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(06/10/07 2:39am)
Members of the Class of 2007 enjoyed Dartmouth careers marked by a mix of highs and lows. During their time at the College, the graduating seniors witnessed dramatic changes in the faculty, participated in surprising Student Assembly presidential elections and mourned the death of a classmate.
(05/24/07 5:25am)
Dartmouth's Interactive Media Laboratory has created a computer program to teach fire, police, and emergency medical services trainees how to respond to domestic terrorist attacks. The program is called "Ops-Plus for WMD Hazmat," and is the first course for IML's Virtual Terrorism Response Academy, an anti-terrorism training academy for first responders funded by the Department of Homeland Security through Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies.
(05/17/07 7:00am)
Robert Oelman '31, former chairman of Ford Motor's finance committee and chief executive of the technology company NCR Corporation, died at the age of 97 in Delray Beach, Fla., last Thursday, according to an obituary in Wednesday's New York Times. Born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1909, Oelman graduated from Dartmouth and then attended the University of Vienna, where he met his future wife, Mary Coolidge. In 1968, Oelman helped to found Wright State University in Dayton. That same year, he was asked by Nelson Rockefeller to be the Ohio Republican chairman for Rockefeller's unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1968 and 1972. In addition to being a Dartmouth trustee, Oelman was chairman of the Wright State trustees as well as a trustee of the University of Dayton. He is survived by his wife, three children, nine grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
(05/09/07 7:49am)
In his speech "Race, Queerness & Sexuality" delivered Tuesday night to an audience of about 35, Keith Boykin '87 said that he chose to attend Dartmouth because of its reputation as a conservative school.
(05/09/07 7:45am)
According to Brown, Pride events occur throughout the world and usually take place in the spring. Some last for only a day; others span entire months. Their purpose is to celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender pride and raise awareness about LGBT issues.
(04/27/07 7:29am)
Due to excess demand for the recently approved vaccine that guards against Human Papilloma Virus, many girls applying for the free doses through New Hampshire's Vaccines for Children program have found themselves on waiting lists.
(04/19/07 12:15pm)
Two of Dartmouth's College Bowl teams qualified for the National Academic Quiz Tournament's Division II intercollegiate championship. The College Bowl A-team placed second out of 32 teams in the NAQT's finals, recently held at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis. The College Bowl B-team finished 21st, with three of four teammates, all freshmen. The A-team's Dominic Machado '09 won an All-Star scoring award for being the division's fourth-highest scorer. A-team members include Machado, Anirudh Jangalapalli '09, Randall Maas '09 and Aravind Reddy '09. The B-Team members are Robert Cousins '09, Kevin Karp '10, Ashley Walker '10 and Austin Zheng '10. College Bowl is a trivia competition between two teams of four with primarily academic questions that cover topics related to the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
(04/16/07 9:01am)
"This is a small piece of what is far and away the largest nationwide gathering addressing global warming to date," said Ritchie King of the Thayer School of Engineering, the event's master of ceremonies. "We're here because we are concerned citizens in a democracy and we want to make our concerns known."
(04/04/07 9:00am)
The Pavilion will extend its hours of operation to allow students more accessibility to kosher-for-Passover dining options during the eight days of the holiday. In a change from last year, the Pavilion remained open during the first two nights of Passover and will be open over the weekend.
(03/29/07 9:00am)
On March 21 the Recording Industry Association of America sent the College 11 pre-litigation "settlement letters" identifying the IP addresses of College network users who illegally downloaded or shared files online.
(03/06/07 11:00am)
Greg Dinges '89 was appointed vice president of Nike's Corporate Development and the Chief Financial Officer of the company's Affiliate Brands Group on Monday. He left his position as vice president of corporate strategy and development at PepsiCo to take the position. Ginges had worked nationally and internationally for PepsiCo for over 12 years, living and working in a variety of cities and countries in South America and Asia. At Dartmouth, Dinges majored in geography.
