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Redman: 'gender-neutral' housing likely Fall term

By Allyson Bennett | February 2, 2007

After receiving a working proposal for gender-neutral housing on Tuesday, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman confirmed during a discussion hosted by Palaeopitus Thursday that such housing will likely be available Fall term. "Gender-neutral" means students can room with any other student, regardless of sex. "This isn't the greatest environment for students who don't fit with what some might call the norm," Redman said at the discussion.

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Ex-WHO director rings in Dickey anniversary

By Hillary Wool | February 2, 2007

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former director general of the World Health Organization, pressed for international collaboration on issues of health and sustainable development in her keynote address Thursday, a part of the celebrations for the John Sloan Dickey Center's 25th anniversary. "There is no alternative to building a moral and scientific basis for taking more shared responsibility across nations," she said.

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IHF links foreigners, local Ecuadorians

By Jennifer Gaudette | February 2, 2007

The Dartmouth chapter of the International Humanitarian Foundation recently began a new project in Ecuador, forming a partnership with the Ali Shungu Foundation based in the small Ecuadorian village Otavalo. Ali Shungu, a grassroots non-profit organization founded by Frank and Margaret Kiefer, conducts development projects that are led by community members in the five communities closest to Otavalo.

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Despite objections, Greek GPAs released

By Amanda Cohen | February 2, 2007

An Office of Residential Life document ranking the average grade point averages of the Greek organizations showed that, overall, sororities boasted a slightly higher academic record than coed organizations, and both had a higher average GPA than fraternities over Fall term.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Anna Lotko | February 1, 2007

Members of the Panhellenic Council elected sorority members to seven positions for next year. The council elected Kate Robb '08 as president, Sarah Shaw '08 as vice president of recruitment, Mary Healy '08 as vice president of organization, Cathy Wu '09 as treasurer, Cena Miller '08 as secretary and Jean Ellen Cowgill '08 and Rebecca Beasley-Cockroft '08 as programming chairs.

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Sophomore Program helps niche, unknown by most

By Cathy Wu | February 1, 2007

The College's "Sophomore Program," the brainchild of the Upperclass Deans office, the Dean of the Faculty office and the Office of Residential Life, seeks to provide advising targeted to sophomores but has seen less-than-overwhelming interest and attendance so far. Many students don't know the program's purpose or the fact that it is open to all sophomores.

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Assembly delays reform move, funds pow-wow

By Allie Lowe | January 31, 2007

Following an unsuccessful attempt by Adam Shpeen '07 to bring reform legislation forward for discussion, a resolution to participate in and fund the 2007 Native American Pow-Wow was passed at Tuesday night's Student Assembly meeting. Shpeen moved to "untable" his legislation to make an Assembly review group that was not discussed at the Assembly's Jan.

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Past SA presidents differ in election strategy, leadership style

By Katy O'Donnell | January 31, 2007

Over the past five years, Student Assembly presidents have both viewed their job descriptions and treated their terms in office in drastically different ways: Janos Marton '04 ran as a reform-minded candidate like current president Tim Andreadis '07 did, while seasoned Assembly members Julia Hildreth '05 and Noah Riner '06, who secured their presidencies by narrow margins, attempted to make few big changes during their tenures and were generally viewed with indifference. Marton, the only two-time Student Body President in College history, championed a vastly popular, if ultimately impotent, organization that engendered the largest consistent student interest in the Assembly's recent history. During Marton's first campaign in 2002, he promised students higher on-campus wages and better Greek-administration relations.

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Mental illness survivors share stories

By Michael Coburn | January 31, 2007

Five Dartmouth students gathered at Tindle Lounge Tuesday to recount their stories about combating mental illness during an event sponsored by Active Minds, a campus organization dedicated to raising awareness of mental illness. "In Dartmouth, mental illness is often swept under the rug," Heather Olson '07, the leader of the panel, said.

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Nelson says no to speech code at DCLU discussion

By Nick Swanson | January 31, 2007

The Dartmouth Civil Liberties Union and College Democrats co-sponsored a discussion on free speech yesterday evening, an event that featured speeches from Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson '75 and Andrew Seal '07, editor of the Dartmouth Free Press. The forum focused on how an institution can prevent acts of intolerance and bigotry without trampling free speech.

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Visiting fellow holds poetry reading

By Naomi Sosner | January 31, 2007

National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Lucille Clifton recited 16 of her poems to a packed audience Tuesday in Filene Auditorium as part of her Montgomery Fellowship. The poems mirrored the span of Clifton's interests and experiences, including reflections on slavery, her personal struggles with life-threatening illnesses and the aftermath of September 11.

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Government efficacy varies Ivy to Ivy

By William Schpero | January 31, 2007

As the debate over Student Assembly's role rages at Dartmouth, a comparative look at the student governments in the Ancient Eight reveals a variation in student opinion, budget sizes, electoral practices and ideological ambition. Of those Ivy League student governments with broad campus support, a common theme is an ability to balance student services with ideological advocacy. The Undergraduate Assembly at the University of Pennsylvania instituted a shuttle service to and from a local airport and petitioned professors to post their syllabi online prior to the start of classes.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Ben Nunnery | January 31, 2007

The state of New Hampshire has seen a record number of gastrointestinal virus outbreaks this year, according to Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Greg Moore.

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PETA spokesman extols upsides to going vegan

By JR Santo | January 30, 2007

People should abandon their meat-eating habits and embrace veganism as a social movement with far-reaching consequences, advocated Bruce Friedrich to a 60-person audience Monday in Collis Common Ground. The director of vegan campaigns for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Friedrich explained that as a young boy from a traditional Midwestern background, he would not have been able to imagine life as a vegan. "I grew up as a young boy in Minnesota, played football, and couldn't imagine life without meat," he said. Friedrich changed his mind, however, after he connected veganism with social justice. According to Friedrich, 95 percent of oats, 90 percent of corn and more than 70 percent of everything grown in the United States goes to feed the 10 billion farm animals Americans eat each year. Explaining that animals must be fed 20 calories of food in order to get one calorie of meat, Friedrich criticized meat producers for wasteful consumption. "We don't need meat in order to survive," he said.

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Local grads boast high admissions statistics

By William Schpero | January 30, 2007

Over 40 percent of Hanover High School students who applied to Dartmouth over the past four years were accepted, according to the school's guidance department, a figure more than double the College's 17-percent overall acceptance rate.

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New rules let '07s elect more SEC members

By Zach Swiss | January 30, 2007

Members of the Class of 2007 voted Monday night to elect 12 of the 20 members of the Senior Executive Committee. The remaining eight will be appointed by the 12 elected officials, a change from last year's selection process in which a group of administrators selected eight students to join the SEC. The SEC is the primary governing body for each class for the five years immediately following graduation.

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