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If you don't know, now you know
By Charles Rafkin | January 22, 2015What are the ugliest buildings on campus? A challenging question. Are they the Choates? Berry Library?
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For some, a new dean’s former position will best decide fit
By Charles Rafkin | May 22, 2014As Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson prepares to pack up her Parkhurst Hall corner office, the College must choose a new administrator to oversee undergraduate academic and campus life. While the future dean could come from a corporate, legal or academic background, faculty and higher education experts interviewed said someone with strong academic distinction could best fit into the position.
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College releases mobile applications
By Charles Rafkin | February 6, 2013Dartmouth's four mobile applications have yet to be widely used by the student body, but they offer access to course materials, a steamlined interface to the Dartmouth website and closer connections to campus news. The applications include Blackboard Mobile Learn and Dartmouth Sports, which connects users to Big Green athletic news.
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Kurzweil discusses future of tech.
By Charles Rafkin | November 8, 2012Nushy Golriz / The Dartmouth Staff The exponential curve plotting information technology's accelerating rate of development "doesn't look revolutionary, except it enables revolutions," inventor, theorist and futurist Ray Kurzweil said to an audience overflowing into adjacent rooms during his Thursday lecture in Filene Auditorium. Technology becomes smaller, smarter and cheaper at exponential rates, making substantial breakthroughs likely in the near future, Kurzweil said, citing historical trends in information technologies like computing, artificial intelligence and biomedical engineering. "It actually took 400 years for the printing press to reach a mass audience," Kurzweil said.
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Meyers, former administrator, dies at 51
By Charles Rafkin | November 4, 2012Michelle Meyers '83, former assistant director of equal opportunity at the College, died of breast cancer on Oct.
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Classes will continue during Homecoming
By Charles Rafkin | October 25, 2012While many students look forward to Homecoming weekend as a time of celebration and much-needed rest, most professors said they do not plan to alter syllabi or class schedules to accommodate student participation in the festivities. These professors said that canceling class or reducing the workload for students would prevent students from receiving as rich an educational experience.
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Rivlin offers cautious optimism on national debt
By Charles Rafkin | October 18, 2012NUSHY GOLRIZ / The Dartmouth Though party polarization has placed Congress in gridlock regarding the current deficit crisis in the United States, a solution to the impending "fiscal cliff" could be forged after the Nov.
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Area hotels raise prices, sell out for graduation
By Charles Rafkin | September 30, 2012Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Many hotels in the Hanover area are already booked for this year's Commencement, forcing graduating students' families to seek housing from the College's Office of Residential Life. The Hanover Inn, Six South Street Hotel, the Norwich Inn, the Trumbull House Bed and Breakfast, the Marriott in Lebanon and the Holiday Inn in White River Junction are among the hotels already sold out for the June 9 event, according to their websites and managers. "We get guests asking about graduation sometimes when they found out their student has been accepted," Norwich Inn Manager Taryn Foster said. Six South Street Hotel reserved its 69 rooms for members of its "E-Club" parents who have previously stayed in the hotel according to Don Bruce, the hotel's manager.