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By Rebecca Cress | May 8, 2008

April 30, 1:23 a.m. Rope Ferry Road Safety and Security received a report of an intoxicated 20-year-old male student who wandered into either a female student's room or a female bathroom.

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Alcohol screening targets students

May 8, 2008

Kyle Betts / The Dartmouth Staff Students evaluated their alcohol use -- and were rewarded with CamelBak water bottles -- for the annual National Alcohol Screening Day, held in Collis Common Ground on Wednesday.

A concerned student lends a hand tying the shoe of the blood drop mascot that roams campus to advertise the blood drive Wednesday.
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FDA Blood drive policy almost leads to petition

By Drew Joseph | May 8, 2008

Emily Unger / The Dartmouth Staff A planned petition regarding the Federal Drug Administration's policy of excluding men who have had sex with other men from donating blood was not completed in time for yesterday's blood drive at the Top of the Hop, according to Jeremy Chan '10, one of the organizers of the blood drive.

Profits from Link Up's discounted designer jean sale on Wednesday will fund a year of higher education for one Somali woman.
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Students buy jeans, help Somali women

May 8, 2008

ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Staff Students at Link Up's designer discount jean sale on Tuesday experienced a shopping triumph -- the joy of buying the perfect pair of designer jeans at a 40 to 60 percent discount while generating money to provide Somali women with the opportunity to study at the university level. Almost 130 pairs of jeans were sold at the event, which raised $1,200 for the Somali Women's Scholarship Fund. The money is enough to pay for one woman's tuition and necessary expenses at a Somali university for one year.

Richard Parsons, the chairman of the board of Time Warner, discusses entrepreneurship in the digital age in a speech on Wednesday.
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Parsons tracks digital innovation

May 8, 2008

Andy Mai / The Dartmouth Staff Richard Parsons, the chairman of the board and former chief executive officer of Time Warner, outlined the ways the internet has brought corporate innovation out of the boardroom and into the kitchens and garages of individual entrepreneurs, in a speech on Wednesday.

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Daily Debriefing

By Drew Joseph | May 7, 2008

Dartmouth was recognized as a College Sustainability Leader and received an A- grade in the 2008 edition of the College Sustainability Report Card, published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.

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Speaker examines diabetes cure

By Casey Hicks | May 7, 2008

Heralding cell transplantation as a potential cure for diabetes, Gordon Weir, chair of the Research and Wellness Foundation at the Joslin Diabetes Center, spoke on the use of stem cells as a form of treatment on Tuesday before an audience in the Haldeman Center. "I'm a little depressed we haven't cured diabetes yet," Weir said. Weir hopes scientists make progress towards finding a cure for diabetes by researching beta cells, an insulin-producing cell located within the pancreas, he said.

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Engineers compete in Thayer hybrid car contest

By Turia Lahlou | May 7, 2008

Armed with blow torches and hopes of victory, engineering students from across the world converged on the New Hampshire International Speedway in Loudon, N.H., on Monday to participate in the three-day Formula Hybrid International Competition hosted by the Thayer School of Engineering.

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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