By Stefanie Lazow, The Dartmouth Staff
With one out and two men on base in the bottom of the ninth on Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C., Dartmouth grounded into its sixth double play of the weekend to end its game against the University of Kansas and its run in the NCAA tournament. No. 4 seed Dartmouth (27-18, 16-4 Ivy) was shut out by the No. 3 Jayhawks (38-23, 15-12 Big 12) in a shattering 16-0 loss after falling 5-2 to the No. 1 University of North Carolina (43-16, 19-10 ACC) in the first game of the Chapel Hill regional Friday night.
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By Susan Matthews, The Dartmouth Staff
Dartmouth Trustee T.J. Rodgers ’70 will no longer participate in evaluations of sitting trustees up for reelection — a protest of the manner in which he says the Board of Trustees’ made its April decision not to reelect Trustee Todd Zywicki ’88. Rodgers, in an interview with The Dartmouth, described the proceedings leading up to Board’s decision — the first time in recent history a trustee has not been reelected for a second term — as a “kangaroo court.”
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By Tatiana Cooke
**Correction appended**
Five months after College officials announced they would cut the institutional budget by $72 million over the next two years, academic departments and College organizations are working to limit the effects of the new budgetary constraints by reducing administrative operating costs and cutting back on new programming and guest speakers. Teaching, course offerings and student programs appear to have remained largely unaffected, although Katherine Soule, the director of budget and fiscal affairs in the Dean of the Faculty office, refused to disclose departmental budgets.
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By anya perret, The Dartmouth Staff
The Undergraduate Finance Committee increased funding for Programming Board and the Committee on Student Organizations, but reduced Student Assembly’s budget by about $10,000 for the 2009-2010 academic year, UFC President Neil Kandler ’09 announced on Thursday. The UFC’s allocation for next year increased by about $43,350 over last year’s total.
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By Fan Zhang, The Dartmouth Staff
Fatima, a one-year-old girl from southeastern Iraq, suffered third-degree burns over 70 percent of her body after a gas explosion. The blast left most of her face and torso disfigured, preventing her from using her hands for many day-to-day activities.
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By Jennifer Liu, The Dartmouth Staff
Google’s Gmail is now the leading contender to replace BlitzMail as the College’s e-mail system, according to biology professor C. Robertson McClung, chair of the Task Force on E-mail and Collaboration Technology and associate dean of the faculty for the sciences. The task force, which is also considering Microsoft’s Live@edu, will make its final recommendation to the Council on Computing on June 5.
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