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College commemorates Freedman at Rollins

By Phil Salinger | May 16, 2006

The Dartmouth flag flew at half mast over the Green Monday afternoon as hundreds filed into Rollins Chapel to commemorate the life of James Oliver Freedman, the 15th president of the College, who died in March after battling cancer for more than a decade. The service of prayer, music, meditation and reflection featured addresses from College President James Wright, a former student, Hillel Rabbi Edward Boraz and a few professors and trustees.

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Few schools continue to require swim test

By Matthew Abbott | May 16, 2006

With commencement rapidly approaching, seniors who have yet to pass their swim test requirement are donning their bathing suits and heading to the pool in order to graduate on time. As the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill becomes the most recent school to do away with the requirement, Dartmouth is one of the few remaining institutions in the United States that requires students to pass a swimming test in order to receive an undergraduate degree.

The Centerra Park in Lebanon, N.H., -- where the recently-purchased GlycoFi headquarters are located -- underwent construction this winter.
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Merck purchases professors' company

By Alex Belser | May 16, 2006

Courtesy of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network In a $400 million deal, pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. purchased GlycoFi, Inc., the Lebanon, N.H.-based biotechnology firm Thayer School of Engineering professors Tillman Gerngross and Charles Hutchinson co-founded in 2000, the companies announced last week.

Native Americans from more than 50 different tribes danced together at Dartmouth's 34th Annual Pow-Wow this past Saturday and Sunday.
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Thousands celebrate yearly Pow-Wow

By Ashley Zuzek | May 15, 2006

Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff Representatives from over 50 Native American tribes from across the country came to Dartmouth this weekend to celebrate and share various parts of their cultures, including traditional music and dance, at the 34th Annual Pow-Wow. "This particular Pow-Wow is a way to share a variety of cultures with the surrounding community, for Native Americans to participate and for people to visit," said Michael Hantichak, director of the Native American Program. Many different dance and song competitions took place during the two-day long Pow-Wow, in which men and women of many different tribes dressed in vibrantly colored regalia. The Native Americans at Dartmouth honored Dean of the College Jim Larimore as well as Samson Occom, a member of the Mohegan Nation who helped Eleazar Wheelock found the College.

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Filmmaker De Leo lectures on abuse

By Jilian Gundling | May 15, 2006

Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Maryann De Leo and Lifetime Television Vice President Meredith Wagner hosted various events on campus last week as part of the "Cries of Silence: Domestic Violence, Rape, and Mental Illness" program put on by the Nathan Smith Pre-medical Society. "When filmmaker De Leo came to visit our campus last spring to show [the Oscar-winning film] 'Chernobyl Heart,' the event was extremely popular," NSS member Elizabeth Schwartz '06 said.

Dartmouth graduate student Crystal Piffath won an annual $30,000 stipend from the National Science Foundation for her work in biology.
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NSF awards biology graduate student

By Tom Huzarsky | May 12, 2006

Chris Takeuchi / The Dartmouth Staff The National Science Foundation awarded Crystal Piffath, a Dartmouth graduate student in molecular and cell biology, a prestigious three-year fellowship funded by its Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

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Despite ORL waitlist, affinities have vacancies

By Astrid Bradley | May 12, 2006

Cutter-Shabazz and La Casa, among several other affinity houses, are continuing to deal with Fall term housing vacancies, despite the approximately 120 to 140 members of the sophomore class placed on the housing waitlist Wednesday after the final night of room draw. "I think in previous years, without the [housing] guarantee, getting secured in affinity housing was a way for sophomores not to have to go through room draw and in many cases get a single," Director of Housing Rachael Class-Giguere said. According to Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman, affinity houses have struggled in the past to fill their houses, but this year has been especially difficult.

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Eating disorders can exist on seemingly healthy campus

By Linzi Sheldon | May 12, 2006

Editor's Note: This if the first of a two-part series examining eating disorders at Dartmouth. The first part discusses the problem as it pertains to the College and the second part will evaluate how students and administrators are working to alleviate the problem. As Dartmouth students trade fleeces for shorts, the rising temperatures can also reignite anxieties in image-conscious students and exacerbate their eating and weight-related issues.

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Daily Debriefing

A series of debates, interactive discussions and formal presentations entitled "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Series on the Alcohol Culture at Dartmouth," were held throughout the week to stimulate discussion about the positive and negative issues of drinking.

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Sennott describes fundamentalism

By Zach Swiss | May 12, 2006

Charles Sennott, a former bureau chief for Europe and the Middle East at the Boston Globe, mixed personal experiences with political insights to address religious fundamentalism, the war on terror and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his speech Thursday night. Sennott remarked that fundamentalism is on the rise in all three of the world's major religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

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'Women in Business' sends undergraduates to golf course

By Christine Huggins | May 12, 2006

Women in Business will host its second annual golf outing this Saturday to introduce women to the game of golf, considered to be an excellent networking tool in the business world. Meghan Feely '08, one of the main organizers of "Golf & Business: Learning the Links," played golf in high school and soon realized that she not only loved the game but that it would be a useful skill to have later in life. "My interest in golf benefited out of my love of the game, but I soon realized there were other benefits.

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Montgomery Fellows named for coming terms

By Marina Agapakis | May 11, 2006

Writer Githa Hariharan and historian Romila Thapar will join the Dartmouth community as Montgomery Fellows during the 2006 Summer and Fall terms, respectively. The two new Montgomery Fellows, announced Wednesday by Executive Director of the Montgomery Endowment Susan Wright, will take part in the two-term series entitled "Reimagining India." "I think they're going to introduce their unique writings and scholarship and views into our Hanover Community," Wright said.

At room draw on Wednesday, freshmen Yoko Matsumoto, Virginia Deaton, Anna Dev and Courtney Valentine strategize to get their preferred rooms.
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Housing guaranteed despite waitlist

By Astrid Bradley | May 11, 2006

Jeewon Kim / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Although 120 to 140 sophomores have yet to receive housing assignments after the final night of room draw, the Office of Residential Life continues to stand by its guarantee that all sophomores will receive housing next fall. "We did our best homework and fully thought we wouldn't have a wait list.

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IFC policies face possible revisions

By Kelsey Blodget | May 11, 2006

After denying Jewish-affiliated fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi colony status for the second time last Thursday, the Interfraternity Council will meet to discuss possible fraternity expansion policy revisions next Thursday with Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman, Coed, Fraternity and Sorority System Director Deb Carney and Assistant CFS Director Megan Johnson. "I certainly think that there will be amendments to the current expansion policy as it exists," Alex Lentz '07 said.

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