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Campus women meet to boost network

By Astrid Bradley | April 10, 2007

When Inter-Community Council representative Danielle Strollo '07 realized that the community she was expected to represent -- women on campus -- was 10 times the size of the communities that other representatives were responsible for, she realized she couldn't do it on her own. Using the Pan-Asian Council as a model, Strollo attempted to create an organization of women from different experiences and communities on campus.

The Formula Hybrid Competition, started by students at Thayer School of Engineering, will only admit cars with gas-electric hybrid drive trains.
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Thayer students start hybrid race

By Nick Swanson | April 9, 2007

Courtesy of Dartmouth News A group of students under the guidance of Thayer School of Engineering researcher Doug Fraser have created the Formula Hybrid Competition, a tournament that seeks to promote interest in and knowledge of hybrid technology.

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Egg-hunters look to Collis for Easter goodies

By Victoria Boggiano | April 9, 2007

Over 1,200 Easter eggs were scattered around Collis Common Ground on Friday afternoon, as more than 150 parents and children from communities in the Upper Valley arrived to enjoy the Green Spring Celebration organized by Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and its programming chair Ian Tapu '08. The event featured an Easter egg hunt, arts and crafts tables, food, games and prizes, as well as performances by Roots of Rhythm and the Dodecaphonics. While Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity was responsible for organizing the event, numerous other campus groups were involved in the set-up and volunteering.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Jennifer Gaudette | April 9, 2007

Earth sciences professor Arjun Heimsath received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work with soil erosion and sustainability, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced on April 5.

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Water pressure returns after three-hour hiatus

By Allie Lowe | April 9, 2007

The Dartmouth campus was without water for several hours Sunday night as a result of problems with the town of Hanover's water system. A Saturday morning power outage caused pumps in the town's water system to function improperly, leading the Hanover's water storage tank to drain to a lower than normal level.

Transparency International co-founder Frank Vogl gave the keynote address about global business corruption at the conference this weekend.
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Tuck confronts global corruption in forum

By Brook Jackling | April 9, 2007

EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff The Tuck School of Business Center for International Business and the Tuck International Club hosted the fourth Tuck International Forum on April 5 and 6, an annual forum addresses important topics in international business. "Our whole mission is to get Tuck students to look at business issues in a global context," Lisa Miller, the associate director of the Center for International Business, said.

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TV watchers to face $300 box fee

By Allie Lowe | April 6, 2007

Students looking to use television sets in their dormitory rooms next year will likely have to spend several hundred dollars on "set top boxes," devices that make a traditional television set compatible with Dartmouth's new television system. Currently Dartmouth uses both a traditional cable system and DarTV, which operates over the campus ethernet system and is viewed on computers.

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Ivy to Ivy, course reqs vary considerably

By Allyson Bennett | April 5, 2007

Dartmouth and other Ivy League schools have a long tradition of using general education requirements to ground students in the liberal arts tradition. Recent decisions by the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University to institute major revisions of their general education requirements put in perspective the process by which Dartmouth evaluates its own set of distribution requirements. The College aims to provide students with a well rounded educational experience that exposes them to many different methods of social analysis through a set of broad requirements, according to Associate Dean Lindsay Whaley, former chairman of the Committee on Instruction. The College institutes major changes in the requirements when it believes that there might be a better way to fulfill these goals, Whaley said. "You want to make sure that you are giving your student body guidance in terms of course selections that maximize the benefits of a liberal arts education," Whaley said. The current set of requirements, first effective for the class of 1998, were instituted in 1994. Significant changes usually occur only after a formal review generally initiated by the dean of the faculty or the president of the College. There have been two such reviews of the current system, Whaley said. Dartmouth might also reexamine its requirements when another institution pioneers a new system, Whaley said. "Anytime schools that we recognize as competent try innovative approaches to education, we want to see why are they doing it, and how is that working, and is there something that we could learn from their efforts," Whaley said. Minor modifications are made to the requirements every few years based on proposals submitted to the Committee on Instruction, according to Robert Drysdale, the committee's current chairman. These proposals originate from various sources, including Student Assembly, professors, or members of the committee itself.

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Pilobolus founders elucidate origins

By Amanda Cohen | April 5, 2007

On his first visit to campus, Itamar Kubovy, executive director for Pilobolus Dance Theater, acknowledged the unique Dartmouth character that is integral to the group's dynamic.Kubovy spoke of the "intellectual atmosphere" of the Pilobolus office, the conversations and debates that occur regularly, the group's appreciation for snow and their shared love of the outdoors and creative freedom. "Then I came up here and realized, Wow, this is where it came from," he said. The creative foundation for Pilobolus, which sprung from Dartmouth culture in the late 1960s and early 1970s, was a focal point of discussion at the Montgomery Fellow Lecture panel, which featured the group's three artistic directors: Robby Barnett '72, Jonathan Wolken '71 and Michael Tracy '73. "There was this feeling that simply being in school here ... you could guide your intelligence in the direction you wanted it to go," Barnett said.

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