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By BRIDGETTE TAYLOR | January 19, 2010

Institutional subsidies for collegiate sports programs continue to grow even as the schools regulate salaries and lay off employees, according to data on sports revenue and expenses collected by USA Today and reported in Inside Higher Ed on Tuesday.

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Asch announces petition trustee candidacy

By Greg Berger | January 19, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Joe Asch '79 intends to enter the race for a position on the Board of Trustees as a petition candidate, provided he successfully collects the necessary 500 signatures by Feb.

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Asch '79 seeks trustee position

By Greg Berger | January 19, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Joe Asch '79 intends to enter the race for a position on the Board of Trustees as a petition candidate, provided he successfully collects the necessary 500 signatures by Feb.

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Court dismisses lawsuit against College

By The Dartmouth Staff | January 19, 2010

The lawsuit brought by several alumni against the College has been dismissed by the Grafton County Superior Court, according to court documents. The court granted the College's motion for summary judgment, submitted in December, arguing that the alumni were barred from suit by the doctrine of res judicata.

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Kim avoids specifics of budget slashes, layoffs

By Emma Fidel | January 18, 2010

College President Jim Yong Kim used the second open budget forum on Friday to defend the College's financial tactics, targeting rumors about the renovation of his on-campus house while acknowledging the members of the Service Employees International Union, who picketed future budget cuts outside the forum. Although the College will soon make major spending cuts and will likely institute layoffs as part of a projected $100-million budget reduction, Kim chose to concentrate instead on the administration's efforts to find and create new sources of revenue for the College during the forum. Kim said that despite impending layoffs, he hoped that Dartmouth employees could eventually be rehired.

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January 18, 2010

Some states like California are implementing large-scale education reforms to compete for federal education funds available from the Obama administration, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

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Kim sees off DHMC Haiti response team

January 15, 2010

College President Jim Yong Kim met Friday with several Dartmouth-based surgeons, physicians and nurses involved in the College's response to the ongoing crisis in Haiti.

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Doctors must embrace patients' backgrounds

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | January 14, 2010

Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff The audience reacted with intermittent bursts of laughter as Danielle Ofri, professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine and internist at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, recounted her experiences with cultural rifts between doctors and patients in her Thursday night lecture "Journeys With Our Patients: Multiculturalism in a Two-Person Canoe." In order to treat their patients more effectively, doctors should work to be more cognizant of the cultural backgrounds of their patients, Ofri said. Ofri began with a reading from her book, "Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients," which told the story of Nazma Uddin, a 35-year-old woman from Bangladesh, who repeatedly visited Ofri's office complaining of countless ailments.

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Kim, students respond to earthquake in Haiti

By Robert szypko | January 14, 2010

Haitian President Rene Preval has said he does not know where he will be sleeping after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck his country Tuesday destroyed the National Palace, his home. Preval is not the only president having trouble sleeping, however. College President Jim Yong Kim, the global health pioneer who has worked in the devastated country, stayed up until 3 a.m.

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By Christy O'Keefe | January 14, 2010

The AFL-CIO, a national organization of labor unions, announced it will create an online college for union members and their families in an effort to help them find jobs and continue their education, The New York Times reported Thursday.

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After fire, Phi Delt starts recovery

By Conrad Scoville | January 14, 2010

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Phi Delta Alpha fraternity has continued to receive donations to help its members cope with the aftermath of the Sunday morning fire that left its physical plant severely damaged and uninhabitable, Phi Delt Vice President Ethan Lubka '10 told The Dartmouth.

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DMS researchers violate animal-use procedures

By JOY CHEN | January 13, 2010

Reports published following two federal inspections at Dartmouth Medical School catalogue over a dozen violations against the Animal Welfare Act, including an incident in which a live hamster was accidentally placed in a freezer, according to an article in the New Hampshire Union Leader.

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