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(04/07/10 2:00am)
Every Dartmouth student can agree on the importance of a high-quality education. After all, the caliber of our schooling determines where we work, how much money we make and what elite college bumper stickers we can display on the backs of our cars. The generosity of Dartmouth alumni illustrates the continuing truth of gratitude for a high-quality education; in 2007, our alumni body was second only to Princeton for alumni donation rates, according to U.S. News & World Report. This statistic shows that to alumni, an excellent education is worth investing in. Such sentiments are not surprising. For nearly 250 years, Dartmouth College graduates have used their education at the Big Green to pull away from the masses of people entering the job market and attain some of the most elite careers in the country.
(02/14/08 10:44am)
Though alcohol violations forced an unnamed student to withdraw from the College for two years, she continued to drive 100 miles to Hanover every week to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings on campus. When she finally returned to Dartmouth, however, she became intoxicated during Homecoming Weekend for the first time since her withdrawal from the College and was forced to separate permanently.
(02/08/08 3:37pm)
Some alumni said the elimination of events like the construction of numerous snow sculptures and Psi Upsilon fraternity's keg jump serve as evidence of a less spirited campus.
(02/05/08 1:59pm)
Plans to re-establish the Dartmouth chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., an African-American organization, have raised questions about the impact the sorority will have on diversity in the Greek system and whether or not it will alter the balance between male and female social spaces on campus.
(02/04/08 8:15am)
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., an African American sorority, will return to Dartmouth in the Spring or Fall of 2008, according to an e-mail sent by Fouad Saleet, associate director of Coed, Fraternities and Sororities Administration, to various campus organizations on Feb. 1. The Xi Lambda Chapter, founded at Dartmouth in 1983, has been inactive since 2003.
(01/30/08 7:42pm)
Every morning at 7:45 a.m., high school principal Jorge Miranda '01 stands at the doors of the Media and Technology Charter High School in Boston, Mass., and personally greets his 220 students. Before allowing students to enter the building, Miranda asks each of them "Why are you here?" to which they respond "to learn." He then asks: "What will learning take?" which garners the response "courage, discipline and perseverance."
(01/22/08 8:40am)
The four nights of Winter term sorority rush ended with 69 women receiving bids from the seven sororities on campus on Sunday afternoon. In contrast to Fall term's sorority rush, 100 percent of participating women accepted bids from one of the houses that they had visited on preference night and 90 percent of the rushees were invited to join their preferred house. During fall rush, 10 women received bids from houses that they had not visited during the final round.
(01/16/08 9:42am)
Winter term sorority rush, altered by a new ranking system and a shortened four day process, began Tuesday evening. Eighty-nine women are registered to participate in rush, and each of the College's seven sororities is expected to accept between 10 and 15 new members.
(01/14/08 2:36pm)
After a fire at the Armory Square Apartments in Windsor, Vt.,on the morning of Dec. 30, 17 residents were forced from their homes. Displaced families have been staying at the Yankee Village Motel in Ascutney, Vt., but were informed Friday that Armory Square would no longer pay for their lodging, and that they needed to vacate the motel by Monday, Jan. 14.
(01/08/08 11:38am)
As Dartmouth students scream slogans on street corners and proudly don their candidates' pins in the last hours before voting in the New Hampshire primaries begins, campus religious organizations remain largely uninvolved in preparations for the primary. Although many members of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim groups on campus are heavily involved in campaigns, the organizations themselves have chosen not to endorse individual candidates in today's primary.
(01/07/08 10:33am)
Alumnus James Boen '53, one of the oldest living quadriplegics in the United States, died on Dec. 6 at age 75. James, better known as Jim by family and friends, resided in Hopkins, Minn. with his wife of 50 years, Dorothy Boen.
(11/15/07 8:44am)
A team of researchers at the Dartmouth Medical School has found that small quantities of arsenic, similar to amounts found in the drinking water of some regions in the United States, can suppress the activity of key hormones involved in human development, including testosterone and estrogen. The study, funded by grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, showed that consuming arsenic can prevent the hormones from binding to their specific receptors. Although the researchers focused on two hormone receptors in frogs, both receptors are also essential to human development. The study will be published in the upcoming edition of Environmental Health Perspectives and appeared on the journal's website on Oct. 26.
(11/12/07 8:54am)
Addressing the pressing foreign-policy questions of Iraq, Iran and Darfur, Samantha Power, a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and advisor to presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., advocated the candidate's foreign policy platforms to around 12 Dartmouth students in Sanborn Library on Saturday morning. Power emphasized that Obama's alleged "experience deficit" is not a hindrance to his leadership capability.
(11/07/07 7:31pm)
Ellen Young, the manager of Consulting Services at Computer Services, used to e-mail one student per day on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America, asking them to remove illegally downloaded material from their computers. More recently, however, Young's average has climbed to sending five to 10 of these e-mails daily, an influx she attributes to the intensification of the RIAA's pursuit of copyright infringements.
(11/05/07 6:11am)
A Dartmouth committee is currently investigating the possibility of using iTunes U, an Apple program that enables college students to download videos of campus lectures and events. Some 28 universities and colleges, including Duke University and Yale University, currently use iTunes U.
(10/31/07 6:38am)
Dartmouth is preparing to lobby against the September legislative proposal made by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, that would require U.S. universities to spend more of their endowments in an attempt increase financial aid awards.
(10/04/07 6:13am)
Recent, personalized e-mails sent to members of the Class of 2008 by Teach for America recruitment associates are a surprising change for seniors who have grown accustomed to mailing resumes and making phone calls to catch the attention of potential employers.
(10/01/07 5:58am)
In the hopes of providing women with a safer alternative to mammography, currently the leading form of breast cancer screening in the United States, Thayer School of Engineering professor Paul Meaney has been researching and testing the use of microwave rays as a new form of cancer imaging. The project, begun in the 1990s and researched both at Thayer and at Meaney's company, Microwave Imaging Systems Technology, is the first to use a microwave imaging system in a clinic.
(09/27/07 9:13am)
Dartmouth's capital campaign is back on track, according to Vice President for Development Carolyn Pelzel.
(05/25/07 5:31am)
A survey directed by the Tuck School of Business, Executive Education at Dartmouth, Fortune 500 consultant Cali Yost and international market staffing firm Aquent, found that while employees often take time off from their jobs for personal or professional reasons, many businesses find it difficult to adapt to a temporary change in the employee roster. In surveying hiring managers and workers, researchers found that only 36 percent of businesses will recruit employees who are currently taking time off, and 34 percent of businesses will recruit workers who desire flexibility in their job schedule. According to a Tuck press release, those who evaluated the surveys agree that the culture of the American workforce must become more flexible for employees who want to take time off, and employees who are currently out of the workforce should learn skills and make connections that will make them more appealing to businesses when looking for re-employment.