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(01/25/10 4:00am)
The 1990s marked the dawn of a new era in professional baseball in which the sport's best players began hitting unprecedented numbers of home runs. Between 1995 and 2003, several players hit between 20 and 50 percent more home runs than the top players of the past century, according to Roger Tobin, a physics professor at Tufts University. Tobin demonstrated how steroids might be the reason for this spike in a packed Friday lecture, "Sox and Drugs: Baseball, Steroids and Physics."
(09/17/08 8:43pm)
Although both the College and the Beta national organization have not officially re-recognized the chapter, the interest group plans to recruit 20 to 25 interested sophomores, according to Tony Pastoors '10, a member of the group.
(08/19/08 6:58am)
The medical community must decide whether a patient needs to be brain dead before doctors can remove his heart and other organs, James Bernat, professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, said in his Aug. 14 article in the New England Journal of Medicine. Bernat's article responds to a case study, also featured in the journal, that documents three recent cases of heart transplantation from infants who had serious brain injuries but were not brain dead. Two of the infants were pronounced dead 75 seconds after circulation had ceased in the patients' bodies, a shorter than average wait time.
(08/15/08 6:40am)
A new alcohol policy that will give organizations more discretion when holding social events with alcohol is scheduled to replace the Social Event Management Procedures in winter 2009, according to documents obtained by The Dartmouth on Wednesday. The plan will most likely follow the Alcohol Management Policy, a set of guidelines created by a committee of Dartmouth students and administrators and finalized at the end of Spring term, according to Dean of the College Tom Crady.
(08/08/08 8:03am)
To break up or not to break up. This pivotal question haunts many a Dartmouth couple as one or the other (or both) will travel to London on a History FSP this Fall or spend the Winter in New York slaving for Morgan Stanley. And (gasp) it's almost our JUNIOR year. That means we go off to the big, bad real world in two years, and out there it's a whole different ball game -- as evidenced by the disappearance of our Blitzmail accounts.
(08/08/08 7:39am)
Jill Mortali, current director of Sponsored Programs at Harvard Medical School, has been named as the new director of Dartmouth's Office of Sponsored Projects, which helps to manage grants and assist in the grant proposal process, according to a press released by the College on Tuesday. Mortali, who has served in her position at Harvard Medical School since 2002, will begin working at the College on Sept. 15. Former director Nancy Wray, who will then become director emeritus, plans to leave the College at the end of the year, according to the press release. Wray has worked in OSP for 15 years. "I'm looking forward to joining Dartmouth and the team in Sponsored Projects," Mortali said in the press release. "Dartmouth offers the opportunity to work within a vibrant and collegial community of faculty, staff and students, and I'm eager to be a part of the Upper Valley community."
(08/05/08 6:01am)
Despite growing concerns about the side effects of Gardasil -- a new vaccine manufactured by Merck and Co. that targets the human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease -- Dartmouth Medical School professor Diane Harper recommends women take the drug as one of a number of preventative measures against HPV, which has been shown to cause cervical cancer. Harper led HPV vaccine clinical trials for Merck.
(08/01/08 6:47am)
A woman at the Canoe Club paged Jeff Johnson, one of the shop's two lead men, during a recent interview with The Dartmouth. She requested that he send a carpenter to remove a door from the restaurant's attic.
(08/01/08 6:45am)
"This was very in-your-face," Yago said. "This was, 'You're going to Africa and sh-t is hitting the fan.'"
(07/29/08 5:33am)
The College's Real Estate Office has owned the houses for several years, Redman said. During the June meeting of the Board of Trustees, Board members approved the transfer of the houses from the Real Estate Office to the Office of Residential Life, according to Redman.
(07/25/08 7:56am)
Ah, the joys of living off-campus. Paying rent once (or twice) a month, having to clean your shower and take out the trash and being forced to make the long trek to FoCo anytime you want a sandwich.
(07/25/08 7:54am)
What's it like to manage the 30-plus students that in the apartments above Murphy's each term? Mike Iskander, the building manager, shares his thoughts on Dartmouth students.
(07/25/08 7:39am)
Current and former members of the Dartmouth Outing Club submitted a letter to College President James Wright, Dean of the College Tom Crady and acting Dean of Student Life Joe Cassidy on Thursday requesting that the administration read and respond to a statement describing students' vision of a student-run DOC. The letter comes after Andy Harvard, former director of the College's Outdoor Programs Office, which oversees the DOC, left the College in mid-July. Members of the DOC, who contend that Harvard was asked to leave the College, were confused by the sudden nature of Harvard's departure and upset that student input was not solicited prior to the decision.
(07/22/08 6:43am)
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was recently ranked among the country's best hospitals for cancer treatment, gynecology and ear, nose and throat-related medical care in the U.S. News and World Report's 2008 report of America's Best Hospitals. After a review of 5,435 centers nationwide, DHMC placed at number 44 out of 170 hospitals chosen as the nation's leading facilities for cancer care, and was ranked 38th for gynecology and 39th for ENT care.
(07/18/08 8:02am)
Women must understand the dynamics of the workplace in order to make their ideas heard, according to Lisa Liswood, a senior advisor to Goldman Sachs who led an open discussion forum Thursday hosted by Women in Business. For an hour and a half, Liswood dissected the unconscious impact of diversity in people's interactions and cautioned the women in attendance not to be afraid to be assertive.
(07/15/08 7:13am)
After three weeks, Sisson skated across the Mississippi river, and a week later, he reached Kansas, according to his mother, Ellen Sisson. Sisson, who was stopped in Witchita, Kan. during his interview with The Dartmouth, said he hopes to finish his trip by early September, but has until Sept. 24, when he returns to Hanover to take classes, to complete the journey.
(07/11/08 7:19am)
Student Assembly has asked a working group that reviewed the College's Committee on Standards' policies regarding sexual assault this Spring to reconsider several of its recommendations, the Assembly announced on July 3. The Assembly will conduct its own review of COS policy in cases of sexual assault this Fall as part of a broader review of the issue at the College, and may recommend that COS form a separate sub-system for sexual assault cases.
(07/01/08 6:53am)
Briana Carroll '10 brought her car to campus for sophomore summer expecting to put the vehicle to frequent use. The increased cost of gas, which now rests at over four dollars a gallon, however, has forced Carroll to think twice before making even the smallest trips.
(06/27/08 6:18am)
Dartmouth is expected to pay an additional $1.8 million in energy costs this fiscal year due to rising oil prices, according to the College's Facilities, Operations and Management office. Fuel will cost Dartmouth an average of $75 a barrel, up from last year's average of $54.50, according to FO&M associate vice president John Gratiot.
(06/24/08 6:19am)
This phenomenon may contribute to students' disaffection with politics, Shaiko said.