After two years without an Arabic language study abroad option, the trip to Rabat will cater to students who have taken one year of Arabic courses, placing them in homestay living arrangements.
With lighting that changes from red to blue to purple and a chalkboard that covers the expanse of a wall, a basement room in Russell Sage, the College’s oldest first-year dorm, has been converted into a new social space. Called the Cellar, the space is one of three major renovations made to Russell Sage and Butterfield halls as part of an initiative overseen by the student-run organization Dartmouth Roots to improve residential life.
Students and inmates at the Sullivan County House of Corrections, in Unity, will perform alongside each other tonight in a culminating production for this spring’s “Telling My Story” program.
Students breezed in and out of Collis Common Ground, meditating, finger painting and playing with therapy dogs at a mental health fair on Wednesday. The fair, attended by over 400 students, offered free depression and mental health screenings as well as meetings with counselors and nutritionists.
As students finalize spring term course schedules, over 120 upperclassmen have enrolled in one of the Tuck School of Business’s termly undergraduate classes. Since the program was established five years ago, the three available courses have taught undergraduates practical business skills. As the courses grow in popularity, however, some interested students find themselves shut out due to course limits.
Author and speaker Aaron Boe called upon audience members to be part of the “educated generation” by breaking the cycle of disrespect and sexual assault on college campuses in a talk Tuesday afternoon. Boe, a former stand-up comedian, spoke in Filene Auditorium about fostering physically and emotionally balanced relationships.
As storms have slammed the Northeast without reprieve, hopeful students have called for college-wide snow days. An official snow day, commuting professors, faculty and staff say, would help those who need to brave icy road conditions.
Students passionate about subjects varying from television to triathlons can to live with peers with similar interests in a new housing initiative that will launch this fall. The program will allow 15 or more students who share a common interest or hobby to apply to live together, according to the office of residential life’s website.
After visiting various galleries, museums and private collections, the students chose “Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965,” by James Karales to add to the Hood’s collection.
Over 30 groups composed of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students presented their proposals to seven judges and an audience in Loew Auditorium on Jan. 14. The nine winning proposals included an art marketplace that doubles as a fundraising platform and a physics word game.