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(10/22/15 11:20pm)
The Greek Leadership Council’s six-week ban on first-year students entering Greek houses has been enforced each fall for three years now. Safety and Security director Harry Kinne has said that the policy has had a consistent, positive effect. He did not have specific numbers to corroborate this claim.
(10/20/15 11:20pm)
I still remember the sinking feeling in my gut, promptly replaced by a simmering rage, when a pedestrian in the Pennsylvania suburbs — where my family had moved to from South Korea — hurled an ethnic slur at me. Then there was the time when my parents, unskilled in spoken English, remained shocked in silence as a homeowner launched a racist tirade against them for accidentally driving through his frontyard. Throughout high school, whenever I volunteered at a community tutoring center for children, several children mocked me by slanting their eyes with their fingers.
(10/16/15 12:46am)
This past Monday, an unknown number of students posted flyers advertising Dartmouth Indian apparel in an apparent attempt to mock the movement to replace the federal Columbus Day holiday with an Indigenous Peoples Day. This editorial board joins Provost Carolyn Dever, Dean of the College Rebecca Biron and many other campus organizations in condemning this behavior.
(10/13/15 6:43pm)
On Monday — the federal holiday Columbus Day — posters advertising apparel featuring the Dartmouth Indian appeared in various residence halls on campus. Today, Provost Carolyn Dever and Dean of the College Rebecca Biron co-signed an email to campus condemning the flyers, calling the act of distributing them around campus “cowardly and disrespectful.”
(10/09/15 1:19am)
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(10/09/15 12:12am)
In this Homecoming special issue, The Dartmouth examines mental health on campus. The phrase “mental health” has increasingly become a synonym for depression, anxiety and general stress — and we often forget about the host of other mental illnesses and chronic conditions that people face. Despite being less visible, mental well-being goes hand-in-hand with other factors that shape our lives — our sex, gender, race, class and sexual orientation — as well as our pasts, particularly for those who have experienced sexual or other violence.
(10/02/15 12:09am)
This week, College President Phil Hanlon announced that the Geisel School of Medicine will restructure in response to budgetary problems. Administrators aim to reduce the medical school’s $26 to 28 million annual deficit by diverting funds from the medical school’s weaker programs to its stronger ones.
(10/01/15 10:30pm)
The responses to the Association of American Universities campus climate survey certainly put the College above national norms or expectations regarding sexual assault awareness and reaction. Our campus is known to have a high incidence of sexual assault — this could either mean that we have more assaults than other schools or that assaults on our campus are reported more often than elsewhere. Either way, the recent survey responses prove that Dartmouth students, on average, are relatively more receptive to and likely to take action in the case of sexual assault or misconduct. These statistics and our status in relation to national averages, however, cannot make us complacent or distract us from our mission. Just because we are doing better than other schools does not mean we are doing well. Just because our students are more aware of, more likely to act on and even more likely to report sexual assault or misconduct, does not mean that we have reached our goal. We need to force ourselves to act without regard to our relative status. Receptiveness and awareness of sexual assault is not another Ivy League numbers game. It is not about competing with schools across the nation — it is about competing with ourselves. The survey gives us a good perspective on where we are, but it should not distract from where we are aiming to be.
(10/01/15 10:20pm)
1) What kind of music did you listen to growing up? Why was this the kind of music you listened to?
(10/01/15 5:34pm)
Following both internal and external criticism, recently appointed Susan Taffe Reed will no longer serve as the director of the Native American Program, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence confirmed in an email.
(09/28/15 4:48pm)
The Geisel School of Medicine will undergo an overhauldue to budgetary constraints, though the details of the plan have not been finalized pending faculty input, College President Phil Hanlon announced at a town hall meeting in Kellogg Auditorium today. He attributed the budgetary issues to a national trend of decreasing revenue streams for academic medicine and said the change will involve reallocating funds toward programs that promote “academic excellence” — though this may result in a “reduction in force” in other areas.
(09/25/15 5:32pm)
Dari Seo ’16 was confirmed as Student Assembly vice president on Friday in a near-unanimous vote. According to Assembly rules, Seo needed votes of two thirds of the general assembly to be confirmed.
(09/24/15 11:04pm)
Last week, the College ended its eight-year-old “need-blind” policy for international applicants in favor of a “need-aware” policy, meaning that the College will consider the financial need of international applicants as an admissions criterion. College spokesperson Diana Lawrence has stated that the goal is “to increase and stabilize” the international student population on campus.
(09/24/15 2:26pm)
The College saw an 8.3 percent return on its endowment for the 2015 fiscal year, the College announced last night in a press release. The endowment saw 19.2 percent growth for the 2014 fiscal year, 12.1 percent for 2013,5.8 percent in 2012 and 18.4 percentin 2011.
(09/23/15 10:30pm)
Most College policies generate some mixed opinions among the student body, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one with such a unanimous opposition such as this. It’s also disastrous for our international appeal — Dartmouth’s name brand isn’t huge outside of the United States in the same way a big research university like Harvard University, Columbia University or even Duke University’s brand is.
(09/21/15 9:03am)
The data from the College's first ever sexual assault campus climate survey, conducted by the American Association of Universities, were released online today, College President Phil Hanlon announced in a campus-wide email.
(09/18/15 12:20am)
Despite the lack of hard alcohol on campus and the occasional grumblings about so-called academic rigor, the start of this fall term has been business as usual. As College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative approaches the nine-month anniversary of its announcement, it has begun to lose its novelty. Going forth, administrators and students alike must remember the passion that went into the initiative during its inception. Borne of an institutional identity crisis, “Moving Dartmouth Forward” has always aimed to improve Dartmouth, despite sometimes-fierce disagreement over precisely how to do so. As more components of the plan enter the admittedly less glamorous implementation phase, we cannot lose sight of this goal.
(09/16/15 10:00pm)
We asked our Opinion Staff to reflect on Dartmouth's new "Citizenship Pledge."
(09/14/15 11:38am)
The case against African and African American studies and English professor J. Martin Favor will moveto a grand jury, after Favor waived his right to a probable cause hearing on Monday. Favor was arrested on Sept. 4 for allegedly having videos of child pornography in his possession.
(09/09/15 4:55am)