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McNutt Hall will no longer be the frightening home to interviews for up-and-coming high school seniors who visit the College.
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On-campus interviews discontinued

By Marina Agapakis | February 16, 2007

The Dartmouth In an effort to expand on-campus programs for admissions visitors and provide greater equity in the admissions process, the admissions office announced last week that on-campus interviews for prospective students by seniors at the College will be discontinued this spring. The shift away from on-campus interviewing has occurred at all Ivy League schools save Yale University.

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College revamps mission statement

By Christine Paquin | February 16, 2007

After months of meetings and discussion with faculty, students and staff, College President James Wright introduced a new mission statement for the College, one which he said is clearer and more ambitious than its predecessor. Wright will present the recently drafted statement to the Board of Trustees in March, after the Dartmouth community has had a chance to give suggestions via a feedback mechanism on the College's website. He said that the idea for a new statement began to circulate last year among faculty and staff, who were searching for a clearer sense of the College's overall values and mission. "Last year, after doing some of the assessments of staff and hearing from them, there was a sense that they wanted to have a crisper sense of a mission statement -- one that they could all buy into," Wright said. He added that although originally reluctant to tackle what promised to be a lengthy task, he found the process to be a valuable and rewarding experience. Wright said that throughout the past summer and fall he met with many groups of people to gather their input on the statement, including students, faculty, staff, senior administrators, alumni, union members and the Board of Trustees. While noting that the former mission statement did reflect the positive aspects of Dartmouth, he said the revamped version offers a shorter, clearer representation of the College's values. "The current mission statement that is up on the web page is a fine and wonderful statement," he said.

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Oberg '82 vows to preserve teaching-research balance

By Katy O'Donnell | February 16, 2007

As Dartmouth's Women in Business Organization is currently working to encourage current undergraduate women to enter the field, one of the current trustee candidates, Sherri Oberg '82 Tu'86, embodies those goals. Oberg, a finalist for the 2006 Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2006, lists the main issues of her campaign, and of the Board's priorities in general, as maintaining a distinguished but teaching-oriented faculty, attracting and admitting "well-rounded" students and preserving the "special community" of Dartmouth. "I think you can be great at both teaching and research, and I think that's where Dartmouth's niche is," she said.

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Profs see laptops as distraction, useful tool

By Astrid Bradley | February 16, 2007

Editor's note: This article is the second in a two-part series examining the use of laptop computers in classrooms. While some professors discourage the use of laptop computers in the classroom, others think they allow students to quickly look up supplemental information during lectures.

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Spreading the word of the Ivies, Riner '06 launches website

By Ben Nunnery | February 15, 2007

Former Student Body President Noah Riner '06 has launched a website that allows high school students to post questions about the eight Ivy League schools, and for current and former students to answer them. The website, CodeIvy.org, addresses topics ranging from eating clubs to financial aid and include questions regarding all eight Ivy League institutions. "Despite the colossal cultural shadow they cast," the site explains, "the eight ancient schools of the Ivy League remain a mystery to thousands of interested high school students.

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For off-campus corporate recruits, an uphill process

By Grace Wyler | February 15, 2007

As the steady stream of formally dressed Dartmouth students heading down Main Street for job interviews slows to a trickle, many students who aren't on campus this term are left wondering whether it is more beneficial to be at Dartmouth during the process of corporate recruitment. Students who are currently going through corporate recruitment, the vast majority of whom are juniors, are interviewing for summer jobs from a variety of employers, most commonly from the financial and marketing sectors. On campus, the corporate recruitment program is run through the Career Services.

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Profs weigh in-class use of laptop computers

By Astrid Bradley | February 15, 2007

Editor's note: This article is the first in a two-part series examining the use of laptop computers in classrooms. With wireless network access available to 100 percent of Dartmouth's campus, the technology has become an integral part of the teaching and learning experience.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Victoria Boggiano | February 15, 2007

While many local ski areas are thankful for the recent snowstorm, the excess snow forced high school alpine and Nordic ski teams in the Upper Valley to cancel their championship ski races scheduled for Wednesday, according to an article in the Valley News.

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After 23 years, College replaces finance software

By JR Santo | February 15, 2007

In a move that will affect nearly every Dartmouth organization and department, the finance and administrative computing departments will replace the College's 23-year-old accounting software between now and July 1 as part of the Optimum Accounting Strategy and Information Systems project. The computer program that recorded and processed accounting and budget information for the last two decades -- the software Financial Accounting System General Ledger -- will be phased out by a new Oracle program. "The new system will give us better reports of data for decision making," OASIS project sponsor and College Chief Financial Officer Adam Keller said.

Student Assembly brought lawyer John Kacavas of Manchester-based law firm Kacavas & Ramsdell to campus Tuesday to give students free legal advice.
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Lawyer holds free consultation hours

By Xiaolin Zhao | February 14, 2007

Andrew Palmer / The Dartmouth Staff In reaction to the rash of perennial law-breaking that occurs over Winter Carnival weekend, Student Assembly hired a lawyer to give free legal consultation to students who woke up Monday morning to find themselves on the wrong side of the law. John Kacavas, a partner at the Manchester-based law firm Kacavas & Ramsdell, offered five hours of confidential individual consultations in half-hour blocks Tuesday in Collis. The service was first offered in the spring of 2006 following Green Key weekend. "We're offering it again this year because it was a huge success last time," said Josh Jacobson '09, chair of the Committee on Student Organizations, which organized Kacavas' visit. A project proposal had to be resubmitted again this year, but depending on success this term, Jacobson plans on submitting a proposal that will allow for regular attorney visits every term.

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Susan Wright hosts leadership discussion

By Michael Coburn | February 14, 2007

Susan Wright joined a group of about 30 female Dartmouth students Tuesday night for a discussion hosted by Women in Leadership, a Rockefeller Center-funded group that advocates women assuming leadership positions in society.

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YouTube video depicts Zete 'hazing'

By Amita Kulkarni | February 13, 2007

A video titled "Zet Hazing," first posted on YouTube.com this past November, depicts an alleged hazing act occurring in the backyard of derecognized fraternity Zeta Psi. The video demonstrates the power of the internet to spread videos that, in another era, would have remained private.

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