VOL. CLXXI NO. 3
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2015
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
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Hanover Police will not respond to calls unless directly asked for assistance when intoxicated students are transferred from Dick’s House to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center via ambulance and is eliminating its in-house diversions program, as of Jan. 1. Prior to this change in procedure, spearheaded by Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis, Hanover Police responded to all calls and arrested the transported students. Police will now only respond when Dick’s House
Hanover police will no longer respond when students are transported to DHMC unless directly called.
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Dartmouth finalizes plans for Cuban exchange program
B y Kelsey Flower The Dartmouth Staff
A Cuban exchange program that will allow both students and faculty to study at either the University of Havana or Casa de las Américas next year is in its final stages of being approved by the College. While the program has been in the planning stages for two years, its launch conveniently coincides with the normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States last December. The choice of Casa de las Américas
also corresponds with the improved relations between the countries as it was originally founded by the Cuban government for developing connections between Latin America and the rest of the world. The Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad, comprised of Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth, developed the program to allow students from member schools to study in Cuba. Brown
suggested the idea to the other six colleges in the consortium since a Cuban study abroad program was already in place at the university, John Tansey, executive director of Dartmouth’s Frank J. Guarini Institute for International Education, said. Associate dean of the faculty for international and interdisciplinary studies Lynn Higgins said that this is the first program that the consortium has created together. Each consortium program will have a lead school, with Brown taking the lead this time.
The collaboration between the seven schools allows each university to offer students the opportunity to study in an area where interest may not be high enough to merit a program from each individual school, Tansey said. The Arabic foreign study program in Tangier, Morocco was cancelled for the falls of 2013 and 2014 and the Italian language study abroad program to Rome was cancelled for the spring of 2014 due to low enrollment. The consortium would SEE CUBA PAGE 5
Sixty-four students charged with honor code violations B y Parker Richards The Dartmouth Staff
A total of 64 students have been charged with various honor principle violations stemming from an investigation into a cheating incident in religion professor Randall Balmer’s “Sports, Ethics and Religion” course last fall, judicial affairs director Leigh Remy said in an email. Most students requested individual hearings, which primarily took place before Thanksgiving and over the winter
interim period, Remy said in the email. Requests for a review of the disciplinary measures imposed will be overseen by interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer, Remy wrote. Ameer did not respond to a request seeking comment by press time. Balmer said that, to his knowledge, most students involved were suspended from the College for one term. Balmer directed further inquiries to Remy, who declined NATALIE CANTAVE/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF
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Thornton Hall houses the religion department, which faced a cheating incident.