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Former SA candidates criticize EPAC efforts
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Susan Matthews
| April 15, 2008
With ballots cast and the next Student Assembly president and vice president determined, former candidates are speaking out against the Election Planning and Advisory Committee's management of last week's elections.
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Presidential search solicits input
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Allyson Bennett
| April 15, 2008
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Students and staff shared their expectations for Dartmouth's next president in separate, public forums on Monday with Chairman of the Board of Trustees Ed Haldeman '70 and trustee Al Mulley '70, who will chair the presidential search committee.
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Tuck panel debates replication of complex biologic drugs
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Victoria Boggiano
| April 14, 2008
As pharmaceutical drugs become increasingly complex, industry leaders, from drug manufacturers to representatives from the American Association of Retired Persons, continue to debate whether replicating the drugs is feasible.
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Daily Debriefing
April 14, 2008
Dartmouth's Roth Center for Religious Life celebrated its 10th anniversary this weekend, commemorating the occasion with a panel discussion, "Israel at Dartmouth," with Kenneth Yalowitz, a former ambassador to Belarus as moderator.
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Thayer's open house showcases lab research
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Turia Lahlou
| April 14, 2008
Noisy gadgets and roaming robots attracted local families and engineering enthusiasts alike to Thayer School of Engineering's annual open house on Friday.
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Fraternities accept nine new members for spring
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Turia Lahlou
| April 14, 2008
After the frenzy of fraternity rush during the Fall and Winter terms, Dartmouth's Greek organizations had a relatively quiet Spring term recruitment, with only Sigma Nu and Alpha Delta fraternities inviting new members to join. Fraternities individually decide whether to engage in a spring rush process, Taylor Holt '09, vice president of rush for Dartmouth's Inter-Fraternity Council, said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth.
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Heschel chosen as Carnegie scholar
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Erin Jaeger
| April 14, 2008
The Dartmouth Susannah Heschel, a professor of Jewish studies at the College, has been chosen as one of 20 Carnegie Scholars for 2008 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the organization announced April 7.
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AD party filmed for A&E documentary
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Victoria Boggiano
| April 14, 2008
As the words to the song "Shout" echoed across Alpha Delta fraternity's living room Saturday night, Chris Miller '63 and his friends "Mouse" and "Alby" sang along with the band.
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Daily Debriefing
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Allyson Bennett and Maria Fillas
| April 11, 2008
Akash Maharaj, a transfer student at Yale University, will face charges of larceny and forgery after the university discovered that much of the information on his application to Yale had been fabricated, according to The New York Times.
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Itzkovitz highlights changing Jewish identity in America
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Josh Roselman
| April 11, 2008
Marina Agapakis / The Dartmouth Staff Daniel Itzkovitz learned of his parents' trip to Israel through a recording on their answering machine: "We're off to the old country, call back in a couple of weeks," it said.
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Police Blotter
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Rebecca Cress
| April 11, 2008
April 3, 9:31 p.m. Lyme Road Following up on a Jan. 31 car accident, Hanover Police charged a 21-year-old male with reckless driving, falsely reporting a stolen vehicle, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol and improper conduct after an accident.
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Alumni event connects students, grads
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Frank Santo
| April 11, 2008
In an attempt to foster student relationships with alumni and honor Dartmouth graduates for their contributions to the College, the Hill Winds Society, in conjunction with the Office of Alumni Relations, is celebrating the second annual Alumni Appreciation Week from April 7-13.
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Hanover native leads ski, sailing schools
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Kashay Sanders
| April 11, 2008
Editor's note: This is the third installment in a 10-part series profiling various members of the Upper Valley Community. After managing night clubs, guiding fly-fishing trips, instructing skiing and working in restaurants, Kenneth McClintock, an Upper Valley native and one of Dartmouth's outdoor activities icons, returned to Hanover 19 years ago to work in the College's physical education program. McClintock, Dartmouth's assistant director of alpine skiing and sailing, rotates from job to job as the seasons change -- he spends one term teaching emergency rescue classes and devotes other terms to training students to be skiing and sailing instructors.
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Jacoby links climate to economy
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Rebecca Cress
| April 11, 2008
KYLE BETTS/The Dartmouth / The Dartmouth Staff Global climate change should be approached as an economic problem that can be managed using market incentives, Henry Jacoby, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a lecture Thursday night in Filene Auditorium.
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Kennedy recognizes white racial activists
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Maria Fillas
| April 11, 2008
During the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in a letter from his Birmingham County jail cell, "One day the South will recognize its real heroes," Randall Kennedy, author and Harvard Law professor said in a lecture Thursday evening.
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Daily Debriefing
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Victoria Boggiano
| April 10, 2008
Construction at colleges around the country is continuing despite national economic problems, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Wednesday.
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Donation funds Tuck technology discussions
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Vera Bergengruen
| April 10, 2008
Glenn Britt '71 Tu'72 pledged to donate $150,000 over the next three years to the Tuck School of Business to start up the Britt Technology Impact Series, a program that will allow important figures in a variety of professions to educate students and faculty about cutting-edge technology. "Scientists and engineers are constantly inventing new technologies," Britt, CEO of Time Warner Cable, said in a statement.
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Dartmouth turns over database to NPS
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Nathan Swire
| April 10, 2008
Dartmouth's Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection has completed a massive database of its research on cyber-security available to any student, researcher or industry expert across the globe with a valid e-mail address.