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(05/15/09 7:46am)
After months of winter weather and dark basement parties, leaders in many Greek organizations say they will move their social events outdoors for Green Key Weekend. Theta Delta Chi fraternity's pig roast, Phi Delta Alpha fraternity's block party and Alpha Delta fraternity's lawn party will all offer students and alumni a chance to celebrate spring outdoors this weekend.
(05/05/09 6:04am)
Eight new individuals with ties to Harvard Dental School have been labeled "probable" cases of swine flu, according to a Friday announcement by the Boston Public Health Commission, The Harvard Crimson reported on Monday. There are a total of nine suspected cases in the Boston area, all of which are linked to Harvard Dental School. The school is currently awaiting test results to verify the diagnoses of swine flu, David Rosenthal, director of Harvard University Health Services told The Crimson. The dental school cases are of particular concern because the infected students had interacted with patients during their medical rounds. The dental school and Harvard Dental Center, where students practice, have both been closed until May 6. Harvard Medical School has suspended its clinical rotations until that date, which marks the end of the transmissibility period for the current probable cases.
(04/17/09 8:21am)
Unable to convince the Board of Trustees to add a graduate school representative to the presidential search committee, Samuel Bakhoum, a fourth-year M.D./Ph.D candidate, and Bradley Demay, who will complete his Ph.D in biology in 2010, decided to create an advocacy body for graduate students. The two founded the Dartmouth Graduate Senate in Fall 2008 to serve the needs of all graduate students at the College.
(04/08/09 6:34am)
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(03/10/09 6:17am)
Cornell University will cut endowment spending by 15 percent as part of an effort to cover its 10-percent budget shortfall, Bloomberg reported Saturday. The university had originally planned to cut spending by 5 percent on its main campus in Ithaca, N.Y. and 8 percent at the medical school campus in New York City in order to compensate for lower numbers of donations, endowment earnings and state funding, but further financial losses required greater budget cuts, Bloomberg reported. The university's endowment was $5.39 billion last June before plummeting 27 percent in the following six months, according to Bloomberg. In addition to budget cuts, the school is raising tuition, increasing the size of the Class of 2013 by 100 students, suspending construction until June 30 and offering buyouts to more than 1,300 non-faculty employees in an effort to reduce costs, Bloomberg reported.
(02/24/09 9:17am)
New findings by The Chronicle of Higher Education suggest that university specialists and top-level administrators often make more than the presidents of their universities, The New York Times reported Sunday. The Chronicle's annual compensation survey found that of the 88 private college employees with salaries over $1 million per year, only 11 were college presidents, The Times reported. Topping the list was University of Southern California head football coach Pete Carroll, who earned $4,415,714, almost four times the salary of U.S.C. President Steven Sample. Medical school administrators and professors were some of the best-paid employees, according to the report. The increase in pay for university presidents and administrators has raised concerns about the widening gap between the salaries of administrators and professors, according to The Times.
(02/18/09 8:58am)
The University of Pennsylvania saw a decrease in the total number of applications for the Class of 2013, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian. Penn received a total of 22,845 applications, 90 fewer than last year. While the university saw a slight increase in regular decision applications, early decision applications fell six percent from last year, The Pennsylvanian reported. Penn is one of the only schools in the Ivy League to see a decline in applications. Dartmouth, Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University and Brown University all saw applicant increases this year, according to The Pennsylvanian. Since 2004, Penn's applicant pool has grown 25 percent, compared to the 50 percent increase experienced at Dartmouth since 2003, The Pennsylvanian reported. Penn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda told The Pennsylvanian he was happy with the number of applications Penn received, saying that too many applicants can lead to insufficient review of each application.
(01/30/09 10:40am)
"I quit my job, packed up my apartment, and drove out to Iowa with nothing but a dream," he said.
(11/20/08 8:50am)
Approximately five colleges and non-profit organizations are considering suing their investment managers in light of recent financial losses, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Wednesday. Jacob Zamansky, an attorney currently involved in a lawsuit against failed investment bank Bear Stearns, told The Chronicle that endowment lawsuits claim that brokers mismanaged funds by suggesting investments that were inappropriate or too risky. The lawsuits may also include accusations of misinformation regarding the stability of suggested investments, Zamansky said. Other experts speculate that colleges and non-profit organizations could discover that investment managers overstepped their written mandates when investing their endowments, according to the article. Investment consultant Dick Anderson said he believed that large institutions, like colleges and universities, will be less likely to take legal action because most have several layers of investment oversight, The Chronicle reported. Problems are more likely to arise with smaller institutions and individuals who rely more heavily on outside sources to make investment decisions on their behalf, according to the article.
(11/19/08 10:16am)
The panel featured representatives from ACCION, a non-profit microfinance firm that specializes in the developing world, and Grameen America, a microfinance company that aims to alleviate poverty in the United States. Speakers included Josh Goldstein, a director at ACCION's Center for Financial Inclusion, Tanya Palit, a project manager at Grameen America, and Greg Fallon, a Hanover-based volunteer for ACCION.
(11/17/08 9:13am)
FIRST Lego League is an international organization "created to get kids excited about science and technology," according to its web site. The league holds annual qualifying and championship competitions, each with a theme. This year's theme, "Climate Connections," focused on past, present and future global climate conditions.
(10/24/08 7:11am)
The College Board announced the release of a new standardized test for eighth-graders, available next fall, according to The New York Times. The test program, named ReadiStep, was designed as "a diagnostic tool to provide information about student's strengths and weaknesses," College Board vice president Lee Jones told The Times. The test assesses students' strength in critical reading, writing and mathematics skills before entering high school and will help to prepare students for high school and college courses. The two-hour test will cost roughly ten dollars per student for those schools that decide to participate in ReadiStep. Critics of Readistep argue that the test will only intensify the already competitive college admissions process and will extend its reach to even younger students, calling it a "pre-pre-pre SAT." The new program comes at a time of increased criticism regarding the influence of standardized testing in the college admissions process, according to The Times.
(10/17/08 8:50am)
Dartmouth students will partake in a wide range of programming events this weekend, in honor of Homecoming weekend. In addition to Saturday's football game and a number of parties at Greek organizations, student groups and Programming Board have planned a number of other activities for students this weekend.