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Swim to Empower gives lessons to island residents

By Marina Agapakis | February 17, 2006

Courtesy of Sally Elliott While most would expect islanders to be competent, if not excellent swimmers, residents of one island off the coast of Florida who cannot swim will soon receive lessons from two Dartmouth students. Sally Elliott '08 and Brenna Hughes '09 recently founded their own non-profit organization called Swim to Empower.

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Educational Testing Service postpones changes to the GRE

By Christine Paquin | February 17, 2006

In a surprise move welcomed by the Princeton Review, the Educational Testing Service postponed controversial changes intended to drastically alter the Graduate Record Examination until fall of 2007. ETS suggested these changes, which include a revamping of format, cost, length and frequency of the exam and will affect approximately 500,000 college students across the nation who must take the GRE in order to attend graduate school. Liz Wands, a GRE expert from the Princeton Review, said that she was not surprised by the delay and believed the suspension of the alterations was directly related to the sheer magnitude of the changes. "The change to the GRE is really the largest change that has ever been done to a standardized test," Wands said.

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College to guarantee housing for sophomores

By Elliot Mattingly | February 17, 2006

Editor's note: This is the second in a multi-part series focusing on the future of residential life at Dartmouth. This fall, completed residence hall construction will allow the Office of Residential Life to guarantee housing for all sophomores for the first time since at least the expansion of the student body during co-education.

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Sex Week stresses healthy choices

By Ashley Zuzek | February 16, 2006

Nat Smith / The Dartmouth Staff David Nutt '09 attended Monday's sex festival largely because he wanted to find out "what a sex fest actually was" and did not know when he would have another opportunity to go to one. Over one thousand students took part in the Center for Women and Gender's annual sex festival, which began four years ago as part of a week-long V-series.

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Arts award honors deceased '06

By Kimberly Sheu | February 16, 2006

The Dartmouth After their daughter Christina Porter '06 died last winter from injuries she suffered during a skiing accident at the Dartmouth Skiway, Brent and Mary Porter searched for a way to honor her accomplishments at Dartmouth.

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Campus housing crunch stems from '80s decisions

By Elliot Mattingly | February 16, 2006

Editor's note: This is the first in a multi-part series focusing on the future of residential life at Dartmouth. Given his high housing number and Dartmouth's well-known housing crunch, Johann Maradey '08 expected to live with his friends "in a janitor's closet" this year had he not been chosen as an undergraduate advisor. The housing shortage that has made Maradey and many other students nervous during room draw has its roots in academic policy changes College administrators implemented over 20 years ago. During the early 1980s, colleges and universities across the country were scrutinizing what it took to earn a College degree.

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Tuck seeks to boost Indian enrollment

By Hillary Wool | February 15, 2006

Courtesy of Goldbery-McDuffe Communications Last month, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth launched the Tuck India Initiative, a program aimed at increasing knowledge of Tuck's programs and reputation throughout India. In January, Dean of Tuck Paul Danos and Vijay Govindarajan, professor and director of Tuck's Center for Global Leadership, traveled to Indian cities Chennai, Mumbai and New Delhi to host admissions receptions, networking events and press meetings. "We consider India a strategic market and want to invest in India to build a strong brand there in order to attract the high caliber human capital to Tuck.

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U.S. House hopefuls visit College

By Matthew Abbott | February 15, 2006

Courtesy of Les Roberts for Congress Hoping for both campaign funds and enthusiastic Dartmouth campaign volunteers, two Democratic Congressional hopefuls paid visits to Hanover last Thursday in an attempt to gain support for their campaigns. Les Roberts, running in New York's 24th district, located in upstate New York, delivered a speech on his humanitarian work in Iraq early in the afternoon and lectured at Dartmouth Medical School afterwards.

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Local boy hurt after fall from Skiway lift

By A. J. Fox | February 15, 2006

Last Wednesday while taking snowboarding lessons at the Dartmouth Skiway, a 12-year-old boy suffered two broken wrists, a fractured thigh bone and a collapsed lung after falling 30 feet from a chair lift. The boy, Harry Voelkel of Norwich, Vt., spent last week in Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center recovering from surgery before being discharged on Tuesday. After the fall, Dartmouth ski patrollers rushed to carry the boy on an emergency sled to the foot of the trail where he was evacuated to DHMC by a hospital helicopter. Voelkel was riding the chair lift at about 4 p.m.

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Brison to take over as E. Wheelock adviser

By Haoxiang Cai | February 14, 2006

Courtesy of the Department of Philosophy This August, philosophy professor Susan Brison will move from her rural home in Thetford, Vt., to the East Wheelock Residential Cluster with her husband and 11 year-old son.

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Campus icon Food Court Larry to retire in June '06

By Phil Salinger | February 14, 2006

Bailey Massey / The Dartmouth Staff Not many Dartmouth Dining Services employees greet each student by name before ringing up a double burger deal, but Food Court manager Larry James, who will retire this June, has rarely turned down an opportunity to get to know students in his seven years at the College. "I like to thank everybody when I work at the register.

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LALACS program finalized at meeting

By Alex Belser | February 14, 2006

Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth's only temporary academic program, the Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies program, became permanent Monday after a vote during a quarterly faculty meeting.

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Biology, government departments revamp major requirements

By Ashley Zuzek | February 14, 2006

Students planning to major in biology and government can expect changes in their course selections as these departments revamp their majors to fit the diverse interests of students. The biology department began formulating a new system late last summer and held two information sessions last week to explain the changes that will take effect beginning Fall term. The biggest difference in the new system will be the greater flexibility offered to students majoring in biology.

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Lecturer questions future of Iraq

By Elliot Mattingly | February 13, 2006

Critical of the United States' role in Iraq's transition to democracy, University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole delivered a lecture Thursday on the future of Iraq and its newly elected government to a crowd of primarily Hanover residents and a few students. Cole focused on the Shi'ite aspect of the new Iraqi government in relation to Shi'ites in the Middle East at large.

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