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(05/01/08 6:01am)
A group of nurses at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is considering forming a union, according to The Valley News. The nurses have decided to meet with representatives from the Massachusetts Nurses Association to discuss the possibility of creating the organization. DHMC is the largest employer in the Upper Valley and has 1,900 nurses. In response to the talk of unionization, DHMC administrators have distributed a PowerPoint presentation that addresses problems with unions and strategies to discourage them. The nurses at the center have varied opinion about the move to unionize, with some saying unions will hurt the management process at DHMC, while others favored unions, The Valley News reported. According to some nurses, DHMC's recent decision to implement merit-based pay may have contributed to the discussions. A union cannot be formed at DHMC unless 30 percent of the nurses show an interest.
(04/29/08 5:34am)
"The purpose of PRIDE week is to celebrate the rich LGBT history and culture here at Dartmouth," Brown, who pioneered PRIDE week at Dartmouth last year, said. "It also seeks to eradicate homophobia and educate the campus about LGBT issues."
(04/24/08 6:58am)
Parents' expectations for whether their children will attend college differ based on family income, students' academic performance, race and gender, according to a report released by the United States Department of Education on Tuesday, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Only 64 percent of students with B averages were expected by their parents to earn bachelors degrees, though most colleges and universities will accept students with B averages, the report said. The report was based on a 2003 survey of parents of children in grades six through 12. White families were most likely to help children pay for college, the report said, while Asian-American parents were more likely to expect their children to attend college than black, white or Hispanic parents. Single parents of all racial and ethnic groups were least likely to expect their children to receive bachelors degrees or to help pay for college, the report said.
(04/24/08 6:51am)
Adding more physicians to the American health care system will not improve the quality of health care, according to a report written by Dartmouth Medical School professors David Goodman and Elliot Fisher, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Apr. 17. Instead, more doctors would create a fragmented, inefficient system and cost the government billions of dollars, Goodman and Fisher wrote.
(04/23/08 9:11am)
"Clearly [Johnson-Sirleaf] represents a terribly important part of the world, but she also will speak not only has a regional leader but as someone who has experience with human rights and democracy, and those values very much have a place here at Dartmouth," College President James Wright said. "She's a wonderful international figure. She's a tremendous leader in Africa."
(04/15/08 7:06am)
A new inter-faith community residence option will allow 11 students to explore issues of faith and religion within their residence halls beginning next fall. Residents of the living community, planned for the ground floor of Ripley Hall, will participate in weekly discussions, host social events and attend faith-related workshops.
(04/09/08 6:19am)
Karen Liot Hill '00, former program coordinator for the Rockefeller Center, was elected Mayor of Lebanon, N.H., by the Lebanon City Council last month. Hill served on the city council for two years.
(04/08/08 7:02am)
"I basically felt like a full-time translator," she said. "Growing up I sometimes felt that I was raising my family as much as they were raising me."
(04/07/08 7:19am)
The College's Economic Equity Initiative invited class-equality activist Felice Yeskel to work with faculty and administrators to understand the implications of classism, a largely unrecognized prejudice, according to Yeskel. Yeskel held several meetings and workshops that examined classism at Dartmouth and explored the culture-shock many face upon entering college.
(03/27/08 6:05am)
Baking chocolate eclairs does not figure into the usual schedule of a middle school students, but that was the assignment for several eighth graders who shadowed professionals in the kitchens of the Hanover Inn as part of a "Job Shadow Day" on Wednesday. The program, which is in its ninth year, brings approximately 50 eighth graders from around the Upper Valley to Hanover to experience a day in the life of Dartmouth employees.
(03/06/08 8:42am)
Encouraging students to begin their involvement in political life, former Portsmouth, N.H. Mayor Steve Marchand focused on the possibilites for youth participation in government in a speech given to the Dartmouth College Democrats in the Rockefeller Center's 1930's room .
(03/04/08 7:40am)
Sarah Horton, a member of the HomeTeam and the director of Web Strategy, Design and Infrastructure, said that two members of the web services department -- Ellen Kanner and Alan German -- are working with the Office of Planning, Design and Construction to develop a more user-friendly campus map.
(03/03/08 9:43am)
White house aide Timothy Goeglein resigned on Feb. 29 after admitting to plagiarizing several guest columns he wrote for The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind., The New York Times reported on March 1. Large passages of one of his columns came from an article written by Dartmouth English professor Jeffrey Hart and published 10 years ago in The Dartmouth Review. "This is not acceptable, and we are disappointed in Tim's actions," White House spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore told The Times. "He is offering no excuses, and he agrees it was wrong." Fort Wayne blogger Nancy Nall, a former columnist at the News-Sentinel, was the first to discover Goeglelin's plagiarism from the Review. Further investigation by the News-Sentinel revealed that Goeglein had plagiarized in 19 of the 38 columns he had written for the paper. Goeglein had also taken phrases from the Pope and Jonathan Yardley, a book critic for The Washington Post, The News-Sentinel reported. At the White House, Goeglein acted as an intermediary between President Bush and conservative Christian groups.
(02/27/08 9:02am)
A group of Dartmouth researchers published the first scientific evidence linking a specific surgery with relief of lower back pain caused by spinal stenosis. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Feb. 21.
(02/18/08 8:55am)
Philanthropic students eager to give back to communities across America this spring break are selling grilled cheese sandwiches on Webster Ave., running bake sales in Novack Cafe and continuing to brainstorm fundraising events.
(02/11/08 4:50pm)
The House of Representatives approved a new version of the Higher Education Act on February 7th by a vote of 354-58. The new version would make institutions more accountable for tuition increases and would increase federal financial assistance to students. Institutions with the highest tuition increases would be required to account for the difference to the U.S. Secretary of Education, and would also have to notify prospective students of expected future tuition increases. The bill would require states to continue funding higher education and would mandate that institutions investigate ways to make audio-visual files available to students to decrease illegal file sharing.
(02/06/08 1:27pm)
Economics professor Bruce Sacerdote and Owen Zidar '08 found that the frequency with which politicians use certain words is indicative of themes and rhetorical styles of their speeches in a study that examined the word content of each speech delivered by the 2008 presidential candidates in the past two years. Sacerdote and Zidar were able to draw conclusions about candidates' similarities to famous orators in the study, published in January.
(01/31/08 5:27pm)
Orleck, one of three professors who spoke on the panel, titled "Class and Racial Divisions: Challenges and Oppurtunities," advocated government funding of programs to help the poor.
(01/28/08 9:02am)
Dartmouth fraternities accepted a handful of new members this weekend as they opened their doors for winter rush on Saturday and Sunday nights. Consistent with previous years, fewer men sunk bids and fewer fraternities accepted new members than in Fall term rush.
(01/22/08 8:41am)
While snowmaking creates the elusive fresh powder that many skiers in New England desire, the process has a heavy impact on the local environment due to an increase in the amount of energy used by ski resorts.