Dartmouth squash coach Hansi Wiens' fiancee, Valeria Vinnikova, was arrested last Friday for a minor visa infraction. She is now in danger of being deported and could be banned from returning to the United States for 10 years, according to The Valley News. The arrest took place along the Canadian border as both Vinnikova and Wiens were entering Canada to renew Vinnikova's visa. According to Wiens, a border guard had previously misread her visa form, telling her she had until Oct. 13 to renew her visa when in fact it said Oct. 3. Vinnikova is now in jail in Cumberland County, Maine. Her lawyer is working to get Homeland Security to grant Vinnikova a 30-day grace period to leave the United States in order to avoid the 10-year ban. If this fails, Wiens said he does not know what he will do. "I can't live for 10 years without her," Wiens told The Valley News.
Dartmouth received an A- for its environmental practices from the Sustainable Endowments Institute, according to a report released Wednesday. The institute graded 200 colleges with the largest endowments in the United States and Canada, only five of which received an A-. No college received an A. The other institutions receiving an A- included the University of Washington, Middlebury College, Carleton College, the University of Vermont and Harvard University. The report, in its second year, is the only independent assessment of college sustainability policy. There was marked improvement over last year, the report said, with more than two out of every three schools improving their grades. Dartmouth also received an A- last year.
Hanover Consumer Co-op is planning to build a new store on Lyme Road, about one-and-a-half miles north of the Dartmouth Green, The Valley News reported. The Co-op will be part of the new Lyme Road Village Center and will serve Dartmouth's new Rivercrest housing development. The cooperative also owns stores in downtown Hanover and Lebanon, along with a service center in Hanover. The proposal for the store received positive reviews by the town planning board, and if all goes well construction should begin in the spring, The Valley News said.
