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Hong examines Chinese artifacts

By Josh Roselman | March 6, 2008

In 1959, a poor farmer in the Shanxi Province of northern China stumbled upon an incredibly elaborate tomb containing the remains of a husband and wife from the early 12th century, intricate bas-relief sculpturing and five mysterious wooden figurines whose brightly painted colors offset the dull gray of the tomb's walls.

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Citizens support police action in cheating cases

By Nick Swanson | March 6, 2008

A vote by citizens of Hanover and Norwich, Vt., affirmed on Tuesday that Hanover High School was correct in allowing the police to investigate and criminally prosecute students involved in the cheating scandal last June. According to the Valley News, the vote was 1137 to 875 in favor of the article, with 19 percent of Dresden school district citizens voting. Norwich resident George Fraser filed this question as an advisory article in the Dresden warrant, part of the area's budget, last Thursday.

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House refuses state control over charter

By William Schpero | March 6, 2008

The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to reject legislation that would have allowed the state control over changes Dartmouth makes to its charter on Wednesday. The bill came before the full House following its Feb.

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Daily Debriefing

March 5, 2008

When citizens of Brattleboro, Vt., voted in their Democratic primary and school board elections Tuesday, they also voted on a measure calling for the indictment of President George W.

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Epstein sheds new light on cause of HIV crisis in Africa

By Andrew Wells | March 5, 2008

While many scholars have pointed to a lack of condom use and impulsive promiscuity in examining the prevalence of HIV in southeast Africa, the practice of men and women having multiple long-term, concurrent sexual relationships may be more to blame, author Helen Epstein said in her lecture, "The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS," on Tuesday afternoon in Filene auditorium. Epstein is the author of a book by the same name. According to Epstein's theory, there are high rates of HIV in societies where individuals often have two or more continuous sexual partners.

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ORL's new housing plan stirs SA debate

By Susan Matthews | March 5, 2008

In response to recent changes in the College's eligibility standards for on-campus housing, Student Assembly pledged to explore other housing options with the Office of Residential Life and possibly create a database of available off-campus housing at Tuesday's Assembly meeting. ORL announced last week that an additional 100 seniors will have to find off-campus housing beginning next fall.

A new campus organization, Q-Faith, hosts its first discussion forum to examine the implications of sexuality in faith Tuesday evening.
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Students explore intersection of religion, sexuality

By Kashay Sanders | March 5, 2008

Andy Mai / The Dartmouth Staff Lamenting perceived religious intolerance to homosexuality and debat how to interpret the Bible in a sexual context, Q-Faith, a new student group, hosted its first discussion forum, "Rethinking Faithful Sexuality," on Tuesday night at the Tucker Foundation. Jonathan Coogan '10, a gay student who grew up in an accepting Catholic family, said he has never before been presented with an opportunity to discuss the roles of sexuality in religion with others.

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Bone marrow registry recruits minorities

By Rebecca Cress | March 5, 2008

There are 6.6 million bone marrow donors registered with the National Marrow Donor Program, yet the odds of a minority patient finding a compatible donor is 20,000 to one, according to the Cammy Lee Leukemia Foundation web site.

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Daily Debriefing

March 4, 2008

The Forum on Education Abroad released a new code of ethics for U.S. colleges and universities and overseas institutions that will coordinate foreign study programs, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Monday.

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Record N.H. snowfall delays

By Mat Grudzien | March 4, 2008

In a winter that has been marked by treacherously icy sidewalks and impassable roads, Scully-Fahey Field joins the list of weather-related casualties, as its planned renovations lag nearly three months behind schedule. The renovation began on Nov.

Rick Adams, a member of the Dartmouth's Home Team, discussed possible alterations and updatesto the Dartmouth web site, including updates to online campus maps, at a Web Town Meeting held on Monday.
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Meeting reviews College's web site

By Emily Goodell | March 4, 2008

Erin Jaeger / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth HomeTeam, a three-person group responsible for maintaining Dartmouth's home page, laid out plans for the future of the College's web site at Monday's Web Town Meeting in Carson L02.

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Locals vote on school's response to cheating

By Nick Swanson | March 4, 2008

Citizens of Hanover and Norwich, Vt., will have the chance to vote today on whether they approve of Hanover High School's decision to turn the investigation of the Hanover High cheating scandal over to the police, as part of the Dresden annual budget. Norwich resident George Fraser filed the advisory question onto the warrant, a part of the Dresden budget, last Thursday.

President James Wright presides over the Winter meeting of the Faculty at which a revised plan for employee healthcare benefits was presented.
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New healthcare plan unveiled

By Allie Lowe | March 4, 2008

Andy Mai / The Dartmouth A revised plan for reduced healthcare benefits for retiring faculty and staff was presented at the Winter term meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, held in Alumni Hall on Monday.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Goodell | March 3, 2008

White house aide Timothy Goeglein resigned on Feb. 29 after admitting to plagiarizing several guest columns he wrote for The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind., The New York Times reported on March 1.

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Academics debate orientalism's legacy

By William Welte | March 3, 2008

Academics from around the world, including Australia, Turkey, California and Western Canada, converged on Hanover to participate in "The Gaze & The Veil: Surveillance and the Legacies of Orientalism," a conference sponsored by the Ford Foundation and convened by Professor Susannah Heschel last weekend.

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Handful of students design custom majors

By Josh Roselman | March 3, 2008

The Registrar's Office will soon be swarming with students filing major cards to solidify their status as majors in the government or economics departments, but each year a small group of students select majors that have never before been completed by students at the College.

The Dance for a Dream event, held in Collis Commonground on Saturday, benefited the Lwala Community Alliance, a non-profit organization that funds the Lwala clinic in Kenya, founded by Milton Ochieng '04 and Fred Ochieng '05.
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Dance for a Dream aids Lwala clinic in Kenya

By Aoife Duffy | March 3, 2008

Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff For Milton Ochieng '04 and his brother Fred Ochieng '05, the isolation of their hometown in rural Kenya was made painfully clear when they witnessed a woman die of blood loss while in child labor as villagers pushed her in a wheelbarrow towards the paved road.

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