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Book bargain hunters find online deals

By Grace Wyler | April 3, 2007

At the beginning of every term, Heather Strack '07 makes sure to check the library on the first floor of Sigma Delta sorority to see if any of the books that she needs for her courses are hiding among the shelves. "The library is loosely organized by subject," Strack said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by JR Santo | April 3, 2007

Alice Mathias '07, a former columnist for The Dartmouth Mirror, has been named a contributor for the New York Times on an online blog called "The Graduates." The blog can be accessed on TimesSelect, recently made free for those with a college e-mail address.

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Parents sue College for student's fatal accident

By Allyson Bennett | April 3, 2007

The parents of Christina Porter '06, a student who died after a physical education skiing accident at the Dartmouth Skiway in 2004, have filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against the College. Porter's parents, Brent Porter and Mary Salstrom, of Brooklyn, N.Y., filed the suit in the Concord, N.H., Federal District Court on Feb.

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Rutgers dean eyes Dartmouth post

By JR Santo | April 3, 2007

Carmen Twillie Ambar, currently the dean of Rutgers University's all-women Douglass College, is one of four finalists being considered by the Dean of the College search committee to fill the position vacated last May by James Larimore.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by William Schpero | April 2, 2007

Economics professor David Blanchflower, in his capacity as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, has found that the Scottish people are more likely than their peers in the United Kingdom to be unhealthy, unhappy and suicidal.

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Energy drinks pose risks

By LIOR BASSELL | April 2, 2007

Writing a paper with no end in sight at the end of last Winter term, Allen Odeniyi '10 turned for aid to a popular campus study buddy: an energy drink.

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SA to create 'Dartmouth wiki'

By Brook Jackling | April 2, 2007

Student Assembly quickly responded to an e-mail sent to the entire student body by "The Dartmouth Wiki" -- a new website unaffiliated with the college that allows registered users to post and respond to questions -- through a follow-up e-mail sent to students on March 30. The follow-up e-mail stated that the Assembly and the Computer Science Department are in the process of creating an official Dartmouth wiki and that the Dartmouth University Wiki, as it is titled on the website, is an unfiltered "outside commercial venture" unaffiliated with the College. "We wanted to discourage the student body from using this wiki because there could be a lot of negative consequences," Ruslan Tovbulatov '09, treasurer of the Assembly, said.

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Daily Debriefing

The national sorority Delta Zeta, accused of evicting 23 members of its DePauw University chapter on the basis of appearance and popularity, sued the university on March 28, after the school kicked the group off campus.

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Kaufman '08 awarded Truman Scholarship

By JR Santo | March 30, 2007

One third of the patients who walked into the Nicaraguan health clinic where Zak Kaufman '08 worked during his sophomore winter break had illnesses caused by contaminated water.

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ORL sends preemptive e-mail to upset juniors

By Nick Swanson | March 30, 2007

When housing assignments for Spring term were announced March 1, the Office of Residential Life sent an e-mail to all students receiving new housing assignments in an effort to preempt the flurry of complaints the office typically receives every spring from returning juniors unsatisfied with their spring housing.

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German diplomat: U.S., Europe must cooperate

By Xiaolin Zhao | March 30, 2007

Arguing for cooperation between the United States and Europe over foreign policy in the Middle East, Joschka Fischer, the former foreign minister and vice chancellor of Germany, delivered the 14th Annual Walter Picard lecture to a packed audience in Filene Auditorium last night.

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Acceptance rate hits all-time low

By Victoria Boggiano | March 30, 2007

With over 14,000 applicants to the class of 2011, Dartmouth posted a record low acceptance rate of 15 percent, accepting only 2,165 applicants. With a two percent increase in applicants over last year and a 20 percent increase in the last five years, the applicant pool for the Class of 2011 is the largest in College history. Other Ivy League schools also experienced record numbers this year.

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Hanover joins anti-carbon campaign

By Anna Lotko | March 29, 2007

A rally and celebration expected to include local organic food, environmental speakers, music and dance performers, and carbon-reduction petition booths will flood the Green on April 14 when community members and students will gather to protest current carbon emission levels in the United States. Hanover and the surrounding towns of Norwich, Thetford, Hartford, White River Junction Lebanon and Lyme are some of the 1,000 towns nationwide that plan to participate in 2007's "Step It Up" campaign against climate change, which will be the largest day of rallying and citizen activism against carbon emissions to date. Citizens participating in the campaign will sign petitions demanding that Congress cut carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050.

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