VOL. CLXXI NO.156
SUNNY
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2014
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Students identify culture of cheating
BEJEWELED AND BEDAZZLED
HIGH 38 LOW 23
“We all saw it coming, but I didn’t realize it was going to blow up like it did,” one said.
By rebecca asoulin The Dartmouth Staff
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Before 10 a.m. on Thursday morning, students trickled into Cook Auditorium, several sitting on the stairs. It was the class’s first meeting since judicial affairs director Leigh Remy spoke to students who allegedly misrepresented their attendence in “Sports, Ethics and Religion.” Every Tuesday and Thursday during class, students an-
The figure skating team took a trip to the jewelery studio on Thursday.
MIRROR
FIRSTS TIMES AND LASTS LOOKS PAGE M4
TTLG: MAKING SPACE FOR STORIES PAGE M6
OPINION
VERBUM ULTIMUM: RETHINKING ACCOUNTABILITY
Application numbers creep higher for high school students
B y ESTEPHANIE AQUINO
Dartmouth saw a 10 percent increase in the number of early decision applicants this year, with an all-time high of 1,856 applications for the Class of 2019. This marks the second year that the College has seen an increase in the number of early applicants — following a 12.6 percent drop in early applicants for the Class of 2017 — coinciding with
a national shift toward early admission programs. Last year, 1,678 students applied early for the Class of 2018, and 469 were accepted, comprising 40 percent of the Class of 2018. Dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris, who has traveled to Fairfield County, Connecticut, Baltimore ERIN LEE/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF
SEE APPLICATIONS PAGE 5
BIG GREEN HOSTS LAST HOME HURRAH
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SPORTS
MEN’S SOCCER FIGHTS FOR TITLE
Urgent care center opens in Lebanon, offers quick service The Dartmouth Staff
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This year’s number of early applications reached a record high.
B y SARA M C gahan
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For a Big Green weekend preview, see pages 7 and 8.
ClearChoiceMD, an urgent care facility aimed to improve access and quality of medical assistance while reducing costs, opened its Lebanon doors Thursday. Visits will last just an hour each and cost about 10 times less than trips to the emergency room, founder Marcus Hampers ’89 said. The center accepts almost all insurance plans, including the Dartmouth student health insurance plan and those provided by Cigna, clinic administrator Brenda Ellis said. Self-pay visits to the center cost a flat
rate of $100, with an additional $25 to $50 added if X-rays, lab work or a particular procedure, such as stitches, are performed, Hampers said. He added that no visit to the center would cost patients more than $250. Hampers worked as an emergency room doctor at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for 20 years. The center provides urgent care, treatment of non-life threatening and episodic illness and injury. This differs from primary care, where chronic sickness and disease prevention are managed. ClearChoiceMD doctors will not see SEE CHOICE PAGE 2