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College has highest student-athlete graduation rate in NCAA Division I

By Rachel Favors | November 11, 2015

In the NCAA’s recently released data from its annual student-athlete graduation rate survey, the College, along with Samford University, led Division I institutions with Graduation Success Rates of 99 percent for student-athletes who enrolled in 2008. This rate is 13 percent above the GSR for all of Division I athletics.

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Student Wellness Center launch sees high turnout

By Caroline Berens | November 11, 2015

On Wednesday afternoon, students and administrators ambled around on the third floor of Robinson Hall, chatting with one another while snacking on chocolate trail mix, fresh fruit and crackers with hummus. In another room, students sat at a table using watercolors to paint pages from a drawing book. In adjacent rooms, people got massages and practiced meditation.

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Christian alumni group buys Wheelock House to create student housing

By Daniel Kim | November 11, 2015

Wheelock House, which is located at 4 Wheelock Street, has housed several small businesses over the years, including Robert’s Flowers, a rare book dealership and psychologist’s office. The purchase and sales agreement for the building was made in September, and Christian academic group the Eleazar Wheelock Society will purchase the property.

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Kapuscinski named chair of the Union of Concerned Scientists

By Carter Brace | November 11, 2015

Environmental studies professor Anne Kapuscinski has spent her career breaking glass ceilings. She was the first female Ph.D. candidate her doctoral advisor had ever had and the first female professor in the University of Minnesota’s fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology department, which had only seen two women receive master’s degrees in its entire 40-year existence.

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"Moving Dartmouth Forward" external review panel finds most initiatives are on track

By Anna Staropoli | November 9, 2015

Following the release of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” external review panel’s first report, panel members spoke highly of the College’s recent policy changes and voiced their support for the new policies. All policy initiatives were deemed “goal met,” “continuing” or “ongoing,” with one exception — the creation of an online consent manual is “behind schedule.”

Republican presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) spoke to a crowd on Friday.
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Chris Christie gives town hall talk in Salt Hill Pub

By Parker Richards | November 8, 2015

While some presidential candidates who have swung by the Upper Valley speak to large halls, Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) talked in the packed Salt Hill Pub Friday afternoon as staff served food and drinks around him and some patrons of the bar continued to watch a game on television.

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Protest displays stolen pong table with Indian head, is not affiliated with NAD

By Parker Richards | November 5, 2015

In the early hours of Thursday morning, a large piece of plywood with the Dartmouth Indian head painted on it and a sign that read “WE stand with NAD. We say ENOUGH” were placed on the steps of Dartmouth Hall. The piece of plywood — a pong table — also included the words “Boom Boom Lodge,” a slang phrase used to refer to Theta Delta Chi fraternity and its physical building.

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CoFIRED will host immigration reform conference

By Briana Tang | November 5, 2015

United by a common interest in discussing and developing immigration reform, students from 20 different institutions representing all corners of the United States will arrive at Dartmouth today for the sixth annual Collegial Alliance for Immigration Reform Conference. The conference, organized by the non-partisan Coalition for Immigration Reform, Equality and DREAMers, will run from Nov. 6 to Nov. 8 and has a varied schedule of events, including lectures, workshops, presentations and discussions.

Senator Lindsey Graham spoke about his views on foreign policy, immigration and the economy at the Hopkins Center.
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Senator Lindsey Graham talks presidential policy goals

By Samantha Stern | November 4, 2015

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) joked, “This is the only way I could get into an Ivy League School — by running for president,” at a town hall meeting Wednesday afternoon. Graham is the second presidential candidate to be featured in “America’s Economic Future,” a lecture series co-sponsored by the Tuck School of Business and the Rockefeller Center.

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