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Planets may reach record speeds

By Sam Rauschenfels | April 5, 2012

New research by Dartmouth and Harvard University researchers has found that hypervelocity planets may be flung to the outer reaches of the galaxy by black holes at speeds matched only by subatomic particles.

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Hazing claims unlikely to alter yield, many say

By James Peng | April 5, 2012

While prospective students may have some reservations when accepting Dartmouth admissions offers in the wake of widely-publicized hazing allegations at the College, current undergraduates said they think that the flurry of media attention is unlikely to heavily influence prospective students' decisions.

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Meyer will fill new DHMC position

By Lindsay Ellis | April 4, 2012

Gregg Meyer, senior vice president of the Edward P. Lawrence Center for Quality and Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital, will fill the new position of chief clinical officer and executive vice president for population health for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system, which includes Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's various campuses, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, according to a DHMC press release. Meyer plans to work closely with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Chief Executive Officer and President James Weinstein and to represent the institution nationally in both quality and safety, he said. "[DHMC] is really starting to embark on a powerful, interesting path that will serve the community of the Upper Valley well," Meyer said.

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DMS renamed for Geisel family

April 4, 2012

Richard Yu / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth Medical School has been renamed the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine in honor of Theodor Geisel '25, better known as world-famous children's book author and illustrator Dr. Seuss, and his wife Audrey Geisel, the College announced Wednesday.

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Penn prof. discusses confidentiality

By Heather Szilagyi | April 4, 2012

The future of medical privacy is uncertain, but confidentiality and privacy remain important aspects of the health care system that should be protected, according to University of Pennsylvania law and philosophy professor Anita Allen, the College's current Dorsett Fellow and a member of President Barack Obama's Presidential Bioethics Commission.

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DMS renamed the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine

By The Dartmouth Staff | April 4, 2012

Dartmouth Medical School has been renamed the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in honor of Theodor Geisel '25, better known as children's book author Dr. Seuss, and his wife Audrey Geisel, according to a College press release. The Geisel family's contributions to the College and estate planning place the family as the "most significant philanthropist to Dartmouth in its history," according to the release. "Ted Geisel lived out the Dartmouth ethos of thinking differently and creatively to illuminate the world's challenges and the opportunities for understanding and surmounting them," College President Jim Yong Kim said in the release.

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Technology upgrades mark Giaccone's years as chief

By Ashley Ulrich | April 3, 2012

Amidst the throngs of students, locals and retirees that comprise the breakfast rush on Friday mornings at Lou's, two men occupy the same corner booth every week. "The chief likes breakfast, and so do I," Director of Safety and Security and College Proctor Harry Kinne said. Hanover Police Department Chief Nicholas Giaccone and Kinne meet weekly over breakfast to discuss any ongoing investigations and take turns paying the bill, though they sometimes forget whose turn it is to pick up the tab, Kinne said. In his nine years working with Giaccone, Kinne said the two have established a congenial professional and personal relationship. "The College and police department don't always agree, but we have always been able to work through any disagreement that has arisen in the past," Kinne said. In his 17 years as police chief, Giaccone has overseen a massive influx of new technological equipment to the department's offices and squad cars, and he has increased the professionalism and oversight of the department, according to Captain Frank Moran, who has worked with Giaccone for 24 years. Since joining the department in 1973, Giaccone worked his way up from patrol officer to detective and then to detective sergeant, he said.

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Kuster, Bass prepare for rematch

April 3, 2012

In what have historically been highly contested elections, two Dartmouth alumni and four other experienced politicians constitute the small pool of candidates running for New Hampshire governor and 2nd Congressional District representative the district that includes Hanover in November. The candidates have varied levels of campaign infrastructure and established campaign funds, though it is still early in the campaign season, and other politicians may decide to run in a state in which independents comprise the largest group of voters, according to government professor Linda Fowler. Democrat Ann McLane Kuster '78 is challenging incumbent Charlie Bass '74, R-N.H., in the 2nd Congressional District in a rematch of the 2010 race. "I am running again because now more than ever we need a new approach in Congress, with a focus on creating jobs and bringing people together to solve problems," Kuster said through a campaign spokesperson. No other democratic candidate has announced intentions to challenge Kuster in the primary. In 2010, Bass beat Kuster by roughly 3,000 votes, or 1.5 percent, according to the clerk of the House of Representatives. "Annie Kuster did well against Charlie Bass in a really bad year for Democrats, so I think the two house races are going to provide some juice," Fowler said.

College President Jim Yong Kim met with the Japanese finance minister as part of his worldwide tour to garner support from key World Bank countries.
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Kim praised in Japan, South Korea

By Blaze Joel | April 3, 2012

Courtesy of Treasury.gov College President Jim Yong Kim has reached the halfway point of his worldwide listening tour, which will take him around the world in just under two weeks to meet with leaders of eight countries to discuss his candidacy for World Bank president.

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Daily Debriefing

By Jackie Wei | April 3, 2012

The editor-in-chief of The Daily Free Press, Boston University's independent student newspaper, resigned on Tuesday following the release of the paper's April Fools' Day edition, according to the paper's website.

Anya Gleizer '14 hopes to be the youngest person ever to kayak the circumference of Lake Baikal, the world's largest lake by volume.
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Gleizer aims to set kayaking record

By Claire Groden | April 2, 2012

Courtesy of Populartourism.com While the majority of the Class of 2014 will stay on campus next term for sophomore summer, Anya Gleizer '14 will be kayaking around the outer edges of Siberia's Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume.

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Sherman talks effects of war stress

By ABBIE KOUZMANOFF | April 2, 2012

A soldier's "moral injuries" inflicted in the line of duty can cause paralyzing guilt and shame even after he or she returns home, Georgetown University philosophy professor Nancy Sherman said in a lecture in Thornton Hall on Monday.

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Smith, noted Big Green football star, dies at 59

By Emily Brigstocke | April 2, 2012

Ronald Smith '74, a founding brother of the Theta Zeta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Dartmouth and a member of the Big Green football team that won the Ivy League Championship during all four years he played, died on March 22 after fighting multiple sclerosis and cancer for several years, his brother Donald Smith '74 said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Daily Debriefing

By Leslie Ye | April 2, 2012

Although many student senates at universities in North Carolina have condemned a referendum on the state legislature's ballot to ban gay marriage and civil unions, institutions of higher learning treat LGBT rights in a variety of ways, as they follow differing regulations to the types of benefits they are allowed to offer their employees' domestic partners, Inside Higher Ed reported.

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Class of 2016 includes diverse student body

By Lindsay Ellis | April 1, 2012

Kevin Cheng, of Bethesda, Md., didn't have to tell his parents he was accepted regular decision to Dartmouth. "They heard it definitely when I saw online," Cheng, who is deciding between Dartmouth, Williams College, the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University, said. Cheng was one of 1,715 students who were notified of their acceptance to the College's Class of 2016 on Thursday when Dartmouth released its admissions decisions online. The Admissions Office accepted a total of 2,180 high school seniors in both early and regular decisions and aims to fill a class of between 1,100 and 1,110 students, according to a Thursday press release.

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