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By Kate Farley | May 21, 2007

The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law released a guide Thursday outlining how colleges and universities should respond to students who show signs of mental health disorders.

The first building of the construction is set for a September completion.
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College's downtown site lands inhabitants

By JR Santo | May 21, 2007

ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Dartmouth's South Block development project currently in construction on South Street has begun to nail down businesses to occupy it. Umpleby's, a bakery and cafe from Bridgewater, Vt., plans to move into the space currently set to be completed in September. Charles Umpleby, chef and owner of the bakery, said the College approached him with the offer for the space.

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CFS director to leave College for Iowa

By Amita Kulkarni | May 21, 2007

Leaving Dartmouth in July to pursue a doctorate degree in higher education at the University of Iowa, assistant director of Coed, Fraternity and Sorority Administration Megan Johnson expressed an emotional attachment to the College, where she's worked since 2004. "I've been really reflective lately about my time at Dartmouth.

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Sallie Mae, the country's largest provider of student loans, has found itself on the receiving end of political attacks regarding its domination of the student loans market, according to an article in Wednesday's issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Anja Niedringhaus presents her work in Iraq at the Rockefeller Center Thursday.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning AP Iraq photojournalist recounts war

By Jesse Silberberg | May 18, 2007

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff A sometimes tearful audience sat eyes agaze at the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Anja Niedringhaus at "Iraq Through a Camera Lens: a Photojournalist's Story," a lecture presented by the Rockefeller Center Thursday evening. Niedringhaus presented a 30-minute slideshow of more than 200 photos before discussing her coverage of the war in Iraq as an Associated Press photographer and more specifically, of the 2003 invasion of Fallujah, as one of few photojournalists privileged to report the event.

Spanish Professor Elizabeth Polli debuts her video series,
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Spanish professor presents video series

By Sarah Badami | May 18, 2007

Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff Spanish professor Elizabeth Polli, the director of Dartmouth's Spanish Language Program, premiered her educational video series "Entre Amigos" Thursday evening in Dartmouth Hall.

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At first meeting, Green backs new constitution

By Allie Lowe | May 18, 2007

Newly elected Student Body President Travis Green '08 laid plans for a new Student Assembly constitution and efforts to create institutional memory within the Assembly during his first meeting as president, which was attended by about 15 people. Ian Tapu '08, the new student body vice president and the other half of the "iGreen" ticket, stayed quiet throughout most of the evening, allowing Green to take the lead in outlining the two's objectives. At the meeting, Green established a timeline for the creation of a new Assembly constitution.

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Robert Oelman '31, former chairman of Ford Motor's finance committee and chief executive of the technology company NCR Corporation, died at the age of 97 in Delray Beach, Fla., last Thursday, according to an obituary in Wednesday's New York Times.

Susanah Heohn '10 donates blood for the first time, inspired to give by the blood shortage in national and regional blood banks.
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Blood drive aims to ease shortage

By Allyson Bennett | May 17, 2007

Maggie Goldstein / The Dartmouth Staff Wednesday marked the first day of a two-day American Red Cross Blood Drive that occurs once a term in Alumni Hall, a drive that comes at a time when the Northeast is experiencing a critical blood shortage. A decline in blood donations that began at the beginning of May has resulted in a current shortage of approximately 1,600 units of blood, according to American Red Cross spokeswoman Carol Dembeck.

Dean Maria Laskaris '84
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College hires new dean of admissions internally

By Victoria Boggiano | May 17, 2007

Courtesy of Joseph Mehling / The Dartmouth Staff Maria Laskaris '84, the current Director of Admissions for the College, has been appointed Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, College President James Wright and College Provost Barry Scherr announced in a campus-wide e-mail notice released Wednesday. Beginning July 1, Laskaris will replace outgoing Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg, who announced his plans to retire last fall and will be leaving the College after spending 17 years working for the Dartmouth admissions office and 13 years managing admissions at Wesleyan University prior to his time at Dartmouth. Laskaris has worked in Dartmouth's admissions office since 1987 and became the Director of Admissions in 1996.

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Police Blotter

May 8, 9:59 a.m., South Park Street An employee of the Co-op Service Station contacted Hanover Police about a matter stemming from an April 27 incident when a middle-aged man pumped a tank of gas and attempted to pay for it with a check bearing a name that wasn't his.

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