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Dartmouth not included in letter discouraging legacy admissions preference

By Cameron Roller | February 28, 2018

A coalition of 13 first-generation and low-income student groups at 12 American universities sent a letter encouraging their institutions to reform the practice of giving legacy students preference in their admissions processes.

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Q&A

Q&A with Tracie Williams '05

By Berit Svenson | February 28, 2018

Tracie Williams ’05 discovered her love of the outdoors as an undergraduate after participating in a backcountry skiing break trip sponsored by the Outdoor Programs Office.

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Community members participate in winter edition of the Pitch

By Jennie Rhodes | February 28, 2018

On Monday night, Dartmouth held its latest rendition of its entrepreneurial show, the Pitch. Twenty-one groups of faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students pitched their startup ideas to a panel of six judges and approximately 100 voting audience members. This year, the Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation Lab and the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, the event’s co-sponsors, experimented with several changes to the event. Since its conception in spring 2014, the Pitch has taken place once per term.

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Dartmouth will not build large College park dorm, Hanlon announces

By Zachary Benjamin and Amanda Zhou | February 27, 2018

Dartmouth will not build a 750-bed residence hall in College Park due to the high cost of such a project, College President Phil Hanlon announced during yesterday’s termly faculty of arts and sciences meeting.

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The Dartmouth announces incoming 2018 directorate

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | February 27, 2018

Zachary Benjamin ’19 and Hanting Guo ’19 will serve as The Dartmouth’s next editor-in-chief and publisher, respectively. Benjamin, an English major from Lodi, California, joined the news section his freshman year and served as a news managing editor during winter 2017 and winter 2018.

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College releases results of 2017 sexual misconduct survey

By Saba Nejad | February 26, 2018

In January 2018, the College released the results of its sexual misconduct survey fielded in spring 2017.

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Dartmouth researchers collaborate to research 'warming hole'

By Ruben Gallardo | February 26, 2018

A team of Dartmouth researchers collaborated with scientists from Michigan State University to investigate the mechanisms behind a “warming hole” found in the southeastern U.S., which produces a cooling effect in the region during the winter months.

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College joins hazing prevention initiative

By Eileen Brady | February 23, 2018

Dartmouth recently joined the Hazing Prevention Consortium, a research-to-practice initiative led by the University of Maine to build an evidence base for hazing prevention on college campuses.

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Raether family donates $15 million to Tuck

By Charles Chen and Jennie Rhodes | February 23, 2018

On Feb. 1, the Tuck School of Business announced that Paul Raether Tu’73 and his family had donated $15 million toward scholarships, matching the largest ever donation in the history of Tuck.

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V-Feb events address gender-based violence

By Rachel Pakianathan | February 23, 2018

V-February, Dartmouth’s annual campaign to promote gender equity and end gender-based violence, will feature a series of performances, events and discussions throughout the month of February.

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Hanover Police Department introduces active shooter training

By Rachel Pakianathan | February 23, 2018

The Hanover Police Department will now offer a free course designed to teach strategies and guidelines for surviving in an active shooter event to local businesses and organizations.

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2018 DOC directorate announced

By Mika Jehoon Lee | February 23, 2018

Current Dartmouth Outing Club president Mallory Byrd ’19 announced the new directorate for the club on Wednesday night via email.

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Two alumni join inaugural Knight-Hennessy Scholars

By Abigail Mihaly | February 22, 2018

Leehi Yona ’16 and Asaf Zilberfarb ’17 will join the inaugural class of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, Stanford University announced on Feb.

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Jared Duker Lichtman '18 earns Churchill Scholarship

By Gigi Grigorian | February 22, 2018

This month, Jared Duker Lichtman ’18 was awarded the prestigious Churchill Scholarship to study pure mathematics at the University of Cambridge’s Churchill College.

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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen gives talk criticizing Russian foreign interference

By Jacob Chalif | February 21, 2018

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) criticized Russia’s interference in foreign affairs and urged the U.S.

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Q&A

Q&A with Rabbi Edward Boraz

By Maria Harrast | February 21, 2018

Rabbi Edward Boraz has served as the rabbi for both the Dartmouth and the Upper Valley Jewish Community congregations for the past 20 years.

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Faculty sign letter calling for College to expand action on DACA

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | February 20, 2018

Over 65 faculty members have signed a letter in support of Unai Montes-Irueste ’98, who publicly resigned from his positions on multiple alumni associations over his dissatisfaction with the College’s protections of undocumented students.

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Baptist congregation proposes new Hanover church

By Gabriel Onate | February 20, 2018

Christ Redeemer Church, a Hanover-based Baptist congregation led by Pastor Don Willeman, recently introduced updated plans to the Hanover Planning Board over a proposed church that the congregation wishes to build on a plot of land it purchased in 2017.

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Sig Ep suspended for winter term over alcohol violations

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | February 19, 2018

Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity was suspended for one term this winter for violations of the College’s alcohol policy while already on College probation.

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Hanlon updates timelines of investigations of sexual misconduct allegations

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | February 19, 2018

In a campus-wide email today, College President Phil Hanlon wrote that the investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct by three professors in the psychological and brain sciences department are ongoing and that the external investigator is “close to concluding her work.”

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