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Women tend to study abroad more than men

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Women outnumber men nearly two-to-one on study abroad programs, both nationally and at Dartmouth according to recently released statistics. Three hundred and forty of the 569 Dartmouth students who went abroad in the 2004-2005 academic year were female----nearly 60 percent.



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Famous publisher advises students

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Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Publishing consulting company founder Carol Luitjens told of her experiences in the publishing industry to a room full of future business leaders on Wednesday evening at the Rockefeller Center.


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Lafsky '00 reveals herself as controversial blogger

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When Melissa Lafsky '00 wrote her first weblog entry on March 14, 2005, she had no idea that less than a year later she would quit her job at a law firm, receive threatening e-mails and begin writing a book based on her experience as a 27-year-old associate lawyer.


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Police Blotter

Jan. 18, North Main Street, 9:10 a.m. Safety and Security reported to Hanover Police that an unwelcome man was in Robinson Hall.


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Dartmouth misses cut for tech ranking

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Publications ranging from The New York Times to Network World magazine have previously lauded Dartmouth College's technological capacities, but the College received no applause from The Princeton Review last Friday, when the company made no mention of Dartmouth in its third annual list of the Top 25 Most Connected Campuses. This year's list was compiled based on the results of a 361-college technology survey.



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Lecture discusses potential flu outbreak

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Students and faculty gathered Tuesday afternoon in Collis Commonground to hear infectious disease specialist Dr. Kathryn Kirkland of the Dartmouth Medical School discuss the possibility of pandemic flu outbreaks. In her lecture, titled "What if the Chicken Crosses the Road?


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U.S. to alter college aid program

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High schools across America may be forced to have the rigor of their curricula vetted by the federal government in order for their students to be eligible for new grants under a budget bill pending in Congress. Last month, Republican senators inserted a new financial assistance program for students into a bill that had previously passed in the House of Representatives. The program proposes to provide eligible low-income freshmen and sophomores in college with grants of $750 and $1,300, respectively.


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Endowment returns 14.4 percent

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Dartmouth's endowment return topped the national average for higher education endowments by more than five percent for the 2005 fiscal year according to an annual survey released this week by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. The College generated returns to their investments of 14.4 percent compared with the national average endowment earnings of 9.3 percent. Yale had the strongest return of any school, generating a 22.3 percent return on investments. Despite strong returns on its investments, Dartmouth's total endowment -- just over $2.7 billion at the end of the 2005 fiscal year -- was seventh in the Ivy League and 22nd overall, according to NACUBO's 746-college survey.



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Skorton to lead Cornell University

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Courtesy of Cornell University After Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman's controversial resignation last June, the Board of Trustees at Ithaca's Ivy League institution announced Saturday that they have found a replacement.


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Theater prof. sues College for inequity

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She has taught acting for two decades, but now theater professor Mara Sabinson is playing a different kind of role -- plaintiff in a lawsuit that raises serious charges of harassment and discrimination against College administrators. Sabinson, 59, a tenured associate professor, is suing Dartmouth for alleged age, sexual and religious discrimination, as well as breach of contract.





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Students host gathering to mark Lunar New Year

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Jennifer Garfinkel / The Dartmouth Staff Students and community members celebrated the Lunar New Year Sunday afternoon with East Asian-themed foods and performances in Collis Commonground. The event, initiated by the Dartmouth Asian Organization, was created to foster an understanding of Asian culture for the many non-Asians in attendance and also to bring together many of the Asian groups on campus, DAO president Elisha Tam '07 said. "I think Asian culture is particularly hard to penetrate and understand, because Asians tend to be very guarded when it comes to race.


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Conference offers insight on consulting, Wall Street

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Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff Dressed in coordinating suits and polished shoes, with briefcases and resumes in hand, Dartmouth students eagerly trekked down Tuck Mall to meet Goldman Sachs representatives at the Tuck School of Business's Pipeline Conference for Women and Minorities. The Tuck Pipeline Program, created by Tracie M.


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Probation processes confound CFS houses

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/ The Dartmouth At constant risk of College reprimand for violations ranging from the possession of drug paraphernalia to the provision of a common source of alcohol, many Greek organizations are realizing that there is more to probation process than just the infraction alone. In the past month alone, several organizations were found to be in violation of College policy by Safety and Security.