VOL. CLXXII NO. 117
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Hanlon discusses Geisel overhaul at town hall
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Members of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center gathered in the Williamson Building auditorium yesterday evening to listen to College President Phil Hanlon, Provost Carolyn Dever and interim dean of the Geisel School of Medicine Duane Compton discuss further details regarding the restructuring of the Geisel-DHMC framework. The plan, which was originally announced on Monday at Geisel, will create three divisions as opposed to the current model of having many departments. The new divisions —
College President Phil Hanlon explained changes to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center staff.
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Mobile Virtual Player reduces football injuries
B y ALYSSA MEHRA The Dartmouth
While concussions and head injuries abound in football practices, thanks to the newly created Mobile Virtual Player — a robotic dummy created by Dartmouth students that the College’s football team has used in practices since August — the number of injuries sustained by players has fallen while athletes are still able to train with a mobile target.
The danger of concussions in football at the college level prompted football head coach Buddy Teevens ’79 to reach out to the Thayer School of Engineering in 2013 to create a safe, mobile practice dummy for his players. Two then-seniors at Thayer — Elliot Kastner ’13 and Quinn Connell ’13 — worked on the MVP with other students as a capstone project during their senior year. The pair continued to work on it part-time for two years before returning to the
project full-time this past summer. The MVP is essentially a robotic football player that can be used in practices to avoid injuring players, Teevens said. “Unless we change the way we teach the game as football coaches, we’re not going to have a game to teach,” he said. He referenced Barack Obama’s interview with the New Yorker prior to the 2014 Super Bowl, where the president said that if he had a son, he would have to “think long and
Former N.H.house speaker named Rocky distinguished visitor B y ESTEPHANIE AQUINO The Dartmouth Staff
Former New Hampshire House of Representatives speaker Terie Norelli (Democrat) has been praised for her collaborative spirit and gregarious nature by her colleagues in the legislature and for serving as symbol of female empowerment in politics. The Rockefeller Center has named her this year’s Perkins Bass Distinguished Visitor for her long and fruitful career.
hard” before allowing his child to play football. Teevens said he submitted the idea for the project as a way to eliminate player-to-player contact while still improving tackling skills with a moving target. After on-andoff work over the past two years, the MVP was finally ready for use in August, he said. The MVP is a remote-controlled football player capable of moving SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 5
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Under Norelli’s leadership New Hampshire passed the legalization of same-sex marriage and health care reform policy. She said that the health care reform policy was one her greatest accomplishments because it would have a direct impact on the lives on countless individuals. “Most people don’t know this, but lack of health insurance tends to
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The Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network held a startup bootcamp.