Director of Network Services Frank Archambeault announced Friday that students will be able to watch cable TV on their own television sets through the same wiring that carries phone conversations and other data beginning next term. Previously, students could only watch TV over the network by using DarTV. Now, TV addicts can get their fix by paying a $100 refundable deposit in exchange for a special box that allows a regular TV to connect to the digital TV data in the College's system.
At the end of the 2007 Spring term, however, the regular, old-fashioned cable service will be terminated and students will have to either buy a box or watch through their computers.
A recent study by Dartmouth, Cornell University and University of Wyoming researchers found that removing even one important species in a freshwater ecosystem will severely disturb that ecosystem, contradicting earlier studies that suggested other species could compensate for the lost organism.
Research associate Brad Taylor of the biology department studied one fish, the flannelmouth characin, which they found played a critical role in the river ecosystem. The study, published in the journal Science, was funded by the National Science Foundation.
For the seventh year in a row, U.S. News & World Report ranked Dartmouth as the ninth-best college in America. The rankings are based on factors such as graduation rate, class size, student-to-faculty ratio, SAT scores, alumni giving rate and acceptance rate. Princeton University nabbed the number one spot, with Harvard University and Yale University rounding out the top three. California Institute of Technology, Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology tied for fourth place, and University of Pennsylvania and Duke University placed seventh and eighth respectively. The rankings have come under criticism for their reliance on a "peer assessment score," which accounts for 25 percent of each school's score.
