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Jean Kim, one of the finalists for the Dean of the College position, hurries past a photographer on her way into a Palaeopitus meeting on Wednesday.
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Names of Dean candidates surface

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Danny Gobaud / The Dartmouth Staff According to sources close to the selection process, the Dean of the College search committee has decided on four finalists to fill the position vacated by James Larimore last May: Michelle Garfield of the University of Georgia, Thomas Crady of Grinnell College, Jean Kim, formerly of the University of Puget Sound, and a fourth, female candidate whose name was not leaked to The Dartmouth.


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Applications for Class of 2011 rise by 2 percent

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Applications for admission to the Class of 2011 increased by approximately two percent over last year, marking the fourth consecutive year Dartmouth has seen an upward trend and the first time the majority of applicants are women. "Compared to four years ago, applications are up by 21 percent," Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg said of the 14,159 total applicants this year.





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Internat'l students seek need-blind admissions

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Lobbied by international students, Student Assembly expressed support Tuesday for a need-blind admissions policy for all students, calling the current policy discriminatory on the bases of birth country and wealth.


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Law prof explains indigenous law changes

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University of Victoria law professor and indigenous law expert John Borrows argued for harmonizing indigenous, common and civil law in Canada's legal system in a Tuesday afternoon lecture sponsored by the Rockefeller Center. During the talk -- "Living Law on a Living Earth: Aboriginal Religion, Law, and the Constitution" -- Borrows stressed the need for aboriginal and non-aboriginal people to learn about each other's belief systems in order for aboriginal legal tradition to be integrated into the Canadian judicial system. During his talk, Borrows stressed that the inclusion of indigenous traditions in Canadian judicial practices could benefit aboriginals and non-aboriginals alike. "There are other legal traditions that exist within the country that continue to guide people's answers to disputes," Borrows said.


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Panelists condemn U.S. torture policy

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"What are the consequences when a profession like medicine can go so far off the tracks?" Dickey Center Director Kenneth Yalowitz asked an audience of undergraduates, medical students and community members in a panel discussing medicine's role in torture held Tuesday in Filene Auditorium. Yalowitz posed that question while introducing a historian, a lawyer and a military doctor, participants in the panel "Military Torture and Medicine: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on the Occurrence and Ramifications of Torture." The panel brought together three experts from varied backgrounds to discuss the relationship between torture and medicine, especially in light of the opening of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the torture debate that has embroiled the United States government since 2002. Dirk Rupnow, a Holocaust expert and visiting professor of Jewish studies at the College, spoke first and acknowledged the difficulty of comparing the Holocaust to any current events, while still noting lessons that can be drawn from the Holocaust. "What is important to understand is that the Holocaust didn't begin with Auschwitz," Rupnow said.



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Hunter's campaign stresses nat'l defense

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Pressing for tougher national defense and updated trade deals, presidential candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., spoke to students and community members in the basement of the Haldeman Center Monday night in an event sponsored by the Rockefeller Center and the College Republicans. "I stand for a strong national defense, enforced borders and bringing back high-paying manufacturing and engineering jobs to the United States through the revamping of international trade deals," he said. Hunter is the second of the 2008 Republican presidential candidates to speak at Dartmouth -- former Massachusetts Gov.


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Japanese internment stories recalled

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Drawing parallels between the 1940s and the post-9/11 world, three women whose families were directly affected by Japanese internment camps during World War II ran a panel discussion hosted by the Dartmouth Japan Society.


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Daily Debriefing

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Dartmouth's Figure Skating team took first place in the first of two national qualifying competitions held at Boston University on Feb.




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Balkcom awarded $400,000 NSF grant

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The National Science Foundation recently awarded Dartmouth computer science professor Devin Balkcom with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, which is given to young scholar-teachers who show promise of becoming leaders in their fields of study.