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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2019
FSP at King’s College Dartmouth celebrates London cancelled its 250th anniversary
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There will be no English fo re i g n s t u dy p ro g r a m t o London this fall. The English department’s popular FSP to King’s College London will not be offered in 2019 because King’s terminated its contract with Dartmouth. In 2020, the program will be hosted by Queen Mary University of London. English professor and 2018’s FSP director George Edmondson said that the English department does not know exactly why King’s terminated the contract, but is near certain that it had to
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do with King’s reevaluating its course offerings. “King’s College unilaterally ended [its] association with us,” Edmonson said. “We’re not entirely sure why. As far as we can tell, they essentially want to eliminate the middleman, which is to say they want to have something like a thousand spaces reserved for international students, and then students can apply directly ... It’s nothing personal, as far as we can tell.” Vice chair of the English department Aden Evens noted SEE FSP PAGE 3
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A supportive, altruistic friend and community member, Kevin Figgins Jr. ’16 brightened every room he entered. “[Figgins] was an exuberantly warm person with [a] seemingly limitless depth of concern for people around him,” First Year Student Enrichment Program director Jay Davis said. “His
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Baker-Berry Library hosted one of several kick-off celebrations for the College’s anniversary.
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Kevin Figgins Jr. ’16 known for conviviality
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joy [in being around] other people endeared so many others.” On Dec. 2, Figgins, 24, passed away unexpectedly in his Nashville, Tennessee home. He was in the process of completing his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth and had planned to major in environmental studies and SEE FIGGINS PAGE 2
With the advent of the new year, Dartmouth is celebrating the 250th anniversary of its founding. The festivities that took place on Jan. 10 kicked off what will be a year’s worth of academic and arts programming, service opportunities and celebrations all honoring the school’s notable milestone and adhering to the theme of “Honoring Our Past, Inspiring Our Future.” For Cheryl Bascomb ’82, vice president for alumni relations and co-
chair of the celebrations, the celebration of the College’s sestercentennial anniversary is an effort to use the past to guide the College’s future. “This really is a forwardlooking endeavor, and so the classes that people are teaching and taking and the events that we’re holding really talk about Dartmouth’s story through history, but pointing forward,” Bascomb said. “How do they inform where we’re going and how do we — as alumni and faculty and students — really help create the vision that we have for Dartmouth?”
The Thursday kick-off celebrations took place in nine locations across campus, including BakerBerry Library, the Top of the Hop and the Collis Center. College President Phil Hanlon and celebration co-chairs Bascomb and English professor Donald Pease all gave speeches in Baker-Berry Library that were livestreamed on Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary website. Hosting the kick-off celebrations at many venues, scattered across professional schools to athletic facilities, was an SEE 250 PAGE 5
Extra hunt permits lead to additional deer harvested B y Savannah eller The Dartmouth
Hanover residents might notice fewer deer around town this spring. Following Hanover’s issuing of 100 extra deer hunting permits, at least 30 hunters harvested additional deer this season, according to New Hampshire
Fish and Game deer project leader Daniel Bergeron. He said Hanover’s new permit program made local hunters nearly twice as successful as hunters in other towns across New Hampshire. An official tally of total deer harvested in the town this season has not yet been released. However, this
season in Hanover, New Hampshire Fish and Game has logged 41 harvested deer in the special management area so far. Developed in conjunction with New Hampshire Fish and Game, this year’s Deer Management Assistant Program pilot issued 100 extra deer hunting permits
which allowed per mit holders to take two female deer in addition to the regular permit allowance. Hanover senior planner Vicki Smith said the town plans to apply again next year. Whether Hanover continues the prog ram w i l l be bas ed o n N ew Hampshire Fish and Game
deer population estimates, which will inform decisions regarding deer population control in coming years, Smith said. Tow n m a n a g e r Ju l i a Griffin said she hopes the program will be able to continue for up to a decade. SEE HUNT PAGE 5