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While Cor nell has al most three un der grad u ate stu dents for each Dart mouth un der grad, Dart mouth hearts beat harder dur ing last week's Red Cross blood drive. Dart mouth won the blood drive com pe ti tion against Cor nell, do nat ing 238 pints to Cor nell's 121 de spite the signif i cantly smaller size of the Col lege's stu dent body. After Win ter term's blood drive, stu dents at Cor nell looked at blood drive num bers and discov ered that their school was do nat ing less than Dart mouth, Red Cross club chair Michael Klein '14 said. "The Red Cross spon sors school chal lenges, so Cor nell ini ti ated a chal lenge against Dartmouth to try and raise more blood than us," Klein said. Dart mouth's Red Cross club men tioned the com pe ti tion in blitzes sent out to cam pus, but didn't push par tic u larly hard for this ad ver tis ing cam paign com pared to in pre vi ous terms. The groups placed signs around camps, and the in fa mous blood drop suit was vis i ble outside of the Hop, where the blood drive took place last Wednes day. While Dart mouth crushed in this round of nee dles and pints, the Red Cross club feels that col lect ing blood is im por tant re gard less of any com pe ti tions that are going on, Klein said. "There's al ways a high de mand for blood in the New Eng land re gion," he said.
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One lucky undergraduate entrepreneurial project will win $2,500 in the final round of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Society’s business plan competition. The five submissions chosen for the last round of judging will be considered by a panel of judges made up of business gurus like Simon Pearce president Rob Adams ’90; CEO of Boloco John Pepper ’91; co-founder of Borealis Ventures Phil Ferneau ’84; and vice president of business development at the music company Instinctiv, Jake Dwyer ’03. Judging will take place at Tuck beginning around 7 p.m., and the group presentations will be open to the public, DES vice president John Michel ’14 said. An impressive 59 different business plans were submitted by the March 28 deadline for the first round of the competition, Michel said. About two thirds of the submitted plans were created by individuals, and the remaining third by groups of various sizes, he said. A panel of Tuck students helped DES cut the pool down to a total of five entries which will be judged to determine the competition’s winner. “We’re hoping that the top prize will help make that business idea into a reality,” Michel said. The selected proposals include one healthcare design model intended to improve efficiency, a re-pricing program that could help businesses make pricing decisions, a barcode-scanning iPhone app and a system to increase the ability of businesses to operate at full capacity. Most entries were services rather than products, Michel said, and only one of the five groups who made it to the second round created a design for a physical commodity. This group is presenting its idea for a water bottle with a variety of flavors that could be added to water to create a tasty beverage, he said. The top five groups will meet with professor Gregg Fairbrothers, director of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network at Tuck, over the next week to work on their competition presentations. The competition was originally designed to let three groups move on to this round of judging, but DES decided to increase the number of second round spaces. Only the top three of these will walk away with monetary prizes. The group, previously known as the Club of Dartmouth Entrepreneurs, last held the competition was last held in 2008. The group has been focusing on “rekindling the fire” as part of recent efforts to increase programming, Michel said.
<="" img=""> Courtesy Of Pdfdevices.Com Dartmouth’s Office of Institutional Research will be sending out surveys in hopes of gathering data regarding student experience at the College over the next few days. This year, participating students will be entered in a raffle for an iPad 2 after completing the online form. The College surveys students at several points during their Dartmouth careers, especially during freshman and senior years. While the current survey is intended to be an overview of Dartmouth as a whole, past response rates to College survyes have been low. The most recent senior survey had a response rate of 56 percent from students and “we’ve gotten response rates that have been a little lower,” Lynn Foster-Johnson, acting director of institutional research, said. The survey is being conducted through the Office of Institutional Research, which works to provide Dartmouth’s administration with statistics and feedback about student performance and opinions. The survey was designed by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, and this year’s survey will be administered by MIT. While each school in the COFHE group analyzes its own data, some of the information gathered from the survey will be shared with peer institutions, Foster-Johnson said. “We are very careful about the information that we share,” and the importance Dartmouth student’s confidentiality is taken seriously, she said. Information from prior surveys can be seen at the Office of Institutional Research’s website. Student surveys from 2006-2008 are available on the site, and more recent information about Dartmouth “facts and figures” from 2010 is posted.
