SA review group presents findings

Phil Woram / The Dartmouth The Student Government Review Task Force, formed in the wake of this winter's controversy over the efficacy of student government at Dartmouth, presented its preliminary findings to Student Assembly at Tuesday night's meeting. The task force, which is comprised of eight students with various levels of student government affiliation, was created by Assembly legislation and is charged with conducting an overview of all of Dartmouth's student government bodies - including the Assembly itself. Though the task force is on schedule with the timeline established by the Assembly, it has yet to formulate specific recommendations for policy changes. "We don't have any hard results yet," Task Force Chair Kapil Kale '07 said. At Tuesday's meeting, task force members presented the General Assembly with a PowerPoint presentation outlining the research they have conducted so far and enumerated several of the key problems they have identified with current student government structure. These problems included allocation inefficiency, a lack of publicity and no student group leadership training beyond that provided to group treasurers. "We're taking a look from the perspective of student X, who has no idea what is going on in student government but knows that he or she wants programming, and that he or she wants advocacy, and the like," task force member Joe Kardon '09 said. The task force members also raised the idea of putting a student representative on the College's Board of Trustees. "We think this could be an interesting idea," Kardon said.

Socy prof probes undergrad attitudes

Larkin Elderon / The Dartmouth Staff While peering into their Hinman mailboxes last week, one quarter of students discovered a probing, 14-page questionnaire inviting them to share their political preference, religious perspectives - even their sexual orientation.

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SAE's national president discusses modern Greek life

Alicia Modeen / The Dartmouth Staff A group of about 20 students gathered in the living room of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity for an open discussion led by Mike Scarborough, the president of SAE national, about the current state of Greek life nationwide and how Greek life is expected to transform in the coming years on Friday afternoon. "Maybe I'm wearing rose-colored glasses," he told the crowd, "but there are only a darn few schools where Greek organizations don't supply the lifeblood of the campus." He said that by nature, people who join Greek organizations are more outgoing and are the "joiners" who will go on to start businesses in the future.

Alum authors landmark MRI study

Courtesy of Etta Pisano University of North Carolina cancer researcher Dr. Etta Pisano '79 was one of a group of 13 doctors to discover that MRI scans are more effective in detecting breast tumors than mammograms in women who already have cancer in one breast. The doctors' research proved that MRI scans detected tumors missed by mammograms in three percent of the 969 female research subjects who were diagnosed with cancer in the other breast.

Custodian acclimates to late-night duties

ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Staff After the nightly 2 a.m.

Profs turn to Facebook for student interaction