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NASA interested in Thayer-designed robot

By Zach Swiss | March 2, 2006

Courtesy of Thayer School of Engineering Officially named the "Cool Robot" by students and faculty members at the Thayer School of Engineering, the robot designed to function in arctic temperatures may have surpassed "cool" and entered the realm of "out of this world," if the interest from NASA is any indication. The robot, envisioned and built by a team of students and faculty members at the Thayer School of Engineering, could potentially be used by NASA for research in Antarctica, according to Professor Laura Ray, the team leader and primary investigator for the project. NASA's goal is to use the robot to search for evidence of bacteria in Antarctic snow.

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Black Solidarity Day protests injustice

By Haoxiang Cai | March 1, 2006

Black activism celebration "Lift Every Voice" drew 70 people to Dartmouth Hall and capped off Black History Month with a collection of speeches, songs, poetry and prose celebrating the achievements of black civil rights activists.

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Living wage drives up DDS costs, prices

By Elise Waxenberg | March 1, 2006

Editor's Note: This is the third in a three-part series looking at the future of campus dining options. On a campus of just over 4,000 undergraduates, Dartmouth Dining Services runs more dining halls and offers more meal plans than do operations at much larger schools.

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Speak Out addresses sexual assault at College

By Amanda Cohen | March 1, 2006

An attentive audience with many tearful members listened to personal accounts about experiences with sexual assault Tuesday night at Speak Out, an event designed to demonstrate how sexual assault affects Dartmouth. The presenters shared intimate details of their own experiences or the experiences of others who chose to have someone else present for them.

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Police Blotter

March 1, 2006

Feb. 25, Choate Road, 2:16 a.m. Safety and Security called Hanover Police for assistance with an intoxicated 22-year-old non-student in Brown Hall.

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Groups raise $85,000 for Asian relief

By Tom Moore Huzarsky | March 1, 2006

Sarah Shaw / The Dartmouth Staff With events such as a charity date auction to boost donations, student-run organizations Project Bangladesh and Asia Relief capped off last week's fundraising efforts with a $3,000 total.

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Assembly, student body relationship questioned

By Katy O'Donnell | February 28, 2006

Most college students feel apathetic or even bitter toward their student governments, a Yale Daily News article recently reported. Cari Tuna, author of last month's article, asserted that there is a disconnect between student governments and their peers.

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Panel discusses effects of racism at the College

By Haoxiang Cai | February 28, 2006

Maxwell Copello / The Dartmouth A panel of eight students from different ethnic backgrounds discussed their personal experiences on race and gender at the College in a forum titled "Racism" held at Dartmouth Hall Monday evening. "To my knowledge, it's the first time in my four years here that a discussion of that sort has happened with so many different communities represented.

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Thayer likely to be torn down by 2010

By Elliot Mattingly | February 28, 2006

Editor's note: This is the eighth and final piece in a multi-part series focusing on the future of residential life at Dartmouth. The College plans to tear down Thayer dining hall and rebuild a new and expanded dining facility in its place, slated to open in 2010, as part of its construction initiatives. "Its guts have pretty much reached their life expectancy," Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman said of the aging Thayer dining hall. Renovating the current building would have cost an estimated $15 million and only included minor internal renovations like replacing wiring and changing the building to meet current construction codes, Redman said.

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Ivy Council focuses on globalization awareness

By Lense Gebre-Mariam | February 27, 2006

Dartmouth's Ivy Council delegation traveled to the annual Ivy Leadership Summit at Columbia University this weekend to discuss leadership in the current globalized world. In accordance with this year's theme of "Free Trade, Free Press, Free Society: Leadership in the Age of Globalization," field specialists and speakers fostered discussion aimed at increasing students' awareness about globalization and its effects. "I think everyone learned a lot at the conference.

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New clusters amplify residential social life

By Kelsey Blodget | February 27, 2006

Editor's note: This is the seventh in a multi-part series focusing on the future of residential life at Dartmouth. The new social and residential options the Office of Residential Life plans to offer next fall might mean Webster Ave.

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Sustain. conference held at Tuck

By Hillary Wool | February 27, 2006

Corporate and non-profit executives discussed the role of sustainability in business on Friday at the fourth annual Business Sustainability Initiative conference, hosted by The Tuck School of Business.

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Students win Olympic gold medals

Associated Press Fourteen Dartmouth students and alumni competed for four different nations in the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy, winning a total of three gold and two bronze medals, all of which came in women's ice hockey. Gillian Apps '06, Cherie Piper '06 and Katie Weatherston '06 each took home gold medals as members of Canada's undefeated team.

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ORL to introduce sophomore advising

By Astrid Bradley | February 24, 2006

Editor's note: This is the sixth in a multi-part series focusing on the future of residential life at Dartmouth. As the College restructures residential life on campus, some of its older residence halls will become the new homes of advising and affinity programs. This fall, the Fayerweather cluster will begin housing the Office of Residential Life's new sophomore advising program. On Tuesday night, Associate Dean of Residential Life Deborah Golder held a preliminary committee meeting to discuss the creation of the sophomore advising program. "What I am looking for is feedback from students about what they need at this stage," said Cecilia Gaposchkin, assistant dean for pre-major advising. Few details, like the program's number of faculty advisers, are available because the committee members themselves are still deciding what the program needs, Gaposchkin said. The Fayerweathers, which have traditionally been sophomore-dominated, will be reserved entirely for second-year students once the advising program is implemented. "Sophomores right now aren't assigned an adviser [as] they are as first-year students and those ready to graduate.

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Steinberg '88 speaks on media

By Marina Agapakis | February 24, 2006

Jenny Wang / The Dartmouth Staff A reporter for The New York Times and an editor-in-chief emeritus of The Dartmouth Jacques Steinberg '88 spoke about the ethics of reporting in today's media in front of a crowd of approximately 50 students in Collis Commonground on Thursday. In his lecture, entitled "Internal Affairs: A Report from the Frontlines of the Battle Over Accuracy and Ethics in the Media," Steinberg addressed several instances of recent journalistic fraud. Not long after Steinberg took on the media beat at the Times, the Jayson Blair scandal was exposed, forcing Steinberg to report on the journalistic fraud committed by his Times colleague.

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BlitzMail survives tough technological competition

By Hillary Wool | February 24, 2006

Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series focusing on the use of BlitzMail on campus. Despite being as old as members of the Class of 2009, BlitzMail remains the primary mode of communication on campus, though the increasing popularity of cell phones and instant messaging seems to threaten its dominance. The BlitzMail terminals that blanket the campus and the internet Blitz websites that allow users to access their inboxes remotely have played important roles in helping BlitzMail compete against newer technologies. Dartmouth's extensive wireless network allows students to access BlitzMail from anywhere on campus, but before the network's installation a few years ago, students relied heavily on the public computers known as "Blitz terminals." Most of the Blitz terminals on-campus are administered by the Student Assembly, which replaced over 30 computers across campus last Winter. "We decided last year to update the Blitz terminals because they were failing at an increasing rate," said Lucas Nikkel '05, who administered the program last year for the Assembly.

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