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DMS to cut $25 mil., lay off staff members

By Jamila Ma | February 12, 2009

Dartmouth Medical School will layoff an undetermined number of staff members as part of a $25-million budget reduction to be implemented over the next two years, DMS Dean William Green announced in an e-mail to the medical school community on Monday.

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Daily Debriefing

By Elise Quinones | February 11, 2009

Yale University faculty retirement funds have been hit hard by the economic recession, according to the Yale Daily News.

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Scholar says Haiti intervention failed

By Emma Fidel | February 11, 2009

United Nations military interventions in Haiti have failed to provide long-term solutions to the country's political and economic instability, Thomas Urban, a visiting scholar of anthropology at Brown University, said in a Tuesday lecture at the Rockefeller Center.

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Senate slashes funds from the stimulus bill

By Nathan Swire | February 11, 2009

A Senate amendment to the federal economic stimulus package passed Tuesday cut about $59 billion in funding for education and state governments from the version of the bill approved by the House of Representatives.

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Daily Debriefing

By Shaun Akhtar | February 10, 2009

Approximately 50 employees of Harvard Management Co., the group responsible for overseeing Harvard University's endowment, will be laid off over the next few months, according to Reuters.

A proposed change to state law would allow privately owned stores, like Stinson's Village Store, to sell hard liquor.
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State to consider change to liquor law

By Lauren Rosenbaum | February 10, 2009

EMILY van GEMEREN / The Dartmouth New Hampshire legislators are considering a change to state law that would allow privately owned grocery and liquor stores, including Stinson's Village Store and the Co-op Food Store in Hanover, to distribute spirits and distilled liquor. Only state-owned retailers, controlled by the New Hampshire Liquor Commission, have been permitted to sell hard liquor since the end of prohibition in 1933.

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College budget plan results in 60 layoffs

By Turia Lahlou | February 10, 2009

Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Staff Approximately 60 Dartmouth staff members will be laid off in order to help the College reduce its compensation expenditures, the Board of Trustees announced on Monday.

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Daily Debriefing

By Ann Baum | February 9, 2009

The members of the College's Task Force on Sexual and Physical Assault will include Taylor Holt '09, Soo Hyun Roh '10, Alexandra Schindler '10 and Derek Weiss '09, according to an e-mail from special assistant to the Dean of the College Katherine Burke.

Thayer School of Engineering professor Ian Baker discusses his research about impurities in the polar ice caps during his Friday lecture, part of the Thayer School's Jones Seminar Series.
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Prof. discusses ice-cap impurities

By Erin Jaeger | February 9, 2009

SAM RAUCH / The Dartmouth Chemical impurities may explain the recent shift and detachment of many polar ice caps, Thayer School of Engineering professor Ian Baker said Friday in a lecture given as part of the Thayer School's Jones Seminar Series.

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'Our Green' provides online College calendar

By Jen Buchholz | February 9, 2009

"Our Green," a comprehensive online calendar created by students to serve as a hub for student groups and campus organizations, is scheduled to be launched during Winter Carnival weekend, according to the web site's creators. The web site allows group leaders to create web pages and publicize events from one central web location.

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