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Skiway hosts Special Olympics

January 22, 2008

Cheers of the traditional Special Olympics oath "Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt," inaugurated the sixth annual Upper Valley Special Olympics at the Dartmouth Skiway on Saturday.

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Local ski resorts examine impact

By Emily Goodell | January 22, 2008

While snowmaking creates the elusive fresh powder that many skiers in New England desire, the process has a heavy impact on the local environment due to an increase in the amount of energy used by ski resorts. At Killington Ski Resort, in Killington, Vt., for instance, the amount of energy used by the snowmaking system is greater than the combined energy used in all other resort operations, according to the resort's communication director, Tom Horrocks. But the recent push towards sustainability has reached ski areas all over Vermont and New Hampshire -- including the Dartmouth Skiway -- and many resorts are taking steps to decrease their environmental footprint.

Marian Wright Edelman, the keynote speaker of Dartmouth's MLK celebrations, spoke about King's work to eradicate poverty and help children.
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Edelman praises King's legacy

By Rebecca Cress | January 22, 2008

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff In a keynote address that marks the beginning of the College's week-long celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, said that to honor King's legacy Americans must act as voices for children and the poor.

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Political Debriefing

By Zach Swiss | January 18, 2008

Following the New Hampshire primary, Republican candidates headed to Michigan to campaign for the state's primary on Jan.

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Police Blotter

By Ben Nunnery | January 18, 2008

Jan. 8, 2:25 p.m., Mulherrin Farm Road Hanover police responded to a reported altercation between two canines as they were being walked by their owners.

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Google employees place bets, Zitzewitz analyzes data

By Vera Bergengruen | January 18, 2008

Internet company Google Inc., already provides its employees with free, unlimited chef-prepared food, on-site car washes, lap pools, haircuts and free doctor check-ups, and now the company is encouraging its workers to gamble while at work with the help of Dartmouth economics professor Eric Zitzewitz. In the last two and a half years, 1,463 Google employees have participated in what the New York Times called "Google's Lunchtime Betting Game," placing bets on the future of the company and related markets in order to generate information for future company decisions. Google encourages employees to place bets online in prediction markets concerning the company's products and services.

A study conducted by Dartmouth Medical School professors suggests watching movies with smoking increases likelihood an adolescent will smoke.
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Movies influence decisions to smoke

By Whitney Buckholz | January 18, 2008

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Exposing pre-adolescent children to scenes of smoking in movies significantly increases the likelihood that they will eventually try smoking themselves, a new study by professors at Dartmouth Medical School found. According to the study, which was published in January's Pediatrics journal, 10 percent of participants began smoking during the course of the research.

Students urge the administration to equalize the number of male- and female-controlled spaces on campus after a week-long debate over Beta's return.
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Students march for social equality

By Kate Farley | January 18, 2008

Emil Unger / The Dartmouth Staff More than 200 students marched from Alpha Xi Delta sorority to Parkhurst administration building carrying copies of a petition that calls for the establishment of additional gender-neutral and female-controlled social spaces on campus Thursday afternoon.

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Bill questions N.H.'s control over charter

By William Schpero | January 18, 2008

CONCORD, N.H. -- A former governor, state senators and Dartmouth alumni governance converged in the Legislative Office Building to debate the extent to which the state should have control over the College on Thursday afternoon.

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Daily Debriefing

By Ahra Cho | January 17, 2008

Diane M. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, warned that negative consequences may arise from making the human papilloma virus vaccine mandatory, the American Chronicle reported yesterday.

Author Meizhu Liu addressed wealth disparity between races at the Pan-Asian Council's Winter term community dinner on Wednesday night.
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Speaker discusses wealth, race at Pan-Asian dinner

By Michael Coburn | January 17, 2008

Grey Cusack / The Dartmouth The United States needs to address growing economic inequality between the races, author Meizhu Lui told a crowd of 150 students and faculty at the Pan-Asian Council's Winter term community dinner in Collis Commonground on Wednesday night. During her speech, Lui argued that economic disparities should be measured by differences of wealth rather than income.

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Union opposes changes to employee health plan

By Allie Lowe | January 17, 2008

Proposed reductions to healthcare benefits for retiring College faculty and staff members have drawn criticism from members of the Dartmouth division of the Service Employees' International Union, inciting a dispute that could lead to contentious contract renegotiations in the coming months. The plan, which has come under censure since it was announced this fall, is currently being altered after a period of staff and faculty review and will likely be finalized in February, Adam Keller, executive vice president for finance and administration at the College said. Earl Sweet, president of the College's division of the SEIU, the Local 560, said that Dartmouth would likely have trouble securing new contracts with the union if the finalized proposal is not deemed adequate by union members. The SEIU currently holds three contracts with the College -- one covering Safety and Security, one for staff at the Hanover Inn and one which covers other Dartmouth employees, including staff from Facilities, Operations & Management, the Dartmouth Dining Association, the Office of Residential Life, the Dartmouth Skiway and the Athletic Department, among others. The SEIU's current contracts with the College, set in 2004, expire on July 1, 2008. "[The College] may not be able to get a contract if they don't do something here," Sweet said.

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