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Leb. airport moves ahead with major expansion

By Ashley Zuzek | April 14, 2006

The Lebanon Municipal Airport in West Lebanon is requesting a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin construction on a new south apron and roughly 20 hangars as early as this May. Airport manager Steve Miller said that the primary goal of the construction is to increase the income of the town.

Alyssa Minsky '06 works on filing her taxes as the deadline quickly nears.
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Students face financial aid, tax deadlines

By Cathy Wu | April 14, 2006

Jeewon Kim / The Dartmouth Senior Staff While April 15 is well-known as the deadline for submitting tax returns, Dartmouth students who receive financial aid must face the additional burden of filing for financial aid this year on the same day. "The financial aid process is a very frustrating process for me," Agatha Erickson '09 said.

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Larimore to interview for Swarthmore job

By Phil Salinger | April 14, 2006

Dean of the College James Larimore may be leaving Dartmouth in the near future for Swarthmore College, where he was named a finalist for the position of Dean of Students last Friday. According to Larimore, who said that he had not decided whether he would take the job if it were offered to him, a Swarthmore search consultant contacted him about the position several months ago, but he only agreed to be considered as a candidate late last week. He said that, if selected, one of his biggest considerations will be "trying to understand whether the dean is able to have more of an impact at a smaller school." The Dean of Students at Swarthmore has more academic responsibilities and influence than does the Dean of the College at Dartmouth.

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Endowment manager advises seniors

By Alex Belser | April 14, 2006

With graduation less than two months away, many seniors who will soon face the financial responsibilities of adulthood attended a lecture on investing by Dartmouth endowment manager David Russ in Collis Commonground on Thursday evening. "I'm here because I don't know anything about money management," Emily Bussigel '06 said.

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Tuck Global Consultancy program celebrates first decade

By Hillary Wool | April 14, 2006

Phil Bracikowski The Tuck Global Consultancy program, which helps second-year Tuck students provide consulting services to international corporations abroad, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this year. The program, established in 1997 and managed by Tuck's Center for International Business, sends selected students around the world to embark on 13-week-long projects where they work in teams to gain real-world experience by developing solutions to fit a corporate client's needs. Offered through the Field Study in International Business course, Tuck's most selective and popular second-year elective, the Tuck Global Consultancy program has sent teams abroad to complete 104 assignments for over 70 clients in 51 countries.

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Study suggests teacher certification is ineffective

By Rebekah Rombom | April 14, 2006

The teacher accreditations and certifications set forth by the No Child Left Behind Act are ineffective at increasing teacher efficacy, according to a new paper from the Brookings Institution co-authored by Dartmouth economics professor Douglas Staiger. Some schools also use accreditations as a structure for pay increases, but teachers with these qualifications are no better at increasing test scores than those who have not been certified. Staiger, who has worked on similar education policy-related questions before, used data from the Los Angeles school district to determine that students with accredited teachers did not receive higher test scores than students whose teachers lacked accreditation. "The answer to all of those comparisons," Staiger said, "is that certification is essentially unrelated to their effectiveness in the classroom." Staiger has also compared scores from students of certified teachers to scores of students whose teachers are in the Teach For America program, which places recent college graduates as teachers in low-income schools without going through a certification process.

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Researcher warns about future of Arctic climate

By AJ Fox | April 13, 2006

Jackie Richter-Menge, a researcher from the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, met gasps from a large audience of mostly non-students when she delivered a lecture on the effects of climate change Wednesday.

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Student body pres. candidates announced

By Katy O'Donnell | April 13, 2006

Election season has officially begun: the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee released the names of the candidates running for student body president and vice president yesterday after petitions were submitted on Tuesday. This season's presidential race will be between Chrissie Chick '07, Eddie Duszlak '07, Adam Patinkin '07 and Dave Zubricki '07, while Josh Jacobson '09, Jacqueline Loeb '08, Zak Moore '09, Ruslan Tovbulatov '09 and Santi Vallinas '07 will compete for vice president. Many of the presidential candidates cited greater Assembly transparency and better leadership as their ultimate goals. Chick, who has served as Assembly secretary and chair of the Communications Committee, said that the body needs to be more open about its actions and decisions in the future. "Transparency is my big theme -- with the administration's actions, with the College's finances and with the Assembly itself," she said.

