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Following $5.5 million deficit, Geisel must cut budget

By Erica Buonanno | October 16, 2014

After posting a $5.5 million deficit for the 2014 fiscal year, the Geisel Medical School must make $10 million in budget cuts, including layoffs and restructuring. Students and professors interviewed pointed to a lack of transparency about Geisel’s expenses and said they would like to be part of conversations about implementing cuts.

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Rumors of party curfew are false, Safety and Security says

By Katie Rafter | October 16, 2014

Safety and Security is not imposing a curfew or changing its practices. A rumor circulating Wednesday and Thursday suggested that Safety and Security would shut down parties and require non-members to leave Greek houses by 1 a.m. on weeknights and 2 a.m. on weekends, but College officials have confirmed that this is false.

Cashiers keep an eye on students at Collis late night, where entry is now restricted to one side.
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DDS seeks to halt theft

By Chris Leech | October 15, 2014

Last week, late-night visitors to the Collis Café found the rear entrance to the venue roped off, its glass doors shut — new measures to prevent food theft. Employees catch around 60 students a day attempting to steal food across all Dartmouth Dining Services venues, according to director David Newlove.

The Dodecaphonics performed at Chi Gamma Epsilon Monday night in a GLC-sponsored event.
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More than 60 dry events draw freshmen to Greek organizations

By Jisu Song | October 15, 2014

During the Greek Leadership Council’s six-week freshman ban on Greek events serving alcohol, the GLC sponsored more than 60 events with its $25,000 budget, up from $20,000 last year. In an informal poll of 53 freshmen, 90 percent said they had attended a GLC-sponsored event.

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Firm evaluates locations for third Thayer building

By Parker Richards | October 15, 2014

Construction on a new building at the Thayer Engineering School may begin as early as 2017, vice president for campus planning and facilities Lisa Hogarty said. As part of the expansion process, which is also expected to include increases in faculty and course offerings, Wilson Architects is evaluating space needs and exploring potential designs and locations for a third building.

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Houses to grow permaculture gardens

By Maria Brenes | October 14, 2014

Starting this fall, several Greek houses will work with Sustainability Office intern Malcolm Salovaara ’17 to explore the option of planting permaculture gardens in their houses. The gardens would grow plants and vegetables that only needed to be planted once and could be harvested each year.

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In midnight event, students honor indigenous people

By Timothy Connor | October 13, 2014

“This is Abenaki land,” read a sidewalk message scrawled in chalk. “There are 566 federally recognized tribes in the U.S.,” read another. As government offices around the country closed Monday for Columbus Day, a group of Dartmouth students honored a different holiday — Indigenous People’s Day.

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New Hampshire nabs top spot in OECD ranking

By Erin Lee | October 13, 2014

New Hampshire ranks highest in the nation for quality of the life, according to a report released last week by the Office of Economic Cooperation and Development. The study, “How’s Life in Your Region? Measuring Regional and Local Well-Being for Policy Making,” scored all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with more than 300 other regions across the OECD’s 34 member nations. Regions were evaluated in nine categories: health, safety, housing, access to broadband, civic engagement, education, jobs, environment and income.

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Surveys offer insight into campus climate

By Sasha Dudding and Parker Richards | October 12, 2014

Amid an ongoing Title IX investigation, Dartmouth is one of several colleges preparing to launch campus climate surveys — questionnaires that aim to gauge the incidence and perceptions of sexual violence, from feelings of safety on campus to experience with specific types of assault.

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Student leaders talk sexual assault

By Priya Ramaiah | October 12, 2014

Sixty student leaders of clubs, sports teams and Greek organizations discussed sexual violence on campus in Collis Common Ground on Saturday as part of Student Assembly’s “It’s On Us” campaign. The campaign, a White House initiative to provide federal support for student-led prevention and awareness efforts, required its partner organizations on each campus — in Dartmouth’s case, Student Assembly — to host a roundtable attended by a range of student groups.

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Faculty spending leans Democratic

By Noah Goldstein | October 12, 2014

Midterm elections are looming, and Dartmouth employees and affiliates have donated more than $66,000 to political campaigns in the 2013-14 election cycle. U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster ’78, D-N.H., and the National Republican Senatorial Committee were the largest recipients, each collecting $20,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, an organization dedicated to exposing money’s influence in Congress.

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Grant to support data processing in genetic research

By Erin Lee | October 9, 2014

With a five-year, $1.5 million grant, Geisel School of Medicine professor Casey Greene is introducing deep learning, which involves data-processing techniques used in computer science for image and video processing, into biology and bioinformatics.

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Mills invites 'hard questions' at town hall

By Bryn Morgan | October 9, 2014

In a town hall meeting with around 115 faculty and staff Thursday, executive vice president and chief financial officer Rick Mills called for cross-campus dialogue about the College’s future. The informal, open gathering featured a brief talk by Mills, focused on current shifts in higher education, followed by questions from the audience.

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