April 22, 2011 is a very important day. No no, not because it's Earth Day. We're over that. Instead — trumpets please — today is Eleazar Wheelock's 300th birthday! Happy Birthday Eleazar! That's right, on this day in 1711, all of our lives were changed forever by the birth of Old Weazy in Windham, Conn. Hey may not have a super sweet Google graphic today (jump penguin, jump!), but he did found a pretty cool college.
The newest club sport on campus ¬— club baseball — is playing its first season this spring despite inclement weather and difficulties finding training space. Co-captain Ryan Collins ’12, a group member who played a large role establishing the team, said he tried playing intramural softball last year, but it wasn’t the experience he was looking for. The collegiate authorization process for the club team was “slow going,” Collins said, particularly because he was off-campus during Winter term while the group applied for official recognition. Collins got a few tips about the process from some of the students who started a club lacrosse team last year, he said. The group currently has around 15 consistent players out of a blitz list of roughly 30 people who expressed interest. Trevor Horan ’13, Ben Southworth ’13 and co-captains Chris Jenny ’12 and Danny Lee ’12 have also been involved in getting the project off the ground, Collins said. The College has given the team $300 in financial support. The team will continue to support itself through member dues and events like BBQs to raise the money needed to cover team expenses. The team will play as a part of the American Club Baseball Association, which was founded at the University of New Hampshire. The league includes teams from Tufts, the University of Maine and several colleges from Boston, Collins said. Although players has been training at Levrone at night, they do not actually have access to a baseball field for their practices. They will use Hanover High School’s field for their games. The group will play two home games this upcoming Saturday against the University of Maine at around 2 pm, weather permitting, Lee said.
Student government online voting was not available at midnight, as the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee had advertised, due to technical difficulties with the site. Students who could access the voting website after midnight recieved an incomplete list of the races they were eligible to vote for, according to a campus-wide email from EPAC. The voting site, which is now fully functional, uses an approval voting system, rather than the instant runoff voting used in previous years, due to its utility in selecting the most popular candidates from a long list of individuals, according to EPAC.
<="" img=""> Courtesy Of Whatthemusk.Com Max Pollack ’10 has combined his interest in music with a desire to make New York City’s often overwhelming music scene more accessible with his new, colorful music site “what the musk,” which invites city-goers to explore music with bright pictures and catchy phrases. “We try and have a diversity of shows and genres,” Pollack said. “We don’t really like to do the biggest shows, but instead feature shows that aren’t sold out and that might be for bands people haven’t heard of yet.” “What the musk” posts information about a concert taking place in New York each night of the week. The sites home page is composed mainly of images of cover art and band photos, each of which represents a different day of the week. The blog launched almost a month ago, Pollack said. “I really liked the idea of seeing everything visually laid out,” Pollack said of the site’s design. “I work with a lot of graphic designers so I get inspiration from them.” In November, Pollack started working on an earlier version of the blog that wasn’t specifically focused on concerts, but instead included reviews and featured new music he’d heard. “I was interested in kind of curating — New York City is crazy, there’s so much going on, so many concerts, so I wanted to have a way of filtering through all that and highlighting cool shows,” he said of the shift to the new site’s focus. Pollack works on the site with Catherine Emil ’10 and Eugene Podborits, a graduate of Wesleyan University, who all work on the project part-time. Pollack said he works full-time doing marketing for a video agency, but will be moving to a music public relations firm later this year. Pollack was involved in Dartmouth’s music scene while at the College, as he and David Friedman ’10 briefly kept a music blog called “Songs of the Humpback Whale” while they were undergraduates. Pollack also worked on concert booking for both Friday Night Rock and Psi Upsilon fraternity, he said. “For people in the New York area it’s super helpful, but even outside that it’s a great way to learn about music,” Pollack said about the site, suggesting that Dartmouth students have something to gain from “what the musk” even if they’re not headed to the city for the weekend.
<="" img=""> Prospective members of the Class of 2015 flocked to campus today for Dimensions weekend. Though the morning started off dreary and cold, the weather switched to sunshine and white billowy clouds as the prospies poured into a balloon-bedecked Collis to check in. While the potential '15s ask which classes to visit or how to best navigate '53 Commons, we're wondering what kind of strings President Kim had to pull to lock down the last-minute weather change.
