State Rep. Maureen Mooney, R-Merrimack, is moving forward with plans to introduce a bill “relevant to amending the charter of Dartmouth College.” The bill, which Mooney signed off on Friday, seeks to repeal a 2003 law that gave the College the right to amend its charter without the permission of the state, according to an advanced draft copy of the proposed legislation obtained by The Dartmouth.
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An anonymous student group, “The Daughters of Dartmouth,” has placed feminist flyers on bulletin boards and bathroom stalls across campus, attacking the actions of individuals and organizations that they perceive as sexist. Flyers have been sighted in Novack Cafe, Baker-Berry Library, Collis and the Choates, among other locations. No one has yet stepped forward to claim responsibility.
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At the same time as many universities begin to outsource their e-mail systems to tech companies such as Google and Microsoft, at Dartmouth, Ellen Waite-Franzen, vice president for information technology, is planning to create a committee by the end of the academic year that will review the school’s BlitzMail system. Outsourcing e-mail services is one option that the committee will likely look into.
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Dartmouth’s Office of Financial Aid is joining with nine other colleges to establish a new and hopefully more accurate way to calculate international students’ financial aid needs.
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Presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., is anything but a front-runner in the presidential race. In polls, he hovers in the single digits and during September’s presidential debates at Dartmouth, his supporters’ signs were dwarfed in a sea of Hillary and Obama ones. But the underdog has one of Dartmouth’s most intense campaigners: Nathan Empsall ‘09.
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Bleak fall weather failed to dampen spirits at the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, which opened its annual “Christmas Market with a Difference” Thursday morning.
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