The Dartmouth 09/22/17

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VOL. CLXXIV NO.113

PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH 79 LOW 48

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

College buys five properties near Rennie Farm

Leads exhausted in KDE sorority burglary investigation

By ALEX FREDMAN

The Dartmouth Staff

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Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority was broken into in the spring. The investigation is still open.

By PETER CHARALAMBOUS AND MIKA JEHOON LEE The Dartmouth Staff

T h e H a n ove r Po l i c e Department is still investig ating a spring breaking and entering incident at Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority. Although the investigation is still open, Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis said that all leads in the investigation have

been exhausted. In the spring, a burglar entered the sorority and left behind a sexually explicit note on the premises. Following the incident, both Safety and Security as well as Hanover Police increased security around Greek houses. Since the incident, Hanover Police have investigated similar occurrences near the College. “There have been other similar incidents that we have

worked, and we always keep that in mind regarding any case that may have any similar things that have occurred,” Dennis said. Hanover Police encourages anyone with possible information to call them at (603) 643-7278. The College is now installing identification-card entry at all College-owned Greek houses, although it

After taking action earlier this year to stabilize the housing market around Rennie Farm, the College has purchased five properties in the area, totaling 98 acres and $3.4 million in value. Rennie Farm is a property in northern Hanover that the College used in the 1960s and 1970s to dispose animal carcasses accumulated from medical research, which contaminated groundwater surrounding the property. Under a Value Assurance Program, which the College created last February, Dartmouth established a zone covering 48 properties near Rennie Farm in which owners can opt to use College-appointed realtors to sell their property at a determined fair market value. For owners who participate in the program, the College will purchase their property at market value if no outside offer is made after 180 days. “The program was adopted so that it would help stabilize property values and would provide liquidity for property owners, so that they knew they had a buyer for their properties as we go through the remediation of the [Rennie Farm] site,” said Ellen Arnold, associate general counsel for campus services and director of real estate. In 2015, the chemical 1,4-dioxane — a purifying agent used in the production of pharmaceuticals — was discovered in the drinking well of the neighboring Higgins family, and a subsequent investigation determined that the pollutant originated from Rennie

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Canoe Club Dartmouth places in top 20 in restaurant changes research and innovation index ownership By ALEC ROSSI

The Dartmouth

By GABRIEL ONATE The Dartmouth

In mid-July, for mer Canoe Club owner John Chapin announced that he sold the restaurant to a group of partners that included its longtime bartender, Daniel Levitt.

The announcement came amid other major changes to the Hanover restaurant scene, including the abrupt closure of Everything But Anchovies in May and the closure of Thai Orchid in July. SEE CANOE CLUB PAGE 3

An index measuring research and global innovation recently ranked Dartmouth 20th out of 200 institutions worldwide in number of patent filings, ahead of all other Ivy League institutions. The Nature Index 2017 Innovation supplement, published for the first time ever on Aug. 9, measures

the frequency in which an institution’s scientific research articles were cited in patent filing, David Swinbanks, managing director of Nature America and the founder of the Nature Index wrote in an email statement. “ [ T h e i n d e x ] g i ve s a measure of how an institution’s research, as reported in the research literature, is contributing to

and influencing innovation in the form of patents,” Swinbanks wrote. Swinbanks wrote that the “Lens metric,” a normalized measure of patent filings, determines the ranking. The metric adjusts for institutional size and different rates of publication across different research fields. SEE INDEX PAGE 5


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