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Budget cuts delay construction
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Christy O'Keefe
| February 15, 2010
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff In the face of College President Jim Yong Kim's recently-announced budget cuts, the Office of Residential Life will seek to be more efficient in spending and will likely postpone renovation of certain residence halls, according to Dean of Residential Life Marty Redman.
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Daily Debriefing
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Robert szypko
| February 15, 2010
Hannah Kearney, a 2004 graduate of Hanover High School, won the first United States gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver on Saturday, The Union Leader reported Sunday.
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Kim: PACHA work helps College
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Laura Bryn Sisson
| February 14, 2010
Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff College President Jim Yong Kim's new position on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS will increase Dartmouth's visibility while continuing previous College presidents' tradition of involvement in national affairs, Kim told The Dartmouth Editorial Board in an interview Thursday. Students had previously expressed concern that Kim's appointment to the council, which occurred on Feb.
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Grant yields revenue, outdoor fun for College
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Hannah Kuhar
| February 14, 2010
Editor's note: This is the third part of a weekly series profiling various properties owned by the College outside Hanover. The Second College Grant nearly 27,000 acres of undeveloped land near Erroll, NH and the Maine state line has served both as a source of revenue for the College and as a highly-regarded site for research and recreational activity for Dartmouth alumni, faculty, staff and students over the past 200 years. The Second College Grant was one of two initiatives enacted by the New Hampshire state legislature to grant land to fund the College's development in its early years.
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Daily Debriefing
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Conrad Scoville
| February 14, 2010
A biology professor at the University of Alabama was charged with murder after she allegedly shot and killed three colleagues at a Friday afternoon faculty meeting, The New York Times reported.
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Six students arrested over Winter Carnival
February 14, 2010
Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Correction Appended### Students made nine Good Samaritan calls and six students were arrested by Hanover Police during Winter Carnival weekend, according to interim Director of Safety and Security Keiselim Montas.
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Spears initiates structural changes
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Greg Berger
| February 11, 2010
Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears has begun reorganizing the Dean of the College's Office, in order to create an organization that will have "fewer dean-level positions at the senior leadership level" that is more effective and less expensive, Spears said in an interview on Thursday.
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Redman, Carney plan to leave College posts
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Robert szypko
| February 11, 2010
The College will experience a major change in the oversight of the Greek system, as Dean of Residential Life Marty Redman announced that his position at the College had been eliminated due to budget cuts, in an e-mail obtained by The Dartmouth. Assistant Dean of Residential Life and Director of Greek Letter Organizations and Societies Deborah Carney has also decided to retire, and will leave the College on June 30, according to acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears. Following the elimination of his position, Redman will leave the College, he wrote in the e-mail. Redman declined to comment when contacted by The Dartmouth. In addition to eliminating Redman's position, administrators will create three new positions: associate dean of campus life, associate dean of student support services and director of administration, according to Spears. Spears said that although his current position is being eliminated, Redman could choose to apply for one of the new positions. "[Redman is] not going anywhere immediately, and I think that's important for folks to know," Spears said.
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Skloot: ‘immortal' cells spur research
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Linda Chen
| February 11, 2010
Elizabeth Ericson / The Dartmouth Elizabeth Ericson / The Dartmouth When a poor tobacco farmer named Henrietta Lacks walked into a doctor's office in September 1950, she unknowingly became the first person to achieve "immortality" if only through a few cells from her cervix.
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Robertson '08 dies in train accident
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Casey Aylward
| February 11, 2010
Kathryn Robertson '08 died after being struck by a train at a Rowena railroad crossing in Wasco County, Oregon on Feb.
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Kim urges alcohol abuse prevention
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Jamila Ma
| February 11, 2010
The Hanover Police department's decision Wednesday to delay the implementation of alcohol law compliance checks provides an opportunity for students to reduce excessive drinking on campus, College President Jim Yong Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth Editorial Board on Thursday. The Dartmouth community has the "challenge" of improving campus attitudes towards alcohol in order to ensure that compliance checks are not carried out in the future, Kim said. "I think the Select Board and [Hanover Police] Chief [Nicholas] Giaccone were very wise in taking this approach, but I also think that they're expecting a lot from us," Kim said, referring to the decision to delay implementation. Because the option of implementing alcohol compliance checks has already been seriously pursued, it will be difficult to take that option "off the table" in the future, Kim said. "This was an act of open-mindedness on the part of the Select Board and Chief Giaccone," Kim said.
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Daily Debriefing
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Robert szypko
| February 11, 2010
Yale University cut several components of its benefits packages for managerial and professional staff while adding new short-term disability coverage, the Yale Daily News reported Thursday.
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Redman, Carney to leave the College
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The Dartmouth Staff
| February 11, 2010
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The College will experience a major change in the oversight of the Greek system, as Dean of Residential Life Marty Redman announced that his position at the College had been eliminated due to budget cuts in an e-mail obtained by The Dartmouth.
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Robertson '08 killed in Feb. 7 accident
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The Dartmouth Staff
| February 11, 2010
Kathryn Robertson '08 was found dead at a train crossing in Rowena, Ore., on Feb. 7, The Dalles Chronicle reported Tuesday. Robertson's body was discovered by Wasco County sheriff's deputies at 4:40 p.m.
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UNH sets example for policy change
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Ryan Kim
| February 10, 2010
Correction appended Before the University of New Hampshire's chapter of Zeta Chi Beta fraternity was charged for providing alcohol to underage students in 1993, Greek life at the University of New Hampshire more closely resembled Dartmouth's Greek scene, according to several UNH students contacted by The Dartmouth.
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Layoffs hurt morale, residents say
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Conrad Scoville
| February 10, 2010
Alina Politzer / The Dartmouth Staff Alina Politzer / The Dartmouth Staff The layoffs College President Jim Yong Kim outlined in his budget-cut announcement on Monday will not significantly affect unemployment in the Upper Valley, according to economics professor Patricia Anderson.
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Hanover Police delay implementing policy
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Conrad Scoville
| February 10, 2010
Pending discussions with the College and student groups, Hanover Police will delay the implementation of its alcohol law compliance check policy that Chief Nicholas Giaccone announced last week, Giaccone said in a press release Wednesday. "The Town shares with the College the goal of reducing the risks to student health and safety posed by excessive alcohol consumption," Giaccone wrote in the release.