A team of five Dartmouth undergraduates came in first in the National Intercollegiate Business Ethics Competition. At the event, held at Loyola Marymount Univeristy on April 20 and 21, Dartmouth finished above the other 32 graduate and undergraduate institutions to win a $2,000 prize. The competition challenged teams to make a presentation on the legal, financial and ethical implications of a real life business situation, and then present solutions to the problem. The Dartmouth team considered a recent scandal at Hewlett Packard, in which senior staff monitored the phone calls of employees suspected of leaking information to the press. "We were really surprised that we won," competitor Samantha Mandel '10 said. "We had four meetings before the tournament and then practiced extensively in our hotel room the night before." Mandel, Ezra D. Tzfadya '07, Tatyana Liskovich '08, G. Emily Ghods-Esfahani '09, and Nikhil Jain '09 comprised Dartmouth's squad. They were guided by Professors Aine Donovan and Jeffrey Nesteruk, both of the Ethics Institute, along with three Tuck students.
Award winning journalist Helen Zia gave the Keynote Address for the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Community Dinner Thursday night. The speech, delivered to an audience of approximately 100 students in Collis Common Ground, was the first event of Asian Pacific Heritage Month. In her speech, Zia urged the audiences to "build bridges" and construct relationships with those that they might perceive as different from themselves in an effort to curb the problems facing the world today. "We are constantly reminded to look for anything that is different, anything that doesn't belong instead of looking for our shared humanity" Zia said. "There is no single box we can check to describe ourselves."
Marilee Jones resigned from her post as Dean of Admissions for Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday after it surfaced that the she had faked credentials on her resume when applying to work at the university 28 years ago. Jones listed degrees from Albany Medical College, Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on various versions of her resume, despite not having a degree from any of these schools. Jones, who initially joined the college at a position that did not require a college degree, worked as assistant dean and associate dean before becoming dean of admissions in 1997.
