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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.

Dean of the College Thomas Crady and Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman addressed the return of Beta Theta Pi, Wednesday afternoon.
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Crady and Redman discuss Beta

By Kate Farley | January 17, 2008

Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Dean of the College Thomas Crady and Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman held an open meeting to discuss the College's recent decision to allow the Dartmouth chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity to return to campus in Collis Center room 101 on Wednesday afternoon.

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By Emily Goodell | January 16, 2008

Brian McMahon Tu'79 will assume his new position of chief executive officer of Thornburg Investment Management Inc., a Sante Fe-based investment company with that manages $50 billion this month.

Student Assembly approves funding for a new program to allow students to plan events with their professors at its weekly meeting on Tuesday.
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SA suggests changes to SEMP policies

January 16, 2008

Phil Woram / The Dartmouth Staff Student Assembly opted not to discuss the controversy surrounding the potential re-recognition of Beta Theta Pi fraternity at its second meeting of the term Tuesday evening. When prompted by The Dartmouth after the meeting, Assembly members described a variety of gender relations and Greek life initiatives they plan to use to address the recent events.

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