Thursday, April 24, 2008

Speak Out highlights sexual assault stories

By Victoria Boggiano, The Dartmouth Staff

The younger sister of a male Dartmouth undergraduate was raped by a 38-year-old graduate student at the arts college she attends. A week after being assaulted, filled with guilt, she gathered the courage to tell her mother what happened, and the two tried to press charges. Their efforts embedded the girl in a web of legal issues and forced her to repeat her story countless times to a parade of unknown officials. More »

New Hamp gutted during renovations

By Drew Joseph, The Dartmouth Staff

Returning from a leave-term internship in New York, Page Wagley ‘09 expected the worst for her Spring term housing. Wagley, however, moved in with a friend relocating from New Hampshire residence hall, now under construction, and now shares a room in Hitchcock Hall, which re-opened last term after its remodeling. More »

DMS profs question the benefits of more doctors

By Emily Goodell, The Dartmouth Staff

Adding more physicians to the American health care system will not improve the quality of health care, according to a report written by Dartmouth Medical School professors David Goodman and Elliot Fisher, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Apr. 17. Instead, more doctors would create a fragmented, inefficient system and cost the government billions of dollars, Goodman and Fisher wrote. More »

Police Blotter

By Rebecca Cress, The Dartmouth Staff

Apr. 12, 1:54 a.m. Lebanon Street Hanover Police responded to a “stray beaver” call. The beaver was subsequently struck by a car. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Emily Goodell and Mitch Davis, The Dartmouth Staff
  • Parents’ expectations for whether their children will attend college differ based on family income, students’ academic performance, race and gender, according to a report released by the United States Department of Education on Tuesday, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. More »
  • The White House is advocating that the Senate support a House bill that would permit the Department of Education to purchase several billion dollars of federal student loans and ensure that lenders have adequate capital to continue providing loans, according to The New York Times. More »
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