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Daily Debriefing
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Brendan Woods and Ryan Kim
| November 3, 2009
Student Assembly passed legislation to fund advertisements promoting its online research guide during Tuesday's General Assembly meeting.
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Early apps. increase by 3 percent
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Katie Gonzalez
| November 3, 2009
STEPHANIE HAN / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth received more than 1,600 early decision applications for the Class of 2014 a record high and 3 percent more than it received last year, according to Dean of Admissions Maria Laskaris.
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Expert highlights health disparities
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JOY CHEN
| November 3, 2009
KEVIN XIAO / The Dartmouth The United States must take steps to address health care disparities between white and minority groups, Chidi Achebe DMS '96, the president and CEO of the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center in Boston, said in a lecture in Chilcott Auditorium on Tuesday. While minority groups have made significant progress since the civil rights movement in the 1960s, many members of these groups still do not receive the same level of health care as non-Hispanic white Americans, Achebe said. Black males die more frequently of diseases that do not comparably affect the white population, Achebe said. "We are looking at third world pathologies that shouldn't have made their way to the first world countries," Achebe said. Achebe said that approximately 49 out of every 100,000 black men die of prostate cancer annually.
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‘Spin' inadequate for businesses, prof says
November 3, 2009
In the wake of the recent financial crisis, business leaders should work to better integrate public communications into their overall strategy, according to a study by Tuck School of Business professor Paul Argenti and Doremus, a New York-based communications agency.
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Police Blotter
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Conrad Scoville, The Dartmouth Staff, Courtesy of
| November 3, 2009
Oct. 26, 2:11 p.m.Etna RoadA woman babysitting her grandchild reported to Hanover Police that she had received several suspicious phone calls.
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Minority Greek orgs. attract fewer members
November 3, 2009
Less than 1 percent of the Dartmouth student body 30 students participates in minority Greek organizations, according to a report compiled by the Office of Residential Life.
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Number of ED applications up 3 percent
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Katie Gonzalez
| November 3, 2009
Over 1,600 students submitted early decision applications for the Dartmouth Class of 2014 a record high and a 3-percent increase over the number submitted last year, the College announced in a statement late Tuesday.The number of applications increased by about 13 percent for the Class of 2013. The College will accept approximately one-third of the incoming class about 400 students through the early decision program. Dartmouth also received a record number of early decision applications from international students, a trend Dean of Admissions Maria Laskaris attributed in the press release to the appointment of College President Jim Yong Kim.
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Prof. urges the union of two health care models
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Lindsay Brewer
| November 2, 2009
Dartmouth Medical School professor Elliott Fisher advocated that Congress integrate two models of health care delivery reform that are generally discussed separately in an article published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. "[The report] will be used to educate policymakers and providers about the need for both reforms," Fisher said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Fisher, the director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice's Center for Health Policy Research, co-authored the paper with Stephen Shortell, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and Diane Rittenhouse, a professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. The article, "Primary Care and Accountable Care Two Essential Elements of Delivery-System Reform," discusses how patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations, two models of health care reform that are generally considered individually, are actually complementary to each other. "The paper was written because some members of the policy community and many members of Congress saw them as competing reforms, and so we were motivated a group of us who were involved in the development of each idea to come together and explore what we believed to be true: that they were complementary reforms," Fisher said. The patient-centered medical home model involves establishing a partnership among practitioners, patients and their families and places a greater emphasis on primary care, according to the article.
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Number of influenza cases has stabilized
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Christy O'Keefe
| November 2, 2009
CURIE KIM / The Dartmouth The number of Dartmouth students with influenza-like illness has stabilized over the past three weeks, according to College Health Services director John Turco.
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Daily Debriefing
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Ann Baum
| November 2, 2009
As the proportion of female applicants to selective colleges increases, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is investigating whether undergraduate admissions processes discriminate against women to ensure an even gender distribution in their student bodies, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
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Avner '80 rises to alumni leadership
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Greg Berger
| November 2, 2009
Watching the freshmen run around the bonfire at Dartmouth Night this year, Janine Avner '80, now four months into her tenure as Alumni Council president, said she was reminded of her own experiences in 1976 as a new student at the College a period that she describes as "a different time at Dartmouth," given the relatively small number of women and minority students. "It was a different time at Dartmouth when I was there, but by and large it was just the absolute best experience for me," Avner said.
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OAC student board to review minor cases
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Emma Fidel
| November 1, 2009
An Organizational Adjudication Committee student board will be formed by Winter term to hear allegations of minor misconduct involving student organizations, acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears said in an interview with The Dartmouth on Friday.
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Alumni reflect on LGBT history
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Lauren Vespoli
| November 1, 2009
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff In what event organizers said was an effort to show alumni that support for the LGBT community at the College has increased in the past 25 years, the Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alumni/ae Association held its 25th anniversary all-class reunion this past weekend. The reunion included lectures and panel discussions, as well as social events, including an awards dinner on Saturday night. "Looking back and celebrating 25 years is a great opportunity for older alums to see Dartmouth as open and welcoming and warm from the administration and students," Kamil Walji '03, a member of the DGALA board of directors, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
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Speaker stresses role of electronic health info.
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Hannah Kuhar
| November 1, 2009
Medical information technology is essential to improving the efficiency of the health care system, according to C.
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Daily Debriefing
By
Michelle Lee
| November 1, 2009
Princeton University will lay off 43 employees by the end of this fiscal year as the result of a nearly 23-percent endowment loss, The Daily Princetonian reported on Friday.
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College to form new adjudication board for student orgs.
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Emma Fidel
| October 30, 2009
An Organizational Adjudication Committee student board will be formed by Winter term to hear allegations of minor misconduct involving student organizations, acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears said in an interview with The Dartmouth on Friday. Spears' announcement comes after a series of controversial OAC decisions last winter that resulted in lengthy probations for several Greek organizations. The student board will consist of 50 students.
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Bio. dept. seeks grant to add lab to intro. classes
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Tatiana Cooke
| October 29, 2009
Students taking introductory biology classes may soon have the opportunity to sequence their own DNA, pending approval of a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to fund an experimental laboratory option for Biology 2 and 11. "This would give students a chance to compare real life experiences to their own genetics," biology professor Lee Witters, who is also a professor at Dartmouth Medical School, said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Dartmouth is presently in the third year of a four-year grant of $1.5 million from HHMI that is intended to enrich undergraduate science teaching.