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Protecting Journalism

By Emily Johnson '12 | November 3, 2009

Nothing in journalism class had prepared me for it. The source I had been interviewing for my very first high school newspaper assignment had just pulled my notebook out of my hands and ripped out the pages containing our interview, shouting that if I wasn't going to report impartially, then he wasn't going to talk to me.

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Expert highlights health disparities

By JOY CHEN | November 3, 2009

KEVIN XIAO / The Dartmouth The United States must take steps to address health care disparities between white and minority groups, Chidi Achebe DMS '96, the president and CEO of the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center in Boston, said in a lecture in Chilcott Auditorium on Tuesday. While minority groups have made significant progress since the civil rights movement in the 1960s, many members of these groups still do not receive the same level of health care as non-Hispanic white Americans, Achebe said. Black males die more frequently of diseases that do not comparably affect the white population, Achebe said. "We are looking at third world pathologies that shouldn't have made their way to the first world countries," Achebe said. Achebe said that approximately 49 out of every 100,000 black men die of prostate cancer annually.

The College received a record number of early decision applications this year, including a record number of applications from international students.
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Early apps. increase by 3 percent

By Katie Gonzalez | November 3, 2009

STEPHANIE HAN / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth received more than 1,600 early decision applications for the Class of 2014 a record high and 3 percent more than it received last year, according to Dean of Admissions Maria Laskaris.

Sports

Field hockey defeats Harvard 5-3, Hood '12 breaks record

By Claire Monagan | November 3, 2009

The Dartmouth field hockey team extended its winning streak to three with a 5-3 win over Harvard (5-10, 2-4 Ivy) Saturday, a game that saw Kelly Hood '12 break the College record for most points in a season. Captain Virginia Peisch '11 said she was satisfied with the team's play, but noted that the Big Green (9-7, 4-2 Ivy) did not play as well as it had against the University of Massachusetts. "We weren't as consistent," Peisch said. Head coach Amy Fowler noted, however, that a win is a win. "We did what we needed to do," she said. The Big Green offense had a strong showing against the Crimson, with five different players scoring goals. Fowler said that the offense carried over its domination of the midfield from last Wednesday's game against Massachusetts. "We had a balanced attack and continued scoring from the field," Fowler said. The first half saw multiple goals from both teams.

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Number of ED applications up 3 percent

By Katie Gonzalez | November 3, 2009

Over 1,600 students submitted early decision applications for the Dartmouth Class of 2014 a record high and a 3-percent increase over the number submitted last year, the College announced in a statement late Tuesday.The number of applications increased by about 13 percent for the Class of 2013. The College will accept approximately one-third of the incoming class about 400 students through the early decision program. Dartmouth also received a record number of early decision applications from international students, a trend Dean of Admissions Maria Laskaris attributed in the press release to the appointment of College President Jim Yong Kim.

Opinion

Hayek in the Basement

By Leonard Lewis '10 | November 2, 2009

Although Friedrich Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society" is a landmark in modern economic literature, a thoughtful reader can apply its thesis to almost any problem of social organization: even the problem of sweet dudes who hang out more than the College administration, or Mirror columnist Matthew Ritger '10, would prefer. Hayek was a seminal figure in what is called "Austrian" economics.

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Prof. urges the union of two health care models

By Lindsay Brewer | November 2, 2009

Dartmouth Medical School professor Elliott Fisher advocated that Congress integrate two models of health care delivery reform that are generally discussed separately in an article published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. "[The report] will be used to educate policymakers and providers about the need for both reforms," Fisher said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Fisher, the director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice's Center for Health Policy Research, co-authored the paper with Stephen Shortell, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and Diane Rittenhouse, a professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. The article, "Primary Care and Accountable Care Two Essential Elements of Delivery-System Reform," discusses how patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations, two models of health care reform that are generally considered individually, are actually complementary to each other. "The paper was written because some members of the policy community and many members of Congress saw them as competing reforms, and so we were motivated a group of us who were involved in the development of each idea to come together and explore what we believed to be true: that they were complementary reforms," Fisher said. The patient-centered medical home model involves establishing a partnership among practitioners, patients and their families and places a greater emphasis on primary care, according to the article.

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Daily Debriefing

By Ann Baum | November 2, 2009

As the proportion of female applicants to selective colleges increases, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is investigating whether undergraduate admissions processes discriminate against women to ensure an even gender distribution in their student bodies, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

Sports

Cross country teams place well at Heps, look to regionals

By Donghan Zhao | November 2, 2009

Facing off against all seven of its Ivy League foes, Dartmouth's men's and women's cross country teams posted third and sixth place finishes, respectively, at the 2009 Heptagonal Cross Country Championships at Van Cortlandt Park in New York on Friday. On the men's side, the Big Green finished with 90 points, placing third behind Columbia and Princeton, who netted 60 and 61 points, respectively.

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Volleyball snaps five-game losing streak over weekend

By Tianchi Xu | November 2, 2009

DANI WANG / The Dartmouth After an October full of ups and downs, the Dartmouth women's volleyball team managed to finish the month on a high note, beating both Cornell and Columbia in four sets at home to end a five-game losing skid. "I think we came out with a lot of fire this weekend," co-captain Morgan Covington '10 said.

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Avner '80 rises to alumni leadership

By Greg Berger | November 2, 2009

Watching the freshmen run around the bonfire at Dartmouth Night this year, Janine Avner '80, now four months into her tenure as Alumni Council president, said she was reminded of her own experiences in 1976 as a new student at the College a period that she describes as "a different time at Dartmouth," given the relatively small number of women and minority students. "It was a different time at Dartmouth when I was there, but by and large it was just the absolute best experience for me," Avner said.

Sports

Basketball teams warm up for winter: Men's basketball

By Jonathan Gault | November 1, 2009

Entering the 2009-2010 season, the Dartmouth men's basketball team faces a challenge in replacing star forward Alex Barnett '09, who averaged 19.4 points per game last season to lead the Ivy League. "It's going to take multiple guys, if not everybody from the team, to step up and improve a lot of things from last year," guard Marlon Sanders '09 said. Barnett led the team in points, rebounds and assists last season, and was named the 2009 Ivy League Player of the Year and was an honorable mention on the All-America team. The Big Green finished 9-19 (7-7 Ivy) last season, tied for fourth in the Ivy League The team's 7-7 record in conference play was its best since head coach Terry Dunn's first season in 2004-2005.

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