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May 8, 9:59 a.m., South Park Street
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May 8, 9:59 a.m., South Park Street
May 1, 7:58 p.m., Greensboro Road
The College can use two mechanisms to mandate action from an uncooperative student that do not fall under the disciplinary heading, Director of Counseling and Health Services Mark Reed explained. In the short term, if a student is in need of more intensive psychiatric treatment than Dick's House's house is able to provide and he refuses to go to a hospital, doctors can issue an involuntary emergency admission.
Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series profiling young alumni who have joined the military since graduation. Today's article features Raph Clarke '06, who is training to become a Marine and expects to be deployed in Iraq.
Just over 600 miles northeast of Blacksburg, Va., Dartmouth and Hanover officials have reacted with a mix of sympathy and introspection to the tragedy that fell upon Virginia Tech's campus. Last Monday's 33 deaths have led Safety and Security and Hanover Police to contemplate the College's security structure, a review that has highlighted a number of strengths and weaknesses and may prompt certain adjustments.
April 18, 10:42 a.m., South Park Street
A federal judge sentenced Thomas Newton, a resident of Mount Prospect, Ill., to six months of house arrest and five years of probation for verbally threatening a Dartmouth employee via telephone, according to an April 23 article in the Concord Monitor. The Hanover and New London police departments in New Hampshire helped the FBI with the investigation. According to a document issued by Newton's lawyer, the 59-year-old male made threats over the phone to a College employee who had been dating his wife. Newton is affected by post-traumatic stress disorder, a product of the time he spent in Vietnam serving the United States military. He pleaded guilty to the charges.
April 10, 2:24 p.m., Low Road
Dartmouth researchers are working on a project that may allow doctors to better determine whether a tumor is malignant or benign - without having to do a surgical biopsy. Members of the College's Near Infrared Imaging Group published an article earlier this week in the April issue of the Optics Letters journal discussing their research on a new breast cancer diagnosis technique.
With Spring term well underway, Haley Morris '08 is troubled by one aspect of her Dartmouth life: She can't get into residence halls. Morris, along with Lindsay Greenberg '08, are spending their off-terms running a college preparatory program at Mascoma Valley High School. Because Morris is not currently enrolled in classes at the College and lives off campus, her Dartmouth Card no longer acts as a key.
March 27, 11:25 p.m., Maynard Street
Although the Good Samaritan Policy prevents certain alcohol policy violations from resulting in College discipline, "Good Sam" calls often result in arrests for students under the age of 21. The Good Sam also involves Hanover Police, which monitors Safety and Security's radio frequency for Good Sam calls.
John Koch was arrested in the lower level of Baker Library for criminal trespassing on Oct. 2, Hanover Police Chief Giaccone said. The arrest was a result of Koch's violation of a "Dartmouth owned" trespass letter issue in October 2004 after he reportedly propositioned men in a library bathroom. This letter forbade Koch, 78, from trespassing on any property owned by Dartmouth, College Proctor Harry Kinne said, noting that this is the College's most serious trespass letter.
The first ever Democracy Day at Dartmouth, an event to promote and celebrate student participation in the political process, drew more than 100 students and community members to the Dartmouth Hall lawn on Sunday morning.
Memorial Field has traditionally been the first, and oftentimes only, stop for a Big Green sports fan on homecoming weekend. Some freshmen go to watch their first football game, some freshmen just go to rush the field, and many upperclassmen go to watch the freshman rush the field. While football is a Homecoming staple, Dartmouth's biggest athletic weekend of the fall has much more to offer than just pigskin.
Student Assembly overwhelmingly approved a "Statement of Support for the Sexual Assault and Gender Violence Awareness Campaign" at Tuesday night's meeting. The legislation endorses the Ad Hoc Committee which was previously created to address issues of sexual violence.