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Public policy class to investigate environmental issues

By Jose Burnes Garza | January 8, 2014

Students in a new environmental policy workshop will learn the tools necessary to conduct research on environmental issues while preparing to present their findings to the Vermont and New Hampshire legislatures. The course, launched by the Rockefeller Center and the environmental studies department, will serve as a prerequisite for students hoping to continue their projects in the Policy Research Shop.

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SPCSA grows grant program for students

By Chris Leech and Michael Qian | January 8, 2014

After last year’s successful pilot program, the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault announced an expansion of a grant program that will fund research focused on reducing instances of sexual assault on college campuses. The SPCSA’s Elizabeth A. Hoffman grants will provide each recipient with $750 per term for up to two terms of research.

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Study finds middle-income students shoulder most debt

By Jessica Avitabile | January 8, 2014

A study by sociology professor Jason Houle found that students from middle-income families have higher average levels of student debt than their low- and high-income peers. Students just beyond typical financial aid cutoffs are saddled with a disproportionate amount of student loan debt, Houle said.

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Programs will launch in Jerusalem, Cape Town next year

By Victoria Nelsen | January 7, 2014

This fall, the Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literatures department will introduce an exchange program with Hebrew University of Jerusalem. If approved, students will spend a term studying in Israel, and an equal number of students from Hebrew University will come to the College.

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Dartmouth Atlas study examines regional pediatric health

By Nancy Wu | January 7, 2014

Tens of thousands of children in northern New England do not receive essential lead screening tests, while thousands of others undergo unnecessary CT scans for stomachaches, according to a Dartmouth Atlas report on children’s health care in northern New England. In the study, released on Dec. 11, researchers found striking variations in pediatric medicine across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, suggesting that local hospitals may need to reexamine their health care delivery systems.

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Tom Wolf '71 campaigns to take Pennsylvania governor's seat

By Michelle Li | January 7, 2014

Pennsylvania gubernatorial contender Tom Wolf ’71 is building his campaign on a platform of economic innovation, calling attention to his background outside the political sphere to gain recognition as an unconventional candidate in the packed race. The 65-year-old Democrat from Mount Wolf, Pa., who has never held an elected position, said he hopes to win over voters with his background as both a scholar and multi-millionaire businessman.

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Campus faces blackout

By Sera Kwon and Roshan Dutta | January 6, 2014

A two-hour blackout left students and faculty in the dark on Monday, the first day of winter classes. After trudging through the slush to arrive at class, students were forced to read their syllabi by the light of their cellphones’ flashlights while professors had to improvise without lecture slides.

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College goals may impact provost pick, experts say

By Hannah Hye Min Chung | January 6, 2014

In choosing its next provost, a search that has spanned nearly eight months, the College must decide whether to hire from within its ranks, as it has done historically, or from outside the College — a choice between institutional knowledge and a fresh perspective, experts say.

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Rebecca Holcombe takes office in Vermont

By Jessica Avitabile | January 6, 2014

Former education professor and director of Dartmouth’s teacher education program Rebecca Holcombe took office as Vermont’s Secretary of Education on Jan. 2. Holcombe said one of her main goals is to improve the education opportunities the state provides young people by closing both the achievement gap and the opportunity gap.

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Grants fund seniors' thesis research travels

By Chris Leech | January 6, 2014

During the winter interim period, Ezra Toback ’14 roamed Tokyo and its surroundings, interviewing priests and collecting materials at over 15 sacred sites. Toback’s travels, funded by the College’s office of undergraduate advising and research, formed an integral part of his Asian and Middle Eastern studies thesis, which looks at the ways in which Japanese shrines and temples market themselves to members of various socioeconomic classes.

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College to host IvyQ conference

By Brian Chalif | January 6, 2014

The College will host its first IvyQ conference in the fall, bringing to campus hundreds of participants whose presence organizers hope will improve awareness of and support for the Dartmouth’s LGBTQ community. The conference, open to LGBTQ and allied students, connects students with one another and aims to foster an LGBTQ community larger than those of individual schools.

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Hercules snowstorm hits Hanover

By Michelle Li | January 6, 2014

While winter storm Hercules pummeled the Northeast late last week, students returning to Hanover found their trips extended due to weather-related cancellations and delays. Boston Logan International Airport, a transit hub commonly used by students traveling to Hanover, was one of the airports most severely affected by the storm.

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College admits first '18s via early decision

By Roshan Dutta | January 6, 2014

Dartmouth admitted 469 students to the Class of 2018 through the early decision process, the College announced on Dec. 11. The accepted students, selected from 1,678 early applicants, are expected to comprise 40 percent of the Class of 2018.

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Class explores India over winter break

By Laura Weiss | January 6, 2014

Twelve students got a firsthand look at India’s extremes of wealth and poverty when economics professor Charles Wheelan’s fall public policy course spent the winter interim period traveling throughout the country. The direct experience followed months in the classroom learning about India’s economic reform programs.

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Students in Hanover defy interim tedium

By Michael Qian | January 6, 2014

As the fall term came to a close and students trickled off campus to spend the holidays with family and friends, Sam Modder ’17, a student from Sri Lanka, was left wondering how to spend the frosty six-week break.

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Daily Debriefing

January 6, 2014

Robert Dellinger, a Sunapee resident and former Fortune 500 executive implicated in an Interstate 89 collision that killed a couple in early December, was denied bail on second-degree murder charges at an arraignment on Dec. 27, the Valley News reported.

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College extends application deadline

By The Dartmouth Staff | January 3, 2014

The College extended its regular decision application deadline to Jan. 10 after technical glitches prevented applicants from submitting materials by Jan. 1. The admissions office announced the extension on its website and in a Facebook post on Friday afternoon.

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