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Folt ends first term as permanent dean

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Carol Folt's first term as permanent dean of the faculty is coming to a close, and many of the same initiatives she set out to accomplish two years ago when Folt assumed the position as interim dean are still underway.



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Daily Debriefing

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Edward Van Dyk threw his two sons, aged four and eight, and himself off a 15-story balcony of the Loews Miami Beach Hotel Sunday morning.


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UC Irvine's Granger appointed Neukom Institute director

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Dr. Richard H. Granger Jr., a professor at the University of California, Irvine, was appointed as the first director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth last week. Granger currently teaches in the computer science and cognitive science departments and directs the Brain Engineering Laboratory at UC Irvine.


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Association of Alumni halts imminent elections

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In the latest twist of the ongoing discussion over the Alumni Governance Task Force's newly proposed alumni constitution, the executive committee of the Association of Alumni has announced that it will postpone its annual fall meetings as well as the accompanying elections. According to a statement issued by Merle Adelman '80, first vice president of the Association, the meeting and elections have been postponed "because the results of the vote on the proposed constitution will not be available until after Oct.


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Women's lacrosse destroys Notre Dame, advances to NCAA championship

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WEB UPDATE, May 27, 7:38 p.m. Dartmouth's women's lacrosse team earned a spot in the NCAA Division I national championship after pummeling Notre Dame 14-8 in Friday's semifinal at Boston University's Nickerson Field. The Big Green will play the defending champion Northwestern Wildcats on Sunday at noon in this year's final, which will also be held at Nickerson Field. Dartmouth broke out to an early lead against Norte Dame and never looked back.



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Proposed changes to COS denied support

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April Thompson, director of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs, recently denied support to a draft of proposed Committee on Standards procedural changes issued by the COS Task Force. The drastic rise in the number of COS cases since 2001, coupled with a Student Assembly survey indicating student dissatisfaction and confusion with the COS process, prompted the creation of the task force by Student Assembly.


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Forum promotes open debate of issues

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Lauren Wool / The Dartmouth A Free Speech Forum held Thursday night to talk about controversial minority issues drew 32 students to Alumni Hall, but those in attendance said they wished there had been a bigger and more ideologically diverse turnout. Topics of discussion included "marginalized people" at Dartmouth, the immigration debate and two Facebook.com groups established by Dartmouth students to express support for the Duke lacrosse players accused of rape. Students and a few administrators sat around tables talking over snacks about the issues on the meeting agenda, with students trained as moderators overseeing the discussion. "The problem is it's pretty self-selected about who comes, but there were people who disagreed so it was legitimate and helpful," Owen Zidar '08. Organizer Shamara Baidoobonso '06 said the goal was to get students to speak openly and really force them to think about their beliefs. "I find that the campus is polarized and there are really some issues that need to be addressed," she said. Baidoobonso, who is black, said the Facebook groups about the Duke Lacrosse players upset some black students.



Dar tmouth Medical School student Deogratias Niyizonkiza speaks to students about his experience working with global health issues.
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DMS student speaks on global health

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Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff Drawing on his own experiences in Burundi and Rwanda, a student at Dartmouth Medical School described the obstacles of providing healthcare to some of the world's poorest and most disease-ridden areas in a speech Thursday evening.



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DDS will not cut hours or employees to cut costs

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Editor's Note: This is the first in a three-part series examining the Dartmouth Dining Services' cost and management structure, and employee experience at DDS. As costs continue to rise for Dartmouth Dining Services, the committee evaluating DDS has been forced to find ways to lower these costs in order to break even without reducing the hours that dining facilities stay open.



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Senior gift gets a boost from alums

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As seniors prepare for their last few weeks at Dartmouth, two alumni gave future graduates an added incentive to contribute to the legacy of the Class of 2006. For over 25 years, the College's graduating class has given a senior gift to future students by donating money to the Dartmouth College Fund.


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Sharma '08 awarded Goldman scholarship

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Faced with a week packed with papers and exams, Mita Sharma '08, a nominee for the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Scholarship, dealt with a major setback when her computer crashed, and she lost her entire nearly-completed scholarship application four days before it was due. "I had so much stuff to study for; I didn't have time to worry about this scholarship that [I figured] I'm not going to get anyway," Sharma said. When the scholarship program e-mailed the nominees to remind them about the application deadline, Sharma responded that she was no longer applying due to the stressful circumstances.



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Phi Delt, Admissions settle on Dimensions weekend incident

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At a May 11 hearing with a College dean, Phi Delta Alpha fraternity was found responsible for providing alcohol to persons under the legal drinking age and given one week of social probation which ended at midnight last Thursday. The charges stem from an incident over Dimensions weekend late on the night of April 19 when prospective students, who were in the presence of two admissions officers, were able to gain entry to the house and obtain alcohol.


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SA considers COS reforms

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The outgoing leadership of the Student Assembly convened Tuesday night for its final meeting of the academic year to discuss the preliminary findings of the Committee on Standards Task Force and debate several other important resolutions and proposals. Michael Herman '07, a member of the COS Task Force, said that other elite undergraduate institutions' judicial systems, including Harvard University, Princeton University and Stanford University, currently employ more onerous burdens of proof than that of Dartmouth's, which depends on "the preponderance of evidence" argument. "We think it would be a horrible travesty for someone innocent to be found guilty, and we need to weigh this social cost of erroneous decisions in determining the appropriate burden," Herman said. Other members of the task force advocated examining additional ways to increase the transparency of the COS process.


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Gov. Lynch vetoes HB 1566; status uncertain

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New Hampshire College Democrats President Adam Patinkin '07, outgoing Student Body President Noah Riner '06 and other political and campus leaders from Dartmouth met with New Hampshire Governor John Lynch last week in effort to persuade him to veto House Bill 1566.


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