By GREG BERGER, The Dartmouth Staff
Faced with a sobering balance sheet in the wake of the 23-percent endowment loss announced earlier this fall, Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees is expected to announce significant cuts to the College’s budget after its meeting this Friday and Saturday — College President Jim Yong Kim’s second Board meeting since taking office this summer. Although the Board often meets with students during its visits to the College, there will be no official meetings this weekend due to time constraints, according to College spokesman Roland Adams.
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By Laura Bryn Sisson
As the College’s administration and Board of Trustees plan for a second round of budget cuts, they will have to contend with a faculty that is concerned about the size and fairness of potential cuts, as well as how priorities will be communicated to the Dartmouth community in the wake of perceived missteps during the first round of cuts last winter.
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By paulina karpis
In the three months since Dartmouth Board of Trustees Chairman Ed Haldeman ’70 became chief executive officer of Freddie Mac, he has worked to transform the company into a reliable secondary market for mortgages that actively works to reduce the country’s foreclosure rate, according to company staff interviewed by The Dartmouth. Since his appointment, Haldeman has provided direction and stability for the beleaguered government-sponsored loan organization, employees said.
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By Angie Yang
Dartmouth officials are currently working to draft an internal review of the College’s operations to prepare for its upcoming reaccreditation, according to Provost emeritus Barry Scherr, who is tasked with overseeing the review through December. Reaccreditation — a largely perfunctory exercise that occurs every 10 years — verifies that the College meets certain standards as an institution of higher education.
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By Emily Fletcher
Dartmouth frequently warns international students to avoid College disciplinary action or legal troubles in order to maintain a legal residency status, but the specific consequences of “breaking the rules” are not well explained, according to International Student Association co-president Mela Omeri ’12.
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By Madeline Sims, The Dartmouth Staff
U.S. Capitol Police shut down part of the Senate wing of the Capitol Building in Washingon, D.C., Wednesday afternoon after a letter from former Surgeon General and current Dartmouth Medical School professor C. Everett Koop ’37 regarding health care reform unexpectedly appeared in the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The mysterious letter contained no postage and had not been screened by security, according to a Thursday report in The Hill newspaper.
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By Kevin Xiao
Former Vermont state senator and representative Matt Dunne — who served as the assistant director of the Rockefeller Center from 2004 to 2005 — announced his bid for governor on Tuesday in White River Junction, Vt. Dunne is the fourth Democrat to enter the 2010 primary race.
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By Brendan Woods
Adam Levine ’08, a Rhodes scholar currently studying for a Ph.D at the University of Oxford, has noticed something about the composition of his current group of peers.
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By Joy Chen
Dartmouth seniors hoping to work in the nonprofit sector after graduating can now look to the Dartmouth Partners and Community Service Post-Graduate Fellowship program — formatted like corporate recruiting for the public-service professions — for salary and career support. Beginning in June 2010, a group of selected alumni will work as fellows at nonprofit organizations and government agencies in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
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By Tatiana Cooke, The Dartmouth Staff
Identifying biological markers that indicate the most effective cancer treatments is central to improving patient care and lowering medical expenses, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor David Sidransky said in a lecture at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Thursday. In his standing-room only address, “Molecular Markers for Personalized Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy,” Sidransky emphasized the potential of new screening tests in cancer treatment.
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