The Dartmouth women’s club water polo team trekked to Boston University for its second New England Division Collegiate Club tournament of the term this weekend. While the team members came out on top, they didn’t come back to campus unscathed — the group suffered several injuries and player Haley Carstensen ’12 took a punch to the eye during the game. This was the team’s second tournament of the season. The Big Green won the four games against Boston University, Williams, Yale and the Coast Guard water polo teams, leaving Dartmouth seeded at second behind Boston College. “We did great, we crushed,” co-captain Aoife Duffy ’11 said. Ali Titiz GR ’12, who coaches the women’s club team, was so proud of their performance this weekend that he went to a Turkish pastry shop to get the players celebratory baklava, Duffy said. The team didn’t have the chance to play Boston College, which co-captains Duffy and Devon Zimmerling ’11 described as Dartmouth’s biggest competition in the league. “When we played them at our tournament over the winter we lost, but we didn’t have two of our starters and were not in great shape,” Duffy said. The players are looking strong after their spring training trip in San Diago, the co-captains said. “This year more than any other year that I’ve played the difference between the way we played as a team before training trip and after training trip is the most marked that it’s been for me,” Duffy said. Zimmerling scored two goals over the course of the tournament despite her relatively recent return to the pool after suffering from a broken ankle. Goalie Shelley Wenzel ’14 stood out during the games, saving 80 percent of shots on goal. “She blocked every single penalty shot, which is really hard as a goalie in water polo because you have to get up from treading water to cover this huge space,” Duffy said. Next weekend the team will be traveling to the New England regional championships at Williams that will determine which team moves on to nationals at Notre Dame.
Dartmouth College has agreed to resume its traditional football rivalries with the College of the Holy Cross, the University of New Hampshire, Colgate University and the University of Rhode Island, according to the Concord Monitor. Competition between these schools began in October of 1901, but the series has been on hiatus since September 2009. Dartmouth will play an away game against UNH on September 27, 2014 and host UNH for the season opening game in 2016, according to an announcement made by Dartmouth’s athletic department.
The Aires, Brovertones, Decibelles and Dodecaphonics all gathered in Collis Common Ground last Thursday to perform at “Autism Sings,” an event held by ASPIRE to raise funds and community awareness about the impact of autism on Dartmouth and the Hanover community. <="" img=""> Courtesy Of Colleen O'grady Event organizer and ASPIRE Amanda Marinoff ’12 said she was inspired to emphasize autism’s impact on society by former Dartmouth president John Sloane Dickey, who famously stated “the world’s problems are our problems.” ASPIRE held a similar event last April, which is autism awareness month, but this year the group aimed to increase the educational aspect of the event. The event featured not only a capella performances, but also speeches from community members affected by autism in their daily lives. Three parents of ASPIRE participants and two students who have siblings with autism spoke to event attendees. <="" img=""> Courtesy Of Colleen O'grady ASPIRE organizes weekly play programs and aquatic programs for 11 kids from the area with autism. The $750 that “Autism Sings” raised will go directly towards covering the costs of aquatic center fees, supplies for projects and aquatic instructor compensation. One highlight of the program was a slide show accompanied by the song “So It Goes,” which was created by a national non-profit called “Songs for Autism.” <="" img=""> Courtesy Of Colleen O'grady “I couldn’t be more thrilled with how the event turned out,” Marinoff said. “I think that it was really a wonderful way to bring together both the Dartmouth and Upper Valley communities.” Marinoff began working on creating ASPIRE her freshman fall, and the group began programming her sophomore fall, she said. Since its founding, it has grown to include 18 Dartmouth student volunteers, she said.
Campaigning for next year's student body and class council presidents and vice presidents officially began today, but aside from a few random attempts at sidewalk chalk advertisements, you'd hardly know it.
Several adults stood, apparently frozen, outside of Rollins Chapel this afternoon. Upon closer inspection onlookers might have noticed that the individuals were actually moving, albeit extremely slowly. Some members of the group were participating in this strange scene with their eyes closed. As it turns out, the community members were not performing a stunt or simply enjoying the afternoon sunshine. The exercise was a part of Jon Kabat-Zinn's lecture on mindfulness which took place at Rollins. Kabat-Zinn also spoke at Spaulding Auditorium this Thursday about his work with mindfulness meditation and its impact on health and happiness.