VOL. CLXXI NO.144
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2014
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
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Students visited the pop-up bike shop on Tuesday to have their bikes repaired.
DHMC prepares for Ebola B y NOAH GOLDSTEIN
Ebola preparedness programs are well underway at the College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Last week, DHMC announced that it would serve as the state’s goto treatment center if any cases occurred, and Dart-
mouth launched an Ebola preparedness website that includes a message from Provost Carolyn Dever and executive vice president Rick Mills. A task force consisting of emergency planning staff will work on campus preparedness, environmental health and safety
director Maureen O’Leary wrote in an email. The group’s weekly meetings began over the summer, said Dick’s House codirector Jack Turco. The first case in the current Ebola outbreak was reported in March, SEE EBOLA PAGE 2
The Tuck School of Business has placed more of its graduates into jobs within three months of graduation than it has in years. A full 98 percent of Tuck graduates had received job offers within three months of graduation. Tuck career development director Jonathan Masland said that the figure was the highest he had seen during his 10 years at the school. Last year, 95 percent had received job offers within three months after graduation. “It’s definitely an accomplishment,” Masland said. Tuck’s base salaries grew by 2.5 percent to a mean of $117,860. Masland said that he expects the figure will place Tuck among the top four business schools nationally. The lowest base salary reported by a Tuck graduate was $60,000, while the highest was $225,000. Stanford Business School reported a mean base salary of $129,618 this year. In 2013, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School reported a median base salary of $125,000,
while Harvard Business School reported one of $120,000. Eighty-seven percent of Tuck’s Class of 2014 received a signing bonus, which averaged $28,712, down from $29,237 last year. In addition to salaries and signing bonuses, 38 percent of Tuck’s 2014 graduates reported receiving “other guaranteed compensation,” which may include guaranteed performance bonuses, and profit-sharing agreements. Students may also receive relocation aid, tuition reimbursement, stock options and carried interest, although that figure was not included in the other guaranteed compensation figures. Last year, 73 percent of Harvard Business School graduates received a signing bonus, the median of which was $25,000. Sixty-three percent of Wharton graduates received a signing bonus in 2013, with a median bonus of $25,000. In 2014, 50 percent of Stanford Business School graduates reported receiving a signing bonus, which SEE TUCK PAGE 3
Repairs to golf course Geisel professors create company close country club B y ERIN LEE
B y lucia mcgloin
Drainage problems and a fairway upgrade caused the Hanover Country Club to end the golf season early, closing Oct. 5 to accommodate multiple renovation projects, said athletics director for facilities and operations Richard Whitmore, who is overseeing construction. The renovations will conclude by late November or early December, before the ground freezes. The College set a renova-
tion budget of several hundred thousand dollars to upgrade the course, associate real estate director Tim McNamara said. The golf course has not had any major renovations since 2001, Whitmore said. The first section of renovations is in front of the clubhouse on the first and second holes. The project will add additional drainage, build a retaining wall, and level both fairways. SEE GOLF PAGE 5
While examining nutrition facts one day over breakfast, Geisel School of Medicine professor s Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin wondered why a similar system did not exist for prescription drugs. As a solution, the couple started Informulary, a database that provides consumers with clear, concise drug facts to help them make informed decisions. The company’s main product will be a DrugFactsBox, a two-page summary
of a prescription drug’s effectiveness, benefits and harms based on Food and Drug Administration reports and clinical trial data. Schwartz, Woloshin and their team research and compile the most relevant and useful information about a particular prescription drug. “This information needs the ‘human touch’ because there may be a whole bunch of studies done,” Schwartz said. “You have to decide what are the most important studies that are the highest quality — what are the right studies?”
Informulary’s client base could include patients, physicians, insurers and other health care professionals, Andrew Freeman, a health care data analyst at the company, said. “Right now we’re targeting it to patients and their doctors to help with shared decision-making,” Kristen Flint ’14, another employee, said. “Our boxes would help the patient make more of the decisions on their own because it’s easier to understand, and it’s really the SEE GEISEL PAGE 2