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Peter Hughes '06, Cayelan Carey '06 and James Redfield '06 are among the eight Dartmouth seniors who received Fulbright grants this year.
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Eight garner Fulbright grants

By Lense Gebre-Mariam | May 23, 2006

Jeewon Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Eight Dartmouth seniors have been selected from an extremely competitive pool of American college students to represent the United States as 2006 Fulbright grant recipients for their extensive commitment to research. The Fulbright U.S.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Cathy Wu | May 23, 2006

Chancellor Gordon Brown's appointment of Dartmouth economics professor David Blanchflower to the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England has since come under attack from the Committee and the Bank's governing court.

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New associate deans of the faculty announced

By Ashley Zuzek | May 23, 2006

Associate professor Lindsay Whaley of the classics and linguistics departments and Kate Conley, professor of French and Italian, were appointed last week as new associate deans of the faculty. Whaley, who joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1993, will serve in the new position of Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences.

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Folt outlines goals at final faculty meeting

By Phil Salinger | May 23, 2006

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences assembled in the Hopkins Center Monday afternoon for their last meeting of the academic year, where they heard reports from Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt, Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg and a handful of faculty committee chairs. In her address, Folt outlined her goals for the faculty and the College over the coming years in three main areas.

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Kaling '01 embarks on acting, writing career for 'The Office'

By Zach Swiss | May 23, 2006

When Mindy Kaling '01 says that she won't be able to attend her upcoming college reunion because of work, she isn't talking about investment banking or consulting. Instead, Kaling may be busy writing and appearing in episodes of NBC's hit comedy "The Office," or she may be on the set of the movie she is currently filming in Los Angeles. Only a few years ago, Kaling was most recognizable for portraying, of all people, Ben Affleck, in a play entitled "Matt and Ben" that she co-wrote with Brenda Withers '00.

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Alumni Council endorses constitution

By Rebekah Rombom | May 22, 2006

At the Alumni Council's three-day meeting this weekend, the body voted both to endorse the Dartmouth Alumni Association's newly proposed constitution and to revise the existing constitution to allow all-media voting on subsequent amendments to the Council's constitution. The vote to endorse the new Alumni Association constitution was unanimous, according to a statement from the Office of Alumni Relations, and the all-media voting provision passed by 87 percent.

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SA requests $68,000 for 2006-07 academic year

By Katy O'Donnell | May 22, 2006

The Student Assembly requested an allocation of $68,250 for its 2006-2007 budget from the Undergraduate Finance Committee last Tuesday. Student Body President-Elect Tim Andreadis '07 led members Chris Bertrand '07, Leslie Shribman '08 and Dave Zubricki '07 in the Assembly's presentation to the UFC.

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Rainy Green Key keeps Police busy

By Jennifer Bandy | May 22, 2006

This year's Green Key weekend resulted in 12 alcohol-related arrests, a number typical for the weekend, along with three ambulance runs for dangerously intoxicated students. "Overall it was a typical Green Key, but it kept us very busy.

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Kappa raises $2,000 for local cancer center

By Matthew Abbott | May 22, 2006

Roughly 30 people braved rain and mud Sunday afternoon to participate in Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority's fourth-annual Breast Cancer Walk/Run fundraiser to benefit the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Participants in the walk/run followed a five kilometer course that started at the Collis Center, looped around Occom Pond and ended at Sanborn Hall.

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Castellani discusses corporate ethics

By Hillary Wool | May 22, 2006

John Castellani, president of the Business Roundtable, a Washington association representing 160 chief executive officers of America's largest corporations, led a seminar entitled "Ethical Issues of Executive Compensation" Thursday at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. The mission of Business Roundtable is to try to affect public policy from the CEO side and foster both domestic and international economic and job growth.

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Weekend's long history includes chariot races, piano smashing

By Dan Duray | May 19, 2006

Courtesy of Rauner Special Collections Library Since the dawn of time, human civilizations have welcomed the transition from the cold winter to the fertile spring with various festivals, usually involving celebrations of the most bacchanalian and hedonistic aspects of life. Since 1899, Dartmouth has had Green Key. Originally called Spring House-Parties weekend, the event was first organized by the class of 1900.

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Pre-coed Green Key featured sleepovers, bus loads of women

By Amanda Cohen | May 19, 2006

Courtesy of Rauner Special Collections Library In the era before coeducation, Dartmouth men's reputation for drinking and debauchery was widespread,. During big weekends like Green Key, when the campus was flooded with alumni and, more importantly, females, the men of Dartmouth were given the opportunity to either disprove or perpetuate this reputation.

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AIDS Workcrew to hold memorial, hopes to raise awareness on campus

By Elliot Mattingly | May 19, 2006

The AIDS Workcrew, a Dartmouth AIDS awareness organization that is part of the Tucker Foundation, will hold a commemorative event this Sunday as part of the Global Health Council's 2006 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial. The ceremony will take place outside Collis and include a candle lighting, speakers, and a performance by the Rockapellas, and is designed to coincide with similar events taking place on Sunday in countries throughout the world, despite organizers' fears that Green Key's party atmosphere will reduce the turnout. Jordan Nahas-Vigon '08, the AIDS Workcrew co-chair, characterized the primary purposes of the event as demonstrating support and raising awareness. "I think that this is more to show people in the Upper Valley who have been affected that we are here and that we support them," she said.

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