The Dartmouth Board of Trustees moved forward today with its September 2007 decision to increase its size with the addition of five new members. The Board’s attempt to implement the decision became a year-long governance saga that played out in Hanover and the courts of Grafton County after the College’s Association of Alumni executive committee voted in October 2007 to file suit to block the addition. More »
Katie Cullinan ‘08 died by suicide in Santa Barbara, Calif., where she was studying for the summer, on Friday evening. The Santa Barbara Coroner’s Office is still investigating the details of her death, but her sister Abigail confirmed the death was a suicide. More »
Dartmouth may have been hurt by a “special bias” in the college rankings that Forbes.com released last week, according to Ohio University economics professor Richard Vedder, who devised the research methodology. This potential bias stems from the prevalence of internal faculty evaluations and the relatively small number of students at the College who use Ratemyprofessors.com, which is a heavily-weighted factor in the analysis. Dartmouth, the Ivy League institution with the lowest ranking, placed 127th. More »
High school sexual education teachers may tell their students to wear a condom and ask for consent before sex, but likely do not use teaching methods like “Pin the Clit on the Vulva” and a condom balloon toss — both of which were featured at this year’s annual Consent Day, held in Collis Common Ground on Friday. More »
Get Out The Vote efforts and events with political candidates will greet students returning for Fall term, as campus political organizations gear up for the upcoming elections. While the Dartmouth College Democrats will focus on all races, the Dartmouth College Republicans intend to focus on the Senate and Presidential race, and the Dartmouth College Libertarians will not officially support any candidate, student representatives say. More »
The medical community must decide whether a patient needs to be brain dead before doctors can remove his heart and other organs, James Bernat, professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, said in his Aug. 14 article in the New England Journal of Medicine. Bernat’s article responds to a case study, also featured in the journal, that documents three recent cases of heart transplantation from infants who had serious brain injuries but were not brain dead. Two of the infants were pronounced dead 75 seconds after circulation had ceased in the patients’ bodies, a shorter than average wait time. More »
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