**Today’s weather:** Mainly cloudy. A few peeks of sun­shine pos­si­ble. High 37F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. **News** The Col­lege has ini­ti­ated the search for a sec­ond Al­co­hol and Other Drug Ed­u­ca­tion Pro­gram co­or­di­na­tor to add to the health pro­mo­tion team at Dick’s House, ac­cord­ing to de­part­ment di­rec­tor Bryant Ford. Fol­low­ing the mon­i­tor­ing of the Yale Mus­lim Stu­dents As­so­ci­a­tion’s web­site by the New York Po­lice De­part­ment, Yale’s stu­dents launched a one-day Face­book photo cam­paign de­signed to prompt the NYPD to ex­plain why it ini­ti­ated the sur­veil­lance, the Yale Alumni Mag­a­zine’s blog re­ported on Wednes­day. Teenagers who watch movies with scenes de­pict­ing al­co­hol con­sump­tion are twice as likely to begin drink­ing as those who are not ex­posed to on-screen drink­ing, ac­cord­ing to a study con­ducted by re­searchers at Dart­mouth-Hitch­cock Med­ical Cen­ter. With the help of a $10-mil­lion Med­ic­aid grant awarded in the fall to the state of New Hamp­shire, The Dart­mouth In­sti­tute and the Dart­mouth Cen­ters for Health and Aging will study the ways in which In SHAPE and health in­cen­tives pro­grams can im­prove the well-be­ing of men­tally ill adults across the state, Bar­tels said. **Menu** ’53 Com­mons   Full and Up-To-The-Minute Menus with Nu­tri­tional Info 7:30… Read more »

    DEC­O­RATE THE DOCKS COM­PE­TI­TION – DEAD­LINE: March 9 Want to see your flair promi­nently dis­played on cam­pus… on a piano? Stu­dents can sub­mit a de­sign for this sum­mer’s Hands on Pi­anos pro­ject. One out­stand­ing stu­dent entry will be cho­sen to adorn the piano lo­cated at the stu­dent swim docks. You must be on cam­pus in May 2012 to dec­o­rate the piano. Guide­lines and ap­pli­ca­tion form avail­able here. More info here. **Today’s weather:** Cloudy. Snow show­ers de­vel­op­ing this af­ter­noon. High 36F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 70%. **News** An anony­mous group placed 171 dolls on the steps of Dart­mouth Hall early Tues­day morn­ing to raise aware­ness of sex­ual as­sault on cam­pus. The dolls rep­re­sented an es­ti­ma­tion of the num­ber of stu­dents who had spo­ken with the group’s mem­bers about their sex­ual as­sault ex­pe­ri­ences, ac­cord­ing to an anony­mous blog post by the “Daugh­ters of Dart­mouth.” Rick Farn­ham, for­mer di­rec­tor of ath­let­ics at the Uni­ver­sity of Ver­mont, spoke about haz­ing’s de­struc­tive na­ture and stu­dents’ re­spon­si­bil­i­ties in pre­vent­ing it at a forum on Tues­day nightin Col­lis Com­mon Ground. Farn­ham, a mem­ber of the UVM ath­letic de­part­ment for 30 years, said he has first­hand ex­pe­ri­ence with the con­se­quences of haz­ing and has spo­ken about the… Read more »

    BOSTON- About 57 per­cent of el­derly peo­ple liv­ing alone have less than $10,000 in fi­nan­cial as­sets when they die. That’s ac­cord­ing to the sum­mary of a re­cent re­search study that was posted on the blog of the Fi­nan­cial Se­cu­rity Pro­ject at Boston Col­lege. Much of the focus on the fi­nan­cial as­pects of re­tire­ment has been on how much Amer­i­cans have ac­cu­mu­lated as they enter re­tire­ment. But a team that in­cluded econ­o­mists James Poterba at the Mass­a­chu­setts In­sti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy, Steven Venti at Dart­mouth Col­lege, and David Wise at Har­vard Uni­ver­sity turned its at­ten­tion to where re­tirees wind up fi­nan­cially. Other team find­ings: Of el­derly peo­ple liv­ing alone, 57.1 per­cent had no home eq­uity. As for el­derly cou­ples, nearly a third had less than $10,000. While some re­tirees may have given away their as­sets as a strat­egy to avoid es­tate taxes, “a fright­en­ing share of the el­derly seems to run out of money,” the post said. – Boston.​com **Today’s weather:** A mix­ture of rain and snow show­ers. High 41F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%. **News** Heidi Crebo-Rediker ’90, known for her eco­nomic ex­per­tise and role as an ad­vi­sor to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., on the For­eign… Read more »