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Professor creates phone app for safer driving habits

By Hannah Wang | October 4, 2012

Emerging from a senior thesis project by Thomas Bao '12, CarSafe, an Android application that promotes driver safety, has since grown into a collaborative international project that represents the first application to use a smartphone's dual camera data to analyze a person's driving habits, according to computer science professor Andrew Campbell, faculty advisor to the department's Smartphone Sensing Group. The application analyzes drivers' physical motions, such as head turning and blinking rates, as well as the safety of their driving, monitoring their following distance and lane changing, Campbell said. "The goal of this project is to detect dangerous driving conditions using dual camera phones," Bing You, a visiting researcher from Taiwan's Academia Sinica, said.

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College switches insurance plans

By Amelia Rosch | October 4, 2012

On Jan. 1, the College will formally switch its employee health insurance provider from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to CIGNA after the College Benefits Council voted unanimously to make the change earlier this year.

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Administration developing student health program

By Lindsay Ellis | October 4, 2012

A comprehensive wellness program that aims to leverage existing campus resources for students will likely be in place by the end of this academic year, Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson said. The College is currently seeking to hire a wellness director by Winter term to lead the program, which is tentatively called Wellness First and will encompass physical and psychological wellness as well as civic engagement, according to Johnson.

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Lohse book proposal leaks online

By Zack Doherty | October 3, 2012

Three months following the announcement of a book deal with St. Martin's Press, a 69-page PDF file of a book proposal purportedly by Andrew Lohse '12 has been leaked on the Internet.

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Interest in SAE reaches recent high

By Heather Szilagyi | October 3, 2012

Despite being embroiled in a national hazing scandal in January, Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity saw 33 "shake-outs" or men indicating a binding preference for a particular house during this fall's rush weekend, marking its highest number in three years, according to SAE rush chair Alex Olesen '14.

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Daily Debriefing

By Alec Tarantino | October 3, 2012

Harvard announced on Wednesday the introduction of its fourth sorority, Alpha Phi, for which recruitment will begin next spring, The Harvard Crimson reported.

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Bystander intervention to launch in November

By Taylor Malmsheimer | October 3, 2012

In November, the College will implement the Dartmouth Bystander Intervention program, a Dartmouth-specific program designed to combat sexual assault and hazing on campus, according to Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson. DBI, developed by clinical psychologist Jennifer Sayre '93, will begin by focusing on preventing sexual assault and will involve training sessions to teach volunteers bystander intervention techniques that they would feel comfortable using in any situation, Johnson said. "What Jennifer Sayre and her team are doing is they're putting together a training program to say, Here are some of the warning signals, here are some of the circumstances that are ripe for sexual assault and here are skills that you can learn to intervene and prevent a possible sexual assault,'" Johnson said. Sayre and Johnson eventually hope to expand DBI to address hazing, they said. "The umbrella is designed to help all members of the community figure out what impact they want to have on the community," Sayre said. Bystander intervention programs addressing alcohol use and sexual assault exist around the country, but there is little research available on their application to hazing, Johnson said. "I'm pretty sure we'd be charting new territory," Johnson said. Sayre said that the program focuses on making intervention realistic for participants. "It's about finding solutions that honor your barriers," Sayre said.

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IGERT PhD program sees last class

By Lily Fagin | October 2, 2012

The Polar Environmental Change Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship at Dartmouth welcomed its last cohort of fellows, who will study polar changes and their implications, this fall.

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Daily Debriefing

By Laura Weiss | October 2, 2012

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's oldest son, Tagg Romney, spoke to a group of students in the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday afternoon.

Members of the Class of 2015 will become the first students to declare their majors electronically thanks to a new technology initiative by the Registrar.
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Registrar pursues online projects

By Sasha Dudding | October 2, 2012

Cecelia Shao / The Dartmouth New technological initiatives from the Office of the Registrar will facilitate online learning for students and professors and eliminate long lines and thousands of pages of paperwork over the course of the year, according to College Registrar Meredith Braz.

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Electronic med. billing may inflate payments

By Ashley Ulrich | October 2, 2012

Although former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama have granted tens of billions of dollars in federal subsidies to hospitals that implement electronic medical records to increase hospital efficiency and patient safety, these records may be contributing to increased billings, according to Medicare data analyzed by The New York Times.

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2011 sees sharp drop in liquor, drug arrests

By Laura Bryn Sisson | October 1, 2012

Sexual assaults reported to the College and student arrests for liquor and drug violations declined between the 2010 and 2011 calendar years, according to a report released by Safety and Security on Monday in accordance with the Clery Act.

Jim Yong Kim, Princeton's Shirley Tilghman and Yale's Richard Levin will all have departed by the end of this year.
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Ivy presidential searches may affect College

By Stephanie McFeeters | October 1, 2012

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff With Yale University President Richard Levin and Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman stepping down at the end of the academic year, three Ivy League schools are currently seeking new college presidents.

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