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College jumps to 30th in Forbes' rankings
By Linda Chen | August 12, 2010Forbes Magazine ranked Dartmouth 30th in its annual list of "America's Best Colleges," up from last year's ranking of 98th.
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'Fish Tank' depicts teenage angst
By Linda Chen | August 9, 2010Courtesy of ComfortComes.com Courtesy of ComfortComes.com As the newest installment of Dartmouth Film Society's Leading Ladies series, "Fish Tank" (2009) is not the typical light-hearted summer film.
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Skloot: ‘immortal' cells spur research
By Linda Chen | February 11, 2010Elizabeth Ericson / The Dartmouth Elizabeth Ericson / The Dartmouth When a poor tobacco farmer named Henrietta Lacks walked into a doctor's office in September 1950, she unknowingly became the first person to achieve "immortality" if only through a few cells from her cervix.
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Doctors need to reform, panel says
By Linda Chen | January 28, 2010Effective change in the health care system must begin with adjustments in physician behavior rather than legislation, despite the recent health care reform debate that has raged in Washington, D.C., according to a panel of health care experts from local medical facilities and non-profit physician groups. The panel discussion held Thursday, "Current Challenges, Future Solutions," included four medical professionals seeking to address issues of inequality and injustice in health care and to help promote dialogue about the hotly-debated issue of health care reform. "As a society, we are no better off than the least cared for," said Eugene Lindsey, president and CEO of Atrius Health, a non-profit alliance of five medical groups in Massachusetts.
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OAC to launch board earlier than expected
By Linda Chen | January 24, 2010The Organizational Adjudication Committee will start training members of its student board during Winter term, students and College officials announced following a meeting Friday.
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OAC student board now slated for Feb. launch
By Linda Chen | January 21, 2010The Organizational Adjudication Committee is on track to begin training members of its student board during the Winter term, students and College officials announced following a meeting Friday.
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Students launch online drink delivery service
By Linda Chen | January 6, 2010Dartmouth students preparing for Winter term hibernation can soon have drinks delivered in bulk directly to their dorm rooms or off-campus houses with the launch of ThirstD.com, a new business founded by four members of the Class of 2010.
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House bill could help recent grads.
By Linda Chen | November 17, 2009In the wake of the House of Representatives' narrow approval of a health care bill that Democratic leaders believe will extend coverage to 36 million previously uninsured Americans, several College and health policy experts told The Dartmouth that, although the bill would extend coverage to recently graduated students, the legislation is unlikely to have an immediate impact on health care coverage for undergraduate students at the College. The Affordable Health Care for America Act which will cost the federal government $1.1 trillion to implement is aimed to help struggling Americans obtain affordable and adequate health care benefits, The New York Times reported on Nov.
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Experts criticize policy on Cuba
By Linda Chen | October 29, 2009JON ERDMAN / The Dartmouth Staff Half a century after the Cuban Revolution, the United States' embargo of the island and the Castro regime's restrictions on free speech continue to impede the country's economic and political development, according to a panel of experts who discussed post-revolutionary Cuba on Thursday in the Haldeman Center. "Freedom of expression as Americans know it does not really exist in Cuba," said Associated Press Havana bureau chief Anita Snow, who is also a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University. While Cubans complain about non-political issues, including food rations and inefficient public transportation, nobody protests the government openly, Snow said. "As a journalist working in Cuba, we have a lot of problems with officials who would not answer us," Snow said. Controversial news articles are immediately censored, Snow said, adding that an article that criticized the way the official Cuban press distributed news to the public "disappeared" an hour after it was published. Snow said she believes the advancement of technology on the island, including the increasing prevalence of cell phones with Internet access, will help Cubans break through barriers of expression. "I think Pandora's box is open, and there's no closing it now," Snow said.
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Panelists discuss issues of Internet info privacy
By Linda Chen | October 22, 2009Curie Kim / The Dartmouth Dartmouth students are among millions of Internet users who tread the fine line between their public and private personas on Facebook, Twitter and, more recently, BoredatBaker.com, several panelists said Thursday in a discussion on "Over-Exposure in the Digital World," held in the Haldeman Center. The event was hosted jointly by the Dartmouth Institute for Security, Technology and Society and the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection. "Are we really invisible when we're online?" film and television studies professor Mark Williams asked the audience during the discussion.