Casey Cramer '04, a fullback for the Tennessee Titans, who played football for the Big Green while at Dartmouth, caught two passes for a total of 45 yards to help the Titans to a 27-24 victory over the New England Patriots in a preseason game on Friday. Cramer, a former tight end, was selected by Tampa Bay in the 7th round of the 2004 draft but did not make the team that year. He played just one game in 2005 before playing 15 games for Tennessee in his sophomore campaign, during which he caught two passes for 8 yards. Although Cramer is listed as the number two fullback on the Titans' roster after Ahmard Hall, he knows his struggle to remain on the team is not over, he told the Union Leader. At Dartmouth, Cramer ranked second in school history with 185 career receptions. During his junior year at the College, he tallied 72 receptions, the highest number in the nation for a tight end. Cramer said he looks to fellow Ivy League players Eric Johnson from Yale -- currently a receiver for the New Orleans Saints -- and Sean Morey, a Brown alumnus who plays for Arizona for inspiration.
Juan Carlos Jorge-Rivera, a researcher at the University of Puerto Rico, was censured by the National Institute of Health Office of Research Integrity for work he conducted as a postdoc at Dartmouth between 1997 and 2000. According to a notice published in the Federal Register on August 14, Jorge-Rivera "knowingly and intentionally falsified" the data from 11 experiments measuring the effects of anabolic steroids on neurophysiological activity. Jorge-Rivera told The Scientist that he is in the process of having the resulting paper he published retracteds. The paper, which contained false data in two figures, has been cited 30 times. Jorge Rivera is now ineligible to receive funding from any Federal agency between Jan. 11, 2007 and Jan. 11, 2009. For the following three years, he will be required to submit a certification of veracity for any data he provides.
A survey of the "Best 366 Colleges" compiled by The Princeton Review revealed Dartmouth as number six for "Major frat and sorority scene" and number 15 for hardest to get into. The survey ranked colleges in 62 categories based on the responses from 120,000 students.
