Farewell Headmaster Wright
I'll freely admit it, I love Harry Potter.
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I'll freely admit it, I love Harry Potter.
I'm a good little faux new age hippie. Although I don't own Birkenstocks or Doc Marten's, I'm from Vermont, my family composts, I eat organic, I like the Grateful Dead and I think that new vegetable garden at the White House is rockin'. I always use canvas bags on my Co-op runs, I don't litter, I own a BPA-free Nalgene and I think every high school kid should watch "An Inconvenient Truth" in science class. Save the polar bears!
In life, some things are recognized as pure, unadulterated facts. For example, Princeton can't play hockey, UGGs will never go out of style at Dartmouth, a pong date here is equivalent to a first date everywhere else, and elliptical machines are for wimps. I'll give you a freebie if you're an injured athlete or over forty, but for everyone else, stop wheeling your legs in the air, turn off VH1 and read on, my friend.
Lindsay Lohan has had a rough year. From the notorious "I'm happier than ever," to the breakup with Sam, it's been a doozie. However, there are clearly a few areas where Linds has had it right all along, proving that: shiny spandex are perfectly acceptable as daily attire, one should never wear the same string bikini twice during a Malibu vacation, and eating your sandwich alone in a bathroom, while not completely sanitary, is immensely preferable to a eating it alone in a cafeteria.
Your home friends: They're the ones who knew you before you thought doming was a sport. Blitz is alien to them, they think large fires surrounded by teeming hordes signify something akin to the occult and, for these special some-ones, pong means Beirut. How quaint.
The slow drop of the Times Square crystal ball brings with it a new lease on life and the common desire to shape up and start over. The pounding headache that usually accompanies the dawn of a new year makes it easier to keep those virtue-filled vows for a little while, a feat that can become increasingly difficult, even in the best of times.
As the Dow dove, plunged and then -- just when we thought it couldn't get any worse -- dropped some more, many Dartmouth students' dreams of a future in finance were bitterly taken from them, crushed under the weight of the stock market's 1,000-point drop. Even as the markets recover, the mood remains volatile, and these bright-eyed bankers-to-be have had to face the music, or the ticker, and come to terms with the harsh reality that Wall Street ain't what it used to be.
I t can take a college student both considerable work and imaginative power to picture a professor outside of the classroom or the lecture hall. We often categorize them by their department, and we associate them with all types of intellectual minutiae -- obscure novels, medieval painters, historical dates, the Krebs cycle. Yet for some Dartmouth academics, the scholastic life does not constitute a whole life, and they extend their interests, influence and abilities far beyond the limited realms of a 10A or 2A. For professors Lee Witters and Gerald Auten, the classroom is, in many ways, only the beginning.
If you're writing a thesis on "Mesopheric Meteoric Dust" you probably went to space camp as a kid. If you're a guy writing a thesis for the creative writing department, I'd guess you're the brooding, sensitive type. Anything earth science-related probably signifies that you consider showering optional. Or does it?
CP: Which FSP and LSA programs have you been a part of during your time at Dartmouth? Do you have a favorite?
After you spent your term volunteering in Argentina, what possessed you to travel around?
This is what a College ought to look like." Eisenhower said it when he visited Dartmouth in 1953, and professor of art history and senior lecturer Marlene Heck agrees.
Janine Scheiner, visiting professor of psychology at the College and adjunct professor at Dartmouth Medical School, teaches the popular Abnormal Psychology class. asks how abnormal perfectionism really is.
Sigma Phi Epsilon national organization recognized Haldeman with the Sigma Phi Epsilon Citation Award. The honor generally pays homage to professional achievement, but was bestowed upon Haldeman for his high moral character and his commitment to honesty and fairness, in addition to his distinguished career.
Recently, the U.S. Senate came close to passing legislation, as part of a renewed Higher Education Act, which would force campuses across the nation to install anti-piracy software in their networks. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) announced this amendment about two weeks ago and, after intense pressure from administrators all over the country, pulled the legislation from the floor at the last minute. The bill would require the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America to give lists each year of the 25 colleges with the highest number of copyright infringement. These institutions would then have to decide to use software like CopySense from Audible Magic and cGRID:Integrity from RedLambda or give up federal student aid packages. Campus computer systems' experts note that such programs are costly, tricky to implement and only can boast a modest success rate in curbing student-to-student file sharing. Colleges currently are protected from the entertainment industry's copyright laws with "safe harbor" designation; and, although the industry's leaders have noted that they do not plan to prosecute students or pursue legal action against colleges for copyright infringement, a loss of this special designation would prove disastrous for academic institutions. The issue is further complicated by the fact that the entertainment industry composes one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington -- one that the education lobbies cannot hope to compete with for Congressional influence.
Yeong-Ah Soh, professor of physics and astronomy, is working on research that could greatly contribute to the area of quantum information processing. Soh's research team published their results in late July on Science magazine's website, explaining how to find and change the direction of the pathways of electrons -- a way to document information in a quantum computer. Quantum computing, a theory that has been around for over 30 years, uses atomic properties as "quantum bits" or "qubits" in the memory of a computer system. The research group, both in the United States and abroad, used strong imaging technology to examine Japanese ceramic pieces made up of octahedra. This "nickel-centered oxygen," called spin liquid, has electrons which move in arbitrary pathways regardless of temperature. Through this research, the team learned that the electron spins reached a "quantum order" within the spin liquid. They also looked into the possibility of obliterating quantum order by changing the temperature.
Negotiations are underway for an acquisition deal between two textbook publishing companies: Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group and American business of the Harcourt division of Reed Elsevier. If the deal -- in which Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group would acquire the Harcourt division of Reed Elsevier for $4 billion -- is approved, the new company would become the largest textbook publishing company in America. The Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group is itself the result of a recent $3.4 billion acquisition deal between the Dublin-based Riverdeep and the Boston-based Houghton Mifflin. Analysts say that these deals, and other recent acquisitions between textbook publishing companies, are being spurred by the industry's steady revenue stream, minimal competition and new requirements in some states, such as California, which are calling for schools to replace their current textbooks.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was recently ranked as one of the top hospitals in the country in U.S. News and World Report's 2007 report of America's Best Hospitals. When compared with over 5,000 institutions, DHMC made the list along with 172 other hospitals and scored within the top 50 for its care in gynecology, digestive disorders and cancer treatment.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was recently ranked as one of the top hospitals in the country in U.S. News and World Report's 2007 report of America's Best Hospitals. When compared with over 5,000 institutions, DHMC made the list along with 172 other hospitals and scored within the top 50 for its care in gynecology, digestive disorders and cancer treatment.
Loeb said she learned of the project through an e-mail from a Dartmouth alumnus who currently works for Google and began to contact students from a variety of different academic disciplines.