The College’s proposed alcohol management policy — a repeatedly delayed set of guidelines on alcohol use at campus social events almost a year in the making — will not become official College policy, acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears announced unexpectedly in a meeting with Greek leaders on Wednesday. More »
**Correction appended** A little over a month into his tenure writing for the Dartmouth-centric web site Dartblog, Joseph Asch ’79, an outspoken and often controversial fixture of Dartmouth alumni political discourse, has already disputed the College’s calculation of the student-to-faculty ratio, questioned recent appointments to the College administration and challenged plans to revise the Board of Trustees election process. More »
Kappa Delta sorority, which accepted Dartmouth’s invitation to become the College’s eighth Panhellenic sorority in May, will participate in its first formal rush process this fall. In interviews with The Dartmouth this week, several sorority presidents expressed hope that Kappa Delta’s participation will help reduce membership quotas for all sororities involved in the rush process, resulting in smaller pledge classes for each organization. More »
**Correction appended** The proposed affiliation between the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic — the multi-specialty group physician practice affiliated with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center — and Catholic Medical Center in Manchester has drawn criticism from organizations on both sides of the abortion debate since the two medical groups announced their intention to form a partnership in February. Representatives from the clinic and CMC are now engaged in a public affairs campaign — involving open forums and an online effort — to allay concerns that their respective abortion policies will change. More »
Dartmouth Medical School professor H. Gilbert Welch argued that soaring health care costs can be attributed in part to the financial incentives of physicians and hospitals in a lecture held Wednesday night in the Medical School’s Chilcott Auditorium. Echoing current rhetoric in Washington, D.C., Welch said that the current set of incentives encourages overly aggressive screening and treatment. More »
Personal genetic testing, a growing private industry, may not be as reliable as advertised for determining a person’s predisposition to common diseases, according to a recent study by Dartmouth Medical School professor Jason Moore and Vanderbilt University professor Scott Williams. More »
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