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Community celebrates life of Blaine Steinberg ’15
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Zac Hardwick
| April 3, 2014
Last night, close to 700 members of the Dartmouth community gathered in Rollins Chapel for a service to honor and celebrate the life of Blaine Steinberg ’15, who died of a heart attack on March 7.
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SPCSA to host symposium on campus sexual assault, policy
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Victoria Nelsen
| April 3, 2014
This afternoon, faculty, alumni and administrators will gather in Collis Common Ground for the third annual Symposium on Sexual Assault. The symposium, hosted by the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, aims to move Dartmouth forward by fostering discussions about sexual violence on campus and asking attendants for their recommendations, SPCSA chair Sophia Pedlow ’15 said.
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Students, groups gather for first global health day
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Kate Bradshaw
| April 3, 2014
At the Dickey Center for International Understanding’s first annual Global Health Day on Thursday, in between attending a networking session and panel discussions, students tossed beanbags in the hopes of earning “health care dollars.” Participants, who were each assigned a character with a specific health description, also lost “health status points” based on simulated events. The session, organized by The Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Clinical Practice initiative ReThink Health, sought to address barriers to health care access.
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Protest continues at Parkhurst
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Sara McGahan
| April 2, 2014
A group of about 75 people gathered in front of Parkhurst Hall Wednesday afternoon to protest College President Phil Hanlon’s March 6 response to the “Freedom Budget,” a student-authored document listing over 70 demands for “transformative justice.”
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UFC rejects Assembly's DBI-promotion plan
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Nancy Wu
| April 2, 2014
In a meeting Monday, the Undergraduate Finance Committee unanimously voted to reject Student Assembly’s resolution that would have provided scholarship funds to the governing councils of Greek organizations based on completion of Dartmouth Bystander Initiative leadership training sessions.
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Geisel, DHMC patient care group gets grant
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Caroline Hansen
| April 2, 2014
The Patient Support Corps, a program matching undergraduates and first and second-year Geisel School of Medicine students with patients at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, recently received a $200,000 Arthur Vining Davis Foundations grant to be paid out over three years.
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Muslim students reflect on college experience in book
By
Miguel Pena
| April 2, 2014
Dartmouth students and alumni contributed 13 of the 14 stories in the compilation, co-edited by education professor emeritus Andrew Garrod.
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Students remain in Parkhurst after overnight sit-in
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The Dartmouth Staff
| April 2, 2014
At noon on Wednesday, about 13 students remained in College President Phil Hanlon's office to express their dissatisfaction with the administration's March 6 reaction to the "Freedom Budget." Six of the students spent the night, as did two others who have since left. Hanlon has not visited his office at any point today, nor have any other senior administrators.
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Students occupy Parkhurst, demand response to 'Freedom Budget'
By
Sean Connolly
| April 1, 2014
Equipped with poster paper, sleeping bags and pizza, a group of about 35 students entered College President Phil Hanlon’s office during his open office hours on Tuesday, stating their dissatisfaction to the administration’s March 6 reaction to the “Freedom Budget,” some then choosing to stay the night.
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Community expresses mixed reaction to sit-in
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Michael Qian and Sera Kwon
| April 1, 2014
Members of the College community expressed mixed opinions about the sit-in staged in College President Phil Hanlon’s office yesterday, with some faculty and students praising the demonstrators’ boldness and others criticizing their methods.
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Donation to fund house for veterans
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Rebecca Asoulin
| April 1, 2014
A New Hampshire veterans advocacy organization plans to purchase a residence for veteran students at Dartmouth, thanks to a $375,000 donation, the organization announced last week. The donor, an unidentified veteran’s family, will contribute the money if the organization, Project VetCare, raises an additional $100,000 to meet the house’s price before its May 31 closing date.
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COSSA recommendations see progress
April 1, 2014
Of the 21 recommendations published last fall by the Committee on Student Safety and Accountability, six have been executed, according to a progress report published on the Dean of the College website last month. Two recommendations are in the process of being implemented, seven are in the planning stages and six are currently under review.
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DHMC receives $10 million for palliative care center
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Erica Buonanno
| April 1, 2014
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center received an anonymous $10 million donation, the largest gift in the hospital’s history, earmarked for a new palliative and hospice care center which is set to open in 2017, DHMC announced on March 20. Providing in-patient attention outside of a hospital atmosphere, the center will care for patients at the end of their lives and those with life-threatening illnesses, who often have complex needs that are difficult or impossible to treat at home.
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Students enter Parkhurst, demand point-by-point response to 'Freedom Budget'
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The Dartmouth Staff
| April 1, 2014
A group of about 35 students have entered College President Phil Hanlon’s office, demanding a point-by-point response to the “Freedom Budget.”
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‘Drop the I-Word’ event highlights students’ stories
By
Michael Qian
| March 31, 2014
CoFIRED’s event, titled “Drop the I-Word,” addressed the use of the word “illegal” to refer to undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. Speaking to an audience of over 50 students and other community members in Collis Common Ground, CoFIRED leaders and supporters said they seek to eliminate the use of the word both at the College and nationwide.
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Greek leaders support Assembly policy
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Victoria Nelsen
| March 31, 2014
Greek organization leaders responded positively to a Student Assembly resolution that will provide dues-assistance funds to the governing council of Greek organizations in which a certain number of members complete Dartmouth Bystander Initiative training, pending undergraduate finance committee approval.
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College releases details on revamped housing
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Sara McGahan
| March 31, 2014
The Class of 2019 will be the first to experience a “neighborhoods” system, which will give upperclassmen housing in the same residential cluster for three years, residential education director Mike Wooten said.
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College launches redesigned Miniversity programming
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Elizabeth Smith
| March 31, 2014
Facing low enrollment and declining interest in teaching courses, the Collis Center for Student Involvement cancelled the majority of its spring Collis Miniversity course offerings. Instead of ending the program outright, however, the Center is launching a redesigned Miniversity, including events under the banner “Not Another Lecture Series.”
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Admissions to visit city alumni clubs
By
Jorge Bonilla
| March 31, 2014
Admissions officers will attend more admitted student receptions in metropolitan areas this spring as well as work to standardize the resources and materials given to smaller Dartmouth clubs for their events, dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said.