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Violin prof. removed from music dept. post

By Alex Belser | February 8, 2005

Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt offered little explanation for the impending removal of Dartmouth's symphony conductor from a separate position in the College's music department when a student prompted her for comment at Monday night's Student Assembly town meeting. Anthony Princiotti, who has served as a violin instructor at Dartmouth for 12 years, confirmed that he is set to be dropped from his non-tenured post at the end of Spring term. Under separate employment with the Hopkins Center, Princiotti has also been the conductor and front man for the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra for the same stretch of time. Folt declined to comment specifically on the matter at the meeting after receiving a question from DSO member Hillary Swanson '05. "There isn't any way that we would discuss the personnel issues of any individual in a public forum," Folt said. Princiotti, who also holds top posts with two area philharmonic orchestras, confirmed that he received notice of his upcoming dismissal last month from music department chairman Ted Levin. The memo, according to Princiotti, said his professional profile was insufficient to maintain the position. Levin said he could not discuss personnel issues with The Dartmouth. Princiotti, although reluctant to discuss the matter himself because he said he is currently trying to confront it privately, defended his reputation. "I've been a violinist for 45 years," Princiotti said.

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Students fire tough questions at admin.

By Elise Waxenberg | February 8, 2005

Six top administrators fielded students' questions on grade inflation, alcohol violations and the Student Life Initiative, among other topics, Monday night at a town hall meeting held in Alumni Hall and organized by the Student Assembly. Over 100 students and other community members attended the event, in which College President James Wright, Provost Barry Scherr, Dean of the College James Larimore, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman, College Proctor Harry Kinne and Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt addressed a variety of concerns raised through a combination of pre-selected and audience questions. Wright opened the meeting by naming the provision of "the strongest undergraduate experience in the country" as the College's top goal. "The state of the College is very strong," Wright said. Folt said she felt there are a lot of misunderstandings at Dartmouth concerning class sizes.

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Application numbers jump throughout Ivy League

By John Mitchell | February 7, 2005

Applications to most Ivy League schools swelled this year, reaching record highs at several schools including Dartmouth. More than 12,500 students applied for acceptance into Dartmouth's Class of 2009, marking an eight percent increase in applications.

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Semester at Sea crew forced to land in Honolulu

By Dan Duray | February 7, 2005

Dartmouth students participating in the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea program are hoping for smooth sailing during the rest of their term after the 591-foot Explorer ship, which serves as a floating campus for 650 students, recently weathered storm conditions a program representative described as "epic." Dartmouth juniors Meredith Lunn and David Ofer were on board and are finally continuing with the program following the Explorer's unexpected repair stop in Honolulu. The ship, which left from Vancouver, Canada, on Jan.

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New Ultraseek search engine remaps dated Dartmouth website

By Jessica Chen | February 7, 2005

For students roaming the Dartmouth website with mouse clicks of frustration, Computing Services has found a solution, launching a new search engine Friday that promises to make the website more user-friendly. The new search feature expands index capacity on the search engine from 100,000 to 1 million documents, allowing better-matched search results.

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Rocky director gives Bush high marks on Social Security plan

By Matthew Beale | February 4, 2005

In the wake of Wednesday's State of the Union address, which focused heavily on President Bush's proposed Social Security reforms, economics professor and Rockefeller Center Director Andrew Samwick expressed support of plans to partially privatize Social Security, the most controversial piece of the President's proposed overhaul. Samwick, who recently returned to the College from an advisory position as chief economist on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors to the President in Washington, concurs with many of Bush's proposals but is concerned about the lack of implementation details. Although Samwick disagrees with Bush's State of the Union characterization of Social Security as "headed towards bankruptcy," he said he believes the system is in trouble.

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Dartmouth wins NSF grant for neuroscience center

By Kelsey Blodget | February 4, 2005

A team of Dartmouth researchers headed by former Dean of the Faculty and cognitive neuroscience pioneer Michael Gazzaniga beat out dozens of colleges across the nation Tuesday to receive the National Science Foundation's $21.8 million grant, the largest peer-reviewed grant ever awarded to the College, to establish a new Center for Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience. The competitive applicant pool was comprised of 60 colleges including other Ivy League institutions and prestigious universities, but NSF ultimately chose Dartmouth, Carnegie Mellon University, Boston College, and the University of Washington to accommodate the new neuroscience centers. "It doesn't mean that the other schools are at all bad, they just didn't have everything integrated as well as we did," Gazzaniga said. Dartmouth's CCEN will study the relationship between the science of learning and the practice of learning in the classroom. "For years, someone would come up with an idea for teaching something, find out the method doesn't work five years later, and then move onto the next fad," education and psychology professor Kevin Dunbar, one of the CCEN's co-principal investigators, said.

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Greek GPAs fall just short of College average

By Dax Tejera | February 4, 2005

The average Fall term GPA for houses in the Coed, Fraternity and Sorority system was just narrowly below the entire undergraduate College average, according to Office of Residential Life data obtained by The Dartmouth.

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Rocky staffer runs for Lebanon City Council

By Alex Belser | February 3, 2005

The infamous "scream" speech may have brought former Vermont governor Howard Dean's campaign for the White House to an end, but it has not silenced the young voters who helped give him legs during the race -- people like Rockefeller Center student activities coordinator Karen Liot Hill '00. After taking part in the grassroots charge for Dean and then jumping on the John Kerry bandwagon, Hill is now campaigning for herself in an effort to land a spot on the Lebanon City Council. Hill, 26, said she is running because she wants to become more involved in the town where she lives and to bring a younger perspective to the council. "The people that are active tend to be of a certain generation," Hill said of the council.

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Yo-Yo Ma's sister tells of the healing powers of music

By Jennifer Garfinkel | February 3, 2005

Yeou-Cheng Ma, sister of famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, discussed the beneficial effects of music on health during a lecture Wednesday night in Filene Auditorium. Ma called music "a universal language," in that everyone starts off as bilingual, accustomed to the music of a mother's high voice and cooing in addition to language. "It's just a matter of whether or not you keep it," Ma said. She pointed out that the temporal lobes in the back of the head deal with music, but in professional musicians it is the left side of the brain that deals with music.

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College policy renders seventh sorority unlikely

By Matthew Abbott | February 3, 2005

A record-high turnout for female rush this year forced the Panhellenic Council to turn away 21 disappointed sophomore women, prompting some members of the Dartmouth community to mull the possibility of lifting the moratorium on new sororities. But even with the limited capacity of current sororities and unusually large pledge classes, the Student Life Initiative poses a formidable obstacle to the creation of a seventh Panhell sorority. There are currently six sororities that are members of Panhell, and a number of these houses had pledge classes exceeding 50 women during the Fall term. Despite these large pledge classes, there were still several women who did not receive bids at sororities. According to Zobeida Torres '06, Panhell's vice president of recruitment, between 240 and 300 women rushed houses during Fall term.

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