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Sexual assault bill aims to protect survivors and accused

By Annie Ma | March 3, 2015

A bill aiming to protect the rights of both the survivor and the accused when combating sexual assault on campuses was reintroduced to the Senate last Thursday. The revised bill, titled the Campus Safety and Accountability Act, contains proposals outlining initiatives for campuses to adjudicate sexual assault cases.

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College announces stricter sanctions under new alcohol policy

By Parker Richards | March 2, 2015

The College has clarified and expanded the disciplinary action for violations of the alcohol policies announced by College President Phil Hanlon in late January as part of his “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative. Punishments for hard alcohol violations will include college probation and suspension for first- and second-time offenders, respectively.

Administrators answer student questions surrounding the implementation of “Moving Dartmouth Forward.”
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Admins answer student questions in “MDF” panel

By Timothy Connor | March 2, 2015

Student Assembly, Palaeopitus senior society and the Office of the President hosted a “Moving Dartmouth Forward” town meeting last night in Filene Auditorium, during which a panel composed of College President Phil Hanlon, Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer, Provost Carolyn Dever and Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno answered questions from facilitators and audience members about the plan’s five major initiatives.

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Tuck Executive Education minority programs head appointed

By Emilia Baldwin | March 2, 2015

The Tuck School of Business recently announced the appointment of Fred McKinney as the managing director of its minority business programs. McKinney has worked for the past four years as the president and chief executive officer of the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council, a non-profit organization that dedicates itself to advancing business opportunities for certified Asian, black, Hispanic and Native American businesses.

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Mock Trial team has successful year

By Erin Lee | March 2, 2015

The Dartmouth College Mock Trial Society came away with a seventh place finish at the Buffalo, New York, regional tournament last weekend and received a bid to attend this weekend’s opening round championships at Pennsylvania State University — the first round of the American Mock Trial Association’s national competition — marking the first time in recent years the team has automatically qualified from competition.

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"3 Day Startup" promotes creativity

By Parker Richards | March 2, 2015

A group of young entrepreneurs from the Dartmouth community gathered at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network on Friday evening with a purpose: to share, innovate and their own ideas and, in 72 hours, put those concepts into a distributable form before a panel of judges with experience in entrepreneurship.

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Professor develops board game for social change

By Sara McGahan | March 2, 2015

Monarch — a soon-to-be produced board game created by film and media studies professor Mary Flanagan — transports its players into a pan-cultural fantasy world where sisters, all heirs to the throne, vie to become queen. A strategy game for both gamers and families, Monarch features strong female characters, a feature typically uncharacteristic of board games.

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Organizers prep for Dartmouth’s first hackathon

By Emilia Baldwin | March 2, 2015

Seventy college students, including students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology, have signed up for HackDartmouth — Dartmouth’s first annual hackathon — since registration opened last week, student organizer Colby Ye ’16 said.

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Improve Dartmouth plans to expand program

By Steffen Eriksen | February 26, 2015

With over a year of experience crowdsourcing student ideas, including the now-implemented digitization of timesheets for on-campus employees, the renovation of Novack Cafe and the addition of cell phone charging stations to Baker-Berry Library, Improve Dartmouth recently made changes to its site and plans for program expansion and ways to increase online participation, co-founder Gillian O’Connell ’15 said.

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Tim Rieser ’76 helped shape Cuba policy changes

By Erin Lee | February 26, 2015

Many call native Vermonter, avid cross-country skier, fluent Spanish-speaker and blue-jean aficionado Tim Rieser ’76 one of the most influential behind-the-scenes forces in Washington today. Recently, Rieser helped secure the release of Alan Gross, an American imprisoned in Cuba since 2009 on accusations of espionage.

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Associate dean Randolph will leave for Northwestern

By Lauren Budd | February 25, 2015

Associate dean of arts and humanities and art history professor Adrian Randolph, who Northwestern University announced will be taking over as the next dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences July 1, said highlights of his time at the College include strong relationships with students and a supportive environment for his research.

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Public Voices Fellowship increases professor presence in media

By Erica Buonanno | February 25, 2015

The Dartmouth Public Voices Fellowship, an initiative that partners Dartmouth faculty with OpEd Project journalists to increase the quality of professor’s engagement with major media outlets, has been extended for a third year. The fellowship will offer approximately 20 faculty members participation in seminars run by the OpEd project — a social venture dedicated to increasing the range of voices represented in national media — in addition to year-long coaching and mentorship, according to the project’s application.

Economics professor Nina Pavcnik gave a lecture on international trade in developing economies.
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Pavcnik discusses international trade, labor

By Timothy Connor | February 25, 2015

Growing up in the former Yugoslavia in riverside town on the Italian border — what is now Solkan, Slovenia — economics professor Nina Pavcnik remembers shopping trips across the border to buy jeans and foods that were unavailable due to strict laws imposed by the nation’s trade regime.

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Divest Dartmouth joins multi-school fund

By Kelsey Flower | February 24, 2015

In the beginning of 2015, student-run group Divest Dartmouth joined with divestment groups from 16 other colleges to create the Multi-School Fossil Free Divestment Fund. The fund aims to puts pressure on the universities involved to divest from fossil fuels by collecting tax-deductible donations that will be given to the universities only if they divest their investments in fossil fuels by Dec. 31, 2017, according to the Fund.

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Lindkvist joins N.H. consortium

By Katie Rafter | February 24, 2015

The New Hampshire Violence Against Women Campus Consortium restarted in September 2014, and Dartmouth’s Title IX and Clery Act compliance officer, Heather Lindkvist, recently joined as the College’s consortium coordinator, attending her first meeting last month.

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Self Evident Truths photo project features students

By Noah Goldstein | February 24, 2015

Each of the 74 black and white portraits features the subject facing a camera against a blank backdrop, some donning smiles while others maintain stoic expressions. While subjects of the photos vary in appearance, they all have one thing in common — none of the 74 individuals identify as completely heterosexual.

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Students push for Asian-American studies program

By Annie Ma | February 23, 2015

A student group submitted a faculty cluster hiring proposal calling for the strengthening of existing ethnic studies programs and the reestablishment of a formal Asian-American studies program as a part of College President Phil Hanlon’s faculty cluster initiative.

The Office of Sustainability brought four alumni back to talk about their careers in sustainability.
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Panelists talk private sector sustainability jobs

By Erin Lee | February 23, 2015

The office of sustainability hosted a panel titled “Business and Sustainability” Monday afternoon that featured four alumni working on environmental issues in the private sector. The event was intended to give students a sense of the variety of careers available that are related to social responsibility, director of sustainability Rosi Kerr, who is a member of the Class of 1997, said.

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