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With suitcases in hand, prospective members of the Class of 2010 leave campus after a long weekend visiting the College.isiting
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Students satisfied with Dimensions

By Christine Paquin | April 25, 2006

EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff Approximately 500 prospective members of the Class of 2010 left campus in buses and cars Saturday morning after three packed days at "Camp Dartmouth." Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg said that this year's Dimensions was a hit, citing the large turnout, beautiful weather and a new schedule of events as factors contributing to the weekend's success. "It was probably the best Dimensions that I've seen," he said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by John Fine | April 24, 2006

Red Rolfe '31 is the subject of a recently released book by William Anderson entitled "The View From the Dugout: The Journals of Red Rolfe." He was a third baseman for the New York Yankees in the late 1930s and early 40s, the manager of the Detroit Tigers from 1949 to 1952 and Director of Athletics at Dartmouth College from 1954 to 1967.

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Al-Nur to host week for Islamic awareness

By Joanna Patterson | April 24, 2006

Al-Nur, Dartmouth's Muslim Student Association, is hosting an Islamic Awareness week this Monday through Friday in an effort to help the Muslim community at Dartmouth band together, as well as to debunk misconceptions about Muslims. This afternoon, speaker Sheikh Taha Hassane will give a lecture entitled, "Islam: Clarifying Misconceptions," in Dartmouth Hall and on Tuesday, the film "Muhammed: Legacy of a Prophet," will play in the Rockefeller Center.

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NY Fed. Reserve CEO lectures econ. class

By Zach Swiss | April 24, 2006

The President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy Geithner '83, spoke to Professor James Feyrer's macroeconomics classes last Friday and described the inner workings of the Federal Open Market Committee, its history, and how the Fed creates America's economic policy. Geithner traveled to Dartmouth to accept a Nelson Rockefeller public service award from the Rockefeller Center.

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Professors' patents can pull in cash for College

By Alex Belser | April 24, 2006

Unlike the figure skater of the same name known for jumping and spinning above the ice, Thayer School of Engineering professor Victor Petrenko is getting attention for melting it. The aerospace company Goodrich Corporation has licensed his method of helping remove ice from airplane wings, and Petrenko has formed his own company to develop its use for power lines, shoes, skis and ice machines. Petrenko said revenue from his 14 American and 20 international patents will eventually amount to billions of dollars. "In two, three years it will be very substantial for me," he said. Petrenko is well down a road a number of Dartmouth professors, mainly at Thayer and Dartmouth Medical School, travel each year -- trying to patent new ideas they develop in their laboratories. Because these ideas come about in the course of their work at Dartmouth, the College officially owns them. Professors are required to disclose their inventions to the Technology Transfer Office, where director Alla Kan works with outside patent lawyers the College hires to determine whether ideas are patentable.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Taylor Hedrick | April 21, 2006

Today marks the conclusion of "Carry Your Trash Week," a program that encouraged students to carry trash bags containing all of the items that they normally would have thrown away.

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COS Task Force empowers students

By Christine Paquin | April 21, 2006

With a student body divided over the Committee on Standards' decisions and processes, the Student Assembly is launching an initiative that aims to de-mystify the system and empower students to take a more active role in the COS. The initiative, dubbed the COS Task Force, will be comprised of six to eight students and perform a variety of functions, all with the goal of studying COS regulations and making suggestions to the Undergraduate Office of Judicial Affairs and the Office of the Dean of the College.

Augusta Niles '07, Nathan Sigworth '07, Deborah Sperling '06 and Hannah Murnen '06 stand with the Gyrobike, their Engineering 21 team project.
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Engineering students have patent pending

By Mary Katherine Flanigan | April 21, 2006

Bailey Massey / The Dartmouth Staff Because of the Gyrobike, a new bicycle invented by Dartmouth students, young children may soon be able to hop on their bikes and pedal down the road without any previous experience. Hannah Murnen '06, Augusta Niles '07, Deborah Sperling '06 and Nathan Sigworth '07 invented the Gyrobike, which corrects for the "falling feeling" experienced by first time bike riders, after being assigned to build a toy for teaching and learning during their Fall 2004 Engineering 21 class. When the group first toyed with the idea of creating a bike that would help young children learn to properly ride on their first attempt, they were told their idea would never work.

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SAE hosts Greek system debate

By Katy O'Donnell | April 21, 2006

The three candidates for Student Assembly president, all of whom are members of Greek houses, discussed issues ranging from Greek diversity to the Assembly's role in Greek proceedings on Thursday night at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity's third annual debate on Greek issues. Throughout the debate, Dave Zubricki '07 continued to draw attention to his Assembly experience, while Adam Patinkin '07 stressed his position as the "non-establishment" candidate and Chrissie Chick '07 emphasized her status as the middle of road candidate. "Dave [Zubricki] here has a lot of experience, but what does he have to show for it?

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by John Zaleshi | April 20, 2006

Engineers at the Thayer School collaborated with the United States Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover to develop a solar-powered robot designed for operation in Antarctica and Greenland.

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Editing program extended for one yr.

By Marina Agapakis | April 20, 2006

Students taking classes in the art history, religion and math departments who have come to rely on the Departmental Editing Program will not lose this writing resource at the end of the academic year as originally expected. Joseph Asch '79, the program's founder and financier, announced last Friday that he would continue to fund DEP for an additional year, reversing his prior announcement in January 2005 that the program would end in June 2006. "I hope that during this time, the Dartmouth Administration will come to see that DEP is a uniquely effective innovation in the teaching of writing -- one that the College should adopt as its own and spread throughout the institution as quickly as is feasible," Asch wrote in a letter to the three department chairs announcing his decision to continue funding the program. All three in-house writing editors for the respective departments have agreed to stay in their positions for another year.

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Police Blotter

April 20, 2006

April 13, North Park Street, 3:07 a.m. Police were on-hand to assist an ambulance that had been requested by Safety and Security at McCulloch Hall in the East Wheelock cluster.

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Students push for more lenient drug penalties

By Matthew Abbott | April 20, 2006

As part of a campaign to promote marijuana as a safer alternative to alcohol, groups of college students around the country are pushing for reduced penalties for marijuana possession. Last Thursday, students at the University of Maryland passed a referendum in their student government elections that advocates punishing marijuana possession on the same level as alcohol violations. While this vote is considered to be a message to administrators at the school, it does not actually change any of the current policies.

The grand opening of the new Fitness Center took place Wednesday amidst much hype, including an address by College President James Wright.
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New Fitness Center unveiled

By Cathy Wu | April 20, 2006

Sarah Shaw / The Dartmouth Staff Sarah Shaw / The Dartmouth Staff The new Kresge Fitness Center opened its doors on Wednesday afternoon, one year after the start of construction and just in time for the first day of Dimensions. The approximately 14,000 square-foot fitness center houses 64 cardio machines, new dumbbells, free weight stations and 42 circuit machines, among various other physical-fitness training equipment.

Tours of the campus have become increasingly crowded as both Dimensions weekend and the deadline to choose Dartmouth approach.
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Campus warms up for Dimensions

By Callison Lawson | April 19, 2006

Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff Dimensions Weekend kicks off today with almost five hundred prospective members of the Class of 2010 pouring onto campus to attend College classes, meet current students, eat in the dining halls and live in the dorm rooms.

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Bush taps Portman '78 to lead budget office

By Elliot Mattingly | April 19, 2006

President George W. Bush selected Rob Portman '78 on Tuesday to serve as the director of his Office of Management and Budget, as part of an attempt to revitalize his staff during one of the most trying political moments of his presidency.

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