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(05/07/13 2:00am)
Trinity College President James Jones announced that he would resign next June, a move that may have resulted from criticism he faced for demanding that Trinity's Greek system go coed, Bloomberg reported. Jones supported a college rule mandating that Trinity's 10 Greek houses have at least 45 percent of their members from the opposite gender by 2016. James announced his resignation just hours before a planned community meeting opposing the decree, which is planned to begin in September. Some alumni have said that they will not donate to the school if the decree is enacted and have formed a group that plans to challenge the proposal in court. Students opposing the initiative hosted a representative yesterday from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a Philadelphia-based free-speech group.
(05/06/13 2:00am)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will compensate Interim College President Carol Folt, UNC's incoming chancellor, an annual salary of $520,000 and benefits, the News and Observer reported on Thursday. The compensation terms are included in an agreement Folt signed last month. She will live in a home provided by UNC, and the university will cover her full utilities, housekeeping, health insurance and retirement benefits. More than a dozen UNC medical school professors have higher salaries than Folt will. On April 12, UNC announced Folt as the successor to current chancellor Holden Thorp. She will become UNC's first female chancellor when she assumes the position July 1.
(05/03/13 2:00am)
Earlier this week, The Dartmouth reported that the Interfraternity Council will likely ban freshmen from Greek houses where alcohol is being served for a portion of fall term. Last night, the IFC held a meeting for fraternity executives to voice their opinions regarding the potential new policy. While we commend the IFC for finally taking a proactive stance on high-risk drinking among freshmen, we recognize that there are potential upsides and potential downsides to this proposal, which may necessitate further changes to the College's residential policies.
(05/01/13 2:00am)
The Cornell University Assembly is looking to clarify rules for obtaining permits for student protests after a muddled day of demonstrations in November displayed a lack of consistency, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. Last semester, rallies by the Cornell Israel Public Affairs Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine in a campus plaza were interrupted by university police. While the Israel Public Affairs Committee had registered with the university, the Students for Justice in Palestine counter-rally did not, and the Cornell police evicted them from the plaza. Due to the ambiguity of campus policy highlighted by these protests, the University Assembly will clarify that while groups can register their rallies, it is not required. Protests still can not interrupt curricular, extracurricular or official university activities, the Daily Sun reported.
(04/26/13 2:00am)
At the close of one of the most tumultuous weeks on campus in recent memory, we would like to reflect on what has transpired and articulate our hopes for the future. The decision to cancel classes on Wednesday was indeed a momentous one, and we are proud that students, faculty, staff and administrators came out in great numbers to reaffirm the values of our community. However, we remain skeptical of the administration's motives for the suspension of academic activity and are determined to see continued efforts by the College to keep Wednesday's conversations moving forward.
(04/24/13 2:00am)
Yesterday evening, Interim President Carol Folt and seven other administrators sent a campus-wide email informing the Dartmouth community that all undergraduate and graduate classes in the arts and sciences would be canceled today. In place of classes, there will be numerous events including a lecture by a social justice consultant and "teach-ins" to be led by faculty and staff. While these actions certainly do represent a response, if belated, by the administration, they are completely one-sided.
(04/23/13 6:03pm)
All undergraduate and graduate arts and sciences classes will be canceled tomorrow in light of the aftermath of Friday's Dimensions protest, the President's Office announced in a campus-wide email sent out at approximately 6:37 p.m.
(04/22/13 2:00am)
Despite approving gender neutral housing options for seniors in 2010 and extending the option to juniors last February, Yale University will not offer gender neutral housing to sophomores or freshmen in the fall, the Yale Daily News reported. According to a survey conducted by the Yale College Council, which has advocated for the extension of gender neutral housing, 130 of 403 current sophomores surveyed said that they were considering living in gender neutral housing as juniors. While the Yale College Council will continue to petition the administration for a change in housing policy, council vice president and Yale sophomore Danny Avraham said that it may take a long time to be approved.
(04/22/13 2:00am)
On Friday evening, a small group of protesters forcibly entered the Class of 1953 Commons and interrupted the Dimensions show. These protesters were opposing racism, sexism and homophobia, which they cited as pervasive problems at Dartmouth. On Saturday, Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson sent out a campus-wide email condemning threats that were made against the protesters. Both the protest itself and the subsequent threats against the protesters are utterly unbecoming of Dartmouth students. But what is even more disappointing is the administration's paltry and tame response to these events.
