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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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KDE hosts charity potluck dinner

By Jennifer Gaudette | January 29, 2007

Pasta, pies and cookies greeted students who braved the cold to attend "Feast for a Dream," a charity potluck hosted by Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority Friday night. The potluck dinner, organized entirely by undergraduates, was held to raise awareness for Dance for a Dream, an event coordinated by Dartmouth Medical School students.

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Led by Shpeen, 'reform' movement began in fall

By Allie Lowe | January 29, 2007

Adam Shpeen '07 began working during Fall term on an effort to "reform" Student Assembly, an effort that involved recruiting new Assembly members, was organized stealthily through face-to-face conversations and, some argue, has its roots in a personal vendetta. "We wanted to stay away from Blitz[Mail]," explained Michael Herman '07, who is also involved in the move to reform the Assembly.

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Slim parking pickings pain professors

By Cathy Wu | January 29, 2007

Parking has become an increasingly headache-inducing problem for many professors and staff. Several professors have written letters detailing their frustrations with the current parking situation in the parking lot shared by the Thayer School of Engineering and the Tuck School of Business. Thayer Director of Public Information Catherine Lamm, who has received the messages, said that within the past year the parking problem has reached a crisis point.

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Smith runs on free speech, COS reform

By Katy O'Donnell | January 29, 2007

Stephen Smith '88, the most recent alumnus to enter the race for a seat on the Board of Trustees, is running as a petition candidate on a campaign of keeping Dartmouth a "college," promoting free speech on campus and reforming the Committee on Standards. Smith, a law professor at University of Virginia, said his candidacy is partially motivated by the desire to provoke debate during the campaign. "I think having a petition candidate is vital to make progress," he said.

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Study ranks College 20th for research

By JR Santo | January 26, 2007

Although its departments and student body are relatively small compared to other schools in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was ranked 20th among the top research powerhouses by a recent graduate program study. The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, based on extensive data from 2005, evaluated 354 institutions on the quality and impact of their research rather than on the sheer quantity of research ventures.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by JR Santo | January 26, 2007

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill admissions office mistakenly sent 2,700 applicants e-mail notifications of admission on Wednesday.

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