Student organization strives for accessibility

Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Access By Leadership in Equity a new student organization seeking to raise awareness about students with disabilities has launched efforts to facilitate greater campus dialogue about accessibility in its first weeks in existence, according to co-directors Emily Broas '11 and Rebecca Gotlieb '12. ABLE's goals include providing a peer-to-peer support network for students with disabilities, raising awareness about both visible and invisible disabilities, and improving College accommodations for these students by serving as a voice for the community. "We really want to de-stigmatize the issue," Broas said.

Art dept. temporarily relocates

SA debates inquiry of staff input on budget

Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Members of Student Assembly actively debated whether to pass legislation during Tuesday's General Assembly meeting that would ask the College to explain publicly the lack of representation of Service Employees International Union members on budget committees.

DHMC officials lobby Washington

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff With the election of Senator-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass., placing the future of federal health care legislation in jeopardy, members of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's government affairs office are lobbying the federal government to create a bill that will address the concerns of both Dartmouth and the nation, according to Frank McDougall, vice president of government affairs at DHMC.

McHenry backs community banks

Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Funding the renovation of an abandoned, contaminated torpedo factory may not sound like a typical for-profit business venture, but this is one of many projects supported by ShoreBank, the first for-profit bank in the United States focused on community development and environmental sustainability.

Williams urges risk-taking in writing

Christopher Rhoades / The Dartmouth Staff Christopher Rhoades / The Dartmouth Staff The emotionally harrowing creative process has taught Montgomery Fellow Terry Tempest Williams that "the only book worth writing is one that threatens to kill," she said in front of a packed audience at Cook Auditorium Monday.

Hooke recounts DOC's storied past

Jon Erdman / The Dartmouth Staff Jon Erdman / The Dartmouth Staff When the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge was closed for seven years in the 1960s, a group of "free spirits" broke in and formed a commune in the bunkhouse, Facilities Manager of Outdoor Programs David Hooke '84 said Monday night in Collis Commonground.

Medical teams treat hurt Haitians

Zach Kuster / The Dartmouth Staff Zach Kuster / The Dartmouth Staff Almost two weeks after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, Dartmouth continues to play a major role in the international relief effort. Two medical teams, formed as part of an alliance between Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Partners In Health, are now treating survivors in hospitals in the disaster-stricken country.