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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center officials are urging state legislators to restore a portion of the $10 million the hospital may lose in state Medicaid funding due to budget cuts.
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DHMC lobbies state to restore funds

By Conrad Scoville | June 1, 2009

Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center officials are urging state legislators to restore a portion of the $10 million the hospital may lose in state Medicaid funding due to budget cuts, according to Frank McDougall, DHMC vice president for government relations.

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Looking back at 2008-2009: Two new presidents, College-wide budget cuts and Greek expansion

By Ann Baum | June 1, 2009

In their last year at Dartmouth, members of the Class of 2009 saw the College take on issues ranging from budget cuts and the economic downturn, to alumni governance and Greek expansion, to presidential elections both at the College level and on the national scale. Following President James Wright's February 2008 announcement that he would step down from the position of president in June 2009, a search committee chaired by Trustee Al Mulley '70 was formed that consisted of alumni, faculty, trustees and then-Student Body President Molly Bode '09. In July 2008, the presidential search committee began holding forums on campus and in cities across the country to solicit input from the Dartmouth community.

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Lord, six faculty leaving this year

By Conrad Scoville | June 1, 2009

Six members of the College faculty, as well as associate provost Stuart Lord, will join the Class of 2009 and College President James Wright in leaving Dartmouth at the end of this year. Stuart Lord, associate provost and former dean of the Tucker Foundation, will leave the College to serve as the fifth president of Naropa University in Boulder, Colo.

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Friends remember teammate Lolies '09

June 1, 2009

The Class of 2009 will graduate on Sunday without one of its members: Ben Lolies '09, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in his home state of Georgia while on leave from the College in October 2007. While at Dartmouth, Lolies experienced flare-ups of Crohn's disease, a chronic affliction that causes extreme stomach pain, lack of appetite and general malaise.

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Amid financial crisis, class breaks gift record

June 1, 2009

Despite the ongoing economic crisis, the Class of 2009 turned out in record numbers to donate to the College's Senior Class Gift, achieving a 96 percent participation rate up from last year's record of 92.5-percent participation and the highest rate among Ivy League schools this year, according to Katie Kobylenski, assistant director of the Dartmouth College Fund. The Class of 2009 is the fifth graduating class in a row to break the previous class' record for participation, according to a College press release. This year's senior class gift totals $105,161, which includes donations from not only students, but also parents, friends and alumni, Kobylenski said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth.

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College awards honorary degrees

By Tatiana Cooke | June 1, 2009

The seven honorary degrees recipients at this year's Commencement ceremony will include a cartoonist, a retired Army General, a world-renowned doctor, an ecologist, a former professional basketball player and a microfinance expert. Roz Chast, a cartoonist known for her work in The New Yorker magazine, served as a Montgomery Fellow at the College during Fall term 2009 and will receive a Doctor of Arts degree. "I always loved making myself laugh and making other people laugh," Chast said in an interview with The Dartmouth earlier this year.

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Chemistry prof. dies of brain cancer

By Ann Baum | June 1, 2009

Paul Veale, a former senior lecturer in the chemistry department, died of complications from brain cancer on Thursday, according to chemistry senior lecturer Siobhan Milde. Veale, who taught organic chemistry, was described by Milde as "a big man with a very big heart." "He really cared about his students and wanted to see them succeed," she said. Veale was diagnosed with brain cancer in September after he spent the Summer term teaching, according to Milde.

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Some Big Green athletes gained national spotlight

By Manisha Apte | June 1, 2009

From the frigid racing tracks of Anchorage, Alaska, to a basketball court surrounded by more than 10,000 fans, several Dartmouth teams and individual athletes made appearances on the national stage this year. The Big Green baseball team (27-18, 16-4 Ivy) took the Ivy League Championship this year, following a season marked by the second highest number of wins in the program's history. Despite ending their NCAA tournament run after losing their first two games members of the baseball team said they were pleased with the season's outcome. "It feels tremendous to get this far, it's always been our goal and our first order in training was to be Ivy League Champions," captain Robert Young '10 said.

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Festivals, generals mark past graduations

By Jamila Ma | June 1, 2009

This year's Commencement will be marked by the appearance of bagpipes and the College's first use of a Jumbotron screen during the ceremony, but in 1833 the event had a slightly different feel gamblers, jugglers and auctioneers awaited graduates on the Green following the ceremony. Now in its 238th year, the College's Commencement has featured several such unusual visitors over the years, ranging from a roasted ox, to the Secret Service, to a Civil War general. Only four students all transfer students from Yale University graduated at Dartmouth's first Commencement on August 28th, 1771.

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Editors' Note

Congratulations to the Class of 2009 although it came faster than many of you would have liked, your time at the College is complete. After completing your distributives, dragging yourself to language drill and proving that you know how to swim, the College has deemed you ready to meet the challenges of the real world.

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Daily Debriefing

By Ann Baum | June 1, 2009

Dartmouth anthropology professor Hoyt Alverson, in an open letter to the College's Board of Trustees and the Dartmouth community on Monday, criticized the College's recent decision to issue bonds in order to finance construction and build a reserve fund.

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Graduate schools hold investitures

By HANUL KIM | June 1, 2009

In addition to the more than 1000 members of the College's Class of 2009, students from the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering and Dartmouth Medical School will also participate in their respective graduation ceremonies this weekend.

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