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April 11, 2026
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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Christine Paquin | April 25, 2006

Dartmouth researchers conducted a study which proved that alcohol subdues the actions of the frontal and posterior parietal areas of the brain -- the regions of the brain which handle visual and motor response.

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A Look Back: the Riner administration

By Katy O'Donnell | April 25, 2006

Despite his long involvement with Student Assembly, Assembly President Noah Riner '06 will probably be most remembered for his controversial, religiously charged convocation speech, which overshadowed the accomplishments of much of his tenure as student body president, making his administration seem inaccessible at times. Following the speech, the Assembly found itself mired in a public battle over Riner's sectarian references, seen in an explosion of op-eds and counter op-eds in The Dartmouth as well as the resignation of Student Life Committee Chair Kaelin Goulet '07, who deemed the speech "an embarrassment." The controversy only contributed to the Assembly's reputation as a body plagued by bickering. The negative public opinion of the body existed before Riner's administration, but a feeling of apathy within the body grew as the year wore on.

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The 2006 Student Assembly campaign season in review

By Dane Schlossberg | April 25, 2006

At the final words of the third and last Student Assembly presidential debate, the campaign for Assembly president came to an official close last night, concluding that this year's race would avoid much of the controversy that characterized last year's campaign season. At this time a year ago, the Assembly presidential campaigns of Paul Heintz '06 and Brian Martin '06 were thwarted by serious Elections Planning and Advisory Committee sanctions stemming from negative campaigning conducted via BlitzMail. This year's race, however, has remained relatively quiet, though not entirely without incident.

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N.H. risks losing important primary election position

By Jennifer Bandy | April 25, 2006

New Hampshire's hallowed first-in-the-nation presidential primary could soon lose the prominence it has held for nearly a century if the Democratic National Committee passes a recent proposal to add one or two more caucuses before New Hampshire's primary date. In an effort to choose a stronger candidate in 2008, the DNC has completed the preliminary steps necessary both to place one or two caucuses between Iowa and New Hampshire and to schedule several other primaries immediately after New Hampshire's.

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Students become more responsible for fin. aid

By Hillary Wool | April 25, 2006

Parents of incoming Dartmouth students and of admitted college students across America are allowing their children to attend elite institutions, so long as many of the students pay the difference between tuition and what parents can afford. Even with significant increases in financial aid, many students at schools like Dartmouth will still have substantial loans to pay back after graduation.

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Website criticizes College's portrayal of undergrads

By Matthew Abbott | April 25, 2006

A website recently created by Dartmouth students claims that College officials have been misleading Dartmouth alumni about the student body's satisfaction level over issues such as the proposed changes to the alumni constitution and the recent Senior Executive Committee elections. Five undergraduates created the site, www.voxclamantisindeserto.org, earlier this month to reach alumni and voice student concerns over issues that they feel have not been adequately presented to Dartmouth students and alumni. "Unfortunately, many graduated sons and daughters of Dartmouth are under the impression, fostered by the College's public relations department and the Office of Alumni Relations, that all of its undergraduate student body is satisfied with its current state," a statement on the website reads. The idea for the site came when Nicholas Stork '06 and Andrew Eastman '07 attended a town hall meeting in Boston last March for Dartmouth students and alumni to discuss the alumni constitution.

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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