The Dartmouth 03/25/14

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VOL. CLXXI NO. 46

PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH 32 LOW 16

TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014

Geisel ranks 18th for primary care

By CHRIS LEECH

The Dartmouth Staff

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On the heels of a 27 percent increase in applications, the Geisel School of Medicine jumped to 18th in U.S. News and World Report’s 2015 medical school rankings for primary care, rising 13 spots from last year. The school also improved in research rankings released earlier this month, climbing from 38 to 34. The school’s ranking for research has held steady in the thirties for the past five years, while the ranking for primary care has fluctuated from 39 in 2011, to 67 in 2012, to 18 this year. The primary care rankings are determined by external evaluations, average GPA and MCAT scores, the school’s acceptance rate, faculty re-

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GEISEL PRIMARY CARE RANKINGS

sources and the number of students who decide to pursue primary care. This year, 48.3 percent of Geisel’s graduating class accepted a primary care residency, up from 44.6 percent in 2013, Geisel communications and marketing director Derik Hertel said. The school’s rural location lends itself to producing good primary care physicians, Geisel Dean Wiley Souba said, because students have firsthand exposure to this type of medical practice. “We emphasize the importance of primary care — that is one kind of physician that is going to be critical to reforming the health care system,” Souba said. “Dartmouth has taken a stand on

Gilbert trial shifts focus to medical exam

By AMELIA ACOSTA

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

On Monday morning, prosecuting attorneys opened the second week of the trial against Parker Gilbert ’16, accused of rape, by calling further witnesses and relying heavily on medical records and visual aids. The day centered around testimony from Elizabeth Morse ’77, a sexual assault nurse examiner who saw the complainant at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center following her initial examination at Dick’s House. Gilbert, 21, who is no longer enrolled in classes at the College, is charged with seven counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault against a 19-year-old female undergraduate student and one count of criminal trespass for entering her room uninvited in the early morning of May 2, 2013. As a general practice, The Dartmouth does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault. Gilbert, of London, was arrested May 15. If convicted, Gilbert could serve up to 20 years in prison for each count of sexual assault. Morse, who works both as a Dick’s House nurse practitioner and per-diem SANE at DHMC, said ERIN O’NEIL/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

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U.S. News and World Report released rankings this month.

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SAE national council Students recover unused food eliminates pledging By HANNAH HYE MIN CHUNG The Dartmouth Staff

B y KATE BRADSHAW

Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity’s national leadership announced earlier this month that all chapters would no longer allow members to complete a pledging process before fully joining the house. Instead, members must be initiated as brothers within 96 hours of receiving their the bid. All members, not just new recruits, must participate in educational programming called the “True Gentleman Experience.” Alex Olesen ’14, former

president of the College’s SAE chapter, called the new policy a rebranding effort, shifting the organization’s public image from pledge activities to brotherhood. Brandon Weghorst, associate executive communications director of the national organization, said that negative press in the past few years played some role in the organization’s decision to eliminate pledging, but the decision was primarily made to return the fraternity to its roots of full initial memberSEE SAE PAGE 3

During an inter nship last summer at the Upper Valley Housing Coalition , a partnership of local businesses and nonprofit groups that advocates for affordable housing, Adam CharninAker ’16 said he realized that the high cost of Upper Valley housing consumes the majority of some residents’ incomes, often leaving little money for food or basic necessities. After finishing his work at the coalition, Charnin-Aker decided to found a chapter of the Food Recovery Network, a national nonprofit,

at the College. The chapter, called Dartmouth Feeding Neighbors, delivers leftover food from the Class of 1953 Commons and several local restaurants to the Upper Valley Haven, which redistributes the food to people living in poverty in the Upper Valley. “I saw a lot of people who are facing hard times,” he said. “They weren’t homeless people, but they needed to put their wealth toward affordable living and couldn’t necessarily provide for their family.” The group signed a contract with Dartmouth Dining Services in mid-February and has since worked closely

with ’53 Commons staff, Charnin-Aker said. DDS staff members manage the leftover food, following the food safety guidelines of the College. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, members of the organization pick up packaged and refrigerated food from ’53 Commons and local restaurants. After gathering the packages, members drive to the Upper Valley Haven, where volunteers distribute it according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food donation guidelines. The Food Recovery Network provides advice to colSEE NEIGHBORS PAGE 3


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