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College to lose most of $21.8m NSF grant

By Phil Salinger | April 12, 2006

Dartmouth's Center for Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience will lose most of its $21.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation and close after two of the Center's five principal researchers left the project. In April 2005, the National Science Foundation awarded Dartmouth what was the biggest peer-reviewed grant ever received by the College to establish and sustain the Center.

Katz lectured to a packed Collis Commonground.
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Katz challenges men to prevent sexual abuse

By Amanda Cohen | April 12, 2006

Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff Using a different approach to sexual violence prevention at "More Than a Few Good Men," a dinner discussion held in Collis Common Ground Tuesday evening, speaker Jackson Katz challenged men to tackle a problem that has historically and inaccurately, he attests, been designated as a women's issue.

Wright believes he was chosen to speak at the Forum on Minority Entrepreneurship Education because of Dartmouth's commitment to diversity.
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Wright speaks about edu. at minority conference

By Mary Katherine Flanigan | April 11, 2006

Courtesy of the Office of the President Website On Saturday, Dartmouth President James Wright traveled to Atlanta to present a speech on the changing nature of education at the Forum on Minority Entrepreneurship Education, a conference aimed at promoting the entrepreneurial education of students at historically black colleges and universities. Wright was asked to speak at the conference because of Dartmouth's well known commitment to diversity, he said. "I think some of the people running the conference were aware of the programs we have at Dartmouth, and particularly the role the Tuck School [of Business] has played internationally.

Ali Levine '07 and Jessica Magidson '06 present the Order of Omega Awards on Monday.
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Greeks honored at CFS awards

By Kelsey Blodget | April 11, 2006

Jenny Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Past Greek house probations, hazing debacles and out-of-control parties were forgotten Monday at the annual Coed, Fraternity, and Sorority Achievement Awards Ceremony presented by the Office of Residential Life and Order of Omega. Nearly 50 awards and over $10,000 in prize money donated by ORL were presented to Greek organizations and individual members for excellence in the CFS guiding principles of accountability, inclusivity, leadership, scholarship, service and brotherhood and sisterhood. President James Wright and his wife Susan presented a $1,000 prize and the prestigious O'Conner award, named for the late Proctor John O'Conner and granted to the organization that best embodies the six CFS guiding principles to Delta Delta Delta Sorority.

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Suicide policy at GWU raises questions

By Dane Schlossberg | April 11, 2006

Jordan Nott's recent lawsuit against George Washington University for forcing him to withdraw from the institution because of suicidal tendencies has focused attention on Dartmouth's own policy on medical privacy in cases of suicide. A day and a half after checking himself into George Washington University Hospital in the fall of 2004, Nott was notified that he had violated the student code of conduct through "endangering behavior," and faced suspension or expulsion. The Dartmouth Student Handbook currently states that "under certain circumstances, the student may be placed on an involuntary medical withdrawal according to procedures on file for review at the College Health Service and in the Office of the Dean of the College." Director of Counseling and Health Resources Mark Reed, however, is confident in Dartmouth's dedication to medical confidentiality. "There is not a direct line between Dick's House and the Dean's Office," he said. While deans may be contacted by the Office of Residential Life, Safety and Security, and Dick's House, "there is currently a lot of flexibility in the Dartmouth system and we can deal with these issues on a case-by-case basis," he said. Reed said that medical professionals look at the seriousness, clarity and consistency of the patient's suicidal thoughts as well as their ability to articulate plans for the future to help determine the seriousness of an issue.

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Facebook.com a danger to students seeking employment

By Marina Agapakis | April 11, 2006

With many students applying and interviewing for summer internships and jobs, Career Services recently posted a warning on their BlitzMail bulletin advising students to think twice about the information they make available about themselves online. "Many employers are now using Facebook[.com], MySpace and Friendster (and more) as a decision-making tool when hiring for internship and full-time opportunities," Associate Director of Career Services Kathryn Doughty wrote in the warning. While Career Services maintains that the College strongly believes in the freedom of speech and expression, it stresses the importance of taking caution when posting questionable information and pictures on the Internet. "You don't want to lose out on a great internship or job over something that could have been prevented," Doughty wrote. Concerns about the public nature of the content of the Facebook.com and other such sites, however, are certainly not new.

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