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College announces details of "Moving Dartmouth Forward" residential communities

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | November 2, 2015

Six new residential communities based in current residence halls will begin housing students next fall, the College announced in a press release on Monday. Students graduating later than June 2016 will be randomly assigned into one of the communities in February and will have the chance to request up to five students they would like to be in their house next month. Members of the Class of 2020 will be assigned houses next July when they are given room assignments.

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Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talks policy in Lebanon

By Parker Richards | November 1, 2015

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) drew a crowd of over 1,000 — including Upper Valley residents and Dartmouth students — at a speech on Friday at Lebanon High School. Sanders discussed income inequality, institutional racism, campaign finance reform and numerous social issues in his nearly two-hour speaking engagement.

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Pymetrics aims to help students determine strengths

By Daniel Kim | November 1, 2015

The first thing that one encounters upon making an account for pymetrics is a series of games. One of them, called “Keypresses,” is — as the name suggests — all about pressing a key as fast as you can for a few seconds. This game, it turns out, is a measure of one’s processing speed, as well as one’s impulsiveness or deliberateness when reacting to new information.

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Good Sam numbers decrease following hard alcohol ban

By Paula Mendoza | October 29, 2015

There was a 32 percent decrease in alcohol-related incidents last spring and summer after the campus-wide hard alcohol ban was put into effect, according to data from the Student Wellness Center. The number of medical encounters and Good Samaritan calls have both decreased as well.

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Activist groups push schools to monitor Yik Yak

By Paulomi Rao | October 29, 2015

A letter signed by 72 activist groups that was presented to the Education Department’s civil rights office last week argued that colleges have a legal obligation to respond to sex- and race-based harassment occurring through the anonymous social media app Yik Yak.

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Center for Professional Development hosts alumni-student mixer, roundtable

By Sonia Qin | October 29, 2015

Last Thursday Dartmouth’s Center for Professional Development hosted two alumni-student events — a career conversation and a social. Alumni interviewed for this story expressed satisfaction with the event, though some suggested informing students about the alumni attendants would have improved the overall experience for students.

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Society of Fellows' first class conducts research across disciplines

By Caroline Berens | October 28, 2015

Sometime this week, five people will sit clustered together in the Church of Christ building at 40 College Street at a weekly meeting they jokingly refer to as “Bible study,” because of its location. Religion, however, is not the topic of conversation — instead they will discuss everything from the difficulties of publishing in journals to the Democratic primary debate.

Former undersecretary of state for political affairs Wendy Sherman gave a lecture on Tuesday.
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Wendy Sherman recounts Iran nuclear deal negotiations

By Samantha Stern | October 27, 2015

Former undersecretary of state for political affairs Wendy Sherman said that when she’s at the negotiating table, “I’m the United States of America, not just Wendy Sherman,” at a talk Tuesday about her critical role as the chief American negotiator in the Iran nuclear deal talks.

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center leaves Pioneer ACO

By Estephanie Aquino | October 27, 2015

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has withdrawn from the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model, which requires participating medical centers to emphasize quality of care rather than fee for service care, DHMC director of external relations Rick Adams and DHMC director of value-based reimbursement models Lynn Guillette said.

Director of the food and environment program at the Union of Concerned Scientists Ricardo Salvador talked about responsible agricultural production.
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Ricardo Salvador criticizes farming industry as part of Food Day programming

By Carter Brace | October 26, 2015

The United States Agriculture Department spends 99 percent of its budget on the “junk food diet” — mostly agricultural subsidies that will eventually result in the production of unhealthy food — even as it establishes guidelines for a healthy diet, Ricardo Salvador, director of the food and environment program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said at a talk on food sustainability yesterday.

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Faculty respond to end of Geisel 2020 plan

By Emilia Baldwin | October 25, 2015

Geisel faculty and experts responded to the Geisel School of Medicine’s decision to drop the Geisel 2020 Strategic Plan for Excellence — aimed at improving Geisel’s rankings — with mixed opinions about how the change would affect Geisel’s admissions.

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