Rally held to 'Take Back the Night'

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff Students, administrators and community members shared concerns about sexual abuse even recounting personal experiences with sexual violence during Friday evening's annual "Take Back the Night." The event, meant to encourage prevention and raise awareness of sexual assault at the College, was held as part of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program's observance of Sexual Assault Awareness month. Anneliese Sendax '13 delivered the evening's solemn keynote speech, in which she challenged observers to reconcile what she sees as the "two Dartmouths" of day and night. "We will be able to build a community in which no voice, no matter how quiet, is silenced," she said. Following the address, a crowd of approximately 70 people, including College President Jim Yong Kim, gathered in front of the Hopkins Center to begin a protest march across the campus, in conjunction with marches held on college and university campuses across the nation. Holding vivid signs with slogans such as "Awareness is Sexy" and "Claim our bodies, Claim our rights, Take a stand," the demonstrators marched past Collis, down Massachusetts Row and along Webster Avenue before circling around Baker-Berry Library and returning to the center of the Green.

Students partake in political debate

Moulton discusses medical choices

Chu addresses renewable energy

Silbergeld presents link between Chinese film, visual arts

Baur discusses meat consumption

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.