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College selects new vice president of campus planning and facilities

By The Dartmouth Staff | February 18, 2014

Lisa Hogarty, vice president of campus services at Harvard University, will join the College next month as vice president for campus planning and facilities. At Dartmouth, Hogarty will oversee the College capital program, facilities planning, labor relations, transportation services and management of the Hanover Inn, according to a College press release.

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New housing options will begin next fall

February 17, 2014

Director of residential education Mike Wooten facilitated a lively discussion, collecting feedback on three new housing initiatives: a global village community, an arts and innovation community and a design-your-own housing community program. These residential options, which offer students with common interests opportunities to learn together outside the classroom, will be instituted by the office of residential life in the fall.

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Students back tougher policy

By Josh Schiefelbein | February 17, 2014

Replacing Dartmouth’s current sexual misconduct policy with a zero-tolerance policy for students found responsible for sexual assault has recently gathered momentum on the Improve Dartmouth online forum. Since a Feb. 10 gathering on the Green, when students met in support after a male student threatened a female member of the Class of 2017 on Bored at Baker, discussion surrounding the policy has grown.

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More women pursue degrees in science

By Sera Kwon | February 17, 2014

Undergraduate women now outnumber men in the life sciences but still remain a minority of physics, engineering, math and computer science majors, department chairs said.

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Network helps partners find jobs

By Rebecca Asoulin | February 17, 2014

Human resources senior recruiter Beau Benson independently runs the Dual Career Network, which works with partners and spouses of the College’s new hires to find staff positions at Dartmouth or elsewhere in the region.

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D’Agostino sets Dartmouth record

By Jordan Einhorn | February 17, 2014

With a time of 8:51.91, Abbey D’Agostino ’14 set a Dartmouth record in the 3,000-meter race this weekend, coming away with the fastest time in the nation this year and the fourth-fastest indoor time ever run by a female collegiate athlete. Racing at the Millrose Games in New York on Saturday, she came in fourth, behind professional athletes, and broke the record she set last season by three and a half seconds.

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More than a Game

By Maddie Garcia and Abby Cohen | February 17, 2014

Olympic recaps feature the latest controversial finish or result almost every day. Athletic competitions are always contentious — that’s just the nature of sports — but on such a grand stage, a minor glitch can easily become an international debacle. In Sochi, these controversies have ranged from humorous to crucial to the competition itself.

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Joshua Bell, Sam Haywood sell out Hop

By Apoorva Dixit | February 17, 2014

Classical violinist Joshua Bell has performed across the globe in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and a subway station in Washington D.C. An Avery Fisher Prize recipient, Bell performed incognito in the station in 2007 for a Washington Post story examining art and context, an article that earned its writer a Pulitzer Prize.

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Geisel applications rise

By Chris Leech | February 16, 2014

The Geisel School of Medicine saw a 27 percent increase in applications for the fall’s entering class than for the entering class of 2013. Candidates sent in 5,241 completed applications to compete for fewer than 90 available spots, which will result in a acceptance rate of about 1.7 percent, according to a recent Geisel press release.

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Vietnam War veterans visit College

By Bryn Morgan | February 16, 2014

On Monday — nearly 50 years after accepting their military commissions — Chilcote, McGrath and fellow veteran James Laughlin ’64 will return to speak to Miller’s class for a second time and to give a public lecture.

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Students to launch The Box in spring

By Kate Bradshaw | February 16, 2014

Serving lunch, dinner and late-night fare, The Box is a student-run food truck that will offer locally-sourced Mediterranean cuisine starting the first week of spring term. The joint venture will be run by eight Tuck School of Business students and over 15 undergraduates.

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Catching Up with Sochi

By Josh Schiefelbein | February 16, 2014

As the 22nd Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia reach the midway point, Dartmouth athletes have been consistently performing well, starting as early as the opening ceremony on Feb. 7.

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Rec League Legends

By Austin Major and Freddie Fletcher | February 16, 2014

Faithful readers, this week has been trying for us and for our sleep schedules. Between the U.S. winning the “Ice Cold War” in front of Vladimir Putin, Dartmouth athletes absolutely killing it Sochi and contemplating blitzing Sophie Caldwell ’12 to ask if she wants to grab a FoCo meal some time, we have not had time to think about much else.

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One on One

By Jordan Einhorn | February 16, 2014

This week, I sat down with Janae Dunchack ’14, a multi-event athlete on the women’s track and field team. Dunchack has been a dominant force for the team and is the three-time defending Ivy League champion in the pentathlon at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track and Field Championships. Dunchack hopes to sweep the event for her college career with a win at Leverone Field House on March 1 and 2. She came to Hanover as a high jumper but switched to multi-events her freshman year.

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Women’s basketball drops two games at home, falls to 0-8

By Gayne Kalustian | February 16, 2014

The women’s basketball team battled in two games this weekend against Cornell University and Columbia University, but was swept by its New York rivals, falling to Cornell (12-10, 4-4 Ivy) 78-59 on Friday before dropping a closer match to the Lions (5-17, 2-6 Ivy) 65-59. The team (3-19, 0-8 Ivy) returned home from a six-game road streak for the games.

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Women’s hockey comes up short at home

By Jehanna Axelrod | February 16, 2014

The women’s hockey team ended its home season on a sour note, falling to St. Lawrence University on Friday night 4-1 and No. 5 Clarkson University 6-1 on Saturday night. Despite the disappointing finishes, the women remain in the running for the playoffs and in ninth place in the ECAC, thanks to Colgate University and No. 3 Cornell University’s wins over eighth-place Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute.

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