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  • No Hard Alcohol, No Pledging: Dartmouth Plans Major Cultural Reforms
    The Washington Post

    No Hard Alcohol, No Pledging: Dartmouth Plans Major Cultural Reforms

    Dartmouth College will prohibit all students, regardless of age, from drinking or possessing hard alcohol on campus and will create a new network of residential communities for student social life in a effort to rid the school of what its president calls “extreme behaviors.” The plan — a major cultural transformation of the campus, announced in a speech Thursday by Dartmouth President Philip J.

    Jan 29, 2015

    Brains, Not Clothes
    Inside Higher Ed

    Brains, Not Clothes

    Many female professors complain that students evaluate them in sexist ways based in part on appearance, and data suggests that's true. But few administrators have spoken out against student bias in evaluations, and tend to treat it more as an inevitable if unfortunate part of the process. So a recent mass e-mail to students at Rutgers University School of Law at Camden from Adam Scales, vice dean, stands out.

    Jan 29, 2015

    Views Differ on Darby Preservation Plans
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    Views Differ on Darby Preservation Plans

    Aaron Wunsch of the School of Design comments on the potential revitalization Darby could undergo.


    Jan 28, 2015

    You Asked: Why Am I Cold All the Time?
    Time

    You Asked: Why Am I Cold All the Time?

    Anne Cappola of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how metabolism and vascular function play a role in a person’s internal thermostat.


    Jan 28, 2015

    Audio: 5 Ways Extreme Cold Affects Your Body
    Newsworks (WHYY-FM)

    Audio: 5 Ways Extreme Cold Affects Your Body

    Tejvir Khurana of the Perelman School of Medicine talks about how the head is a “huge heat-loss source.”


    Jan 28, 2015

    Swarthmore Applications Soar As Essays Shrink
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    Swarthmore Applications Soar As Essays Shrink

    Admissions officials at Swarthmore College suspected last year that an extra 500-word essay on its application might have fueled a 16 percent drop in applicants, the largest in years. Concerned about the precipitous decline, Swarthmore - one of the most selective and prestigious colleges in the country - deliberately dropped that essay this year and halved the word requirement for another. Applications soared. By its Jan.

    Jan 28, 2015