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(11/09/07 7:59am)
Whether it's used for making dinner plans or asking someone out, BlitzMail is one of the defining features of the Dartmouth experience. Yet as new technology allows students to send and receive e-mail from their smartphones -- mobile phones equipped with personal computer-like functions -- some students see the BlitzMail culture changing.
(10/19/07 7:57am)
Despite visions of Homecoming releasing hordes of drunken students upon the unsuspecting populace of Hanover, the town remains largely unconcerned with one of the three big weekends at Dartmouth.
(10/11/07 5:28am)
Starting life at Dartmouth can be an exciting but overwhelming experience for many freshmen women. That's part of the reasoning behind the formation of Link Up, a new mentoring program to help freshmen women adjust to college life by pairing them with senior women mentors.
(09/26/07 8:08am)
All eight of the Democratic candidates for president will be at the debate, which is sanctioned by the DNC, and will be moderated by NBC Washington bureau chief and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert. This debate is the third of six officially sanctioned by the DNC. The first official event was held in July, and the most recent Democratic face-off took place in Des Moines, Iowa on Aug. 19.
(05/21/07 5:46am)
Beau Trudel '10 and other undergraduate volunteers who are part of Dartmouth Students for Barack Obama took part in a state-wide canvassing day for Sen. Obama, D-Ill, on Saturday. While some canvassers received a less warm welcome, Trudel, who is "communications director" for the group, found that most people responded enthusiastically.
(05/16/07 5:26am)
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the elimination of government subsidies to student loan providers on Tuesday in a nationwide conference call with student reporters. The senator described financial aid as one of the biggest problems students face today.
(05/09/07 7:50am)
These students will bicycle across the United States as part of the Bike and Build program, which aims to raise money for and awareness about the need for affordable housing. Bike and Build coordinates six trips that last about two months and cover nearly 4,000 miles.
(04/30/07 5:22am)
Alpha Phi sorority was officially recognized by the College as a sorority on Saturday, making it the first new Greek organization to enter the Dartmouth community in around seven years. The formal initiation of the Iota Kappa chapter of Alpha Phi into the international Alpha Phi organization ended its year-long status as a colony.
(04/27/07 7:26am)
Fortunately for the twins, a medical team from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center had arrived from the United States four days earlier with equipment and was in the middle of a week-long training program for Kosovar doctors and nurses. Doctors determined that the babies needed "constant positive airway pressure," which requires special equipment that had been brought with the Dartmouth medical team for the Healthy Baby Project. The twins were given CPAP and left the hospital as healthy infants several weeks later.
(04/12/07 9:00am)
Sallie Mae, the country's biggest student loan provider, settled with the New York attorney general's office Wednesday, the Associated Press reported, as Attorney General Andrew Cuomo continues his broad investigation into what he termed "deceptive and illegal" arrangements between loan providers and college financial aid offices. Sallie Mae, or SLM Corp., agreed to adopt a code of conduct and pay $2 million to fund education on the financial aid industry as part of the settlement. Cuomo subpoenaed Columbia University last week and sent letters to the University of Southern California and the University of Texas about their affairs with another lender, CIT Group, Inc.
(04/09/07 9:00am)
Earth sciences professor Arjun Heimsath received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work with soil erosion and sustainability, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced on April 5. Out of almost 2,800 applicants, only 189 artists, scholars and scientists were chosen to receive one of the coveted fellowships. The Guggenheim Fellowship program considers applications in 78 different fields, and the 2007 Fellows represent 77 different institutions. According to Heimsath's website at Dartmouth, his "current and pending research projects and interests build upon the fundamental need for a field-based, mechanistic, and quantitative understanding of landscape processes and evolution." Heimsath was one of five Indian Americans to receive Guggenheim Fellowships this year.
(04/05/07 9:00am)
Yale University sophomore Makda Asrat faces accusations of plagiarizing her review of the film "300" published in the Yale Daily News April 2. Asrat's review mirrors large portions of Dana Stevens's review on the film "300," published by the online magazine Slate on March 3. The Yale Daily News offered an apology, stating that Asrat had read the Slate article before writing her own and "inadvertantly [sic] replicated" a single sentence. Asrat's previous reviews are currently being investigated, and an editor's note saying the editors "will issue subsequent corrections if other incidents are uncovered" was added to the "300" review on the publication's website Tuesday afternoon.
(04/04/07 9:00am)
In an attempt to answer students' questions about the ongoing trustee elections, Palaeopitus Senior Society sponsored an event Tuesday night in Morrison Commons featuring College President James Wright, Alumni Relations Vice President David Spalding '76 and Assistant Director of Young Alumni and Student Programs Rex Morey '99. Wright and his colleagues addressed a range of issues including the role of money in the campaigning process, the nature of the nominating process and even why Baker Tower is lit in green for alumni events (it's a welcome home beacon). Open campaigning, Wright said, has drastically changed the level of debate present in the elections.
(04/03/07 9:00am)
Two years after Dartmouth's only speech professor resigned in protest of what he deemed administrative neglect, the College's speech program may be resuscitated. Dartmouth has formed a search committee to find a new professor of speech and will begin reviewing applications for the position this month.
(03/27/07 9:00am)
During Hanover's own winter-end change of climate, scientists were dealing with climate change on a grander level at Dartmouth, as from March 14-20, the College hosted the first Arctic Science Summit Week ever to be held in the United States.
(03/02/07 11:00am)
The results of the Dartmouth Outing Club elections for next year's president and vice president of its student directorate were announced Thursday. The president for Spring, Fall and Winter terms will be Phil Bracikowski '08. (Bracikowski is a member of The Dartmouth staff.) The president for Summer term will be Jake Feintzeig '09. There are two vice presidents each term. Jimmy Bramante '09 will be vice president for all four terms. The other vice president position will be held by Andrew Palmer '10 Spring and Fall terms, Andrew McCauley '09 Summer term, and Dan Susman '10 Winter term. Two students were vying for the position of president and there were a record eight students running for the position of vice president.
(02/19/07 11:00am)
Yale University announced that this fall, it will begin taping seven undergraduate lecture classes and posting them online, available to the general public. Yale's decision is part of a larger trend of top institutions offering free courses and course materials online. The number of people accessing these sites ranges from thousands to millions each month. Many universities said that they hoped that posting lectures online would help make education available to people who would not otherwise have access to it, as well as raise interest among potential applicants and garner alumni donations. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was the first school to begin posting class materials online free of charge with its "OpenCourseWare" program.
(02/12/07 11:00am)
As philosophers and schoolchildren ponder the age-old question, 'Which came first: the chicken or the egg?,' in terms of sustainability, Dartmouth Dining Services threw its support behind the egg last year when it made the switch to using only "cage-free eggs" without making any changes in the chickens it uses.
(02/09/07 11:00am)
Since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, hundreds of Dartmouth students have made their way down to Louisiana and Mississippi to help communities that were completely wiped out by the massive storm.
(02/02/07 11:00am)
The Dartmouth chapter of the International Humanitarian Foundation recently began a new project in Ecuador, forming a partnership with the Ali Shungu Foundation based in the small Ecuadorian village Otavalo.