College fares poorly in international rankings
By PAULINA KARPIS | September 29, 2010Although Dartmouth has shown improvement in certain university ranking reports the College improved two places in the 2011 U.S.
Although Dartmouth has shown improvement in certain university ranking reports the College improved two places in the 2011 U.S.
Pop superstar Ke$ha will be headlining a Programming Board- sponsored concert in Leverone Field House on Monday, Oct. 25. Indie-pop acts Cataracts and Dev will open for the concert, according to Programming Board concert chair Amaris Galea-Orbe '11. Members of Programming Board expect that the concert ...
Student Body President Eric Tanner '11 will continue with plans implement a new issue-based committee system in Student Assembly this term, having already selected two co-chairs for each of the seven new committees, he said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The change was necessary because while many campus organizations focus on programming, the campus needed an organization that could deal primarily with policy issues, according to Tanner. Last spring, the General Assembly approved constitutional bylaw amendments that replaced the previous committee system, which consisted of four committees, centered around programming and events.
The College will honor four valedictorians at the Class of 2010 Commencement Benjamin Gifford '10, Gregory Hart '10, Tomi Jun '08 and Adrian Wood-Smith '10. All four students earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average. Ayah Ahmed '10 has been named this year's salutatorian, with a 3.99 GPA. Gifford, a ...
The Class of 1960 has agreed to donate $200,000 to the Dartmouth College Fund in the name of the Class of 2010, which it had promised to do if the graduating class achieved 100 percent participation, despite the fact that not every member of the Class of 2010 donated to the Senior Class Gift, Dartmouth College Fund executive director Sylvia Racca said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Donations from the senior class amounted to a Senior Class Gift of $10,000, with a record of 99 percent of seniors donating, according to Racca. Although student volunteers involved with the Senior Class Gift declined to divulge the exact number of students who had not donated, an e-mail from a Senior Class Gift volunteer obtained by The Dartmouth noted that 99.9 percent of seniors had donated, and that only one senior had not donated. The Class of 1960 partnered with the Class of 2010 through Class Connections an informal relationship between current undergraduate classes and the returning 50-year reunion class, according to the Dartmouth College Office of Alumni Relations web site. The Class of 1960 pledged to donate $1,000 to the Dartmouth College Fund for every 1 percent of the seniors or approximately ten students that donated to the fund.
Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff During its presentation on Wednesday, the Student and Presidential Alcohol Harm Reduction Committee recommended the formation of a student monitoring initiative to ensure Greek houses comply with College alcohol policies, the creation of an alcohol coordinator position and the limitation of beer cans through a more liberal keg policy as part of a slate of proposed policy changes.
Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff College Safety and Security recorded a slight increase in the number of Good Samaritan calls placed over this Green Key weekend, but as a result of the April change in Hanover Police policy, the calls did not lead to any Dartmouth students' arrests, according to Harry Kinne, director of Safety and Security and interim associate Dean of the College. Nine students were transported to Dick's House and six were taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center via ambulance, Kinne said.
David Fein '82 became Connecticut's U.S. attorney on Monday, after being nominated for the post by President Barack Obama in February, The Day reported on Monday.
Despite widespread scrutiny of investment banks for their roles in the economic recession and, in the case of Goldman Sachs, allegedly profiting from the downturn most Dartmouth students have not been discouraged from pursuing careers in finance.
Courtesy of Dartmouth.edu Courtesy of Dartmouth.edu The hardest part about being the chief executive officer of Freddie Mac was originally deciding to accept the position, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Ed Haldeman '70 told audience members in a lecture titled "Leading Through Adversity: Working for Our Nation's Housing Recovery" held at the Tuck School of Business on Tuesday. When Haldeman was offered the CEO position last June, he was hesitant about assuming command of the beleaguered government-sponsored loan organization, he said. Freddie Mac, which borrowed approximately $50 billion from the government at a 10 percent interest rate to stay afloat, has had six CEOs in six years.