Remember your freshman dorm kitchen? Most likely crusty, unused and stocked with the food of terrifying upperclassmen who would toss a blasé (most likely off campus, which, as a sophomore, I am still embarrassingly in awe of ) dish in the refrigerator for maybe weeks, but no one would have the nerve ...
Three students were arrested last weekend, Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said, which marked the lowest number in recent history. This year’s Green Key weekend saw the usual boost in campus police activity, Kinne said, and most calls were related to alcohol.
After hovering between 60 and 70 percent since 2008, the yield for admitted transfer students dropped to 47 percent in 2013. Despite the smaller rate, the office of undergraduate admissions will not change the process by which it attracts accepted transfer students to the College, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris said.
This year, 282 students from a pool of over 600 applicants will lead Dartmouth Outing Club first-year trips, and 64 students from about 200 applicants were selected to be on Croos, program director Gerben Scherpbier ’14 said.
Next year’s fellows listed a love of Dartmouth, desire to gain work experience and the opportunity to give back to the school as reasons they applied to the program, which places young alumni in College offices.
The Patient Support Corps, a program matching undergraduates and first and second-year Geisel School of Medicine students with patients at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, recently received a $200,000 Arthur Vining Davis Foundations grant to be paid out over three years.
An engineering course that focuses on human-centered design methodologies aims to show students the “human side of the equation” in engineering and teach them to address complex and pressing issues.
On Thursday evening, six panelists shared personal stories about coming to Dartmouth from low-income backgrounds, describing the difficulties and surprises that they have experienced. The panel, called “The Taboo Identity,” and small-group discussions that followed fostered dialogue about socioeconomic identity on campus.
Both the College and Tuck have ramped up their social media presence over the past few months, aiming to better connect to current students, prospective students and alumni.
For the students studying this ROTC management process and the technical skills that underlie it, Dartmouth offers a unique opportunity.