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DHMC to employ Mt. Ascutney CEO

By Emma Fidel | March 26, 2010

Dartmouth-Hitchock Medical Center and Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center announced a joint agreement last week in which DHMC will become the employer of MAHHC's new chief executive officer and DHMC's co-president will become a voting member of MAHHC's Board of Trustees, according to a March 17 press release. The hospitals' administrators believe that the new arrangement will help strengthen the hospitals' relationship and improve health care for patients in the Upper Valley, DHMC's vice president of regional development Deanna Howard and MAHHC's Director of Marketing and Development Carolyn Shapiro-Wall said in interviews with The Dartmouth. "We think it creates a tighter relationship," Howard said.

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Mailings, lawsuit dominate AoA campaigns

By Greg Berger | March 24, 2010

With the election period for the Association of Alumni elections ending in two weeks, the "Unity" slate led by current Association President John Mathias '69 is engaging in e-mail and word-of-mouth campaigning, while the "Dartmouth United" slate is in the process of sending a postcard mailing to thousands of alumni, according to the candidates. Although the "bills" for the mailing have not been paid yet,petition presidential candidate J.

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Hardship Fund to take public donations

By Madeline Sims | March 24, 2010

The Office of Human Resources has opened the Financial Hardship Fund a fund created to provide financial assistance to current and former College employees affected by recent budget cuts to donations from the public, the department announced in an e-mail sent March 17. College workers who were affected by layoffs or reductions in hours since Jan.

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'Fair Dartmouth' web site criticizes Replogle

By Greg Berger | March 22, 2010

Midway through the voting period for alumni-elected seats on the College's Board of Trustees, a web site criticizing Alumni Council-nominated candidate John Replogle '88 has been created, while Replogle has also sent his first mailing to alumni.

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Alumni group prepares appeal in parity lawsuit

By Greg Berger | March 16, 2010

A group of alumni led by B.V. Brooks '47 is planning to file an appeal with the New Hampshire Supreme Court that seeks to reverse the January dismissal of the group's lawsuit against the College Board of Trustees by the Grafton County Superior Court, according to the group's lawyer, Eugene Van Loan. The plaintiffs in the previous case -- including Brooks, John Steel'54, Kenneth Clark, Jr.

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Political Activist Haddock dies at 100

By Kate Farley | March 10, 2010

Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a noted political activist and one-time candidate for a New Hampshire senate seat, died on March 9 in her home due to complications of chronic respiratory illness, according to family friend Maude Salinger.

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Daily Debriefing

By Casey Aylward | March 8, 2010

Stanford University's Faculty Senate decided last week to create a committee to evaluate reinstating the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program on campus, according to a March 4 press release from the University.

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Asch '79 withheld business past

By Greg Berger | March 8, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff While Board of Trustees petition candidate Joe Asch '79 has contended that the professional background of his opponent the Alumni Council-nominated John Replogle '88 would not benefit the Board, Asch has been repeatedly reticent to fully disclose his own professional experience. In previous interviews with The Dartmouth, Asch has stated that he founded a paramedical products firm based in Europe that manufactured and sold internationally medical supplies of Asch's own design, but declined to disclose the name of the company.

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Bill would set up care rate oversight

By Tatiana Cooke | March 8, 2010

The state Senate Commerce, Labor and Consumer Protection Committee approved a bill on Thursday that would create a three-member commission to oversee hospital rates in the state, a move that hospitals including Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have said they oppose.

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With recovery, outlets warm to Geithner '83

By Emma Fidel | March 8, 2010

After spending almost two years questioning, criticizing and even bashing U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner '83 for his controversial handling of the country's economy, many national media outlets are recently having a change of heart. On Monday, The New Yorker and The Atlantic both published features on Geithner casting him and his financial tactics in a largely positive light. "From his time as a mid-ranking Treasury Department official, during the nineties, to his presidency of the [New York Federal Reserve Bank], from 2003 to 2008, he worked on resolving a series of financial crises around the world," John Cassidy wrote in The New Yorker.

Tay Stevenson '10 received his party's endorsement in the Minnesota District 12 state Senate race.
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Stevenson wins party endorsement

By JOY CHEN | March 7, 2010

Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff Tay Stevenson '10, a College Democrat and former student body vice presidential candidate, was nominated by the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party to run for state Senate during the party's endorsement convention on Saturday.

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College practices LGTBQA outreach

By Laura Bryn Sisson | March 7, 2010

Starting with students admitted to the Class of 2013, Dartmouth officials have worked to attract admitted students who indicated interest in the College's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and allied community, Caroline Kerr, the senior assistant director of admissions and the coordinator of LGBTQA outreach efforts, said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The Class of 2013's application supplement was the first to include gender identity and the LGBTQA community in the list of areas of personal interest students can indicate they intend to pursue in college, Kerr said. Pam Misener, the assistant dean of student life in the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, said she composd a welcome e-mail which the admissions office then sent to students who indicated interest in the College's LGTBQA community.

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Daily Debriefing

March 7, 2010

Thirty-eight faculty members of the Dallas campus of the University of North Texas were notified last week that their contracts will not be renewed and they will have to reapply to keep their jobs when the campus becomes the independent University of North Texas at Dallas in September 2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported March 4.

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Study: kindergarten does not help

March 7, 2010

Enrolling students in kindergarten and other early education programs may have little effect on their future success, according to a new study by economics professor Elizabeth Cascio.

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