The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill admissions office mistakenly sent 2,700 applicants e-mail notifications of admission on Wednesday. The generic e-mail, intended for accepted students only, asked students to submit their mid-year high school grades. An employee selected the wrong distribution list for the e-mail, an oversight aggravated by the fact that another employee had not modified the e-mail to say "Congratulations again on your admission to the university." UNC Chapel Hill director of admissions Stephen Farmer said most people were very understanding about the problem, according to an article posted on the web site of a local television network, WRAL-TV. The employees involved will not face any reprimand.
Ramsey Jay Jr. Tu '05 was named as one of "Thirty Young Leaders Under 30" in Ebony Magazine's February 2007 issue. Jay is an associate in Morgan Stanley's private wealth management division as well as the CEO of a company he founded called Elite Capital Management, which provides financial advice to high-profile professional athletes. Ebony Magazine focused on Jay's philanthropic achievements as well. Jay works with economic empowerment programs such as Operation HOPE, an anti-poverty group. Also a respected public speaker, he returned to Dartmouth to speak at Tuck's Diversity Day in November 2006.
Presidential hopefuls will be flocking to New Hampshire in the next two weeks. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the Rockefeller Center will hold health policy forums like those that occurred before the 2004 presidential election. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., spoke at this event in 2003, but announced on Wednesday that he will not run for president in 2008. Republican Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, will initiate the forum by appearing at Dartmouth next week. John Edwards will speak in Alumni Hall next Wednesday at 2:45 p.m. Rudolph Giuliani will speak in the Littleton, N.H., area Jan. 26. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is also set to appear in New Hampshire on Feb. 3 and 4.