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TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2019
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Seat saving, hotel prices HHS secretary Alex Azar ’88 make commencement talks healthcare, pharmaceuticals an expensive affair
B y ANDREW CULVER The Dartmouth Staff
Wi t h a ro u n d 1 0 , 0 0 0 people expected to come to Hanover for commencement weekend, hotel rooms and commencement seats come at a high price. Dartmouth’s 2019 commencement weekend will take place from Friday, June 7 to Sunday, June 9, with the main ceremony
taking place that day. Each year, Dartmouth’s graduation sees around 10 to 11 thousand visitors to campus, executive director for conferences and events Ernest Kiefer said. With the high number of visitors to campus come high hotel prices and limited availability. At the Norwich Inn just across the river in
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Former Colorado governor speaks on capitalism at Tuck B y KYLE MULLINS
The Dartmouth Staff
Former Colorado governor and Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper spoke at the Tuck School of Business to around 50 undergraduates, graduate students and community members on Saturday. In the talk — titled “The Future of Capitalism” — and the subsequent question and answer session, Hickenlooper discussed a series of policies that he
said would help address the “problems” in capitalism as an economic system in the United States. Hickenlooper’s proposals, rooted in the more marketfriendly wing of the Democratic Party, contrast sharply with ideas for more radical change from progressive Democrats such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the latter of whom held an event in Hanover SEE HICKENLOOPER PAGE 5
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Azar, seated right, engaged in a discussion at the Rockefeller Center with professor Charlie Wheelan.
B y JOEY CHONG The Dartmouth
On Friday afternoon, an audience of around 100 students and parents gathered to join U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar ’88 and senior lecturer Charlie Wheelan ’88 for a “fireside chat” in the Rockefeller Center. Azar discussed his journey from Dartmouth to Washington, D.C. and his work in the HHS department. He also answered written questions from the audience about religious protections for healthcare providers and the separation of migrant families who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.
Wheelan started the discussion by reflecting on their shared time as Dartmouth students. He also mentioned their fellow classmate, New York senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand ’88, who used the name Tina Rutnik as a student. “Did you think you would be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tina would be running for president and I would write a lot of books with ‘naked’ in the title?” Wheelan said, referencing his series of books on economics. Azar described how he attended Yale Law School after graduating from Dartmouth, then interned and clerked throughout Washington. He talked about his transitions
between the private and public sector and his initial work with the HHS department as general counsel in 2001. After serving as the president of Lilly USA, the largest division of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company, he returned as HHS Secretary in January 2018. “I have an enor mous department,” Azar said. “My budget is $1.3 trillion a year. If we were a country, we would be the fifth largest country on earth.” Azar said that his four main goals after being confirmed were to reduce drug prices, “turn around” the opioid crisis, create more insurance options SEE AZAR PAGE 2