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TESZLER: TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT PAGE 6
BARTLETT: ANTIQUATED AQUATICS PAGE 7
JONES: THE TOTALITARIAN MIND PAGE 7
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2020
New DDS cafe opens in Dana Hall
B y EMILY LU
The Dartmouth Staff
Located on the first floor of the newly renovated Dana Hall, Ramekin celebrated its grand opening on Jan. 13 as a new dining option for the Dartmouth community. The cafe is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and offers a full Starbucks menu in addition to specialty “yummekins” and other snacks. According to Dartmouth Dining Services director Jon Plodzik, DDS has been planning to open a dining location on the north side
of campus for over two years. About a year ago, DDS received financial permission from the College for the concept and has collaborated with College architects and contractors s i n c e, w o r k i n g u p t o Ramekin’s soft opening on Jan. 8. “It seems like a really underserved part of campus,” Plodzik said. “The folks in the graduate studies program were really interested in having some options for people in their building.” SEE RAMEKIN PAGE 2
Student awarded Pickering Fellowship B y JACOB STRIER
The Dartmouth Staff
Dartmouth student Sydney Kamen ’19 was awarded a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship in November, which funds two years of graduate study with a commitment of five years to the United States Foreign Service. Kamen has previously been named as both a Truman and Boren scholar, and said her interests surround humanitarianism,
gender and global health. According to a Jan. 3 press release from the program, K a m e n “ d e m o n s t r at e d outstanding academic achievement, leadership and commitment to service during their [sic] time at Dartmouth College.” Kamen, who will return to campus to take classes in both the spring and summer, emphasized her nontraditional approach to SEE PICKERING PAGE 5
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Dartmouth community member receiving tuberculosis treatment
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The director of the Dartmouth College Health Service made the announcement in an email to campus.
B y THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF A member of the Dartmouth community is currently being treated for an active case of tuberculosis, according to an email to campus sent by College Health Service director Mark Reed. The email noted that the individual is currently being treated off campus and will not return until they are medically cleared by the state. The individual’s name will not be released due to patient confidentiality laws, and Reed asked those who know the person’s name to not divulge their identity. Over the coming days and
weeks, the College will identify and contact individuals who were in contact with the infected person. Community members in contact with the individual may have to be screened for tuberculosis, the email noted. “The health and safety of our community is our most important concern and I want to stress that there is no further risk of tuberculosis contagion to the community from this person,” Reed wrote in the email. College spokesper son Diana Lawrence declined to comment further beyond the content in Reed’s email. The College is working with New Hampshire deputy state epidemiologist
Elizabeth Talbot and public health experts in its response. The College is also hosting to forums today and tomorrow to infor m community members about the College’s response. Not everyone infected with tuberculosis, the email notes, develops the illness. The affected community member has active tuberculosis; over 9,000 cases of tuberculosis were reported in the United S t at e s i n 2 0 1 8 . L at e n t tuberculosis, which affects approximately 13 million people in the U.S., is present in the body without making one ill. In a community forum SEE TUBERCULOSIS PAGE 2