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Study suggests e-cigarettes are a net harm

By Jennie Rhodes | March 28, 2018

Despite e-cigarettes’s potential to help smokers quit smoking, a recent study suggests that they are more harmful than beneficial to the American population. The study, titled “Quantifying Population-Level Health Benefits and Harms of E-Cigarette Use in the United States,” was conducted by researchers from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the Geisel School of Medicine, as well as the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego; the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing; and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

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Hocus Pocus! Missing dog found after three weeks

By Isabel Adler | March 27, 2018

While students stayed in the library or in their rooms at the end of last term, studying for final exams and waiting out the seemingly endless torrent of nor’easters, research grant manager Jean Blandin’s red-golden retriever puppy Hocus was missing, likely without food or shelter. Luckily, Hocus has since been found and is now safe and healthy, according to Hanover Police patrol officer Robert DePietro, who helped guide the dog home.

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Biron to step down as Dean of the College

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 15, 2018

Interim provost David Kotz ’86 announced today that Dean of the College Rebecca Biron will be stepping down from her position and returning to full-time teaching and research at the end of the academic year, according to a College press release. Biron, who was hired in 2006 as a professor of Spanish and comparative literature, has served as Dean of the College for three years.

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College appoints members to sexual misconduct committee

By Gigi Grigorian | March 5, 2018

The College announced the members of the Presidential Steering Committee on Sexual Misconduct, which will review College policies on sexual misconduct, ensure they are clear and present recommendations on policy development, education and training. The committee members, announced on Feb.

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College will not expand undergraduate enrollment

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 4, 2018

The College will not expand undergraduate student enrollment, Board of Trustees chair Laurel Richie ’81 announced in a campus-wide email. The decision was made during the Board’s most recent meeting from March 1 to 3 following consideration of a report from the Task Force for Enrollment Expansion.

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Months later, still no on-campus grad housing available

By Alex Rivlin | March 1, 2018

Since the College elected last fall to reclassify the North Park apartments as undergraduate rather than graduate housing, graduate students at Dartmouth have worked to form a united front and increase communication with the administration. Last spring, the admissions yield of approximately 1,279 students for the Class of 2021, which dean of the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies F.

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Course aims to help students unpack study abroad experiences

By Harrison Aronoff | March 1, 2018

College Course 21, “What’s in Your Shoebox?” — a new course being offered next term — will allow international students and those who have completed a foreign study program to reflect on their experiences abroad and increase their intercultural sensitivity. The course, listed under the interdisciplinary “College Course” department, is designed to allow students to “come together and spend 10 weeks [in the spring term] unpacking and reflecting upon their study aboard experiences,” said Francine A’Ness, associate director and assistant research professor at the Frank J.

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