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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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Police Blotter

April 20, 2006

April 13, North Park Street, 3:07 a.m. Police were on-hand to assist an ambulance that had been requested by Safety and Security at McCulloch Hall in the East Wheelock cluster.

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Students push for more lenient drug penalties

By Matthew Abbott | April 20, 2006

As part of a campaign to promote marijuana as a safer alternative to alcohol, groups of college students around the country are pushing for reduced penalties for marijuana possession. Last Thursday, students at the University of Maryland passed a referendum in their student government elections that advocates punishing marijuana possession on the same level as alcohol violations. While this vote is considered to be a message to administrators at the school, it does not actually change any of the current policies.

The grand opening of the new Fitness Center took place Wednesday amidst much hype, including an address by College President James Wright.
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New Fitness Center unveiled

By Cathy Wu | April 20, 2006

Sarah Shaw / The Dartmouth Staff Sarah Shaw / The Dartmouth Staff The new Kresge Fitness Center opened its doors on Wednesday afternoon, one year after the start of construction and just in time for the first day of Dimensions. The approximately 14,000 square-foot fitness center houses 64 cardio machines, new dumbbells, free weight stations and 42 circuit machines, among various other physical-fitness training equipment.

Tours of the campus have become increasingly crowded as both Dimensions weekend and the deadline to choose Dartmouth approach.
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Campus warms up for Dimensions

By Callison Lawson | April 19, 2006

Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff Dimensions Weekend kicks off today with almost five hundred prospective members of the Class of 2010 pouring onto campus to attend College classes, meet current students, eat in the dining halls and live in the dorm rooms.

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Bush taps Portman '78 to lead budget office

By Elliot Mattingly | April 19, 2006

President George W. Bush selected Rob Portman '78 on Tuesday to serve as the director of his Office of Management and Budget, as part of an attempt to revitalize his staff during one of the most trying political moments of his presidency.

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Dartmouth receives $300k grant

By Alex Belser | April 19, 2006

Since 1992, the government has required that food packages carry a "nutrition facts" label. Now, a team of Dartmouth researchers wants prescriptions to have their own fact boxes, and they are set to receive a $394,333 grant to develop that idea. Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin, researchers at Dartmouth Medical School and the Veterans Affairs Hospital in White River Junction, Vt., are getting the money in a government effort to combat pharmaceutical company spin. These boxes would show doctors the pros and cons of drugs they might prescribe without their having to search through the fine print of FDA-mandated drug information or look up clinical trials on the internet. "The idea is to give them simple tabular data so they can have some sense of the size of the effect of the drug," said Gilbert Welch, another researcher on the project. Welch said the ultimate goal would be to have the FDA include these boxes with the required insert, which patients get with their medicines or see on the back of magazine ads. The grant is one of 22 being distributed to medical institutions across the country. According to Julie Brill of the Vermont Attorney General's Office, the grant winners were selected from more than 30 proposals by an association of state attorneys general in association with outside consultants. She said they were looking for a variety of possible approaches that would help give doctors unbiased information they might otherwise not have time to get. "We thought they were worth funding to see how successful they are," Brill said. The money comes from a 2004 government settlement with Warner-Lambert for marketing the anti-seizure drug Neurontin for unapproved uses.

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Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Harshil Shah | April 18, 2006

College Trustee T.J. Rodgers '70 was featured on the front page of Monday's Business section of The New York Times for his role in cutting-edge developments in solar power technology.

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Judge finds DeGeare '99 insane, not guilty

By Zach Swiss | April 18, 2006

Last Friday, Senior District Judge Richard Hall accepted a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity from Nathaniel DeGeare '99, sparing him from a murder trial in the death of his 60-year-old mother, Mary "Gwen" DeGeare.

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