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(11/11/16 6:15am)
Earlier this month, the College announced that Native American studies professor Melanie Benson Taylor will serve as the North Park House professor beginning in the winter term. She will replace Dean of the College Rebecca Biron, who in turn replaced biology professor Ryan Calsbeek after he stepped down from the position earlier this term. Taylor, who serves as chair of her department, specializes in Native American literature and will teach a course on the subject this spring. She earned her doctorate and masters degree from Boston University and completed her bachelor’s degree at Smith College. Together with her husband Alan Taylor, who serves as a lecturer in writing, and their two-year old son, she will move into a home on North Park street next month to be closer to her students.
(09/17/16 12:12am)
Around 200 people gathered on the Green Friday afternoon to protest construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Critics say the pipeline threatens to harm the water supply of many Native tribes while also cutting across their sacred lands and burial grounds.
(06/11/16 5:30pm)
The College will not hand out diplomas to graduates this year during the Commencement ceremony. Students will instead be able to pick up their diplomas following the ceremony.
(06/10/16 11:00pm)
“Your college education is one of the most enduring investments you will ever make,” Dartmouth’s financial aid website declares. The College says that it will meet the fully-demonstrated financial need of every accepted student as part of their financial aid program, one of the few schools in the nation that does so.
(05/30/16 10:16pm)
The College released its report on fossil fuel divestment on May 13. The report details rationales for and against divesting from fossil fuel companies, examining arguments from ethical, financial, academic and symbolic viewpoints.
(05/23/16 9:45pm)
UPDATED: May 23, 2016 11:11 p.m.
(05/20/16 12:17am)
Though the College generally matches its peers in the Ivy League in female representation and outperformed other schools across the country, women remain underrepresented in all of Dartmouth’s graduate schools, both in the student body and on the faculty. Each of the schools at Dartmouth — the Geisel School of Medicine, the Tuck School of Business and the Thayer School of Engineering — have sought to improve gender parity on both levels.
(05/13/16 11:14am)
UPDATED: May 18, 2016, at 10:12 a.m.
(05/12/16 10:58pm)
Jasbir Puar’s April 30 presentation at a panel sponsored by the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth remains controversial, both for its content and for attempts to record it.
(05/05/16 10:18pm)
Next Tuesday evening, May 10, the town of Hanover will vote to approve the year’s proposed budget, which the Hanover finance committee voted 3-1 to support.
(04/28/16 10:24pm)
Many Dartmouth students know about the number of farms in and around the Upper Valley, which provide fresh dairy and other foods to the region. But few know about the migrant workers who keep these dairy farms running, or the struggles that they face on a daily basis.
(04/18/16 5:57pm)
The Hanover Zoning Board of Adjustment voted unanimously on Monday evening to grant Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity's appeal for continued use of their house as a student residence. The appeal argued that the residence is not a violation of town zoning ordinances because the fraternity gave sufficient evidence that they should be "grandfathered" in under previous zoning ordinances.
(04/14/16 10:36pm)
In light of this week’s Student Assembly debates and this weekend’s upcoming elections, candidates and their platforms have been at the center of many campus conversations. But less has been said about the gender imbalances that have characterized Student Assembly elections over the past few years — and indeed, as a trend throughout its history.
(04/06/16 10:57pm)
The upcoming annual election for the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, which operates the Co-op Food Stores, has been surrounded by ongoing controversies over the mission, values and overall direction of the organization.
(03/30/16 9:42pm)
A plan to build a community inspired by the writings of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints, has left many Vermont residents upset and confused.
(03/07/16 1:18am)
Last Wednesday, manager of IT desktop client services Warren Belding retired from the College after more than 43 years of service. While at the College, Belding witnessed several transformations in technology, and simultaneously saw his own position evolve in order to continue to meet Dartmouth’s technological needs.
(03/02/16 12:24am)
The College has agreed to enter into mediation with Deb and Richard Higgins, a couple whose well was contaminated by carcinogenic chemicals originating from a nearby College-owned site, College spokeswoman Diana Lawrence confirmed in an email. In the 1960s and 70s, the College used the property, Rennie Farm, as a burial site for animal test subjects.
(02/23/16 1:32am)
As winter approaches each year, Dartmouth is forced to increase its energy usage to keep its inhabitants sheltered from the cold. However, many students remain unaware of how the College’s heating system functions, or about what technologies could be adopted to make it more effective.
(02/16/16 12:42am)
An unseasonably warm winter followed by a sharp drop in temperatures over the weekend did little to slow down Winter Carnival festivities. Classic events like the polar bear swim and the human dog-sled race went on with some modifications, while Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said that the department received 52 incident reports during Winter Carnival weekend.
(02/12/16 5:54am)
Though activism around many issues is present at both Dartmouth and its peer institutions, the focus of this activism differs from school to school. The College, for example, has seen significant dialogue in recent months about race relations and diversity on campus, while students at other Ivy League schools said issues such as sexual assault and mental health occupy the campus spotlight. Similarly, administrative responses to such activism has varied across schools.