(04/19/13 2:00am)
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot and killed late Thursday night on the university's campus, The MIT Tech reported. At 12:01 a.m., the emergency alert system reported that students should remain indoors and that police were still sweeping the grounds. The weapon used to shoot the officer was recovered, but no arrest has been made as of press time, and the search for a suspect or suspects continues. The shooting occurred at 10:30 p.m.
(04/19/13 2:00am)
Welcome to Hanover, future '17s. With the best undergraduate education in the world, our passionate student body and profound sense of community, Dartmouth is much more than just another four years of school. It is an experience, an incredibly engrossing chapter of your life that will leave you forever connected to this campus.
(04/12/13 2:00am)
Over the last several years, students have increasingly questioned Student Assembly's relevance. Past presidential candidates often promised more than they could possibly deliver, undermining the Assembly's credibility. Nonetheless, the Assembly can, and should, play a very important role on this campus, liaising with various student groups and between students and administrators. Dartmouth needs a student body president who is cognizant of the limitations of the position's power and will focus on fulfilling the Assembly's core functions instead of pursuing extraneous and unrealistic pipe dreams. With these considerations in mind, we believe Adrian Ferrari '14 is best suited to lead the Assembly over this next, crucial year in Dartmouth's history.
(04/11/13 11:16pm)
She will succeed chancellor Holden Thorp, who is stepping down July 1 to become provost at Washington University in St. Louis. The UNC Board will formally elect Folt to the helm of the university on Friday afternoon after a multi-month search process. Folt will be first female chancellor of the university, comprised of 29,000 students, the News and Observer reported.
(04/08/13 2:00am)
This weekend, the College celebrated 40 years of coeducation with the Greenways conference ("College Celebrates Coeducation," Apr. 8), welcoming alumnae back to campus for a series of panel discussions on career and life experiences. It was a rare and wonderful occasion, with speakers who are leaders across the fields of business, science and technology, media, arts, politics and academia. Yet it failed to provide the mentorship and personal connections to undergraduates, who obviously would have benefitted from interacting with alumni.
(04/05/13 2:00am)
With the first housing applications for Fall term due today, the College's housing problems are again at the forefront of students' minds. Many of us have heard friends and classmates complain about the inconvenience of remote dormitories like the Lodge or the space constraints of one-room closets in Wheeler. Given the chronic shortage of quality housing, and considering that nearly 90 percent of students live on campus, the College should renovate some of its existing housing stock and add new, modern dormitories.
(03/29/13 3:00am)
Yesterday evening, Dartmouth and its Ivy League peers released admissions decisions for the Class of 2017. Not only did Dartmouth have fewer applicants this year than last year, but the admission rate increased to 10 percent from 9.4 ("College admits 10 percent of applicants to Class of 2017," Mar. 29). Dartmouth is the only Ivy to increase its acceptance rate and, with the exception of Princeton University, the only one to see fewer applicants. While this development is unfortunate, it was nonetheless entirely predictable.
(03/28/13 11:50pm)
The College admitted 2,252 applicants to the Class of 2017, roughly 10 percent of the 22,400 students who applied, according to an email from Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris. This figure marks a slight increase from the 9.4 percent admissions rate last year.
(03/12/13 7:35pm)
Jose Clemente Orozco's famed mural series in Baker-Berry Library was named a national historic landmark yesterday at a commemoration by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis. "The Epic of American Civilization" was one of 13 monuments to receive the prestigious designation this year.
(03/08/13 4:00am)
Yesterday, the College released nine strategic planning working group reports, detailing a two-year reflection process on Dartmouth's operations and priorities. Interim President Carol Folt invited students to provide input that will be synthesized and presented to President-elect Philip Hanlon when he arrives in July. Overall, the release of these long-awaited ideas is poorly timed and unhelpfully vague.
(03/04/13 4:00am)
"Life of Pi" (2012) has a particularly simple plot: a boy, left alone with just his thoughts and a tiger, is stranded in the middle of the ocean. The protagonist, named Piscine but who goes by "Pi" (Irrfan Khan), spent most of his childhood on his father's zoo in India. When he turns 16, Pi's father (Adil Hussain) decides to sell the animals and moves to Canada, and the family travels by boat to make the journey. A giant storm hits, and Pi is separated from his family and left alone, stranded on a lifeboat with just a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a tiger. Axel Hufford