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Study suggests self-injury common at top colleges

By Jennifer Garfinkel | July 11, 2006

Researchers at Cornell and Princeton Universities found that 17 percent of student participants had engaged in self-injurious behavior -- which includes cutting, burning and any self-inflected injury not aimed at suicide -- at some point in their lives and that 70.8 percent of this group of respondents have engaged in the behavior at least twice.

Guests of Dartmouth's Christian Impact Group, the Birmingham, England-based Agap Student Ministry will soon finish its brief visit to Hanover.
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With conversion on mind, U.K. Christians hit campus

By Elise Waxenberg | July 11, 2006

Lauren Wool / The Dartmouth Staff Thirteen British evangelical Christians will return to England Friday after spending three weeks at Dartmouth approaching students in dining halls, TV lounges and on sports fields to talk about faith and Jesus. The visitors, comprised mostly of 19- to 22-year-old students from the Birmingham, England-based Christian group Agap, are working with Dartmouth's Christian Impact for the third year in a row and have been living in the Lodge dormitory since June 24. Both the Dartmouth group and the British group are part of the international ministry organization Campus Crusade for Christ, whose mission is to "take the gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations," according to the group's website. "The goal is to assist us in all of our ministry efforts here," Christian Impact Director Chris West said of the collaboration.

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Nearly 100 participate in Soph. Trips

By Carolyn Kylstra | July 11, 2006

On Friday night, just off the shore of Gilman Island, Kiersten Hallquist '08 and six other Dartmouth students on her Sophomore Trips flat-water canoeing section climbed into their canoes, took off their clothes and paddled their boats into one another in a moonlit game of naked bumper canoes. Though just under 100 students participated in the appropriately-dubbed Strips, 18 students led nine different trips, which included strenuous and moderate hiking, climbing, two sections of flat-water canoeing, flat-water and white-water kayaking, skeet shooting and a low-ropes course.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Julia Hecht | July 11, 2006

According to Career Services, the number of students who participated last Wednesday's corporate recruiting summer resume drop has risen dramatically from last year.

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Rising loan rates force financial aid changes

By Rebekah Rombom | July 6, 2006

Students scrambled last week to consolidate loans and lock in favorable interest rates for federal Stafford and PLUS loans before the rates became fixed on July 1 at nearly two percentage points above those that have been available to students in recent years.

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DDS introduces locally grown produce

By Julia Hecht | July 6, 2006

After working with Valley Food & Farm for two years, Dartmouth Dining Services recently announced plans to provide fresh, regional produce to students by purchasing directly from farms in the Upper Valley. As part of the Farm-to-Dartmouth program, DDS formed agreements to purchase eleven varieties of produce from local farms: strawberries, green beans, beets, summer squash, green and red peppers, cucumbers, corn, carrots, watermelons and red onions, with lettuce to be added next week.

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Scherr to head search for new College dean

By Gus Lûbin | July 6, 2006

College Provost Berry Scherr will chair the 11-person search committee charged with finding a replacement for James Larimore, College President James Wright announced Wednesday. The committee will include Student Body President Tim Andreadis '07 as well as two additional students that have yet to be appointed. The committee will begin its search later this month and plans to make its recommendation to the president by late fall or early winter, Scherr said. "We don't want to rush, so if it takes a bit long to put everything together, we'll take that time," he said, adding that the new dean would probably not start his tenure at Dartmouth until next summer. Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson will continue to hold the office in the meantime.

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Daily Debriefing

By Julia Hecht | July 4, 2006

Dartmouth Medical School geneticists reported on June 29 in the online edition of Science that DNA damage resets the cellular circadian clock, suggesting a fundamental connection between circadian timing, cell cycle progress, and -- potentially -- the origins of some cancers.

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Amputee alum starts non-profit org.

By Carolyn Kylstra | July 4, 2006

An improvised explosive device hidden in an olive oil can cost Jonathan Kuniholm '93 his right arm on New Year's Day of 2005 just south of Haditha, Iraq, but the Dartmouth alumnus has made the most of his misfortune by aiding other amputees with his non-profit organization Open Prosthetics Project. OPP is an organization that puts its research on prosthetic hardware designs on the internet and allows the public -- both individuals and companies -- to access the information free of charge.

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Greener to-go boxes debut at Food Court

By Kelsey Blodget | July 4, 2006

Lauren Wool / The Dartmouth Staff In an effort to reduce the garbage generated by Dartmouth students, currently 560 pounds per person per year, the Sustainable Dining Committee has introduced biodegradable cardboard take-out boxes at Food Court. Jim Merkel, the College's recently hired Sustainability Director and a member of the Sustainable Dining Committee formed in May, said the boxes are a trial measure that could become permanent this September, depending on student feedback. The boxes are receiving mixed reviews from students. "I'm all for sustainability, but it's harder for us," Meredith Druss '08 said.

From left, Kate Labrum '08, house dog Sam, Haley Morris '08, and Alyson Guillet '08 relax on the porch of their off-campus house at 8 School Street.
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Social life shifts off-campus for summer

By Dan Duray | July 4, 2006

Nova Robinson / The Dartmouth Senior Staff It's no surprise that off-campus housing, with its potential for barbecues with close friends and the occasional pool party, is traditionally more popular over the summer than during the normal school year.

SEAD mentees listen to brothers of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity ruminate on college life at a barbecue sponsored by the fraternity on Monday.
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SEAD program kicks off sixth year

By Elise Waxenberg | July 4, 2006

Nova Robinson / The Dartmouth Senior Staff When Mark Wilson '09 first came to Hanover for a summer enrichment program after his freshman year of high school, he didn't even know what the Ivy League was. Wilson's south Philadelphia high school was in turmoil when he was recruited for Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth, a program that brings 30 students from under-resourced high schools to Hanover for two to three weeks of summer classes, mentoring and a taste of residential college life. At Wilson's 1400-student public school, only 45 percent of his class graduated and about 30 students went on to any kind of college.

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Alumni battle in national spotlight

By Benjamin Taylor | June 29, 2006

The College's internal disputes over the alumni governance task force's proposed constitution exploded onto the national stage last week, when both The New York Times and the Boston Globe published articles on the rancor surrounding the issue.

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Visa laws force some to forego summer term

By Stuart A. Reid | June 29, 2006

In the face of recently enforced immigration regulations that make it difficult to stay at Dartmouth legally during sophomore summer, only 38 percent of sophomore international students are on campus this term, according to the Dean of the College Office, often after rearranging their Dartmouth Plans and risking canceled visas. In 2005, the U.S.

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