop Memorial Lecture, given in honor of Zantop, who was murdered in 2001.

Students indulge in their favorite foods for 'No Diet Day,' an international event to raise awareness about potential hazards of dieting.
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Students chow down for EDPA's 'No Diet Day'

By John A. Alzate | May 6, 2008

Larissa Cespedes / The Dartmouth Staff Tabletops littered with Ghirardelli chocolate bars, slices of ham, graham crackers and mini eclairs attracted students to Collis Common Ground on Monday to commemorate International No Diet Day, an annual event to raise awareness about the adverse effects of dieting.

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SEC names class orator, marshals,

By Josh Roselman | May 6, 2008

The Senior Executive Committee released the names of eight seniors who will serve as the 2008 class marshals, leading the procession of the graduating class during Commencement ceremonies.

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Dining hall plans held for social spaces report

By Drew Joseph | May 6, 2008

Plans to construct a new dining hall to replace Thayer Dining Hall have been postponed until the release of a report by the Social Space Committee, in order to consider the committee's recommendations on alternative social spaces, Mary Gorman, associate provost of the College, said. "We want to make sure that we don't have a building two-thirds of the way done and then have to come up with a new plan," Gorman said.

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Venkatesan class given pass/fail

By Allyson Bennett | May 6, 2008

Students in Priya Venkatesan '90's Winter term Writing 5 classes will have the option of receiving credit for the class without a grade, Associate Dean of the Faculty Lindsay Whaley informed them on April 31.

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Daily Debriefing

May 5, 2008

The New Hampshire Senate has rejected a bill that would decriminalize marijuana, the Associated Press reported Friday.

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Experts analyze Sendak's writing

By Josh Roselman | May 5, 2008

Since 1963, generations of children have been frightened by the gruesome monsters in Maurice Sendak's book "Where the Wild Things Are." A statement from the noted illustrator and children's book author, however, has indicated that the illustrations were actually based on his old Jewish relatives in Brooklyn, N.Y. "Their visits terrified [Sendak], because they would pinch his cheek and tell him that they would eat him up," Richard Gottlieb, associate professor of clinical psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, told an audience on Friday in Baker Library. Gottlieb,along with two other members of a panel, discussed this childhood trauma, as well as psychological issues in Sendak's work that are atypical of most children's literature. "It's clear to see that Sendak doesn't shy away from heavy subjects," Nancy Canepa, Dartmouth professor of French and Italian, said on the panel. Canepa and Gottlieb spoke alongside rare book specialist Patti Houghton, the co-curator of "Facing the North Wind," a new display of Sendak's work on display in Rauner Special Collections Library. Although each speaker presented a different insight into the author's work, all three focused on the thematic significance of the dream in three Sendak books, "Where the Wild Things Are," "In the Night Kitchen" and "Outside Over There." According to the speakers, the child protagonists in each story deal with their problems through fantasies and dream sequences. Houghton presented the books through the lens of literary tradition, focusing on how many of Sendak's stories mimic the plots of classic hero stories, such as fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm.

Parents and visitors attend a reception for First Year Family weekend.
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Families visit freshmen at College for weekend

May 5, 2008

Larissa Cespedes / The Dartmouth Staff Now fully submerged into Dartmouth life, self-assured freshmen passed on their knowledge of the perfect pong serve, the merits of the morning-after breakfast wrap, the perfect spot to pull an all-nighter in Novack Cafe and the shortest route from the Choates to Dartmouth Hall to visiting parents during First Year Family Weekend. More than 500 families visited the College this weekend, attending a host of events including a greeting from College President James Wright on Friday afternoon and a breakfast send-off Sunday morning. "Dartmouth is not a college, it's an experience," Uthman Olagoke '11, co-chair of Family Weekend, said.

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Daily Debriefing

Student tuition may be financing much more than students' actual in-class experience, according to a report on how college tuition is spent by colleges released by the Delta Cost Project, a Washington-based non-profit group that seeks to increase education affordability, on Thursday.

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Ford '70 advises to invest in Africa

By Michael Coburn | May 2, 2008

There are significant investment opportunities for U.S. businesses in Africa, Wallace Ford '70, president and chief operating officer for Goodworks International, said at a dinner held in the Hanover Inn.

Music professor Steve Swayne identifies a need for the discussion of sexuality in communities of color on Thursday.
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PRIDE discussion aims to unite black and gay communities

May 2, 2008

Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Seeking dialogue within the gay and black communities, music professor Steve Swayne spoke on his experience as a gay, black and religious man in a PRIDE week event Thursday night in Cutter-Shabazz Hall. "We each have expectations from our communities and our families, and we each have to navigate the multiple roles we play," Swayne said in an interview after his address.

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Mascoma, GM partner in tech effort

By Turia Lahlou | May 2, 2008

Mascoma, a leading company in biofuels technology founded by two Thayer School of Engineering professors, will partner with General Motors to develop ethanol technology from wood chips, waste paper sludge and grass to combat an increasing demand for energy, both companies announced in a joint statement on Thursday. "It is important financially and from the perspective of a strategic partnership as to the direction the company can go," Mascoma co-founder and Thayer School professor Charles Wyman said.

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