The Dartmouth 03/28/2019

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VOL. CLXXVI NO. 4

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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2019

State lawmakers delay firearms seizure bill B y CASSANDRA THOMAS The Dartmouth Staff

The New Hampshire House of Representatives has delayed consideration of a bill that would allow state authorities to remove guns from potentially dangerous individuals. On March 13, the legislation was unanimously retained by the Criminal Justice and Public Safety committee until Jan. 2020, meaning that the legislature will delay a final decision on the bill until it is reintroduced at that time.

Students advance in NASA competition B y EMILY SUN

The Dartmouth Staff

A team of eight Dartmouth students was one of five finalists for NASA’s Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-Changing Idea Challenge, a competition that invites both undergraduate and graduate student teams to create aerospace design projects to solve real-world problems. The Team Dartmouth members — Thayer School of Engineering students David Dick TH, Alexa Escalona TH, Grace Genszler

Dartmouth-Hitchock joins sexual assault prevention effort

HB 687, sponsored by Re p. Debra Altschiller (D-Rockingham), would e s t a bl i s h ex t re m e r i s k protection order designations and authorize the temporary seizure of firearms from individuals who have a significant risk of harming themselves or others. Fourteen states have already passed ERPO bills, while nationwide policymakers are also pushing forward ERPO orders. SEE BILL PAGE 2

TH, Thomas Hodsden TH, Peter Mahoney ’19, Morgan McGonagle TH, Zoe Rivas TH and Christopher Yu ’19 — aimed to create a greenhouse that would support a crew of four for a 600 Martian-day mission on Mars. The team will be representing the College during the second round of the competition at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA on April 23 and 24. The eight students met in SEE NASA PAGE 5

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COURTESY OF DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is one of the original signatories of the Time’s Up Healthcare initiative.

B y GRAYCE GIBBS The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is increasing its efforts to bring safety, equity and dignity to the workplace as part of the Time’s Up Healthcare campaign. Time’s Up Healthcare launched on March 1 as part of the larger Time’s Up movement started by a group of women in the entertainment industry following the emergence of the #MeToo movement . DHMC was among the initial seven signatories — there are now 12 — that pledged their commitment to preventing sexual assault and gender discrimination in the

healthcare field. Megan Coylewright, a professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine and interventional cardiologist at DHMC, was among the 50 founding members of Time’s Up Healthcare initiative. Coylewright said that after Time’s Up launched in the entertainment industry, issues with sexual harassment and gender discrimination in other industries have come to light. Since the launch of the original Time’s Up campaign, se parate o rg an i z at i o n s i n c l u d i n g Time’s Up Advertising and Time’s Up Tech have also formed. “ D i f f e re n t a re a s a n d different places of work

began to focus in on what’s unique for their area and what might be ways to accomplish a goal of a safe, equitable and dignified workplace,” Coylewright said. Nurses, administrators, physicians and other health care workers have been fo c u s e d o n T i m e ’s U p Healthcare for the past year in preparation for its March launch, Coylewright said. She added that the members have worked together to define the best practices in the workplace regarding prevention of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. According to Coylewright, when a healthcare system SEE DHMC PAGE 3


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