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College to hire new Title IX coordinator

By Sean Connolly | January 15, 2014

The provost’s office and general counsel are seeking a Title IX and Clery Act compliance officer, a newly created administrative position. The new hire will be responsible for implementing a program to educate campus safety personnel, faculty, staff and students on the College’s sexual assault policies and ensure that Dartmouth complies with federal guidelines.

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Research team launches data-collecting balloons

By Rebecca Rowland | January 15, 2014

Carefully constructed, technologically advanced balloons soar in the Antarctic sky, transmitting space weather updates to a team of scientists. For the past month, physics and astronomy professor Robyn Millan has lived on the southernmost continent, using instrument-laden balloons to gather data on radiation belts that impact space activity around the Earth.

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Sustainability efforts focus on older campus buildings

By Michael Qian | January 15, 2014

From the south side of campus, the Dartmouth College Heating Plant releases wispy plumes of steam into cool air. The plant, which supplies approximately 45 percent of the electricity on Dartmouth’s main campus, is just one part of a large network of heating and sustainability programs.

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Student Spotlight: Jake Gaba ’16

By The Dartmouth | January 15, 2014

While Jake Gaba ’16 participated in theater and choir in high school, he’s found himself in his biggest role yet: global social media star. This fall, on his Chinese Language Study Abroad Plus trip to Beijing, Gaba filmed himself wearing rainbow-patterned swim trunks and dancing in public places — 91 distinct places, to be exact.

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College doubles salting efforts in icy season

By Priya Ramaiah | January 14, 2014

Massachusetts Row became an ice rink. Students stumbled across the Green. Webster Avenue threatened to trip any who braved its slick sidewalks. Though Campus Planning and Facilities has used 515 tons of salt in de-icing efforts so far this winter, more than double the amount used by this time last year, the season’s weather has made it more difficult than usual to ensure safe walking conditions, said campus planning and facilities labor shop supervisor Greg Frost, adding that this is the worst winter he has witnessed in the past 20 years.

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Spectra boosts LGBTQ social life on campus

By Jorge Bonilla | January 14, 2014

Spectra, a new campus organization, seeks to enhance community among LGBTQ students by holding social events throughout the term. Andrew McKee ’15 and Jacqueline Panichello ’16 founded the group in the fall after hearing rumors that Gender Sexuality XYZ, was disbanding.

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Boral '16 launches new leadership program

By Michael Qian | January 14, 2014

Freshmen will discuss leadership and their roles at the College in a new program created and facilitated by other students. The Leadership Attitudes and Behaviors program, launching on Jan. 27, will combine peer bonding and student-facilitated discussions to encourage students to consider new meanings of leadership.

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‘Freya!’ honors local Nazi resistor

By Caela Murphy | January 14, 2014

At the height of World War II, Countess Freya von Moltke’s husband came to her with a request: could she turn against friends and colleagues to form a resistance group of upper-class German citizens like themselves? Moltke considered the proposition and emphatically agreed. The Kreisau Circle began as a meeting of two dozen of Moltke’s friends and quickly strengthened. By the war’s end, however, Hitler had arrested and executed half of the group’s original members, including Moltke’s husband.

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Red Baraat fuses Punjabi with jazz for all-out party

By Apoorva Dixit | January 14, 2014

Baraat is the Hindi word for a groom’s wedding procession, which travels to the bride-to-be’s house on the day of their nuptials. Though it may sound like a formal affair, a baraat is a party on the move. The groom, family and friends dress in elaborate, colorful clothing and dance their way to retrieve the bride. Now add to this the equally wild and fun energy of a New Orleans jazz band, and you have Red Baraat, who will perform in the Hopkins Center’s Spaulding Auditorium on Thursday evening.

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Big Green skiers fly through the moguls in World Cup event

By Macy Ferguson | January 14, 2014

Hannah Kearney ‘15, Ali Kariotis ‘17 and Sophia Schwartz ‘13 raced through a challenging moguls course on Saturday in the Visa Freestyle International FIS World Cup in Deer Valley, Utah. Kearney, the defending Olympic gold medalist in the event, won the event, and Schwartz and Kariotis nabbed seventh and ninth place, respectively.

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Szabo ’17 stays humble despite on-court successes in first season

By Josh Schiefelbein | January 14, 2014

After a recent victory, women’s basketball forward Fanni Szabo ’17 taught her teammates to say “believe in yourself” in Hungarian. Although injuries and illnesses have taken their toll on the women’s basketball team to the tune of a 2-12, 0-1 Ivy League record, Szabo, a Budapest native, consistently pushes her teammates to step up their game.

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Panhell holds discussion

By Sera Kwon | January 13, 2014

Approximately 40 students gathered at the Center for Gender and Student Engagement on Monday evening to discuss the decision of five Panhellenic Council executives to abstain from this week’s sorority recruitment.

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New seminar series to explore economics and government

By Roshan Dutta | January 13, 2014

Over a meal of summer steak and buffalo chicken burritos, students interested in the link between government and economics gathered in the Rockefeller Center on Monday night for the first of a series of faculty-student dinner seminars hosted by the College’s new Political Economy Project. An interdisciplinary academic initiative launched in the fall, the program aims to further the study of political economics at the College.

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