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Rideshare aims to reduce traffic

By Sara McGahan | February 18, 2015

As the Route 120 corridor progressively becomes a popular travel path and hub of business development, the amount of rush hour traffic along the road continues to increase. A proposed solution to the traffic problem involves a program has been around for more than two decades — Upper Valley Rideshare.

The new group EmpowHer aims to provide community to women faculty and staff of color.
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EmpowHer supports female faculty and staff of color

By Erica Buonanno | February 17, 2015

In the midst of an administrative push from College President Phil Hanlon to increase faculty diversity and retention, a new group for women faculty and staff of color called EmpowHer is aiming to create a community to support its members, both personally and professionally.

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EPA recognizes Hanover Water Reclamation Facility

By Kelsey Flower | February 17, 2015

The Environmental Protection Agency recognized the Hanover Water Reclamation Facility for a 2014 Regional Industrial Pretreatment Program Excellence Award, the EPA reported on Feb. 9. This follows what Town Manager Julia Griffin said is a recent increase in awareness in the Hanover community about the impact of climate change and a renewed effort to reduce the town’s carbon footprint.

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Denise McWilliams gives Stonewall Lecture on AIDS

By Emilia Baldwin | February 17, 2015

“Jeez, AIDS was complicated,” former director of the Boston AIDS consortium and executive director of the New England Innocence Project Denise McWilliams said during her lecture “Fears, Fallacies and Failures” yesterday in the Rockefeller Center.

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United Way fundraising period closes

By Katie Rafter | February 16, 2015

Fundraising for this year’s Dartmouth United Way campaign ended on Saturday, Feb. 14 without reaching the goal of raising $320,000, Dartmouth United Way campaign co-chair Gail Gentes said.

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DHMC receives A+ financial rating

By Erin Lee | February 16, 2015

For the second year in a row, Fitch Ratings, a New York-based financial ratings agency, has awarded the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Obligated Group’s revenue bonds an A+ rating. The rating, which was issued earlier this month, is based on the approximately $69 million revenue bond series 2009 and $75 million revenue bond series 2010, according to the Fitch report.

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Town adds electric car charging stations

By Sara McGahan | February 15, 2015

The Town of Hanover installed two ChargePoint electric car charging stations in the Hanover parking garage on 7 Lebanon St. this past month in an effort to make the town more environmentally conscious, Hanover parking division supervisor Patrick O’Neill said.

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Proposed state legislation would raise College’s taxes

By Kelsey Flower | February 15, 2015

On Feb. 6, New Hampshire House of Representatives Rep. David Hess, R-Merrimack, proposed new legislation that would expand the state’s Business Enterprise Tax to include large charity organizations, such as hospitals and institutions of higher education including Dartmouth, and lower the tax rate.

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College will hire new sexual assault counselor

By Annie Ma | February 12, 2015

A new sexual assault counselor will join the College’s Counseling and Human Development clinical staff to be used as a “confidential” resource. Interested candidates will be screened and interviewed by a search committee, which will include both faculty and student input from diverse parts of campus.

The number of applications for FSPs, LSAs and exchange programs has increased from last year.
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FSP application numbers rise

By Steffen Eriksen | February 12, 2015

While off-campus programs cancelled certain programs recently — including a German language study program in Berlin and an Arabic language study abroad in Tangier, Morocco — due to a lack of committed interest, the College has also developed new programs for the upcoming year to meet student interest. These programs included a film foreign study program in Los Angeles that began in winter 2014 and an exchange term in Cuba that will start next fall.

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Experts speak at panel about Ebola

By Allison Liegner | February 12, 2015

The Dickey Center hosted an informational panel yesterday evening titled “Ebola in West Africa: Lessons from a Global Health Crisis,” featuring health workers involved in the Ebola crisis in West Africa. The panel, held in Filene Auditorium, highlighted the work being done by health officials to combat the disease, Dickey’s Global Health Initiative program manager Jessica Friedman said.

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Vice provost aims for faculty diversity

By Noah Goldstein | February 11, 2015

Vice provost for academic initiatives Denise Anthony, who assumed the position last October, has been entrusted to help retain and recruit a diverse faculty at the College. Anthony’s new position was publicized during College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” speech late last month, in which he also said the College has committed $1 million per year to further this diversity initiative.

While many students purchase textbooks at Wheelock Books, others look to online retailers or student textbook exchanges.
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Registrar posts textbook prices in compliance with law

By Kelsey Flower | February 11, 2015

Following a Columbia Spectator article on the University’s seeming failure to comply with the Higher Education Opportunities Act to provide information on textbook prices during course registration, Dartmouth confirmed it does follow this stipulation, College Registrar Meredith Braz wrote in an email.

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Panhell, IFC and GLC elected new board members

By Parker Richards | February 10, 2015

The Panhellenic Council, Inter-Fraternity Council and Greek Leadership Council held elections for their respective executive boards for the spring and fall 2015 and winter 2016 terms. Panhell and IFC held their elections on Monday, Feb. 9 while the GLC held its elections on Feb. 2.

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Hassen ’17 testified on behalf of undocumented student bill

By Lauren Budd | February 10, 2015

Seated before some of New Hampshire’s most senior legislators last week, Halimo Hassen ’17 drew on her personal experience in testifying on behalf of New Hampshire House Bill 675-FN,which aims to extend eligibility for in-state tuition rates to undocumented students in the university and community college systems of New Hampshire.

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