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April 15, 2026
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Kresge gives $1 mil. for math building

By Kelsey Blodget | May 12, 2005

For College fundraisers, April Fool's Day was no joke. The Kresge Foundation, a private grant-giving organization, promised to reward the College with a whopping $1 million challenge grant toward the construction of new math department home Kemeny Hall if it could raise $10.6 million by April 1. Fifteen months of mailings, student calls from Greencorps and advertisements in the Alumni Magazine paid off in grand fashion, with alumni gifts rolling in at $10.7 million on time to meet the Kresge Challenge. The 60,000 square-foot Kemeny Hall, under construction north of Baker-Berry Library, will reunite the math department, previously split between Sudikoff, the Choate House and Bradley Hall.

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Communal bike program debuts

By Kevin Garland | May 11, 2005

Student Assembly launched a new public bicycle program Monday, casting away the days of bright green, ineffective bikes and introducing high-handled black beauties and a revamped circulation program.

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SA budget increases $10K for next year

By AnnMary Mathew | May 11, 2005

Student Assembly President Julia Hildreth '05 announced an Assembly budget of $90,000 for next year at the organization's weekly meeting on Tuesday. "It's a significant increase from last year," Hildreth said.

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Free speech org. lauds College policies

By Rebekah Rombom | May 10, 2005

David French, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, said yesterday that the organization would improve Dartmouth's free speech rating from a poor "red light" to the highest rating, a "green light." FIRE, a self-declared watchdog group that rates and advocates for free speech on campus, accords its highest ranking to 25 to 30 percent of colleges and universities nationwide, according to French.

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EPAC advises nixing most BlitzMail regs

By Elise Waxenberg | May 10, 2005

With this season's intense student body presidential elections two weeks behind them, election officials sat down Friday to come up with recommendations for next year's student-run Elections Planning and Advisory Committee.

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Profs debate Social Security policy

By Stuart A. Reid | May 10, 2005

Trading statistics and one-liners, economics professor Andrew Samwick and government professor Jeff Smith faced off in an insightful and nonconfrontational debate over Social Security Monday evening in the Rockefeller Center.

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Princeton undergrads speak up for filibuster

By Rebekah Rombom | May 9, 2005

For the past 13 days, Princeton University has become the center of national political controversy, as a group of students have staged a filibuster of sorts outside the university's Frist student center. The students, faculty and other supporters are protesting against the proposal of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., to invoke the so-called nuclear option, which would prevent members of the Senate from using the filibuster to block the President's judicial nominees.

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Web law library adds DCUJL to offerings

By Stuart A. Reid | May 9, 2005

Law students around the world will be able to bolster their arguments by citing Dartmouth students many years their junior after an online law review website decided to include the Dartmouth College Undergraduate Journal of Law in its database.

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Business, med. school apps decline this year

By Matthew Abbott | May 9, 2005

Dartmouth undergraduates applying to business or medical school will face a more forgiving admissions landscape next year, according to Justin Serrano, vice president at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions. Part of the reason for higher admissions rates is that fewer undergraduates are applying to business school. Seventy-five percent of business schools saw their applicants drop this year from the 2003-2004 admissions cycle.

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Admissions yield tops 50 percent

By John Mitchell | May 9, 2005

Despite a much larger and more competitive applicant pool for the Class of 2009 and a record-low acceptance rate, the College received good news when student decision letters arrived last week.

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First-Year families flock to campus

By Matthew Abbott | May 6, 2005

Scores of families will flock to Hanover this weekend as the campus prepares for both First-Year Family Weekend and Mother's Day. Many members of the Class of 2008 will have the opportunity to show their parents around campus and attend a plethora of events planned by the First-Year Class Council. "We are hoping that now that the Class of 2008 is adjusted to life at Dartmouth, we can show the families the enthusiasm and excitement that we experience on campus every day," First-Year Family Weekend co-chair Ashley Mas '08 said. Registration for parents will begin at noon on Friday in the Collis Center, with events planned from Friday to Sunday. "Some of the highlights [of the weekend] include the President's Welcome at the Top of the Hop on Friday afternoon, a Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream social on Friday night, a cookout and Dartmouth football scrimmage on Saturday afternoon and a Mother's Day brunch in Collis Sunday morning," First-Year Family Weekend co-chair Edward Kalletta '08 said. Kalletta is a member of The Dartmouth's business staff. Other plans for the parents include campus and building tours, hikes sponsored by the Dartmouth Outing Club, information sessions and lectures. In addition, a number of cultural events have been planned, including a performance titled "Native Voices" in Spaulding Auditorium by Native American flutist R.

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Pow-Wow celebrates College heritage

By Samantha Ackah | May 6, 2005

This Saturday marks the 33rd annual Pow-Wow organized by Native Americans at Dartmouth. The event will last two days and will feature an array of Native American dances and vendors selling traditional food, arts and crafts. According to Michael Hanitchak '73, director of the Native American Program, the event has grown considerably since its conception in 1971, and over a thousand people are expected to attend during the celebrations. The Pow-Wow was part of former president John Kemeny's attempts to reaffirm Dartmouth's commitment to Native American culture.

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College tops Ivies in gender pay gap

By Gus Lûbin | May 6, 2005

The gap in average pay between male and female full professors at Dartmouth increased to 22 percent from 18 percent in the past year, according to a study released last week by the American Association of University Professors. Dartmouth has the largest pay gap in the Ivy League, with gaps at other schools ranging from five to 12 percent.

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