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Hanover Police officers are currently searching for two males who vandalized the "Pig and Wolf" statues situated outside of the Hanover Town Hall, according to a Hanover Police press release.

Hanover, students host AT hikers each summer

Priya Krishna / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth's summer months are marked by a dramatic increase in the number of through-hikers men and women from all over the country who have decided to tackle the Appalachian Trail.

Kim works to reduce alcohol harm, assault

Editor's Note: This is part one of a series chronicling College President Jim Yong Kim's first two years at the Dartmouth. Since arriving at Dartmouth two years ago, College President Jim Yong Kim has worked with students to implement initiatives to reduce alcohol harm and sexual assault, including bystander intervention programs and student-run committees.

Big Green Bus travels cross-country

Courtesy of Thebiggreenbus.org After weeks of touring the country to promote sustainability and environmental awareness since June 19, Dartmouth's Big Green Bus has reached the West, where it recently ventured to Arizona's Grand Canyon and Las Vegas, according to participant Hannah Iaccarino '12. The Big Green Bus arrived in Las Vegas on Wednesday, which Iaccarino said was a "great time," but also a surprising experience. "You think of these casinos as not the most sustainable environments," she said.

Health group releases series of case studies

Harvard Business Publishing and the Global Health Delivery Project a collaboration between Harvard Business School, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital released 21 case studies assessing the standards of health care delivery in under-resourced communities from 13 countries on Thursday.

DMS team publishes SIDS research

Using research on mice with temporarily deactivated serotonin neurons, a team of researchers at Dartmouth Medical School, Harvard Medical School and the University of Iowa hope to develop tests and treatments for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, according to DMS physiology professor Eugene Nattie. The group's study, "Impaired Respiratory and Body Temperature Control Upon Acute Serotonergic Neuron Inhibition," was published in the latest issue of "Science" magazine on July 29.

College issues citations to late-night swimmers

Emily Fletcher / The Dartmouth Staff Although the opening of the new swim dock in June has provided students with an escape from the summer heat during the day, students caught swimming off of College property after hours run the risk of facing disciplinary action by the College. Approximately a dozen students have been caught swimming in the Connecticut River after hours and served with judicial action by the College so far this summer, according to College Proctor Safety and Security Director Harry Kinne. Even before the new swim docks were constructed, Safety and Security monitored the river front for several years, keeping an eye out for people swimming after dark, which Dartmouth prohibits due to safety concerns, according to Kinne. After 7 p.m., there is no longer a lifeguard on duty and students are prohibited from accessing the river from College property. One male member of the Class of 2013 who wished to remain anonymous due to an ongoing Committee on Standards proceeding was caught swimming after hours approximately two weeks ago and later faced a judicial affairs proceeding.

10 profs. receive College awards

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The Tuck School of Business was the only U.S. News and World Report-rated top 10 business school not to place among the 10 business schools with the most applications prior to the 2010-2011 academic year, U.S.

Garrod to direct theater production in Mostar

In the heavily segregated city of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Dartmouth education professor Andrew Garrod, who retired from the College in 2008, is challenging the country's ethnic tensions this summer by directing a theatrical production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Garrod is the founder and director of the Dartmouth Volunteer Teaching Program, which sends recent Dartmouth graduates to the Marshall Islands for a year to teach adolescents and undergraduates over Winter term, Andrew Rayner '10 said in an email to the Dartmouth. Rayner, who volunteered this past year in the Marshall Islands, is currently in Mostar for the summer. "We are using theater to bring together youth from the different ethnic groups in Mostar, which is a city that is still very distinctly segregated between the Bosniaks [Muslims] and Croats [Croatians] and Christians, using something as timeless as Shakespeare to bring these kids together and explore the themes of vengeance and forgiveness," Rayner said. Garrod and David Yorio GR'04 co-founded the international non-profit organization Youth Bridge Global, which facilitates youth theater productions in domestic and international developing companies, according to its website.

Klein urges public school reform

Former New York City public schools chancellor and current News Corporation executive vice president Joel Klein described the "crisis" facing the American school system in an increasingly globalized economy and explained how competition and innovation can improve the quality of schools in a lecture in Moore Theater on Thursday.

Students' parents flock to campus

Sophomore Family Weekend an eagerly awaited event that begins today will give students the opportunity to reintroduce their parents to Dartmouth and share with them a part of their college experience. The weekend is the second official Dartmouth-sponsored event in which students' parents are invited to campus to take part in pre-planned events.

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Ten hospitals sued the state of New Hampshire for providing insufficient payment for the treatment of Medicaid patients in U.S.

Peterson researches turtle evolution

New genetic research has potentially cracked the long unsolved mystery of the turtle's evolutionary origins by determining that turtles and lizards have a close common ancestor, according to biology professor Kevin Peterson. Peterson, who coauthored the study published in the July 2011 issue of Biology Letters, said he and his colleagues used a new methodology that involved analysis of microRNAs short regulatory genetic molecules found in cells that develop over millions of years of evolution instead of fossil evidence, as previous researchers have done. "My interest is trying to address difficult phylogenetic problems and that would include turtles," Peterson said.

Greek community seeks to address sustainability

Two interns in the Office of Sustainability Jack Boger '13 and Benji Kessler '13 are working closely with summer Greek organization sustainability chairs to initiate a new Greek council on sustainability.

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Liberal arts institutions are increasingly turning to Myanmar to recruit students, Inside Higher Ed reported.