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New, green Life Sciences building to cost $93 mil.
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Rebecca Cress
| October 19, 2007
Alicia Modeen / The Dartmouth Staff Picture a hallway in Gilman Hall, or in any traditional natural science department building.
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Shipler '64 addresses American poverty
October 19, 2007
Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler '64 addressed issues concerning American poverty in his speech in Dartmouth Hall Thursday night.
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Coed Greek houses wrap up rush events
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Joanna Pucci
| October 19, 2007
Rush events for coed fraternities ends this week, as Alpha Theta, Phi Tau and The Tabard are welcoming their new members.
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AIDS activist urges action in Africa
By
Kate Farley
| October 19, 2007
Emily Unger / The Dartmouth Staff Beatrice Were, a Ugandan AIDS activist, gave a speech about her experiences living as an HIV-positive woman in Africa and then engaged in a question-and-answer session Thursday evening in Rockefeller Forum. Were was diagnosed with HIV in 1991 after her husband died from AIDS.
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"Historical detective" prof. dates calendars
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Turia Lahlou
| October 18, 2007
History professor Richard Kremer has a bit of a strange hobby. In his free time, he tries to identify the anonymous astronomers of the past using medieval book-bindings to peer into the mathematics of preceding centuries. Kremer's research focuses on a 700-year period in astronomy between the work of the ancient Greeks and Copernicus.
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Final corp. recruiting deadline tonight
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Nathan Swire
| October 18, 2007
On-campus job recruiting has hit the apex of its busiest year in College history as students schedule interviews with potential employers over the coming weeks.
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Macs gain ground on campus
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Ben Nunnery
| October 18, 2007
"Sexymac" is the name Kathleen Onufer '08 gave the Macbook computer she purchased last spring. Onufer was a first-time Mac buyer who previously owned a Dell purchased from Dartmouth her freshman year.
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Student Assembly funds three campus projects
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Maria Fillas
| October 17, 2007
Tuesday night's Student Assembly meeting focused on the passage of three funding proposals: the Thanksgiving and winter break New York City bus service, the laptop voucher program and the Pangea program. According to Neil Kandler '09, co-vice president of the Assembly's Student Services Committee, the aim of the New York City bus service has been to provide a more affordable means of public transportation for the hundreds of Dartmouth students heading to the city during the Thanksgiving and winter holiday seasons.
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CE-Yo extols virtues of green biz
By
Emily Goodell
| October 17, 2007
Erin Jaeger / The Dartmouth Gary Hirshberg, Stonyfield Farms president and CE-Yo (as in yogurt), spoke about the importance of running environmentally responsible businesses on Tuesday afternoon in the Rockefeller Center. "The question we asked ourselves when we were starting the company was, 'is it possible to have enterprise that was part of the solution, and not part of the problem?'" Hirshberg said in his lecture.
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Women's rush week closes with 251 bids
By
Vera Bergengruen
| October 17, 2007
The week-long fall sorority rush process drew to a close on Monday night with a higher number of participants than usual, making it more competitive than in previous years.
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Daily Debriefing
By
Julie Kim
| October 17, 2007
The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics hosted over 130 representatives from colleges all over the country to discuss the balance between intercollegiate sports and academics, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Tuesday.
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DDS pushes to hire more students
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Andrew Wells
| October 17, 2007
With 13 locations on campus and only 111 student workers employed this fall, Dartmouth Dining Services is struggling to hire students in its efforts to keep operations running smoothly.
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Daily Debriefing
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Turia Lahlou
| October 16, 2007
Two Dartmouth students, along with three University of California-Irvine students, won first place in IBM's Cell Broadband Engine Professor University Challenge for using three Playstation 3 video-game systems to replicate human brain functions, according to a university press release.
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Police Blotter
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Andrew Lebovich, courtesy of Hanover Police Chief
| October 16, 2007
October 3, 2:41 p.m., River Road A Hanover Police officer behind a school bus observed a red pickup truck pass the bus, ignoring the flashing lights and the extended swing arm indicating that the bus was dropping off children.
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In the name of synergy, women's groups join forces
By
Lia Grigg
| October 16, 2007
On a campus with over two dozen women-related organizations, gathering the members of these groups in one location is no easy task.
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Reverend calls for new political movement
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Kathryn Arffa
| October 16, 2007
Evangelical Reverend Jim Wallis spoke of the nation's need for activism and called for a spiritual and faith-based movement concerning global poverty, climate change and the Iraq war in Rollins Chapel on Monday night. "Kicked out" of his church at age 14 because of his rejection of racial divides within the faith, Wallis preached the importance both of questioning and of spirituality in approaching the world's most significant challenges. "The great revivals and great movements throughout history have been rooted in people of faith and spirituality," he said.