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College to compensate for lost Pell Grants

By John Mitchell | January 17, 2005

Dartmouth College will pay more than $50,000 to bail out students who will lose portions of their Pell Grants in 2005-2006 because of changes in the way the federal government calculates need for its largest financial-aid program, which offers up to about $4,000 to five million students each year. Allowances for state taxes were lowered in the formula for determining grant eligibility, resulting in students losing an average of about $100 of grant funds.

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Majors in high demand face teacher shortages

By Gus Lûbin | January 14, 2005

Peter Chen '08 is just one of many students struggling to get into Government 5 this term. The class, an important introductory course in the government major, is not offered again until next fall, but Chen needs it to enroll in other international relations courses before then. Now one of five students left on a waitlist that originally numbered more than 30, Chen is offering to pay people to drop the class so he can get in. "I got shafted and still haven't gotten into [professor Benjamin] Valentino's class yet.

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Condensed winter rush garners tepid response

By Linzi Sheldon | January 14, 2005

After record-high turnouts during fall rush, smaller rush classes and a condensed schedule this term resulted in mixed sentiments among participants and fewer new members joining the College's fraternities and sororities. Whereas most fraternities experienced a sharp drop in the number of rushees they received, Gamma Delta Chi fraternity hosted 20 rushees on shakeout night and took only one. At the time of publication, Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity had one sunk bid; Alpha Delta, one bid deferred until the spring; Chi Gamma Epsilon, 2; Chi Heorot, 2; Psi Upsilon, 3; Sigma Nu, 9.

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'06s seeking Wall Street success submit resumes

By Matthew Abbott | January 13, 2005

Juniors scrambled Wednesday to submit applications to more than 36 organizations seeking to recruit Dartmouth students for summer internships in financial services, consulting and marketing, among other fields. The summer internship search began long before Wednesday, however, as high-profile companies have traversed Hanover looking to woo students to their firms.

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Librarians insist Google digital library not a threat

By Gus Lûbin | January 13, 2005

When Jeff Horrell takes over as College librarian Feb. 7, he will be faced with a dynamic new threat to the physical library: the Google Digital Library. Google is starting a massive project to digitally scan millions of books from libraries at the University of Michigan, Stanford, Harvard and Oxford, along with the New York Public Library.

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Keg limits mark SEMP discussion

By Elise Waxenberg | January 12, 2005

Despite a dearth of student attendance -- several tables originally intended for small group discussion remained empty and only a single student showed up -- the Social Event Management Procedures committee proceeded with a community hour in Collis Commonground on Tuesday, discussing kegs, parties and pre-gaming. The committee has scheduled a question-and-answer session for Tuesday, Jan.

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Gronas probes public lit. taste in Amazon reviews

By Gus Lûbin | January 12, 2005

Russian professor Mikhail Gronas is looking beyond academic literary criticism, scouring book reviews and ratings on Amazon.com to discover what they collectively reveal about the reading public beyond the individual opinions they contain. Gronas contends that the patterns of reviews and ratings provide insight into the way the public reads books and the similar ways they react to comparable books. "We are used to seeing books analyzed from above -- from the intellectual perspective -- but most people do not look for things like plot structure and rhetoric when they read," said Gronas.

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Police Blotter

January 12, 2005

Jan. 3, Fayerweather Hill Road, 2:25 a.m. Police responded to a complaint lodged by EBAs claiming that students in the Mid-Fayerweather dorm had attempted to pay for $50 worth of food with multiple faulty credit cards.

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Men's pleasure talk aims to lend a helping hand

By Jennifer Garfinkel | January 11, 2005

Students filled Tindle Lounge Monday night for the Mechanics of Men's Pleasure workshop. Curt Crane, a comical urology resident at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Ken Leslie, a post-doctorate in cognitive neuroscience, spoke about the physical anatomy of men and male brain chemistry. Crane kicked off the seminar by showing slides of different penis types.

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