Students present global health care initiatives

DHMC settles billing errors suit from 2007

Aki Onda / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will pay $2,227,075 to the states of Vermont and New Hampshire and to various federal health care programs as remediation for "documentation and billing errors" within DHMC's anesthesiology and radiology departments, according to a Tuesday press release from DHMC.

Panel explores nuclear energy risks

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff The nuclear reactor tragedies at Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, as well as the unfolding disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi in Japan, demonstrate that the number of nuclear reactors and reliance on nuclear energy in the United States needs to be scaled back, Kevin Kamps, a specialist at Beyond Nuclear an advocacy group that opposes nuclear energy said in a panel discussion at the Haldeman Center on Tuesday. "In the United States there are 20 reactors that are designed in a similar way to Fukushima, including Vermont Yankee in the area," Kamps said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Kamps highlighted how national governments whether American, Belarusian or Japanese have tried to downplay the dangers of nuclear power in response to nuclear disasters. "In 30 years we can phase out carbon and nuclear power and maximize energy efficiency using renewable resources," Kamps said in an interview.

Prickett discusses upcoming book

Katharine Pujol / The Dartmouth Stephen Prickett's 992-page anthology, "European Romanticism: A Reader," will "change the field" of Romanticism, with works ranging from Norwegian poems to a full act from the opera "Don Carlos." Prickett, an English professor at the University of Glasgow, presented his work which took a team of 18 editors 12 years to complete in a lecture at the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday. The book which features original works of literature in 14 different languages alongside their English translations was inspired by Prickett's desire to "rethink certain academic structures" and to answer a number of questions related to the study of Romanticism, he said. "There is a persistent question of what Romanticism means, and whether there is such a thing as Romanticism," he said.

Sandefur criticizes U.S. regulations

Tina Ma / The Dartmouth The United States government repeatedly oversteps its boundaries and breaches its allotted constitutional powers by issuing arbitrary business regulations, Cato Institute adjunct scholar Timothy Sandefur said in a lecture at the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday. The government's creation of "barriers to entry" including licensing requirements and certificates of necessity threatens Americans' civil liberties by preventing businesses from easily entering the market, he said. Sandefur, the principal attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, gave an example of a "barrier to entry" by describing a current case in which he is representing a St.

Canada stresses value of education

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff It costs $5,000 plus academic expenses to support a child for a year in Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone, a non-profit organization working to break the cycle of poverty through educational and social support programs.

Changes to BlitzMail to occur on schedule

The College has nearly completed its transition from BlitzMail to the Microsoft Office 365 program suite and expects all incoming students to have access to the new system in early May, according to Susan Zaslaw, project manager for the transition from BlitzMail.

Wright discusses perception of war

Programmers meet for ‘hackathon'

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended### Over the course of a 12-hour "hackathon," members of the Hacker Club discussed the creation of their latest, most complicated program Course Picker, an application designed to make course selection easier for students.

Tanner administration focused on policy work

Aki Onda / The Dartmouth Senior Staff During his yearlong tenure following a contentious election cycle, former Student Body President Eric Tanner '11 drastically altered Student Assembly by replacing the previous four committees with seven specialized committees and shifting the Assembly's focus from programming to policy.

College prepares for GOP debate

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff Following the announcement that broadcast journalist Charlie Rose will moderate the Oct.