(02/20/07 11:00am)
The National Science Foundation recently awarded Dartmouth computer science professor Devin Balkcom with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, which is given to young scholar-teachers who show promise of becoming leaders in their fields of study. Recipients of the award "effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization," according to the NSF website.
(02/19/07 11:00am)
Seale discussed a wide range of topics, from the history of the Black Panther Party, to his family history, to his educational background, to his opinions on the current Bush administration and Hurricane Katrina. The central theme of his speech, however, was that the history of the BPP has been greatly distorted by the government and the press, and he sought to correct those misconceptions in his speech.
(02/16/07 11:00am)
Boston College professor of political science Robert S. Ross gave a lecture titled "The Fading of Taiwan's Independence Movement and the Prospects for Cross-Strait Relations" on Thursday evening to a crowd of students, faculty and community members. According to his Boston College faculty website, Ross's research "focuses on Chinese foreign and defense policy, with an emphasis on China's use of force and deterrence strategies, China's security policy in East Asia and U.S.-China relations." The subject of his speech was drawn from his recently published paper, "Navigating the Taiwan Strait: Deterrence, Escalation Dominance and U.S.-China Relations."
(02/09/07 11:00am)
The wait to schedule counseling appointments at Dick's House has improved since a College review in May 2005 called for a reduction in wait times.
(02/08/07 11:00am)
In a Feb. 6 e-mail to colleagues, College President James Wright announced the creation of a College Ombuds Office and appointed long-time administrator Mary Childers to a temporary, part-time position as ombudsman. The move was in response to a report released Feb. 2 by the Administrative Working Group, a consortium of administrators tasked by Wright to address the concerns identified by McKinsey, which called for a more transparent administrative system.
(02/07/07 11:00am)
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education awarded Dartmouth a "green light" rating for the College's policies about free speech. FIRE analyzed more than 330 schools to compile their report, "Spotlight on Speech Codes 2006," in which they concluded that more than 68 percent of schools had policies that "clearly and substantially restrict freedom of speech." Dartmouth was one of seven schools to receive the designation, meaning that FIRE "is unable to find a policy that seriously imperils speech," but not necessarily that the school actively supports free expression. After Zeta Psi was derecognized for their inter-fraternity newsletter in 2001, FIRE designated Dartmouth a "red light" school, meaning it "has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech." In 2005, however, FIRE reassessed Dartmouth's ranking.
(01/24/07 11:00am)
Biology professor Kevin Peterson resigned this term as faculty adviser to the humor magazine the Jack-O-Lantern because he found some content in the latest publication offensive. Peterson, who had advised the group since 2001, mostly took issue with several fake ads in the magazine that joked about September 11. "I was so thoroughly disgusted, I didn't want to be associated with the publication anymore," Peterson said. "Anyone who thinks there's any humor in 9/11 doesn't understand humor. My mother would be so embarrassed to have my name associated with this stuff." Fred Meyer '08, editor-in-chief of the Jack-O-Lantern, said that Committee on Student Organizations adviser Eric Ramsey warned Jack-O-Lantern writers that they had potentially violated copyright laws by including a link to a real website and a working phone number in the same issue. "I wonder if the copyright thing was a pretext to give out a warning to a publication that's gone too far," Meyer said. Ramsey said that the Jack-O-Lantern didn't violate any copyright laws, however, and Peterson said his resignation was independent of whatever problems members of the Jack-O-Lantern had with COSO.
(01/17/07 11:00am)
Student Assembly's "Uh-oh" e-mail announcements are expected to return beginning Wednesday morning after their fall term hiatus, according to Leslie Shribman '08, a Student Assembly class representative. Shribman, who wrote the e-mails via BlitzMail from Fall term 2005 to Summer term 2006, said that a technological failure with the system's server is to blame for the dearth.
(01/10/07 11:00am)
The Women's Health Program at Dick's House projects that by next September, Dartmouth will provide free vaccinations against the human papillomavirus to female students under 19 as a part of a New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services immunization project. Most current students, however, will still have to pay for the shots.