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College expresses support for transgender students

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 26, 2017

The College released a statement on Tuesday, March 21 expressing support for transgender and gender-nonconforming community members in response to President Donald Trump’s administration rescinding protections for transgender students. In the press release, the College stated that “everyone is welcome to use bathrooms and changing rooms that best align with their gender identity.” All existing services and programs for transgender students and employees are still in place, including gender-inclusive facilities, health care coverage, the ability to change their name and gender marker and accordance with the NCAA’s inclusion of transgender student-athletes policy.

The Morton Hall fire last fall, combined with high enrollment, means some leave-term students on campus for the spring do not have housing.
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Students left without spring leave-term housing

By Mika Jehoon Lee | March 7, 2017

Around 56 on-campus leave-term students, who remain in Hanover to work or do research but are not enrolled as students, will be without spring term housing due to high enrollment and the Morton Hall fire last fall, according to director of undergraduate housing Rachael Class-Giguere.

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Greek councils elect new leadership

By Frances Cohen | March 7, 2017

The Greek Leadership Council announced its new executive council members on Feb. 13. The Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council released their lists of new officers in early March.

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Co-op reports loss for 2016

By Amanda Zhou | March 7, 2017

The Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, which operates the Co-op Food Stores, fell short of breaking even last year, reporting a loss of approximately $125,000 for 2016.

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Winter Pitch awards funding and support to five teams

By Kristine Jiwoo Ahn | March 7, 2017

Last Thursday, the Digital Arts, Leadership and Innovation Lab and the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network hosted The Pitch, Dartmouth’s shark-tank style entrepreneurial show, in Filene Auditorium from 7 to 9 p.m. The five selected winning teams were Gift Crate, Turf, Notist, AlertDrive and Cormat.

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Students attend 1vyG conference

By Joyce Lee | March 3, 2017

Thirty Dartmouth students traveled to attend the third annual 1vyG conference last weekend. 1vyG is an organization that connects first-generation Ivy League students so they can improve their campuses for first-generation college students.

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Bright Line Watch examines U.S. democracy

By Debora Hyemin Han | March 3, 2017

Last week, government professors John Carey and Brendan Nyhan, University of Rochester political science professor Gretchen Helmke, Yale University political science professor Susan Stokes and market research company partner Mitch Sanders released data from the first survey conducted by Bright Line Watch — a project that seeks to use scholarly expertise to monitor democratic practices and call attention to threats to American democracy, according to its website.

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Three Geisel radiologists win awards

By Anthony Robles | March 3, 2017

Geisel School of Medicine faculty members Jocelyn Chertoff, Petra Lewis and Nancy McNulty Med’95 will be honored at the 65th annual meeting of the Association of University Radiologists in early May for collectively receiving four awards that recognize their contributions to the field of radiology.

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Organization files complaint against DHMC for live animal use

By Sonia Qin | March 2, 2017

Yesterday, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture requesting that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service investigate Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s use of live sheep for emergency medicine residency training.

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Town approves proposed budget for 2017

By Alexa Green | March 2, 2017

Earlier this week, the town of Hanover voted to approve the proposed budget for fiscal year 2017, following modifications in the municipal general tax rate and social agency funds. In FY2016, the town had $16,757,539 in total expenditures.

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Thayer club hosts competition

By Sunpreet Singh | March 2, 2017

Last Friday, the Thayer Consulting Club hosted its sixth annual case competition, where 50 undergraduate and graduate students competed in groups of three or four for cash prizes and first-round interviews with prestigious consulting firms L.E.K.

Computer science professor Xia Zhou received the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship.
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Professor Xia Zhou receives Sloan Fellowship

By Mika Jehoon Lee | March 2, 2017

Computer science professor Xia Zhou was awarded the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship on Feb. 21, a professional distinction given to early-career scientific researchers that, this year, came with a two-year, $60,000 fellowship to support their research.

Out of 334 respondents, 49.3 percent said social programming events have a somewhat positive impact on their time at Dartmouth. (Note: Data is in percentages.)
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Student survey examines social programming

By Vignesh Chockalingam | February 28, 2017

A survey released to the student body found that social programming events, such as those hosted at the Collis Center, had a positive impact on 61.5 percent of students who responded, whereas 33.6 percent said that the programming had no impact on their lives.

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