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(01/23/14 9:02pm)
Dinesh D’Souza ’83 was indicted for campaign finance fraud on Thursday in relation to a 2012 U.S. Senate election. Although no candidates were named in the indictment, news organizations report that the race concerned was between Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88, D-N.Y. and Republican challenger Wendy Long ’82.
(01/20/14 7:42am)
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights seeks to speak to students, faculty, administrators and alumni about issues of sexual assault and sexual harassment at the College later this month.
(01/17/14 5:13pm)
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(01/17/14 3:01am)
Last week, five executive members of the Panhellenic Council announced their decision to abstain from winter recruitment, citing a desire to amend socioeconomic and racial inequities in the sorority rush process. The abstaining Panhell executives’ criticisms of the Greek system are not new, but the method by which they have chosen to express themselves, and the reaction their announcement has engendered, indicate a meaningful shift in campus culture. We are hopeful that this act of protest will push students to demand comprehensive and effective reform.
(01/16/14 10:25pm)
The men’s and women’s squash teams were both shut out by undefeated teams from Trinity College on Wednesday night in Hartford, Conn.
(01/15/14 9:22pm)
While Jake Gaba ’16 participated in theater and choir in high school, he’s found himself in his biggest role yet: global social media star. This fall, on his Chinese Language Study Abroad Plus trip to Beijing, Gaba filmed himself wearing rainbow-patterned swim trunks and dancing in public places — 91 distinct places, to be exact.
(01/13/14 1:08am)
Despite a few delays due to Hanover’s icy road conditions, the Dartmouth Relays were a resounding success for the Big Green — both the men’s and women’s teams finished first.
(01/10/14 2:07am)
Yesterday the College announced that Carolyn Dever, dean of Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts and Science, would serve as its new provost, citing her expertise in the humanities. Dever is a professor in English and women’s and gender studies, and the decision to place her at the helm publicly reaffirms the College’s commitment to the humanities.
(01/06/14 3:49am)
Picking up its first wins of the season, the men’s hockey team had a busy break, playing seven games including an exciting Ledyard National Bank Classic hosted by the team in Hanover. The team came away from the action with two wins, three losses and a pair of ties.
(01/03/14 4:54pm)
The College extended its regular decision application deadline to Jan. 10 after technical glitches prevented applicants from submitting materials by Jan. 1. The admissions office announced the extension on its website and in a Facebook post on Friday afternoon.
(12/28/13 9:59am)
President Phil Hanlon announced his opposition to the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli institutions in an email to campus Saturday morning. With his statement, he joins university presidents nationwide in condemning the decision of the group to block collaboration with Israeli colleges and universities.
(12/02/13 5:16pm)
When Joseph Singh ’14 received a call from the Canadian Rhodes Scholarship Committee on Saturday evening, he was decorating a Christmas tree with his family. Though he had anticipated a call, he did not expect to find out that he was one of 11 Canadians, along with fellow Dartmouth student Jonathan Pedde ’14, to win the Rhodes Scholarship.
(11/18/13 6:56pm)
On Monday afternoon, College President Phil Hanlon spoke to the faculty regarding student life. His speech focused on residential life and student safety. While Hanlon articulated some good points, many of his statements, especially those pertaining to residential life, lacked specifics. We are left eagerly anticipating more discussion of these ideas in the coming months.
(10/31/13 11:26pm)
Despite much recent discussion of social and residential life, Dartmouth’s primary mission is academic. As such, academics should be at the heart of President Phil Hanlon’s agenda over the coming months and years. Dartmouth’s core mission is about close faculty and student interaction, a focus on the liberal arts and a community that is engaged with the issues of the world. Experiential learning, interdisciplinary learning and practical skills such as entrepreneurship may stem from this mission, but they are not the mission. If Hanlon wants to enact true change that will allow Dartmouth to prosper, then we have three suggestions.
(10/25/13 2:00am)
The search for the next dean of the Tucker Foundation has stalled, pending recommendations by a task force on the foundation's mission, structure and leadership. We would like to raise concerns about the transparency and purpose of this process. While we are enthusiastic that President Phil Hanlon is pushing Tucker to define its goals and missions in light of revoking the Right Rev. James Tengatenga's appointment over the summer, we advise caution. We hope that the task force will more actively consider student input, reflect on how Tucker makes the College better as an institution of higher education and combine these insights into a coherent search profile.
(10/18/13 2:00am)
With winter housing applications for upperclassmen due next Tuesday, we are reminded again of the challenges associated with Dartmouth's residential life. Beyond the wide variance in dorm quality, the biggest complaint associated with campus housing is the constant reshuffling mandated by the D-Plan. Yet it is difficult to improve housing stock, much less permit dorm continuity, given the pressure put on the housing system by undergraduate enrollment during fall term and, to a lesser extent, during spring term. To create breathing room for potentially substantial changes to the College's residences, the administration should consider ways to more evenly distribute students across fall, winter and spring terms. Specifically, it should give funding preferences to new foreign study programs that will be held during fall and shift some existing programs to the fall from the winter and spring.
(10/11/13 2:00am)
Last spring, the Greek Leadership Council enacted a policy change that barred freshmen from entering Greek houses until after Homecoming weekend. This policy represents a student-led attempt to take ownership of campus life issues and help prevent binge drinking and sexual assault. With Homecoming now upon us, members of the Class of 2017 will soon be allowed to enter Greek houses, and the community will begin to evaluate the relative effectiveness of the policy. At the present moment, however, it appears that this evaluation will be nearly impossible due to a lack of data on the relevant topics.
(10/06/13 4:32pm)
An undergraduate woman reported that she was sexually assaulted in her room at 1:00 a.m. this morning, according to a campus alert from Safety and Security director Harry Kinne.
(10/04/13 2:00am)
On Wednesday, The New York Times published an unflattering portrait of the status quo here at Dartmouth. It was no secret that the Times' higher education reporter was visiting campus last week. He was spotted sitting in front of Collis, walking through Baker Hall and taking pictures of fraternities' beer can-filled trash heaps on Webster Avenue. Unfortunately, the net result of the visit was a barely newsworthy story that unfairly implies that College President Phil Hanlon is in over his head.
(10/01/13 1:31pm)
Thomas Bruce, Cornell University's vice president of communications, has been named Dartmouth's senior vice president for public affairs, the College announced this morning.