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Geithner '83 takes heat from House committee
January 27, 2010
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner '83 defended the controversial bailout of insurance company American International Group at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Wednesday, contending that the bailout was necessary to prevent a second Great Depression. Several analysts, however, argued that Geithner's ties to the AIG bailout could damage his credibility as Treasury secretary, Reuters reported.
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Daily Debriefing
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Jamila Ma
| January 27, 2010
The first Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center team to respond to the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti returned to New Hampshire late Monday night, the Associated Press reported.
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Daily Debriefing
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Greg Berger
| January 26, 2010
Yale lab technician Raymond Clark III pled not guilty to the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le in a hearing at the New Haven Superior Court on Tuesday, the Yale Daily News reported.
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SA debates inquiry of staff input on budget
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Ryan Kim
| January 26, 2010
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.
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New meters will track campus energy usage
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Angie Yang
| January 26, 2010
New energy meters will be monitor energy usage in 250 buildings across campus by summer 2010 as part of the College's Campus Energy and Sustainability Management System, according to Stephen Shadford, an energy engineer with Facilities Operation and Management.
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Greek orgs. gauge student interest
January 26, 2010
Two historically Jewish Greek organizations recently contacted students via Facebook and e-mail to gauge interest in founding chapters at Dartmouth, according to several students contacted by the organizations over the past week.
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DHMC officials lobby Washington
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Lindsay Brewer
| January 26, 2010
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.
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In Winter rush, fewer fraternities offer bids
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Tatiana Cooke
| January 26, 2010
Correction Appended Fraternities accepted 14 men during men's Winter rush, according to Interfraternity Council Rush Chair Michael Adelman '10, a significant decrease from the 27 students who sank bids last winter.
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Daily Debriefing
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Tatiana Cooke
| January 25, 2010
Trustees and professors have little understanding of one another's roles in university governance, according to a survey released Friday by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
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Zete receives bulk of Winter rush class
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Tatiana Cooke
| January 25, 2010
Fraternities accepted 26 men during men's Winter rush, with a significant proportion joining the growing Zeta Psi fraternity.
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Faculty protest layoffs in letter
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Tatiana Cooke
| January 25, 2010
Correction Appended A group of 75 faculty members submitted an open letter to College President Jim Yong Kim, the Board of Trustees and the Upper Valley Community on Friday proposing cost-saving alternatives to laying off College employees.
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McHenry backs community banks
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Robert szypko
| January 25, 2010
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.
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Williams urges risk-taking in writing
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Jamila Ma
| January 25, 2010
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.
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Hooke recounts DOC's storied past
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Laura Bryn Sisson
| January 25, 2010
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.
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Ledyard to rebuild Titcomb Cabin
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Emily Fletcher
| January 24, 2010
The May fire that destroyed Titcomb Cabin on Gilman Island remains under investigation by the Hanover Police Department, according to Captain Michael Hinsley of the Hanover Fire Department.
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Other Ivy universities resort to layoffs, freezes
January 24, 2010
As Dartmouth prepares to compensate for its $100-million deficit over the next two years, its peer institutions' strategies in navigating budget shortfalls offer a sense of scale to measure how new financial policies may affect College programs and services. While Ivy League endowments remain high compared to other universities' Harvard University's remains valued at over $26 billion spending cuts and layoffs have weighed heavily on the Ivy League. Layoffs have been a common solution at other Ivy League institutions, notably Harvard, which laid off 275 of its over 13,000 employees in the last fiscal year, according to the Harvard Crimson.
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Medical teams treat hurt Haitians
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PAULINA KARPIS
| January 24, 2010
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.
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Daily Debriefing
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JOY CHEN
| January 24, 2010
The number of applications to Yale decreased slightly this year, in contrast with the trend of increased applications at other Ivy League schools, according to the Yale Daily News.