Students rally to save swim team
Nearly 150 students gathered outside Parkhurst Hall at noon yesterday to protest Monday's announcement that the College plans to cut the men's and women's varsity swimming and diving programs in March 2003.
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Nearly 150 students gathered outside Parkhurst Hall at noon yesterday to protest Monday's announcement that the College plans to cut the men's and women's varsity swimming and diving programs in March 2003.
Controversial Princeton African-American Studies professor Cornel West argued that the "corporatization" of the American university is obstructing freedom of thought last Friday in a conference which addressed concerns that too many colleges are giving mere lip service to issues of diversity.
Using the high-profile convocation ceremony to set his administration's tone for the upcoming year, College President James Wright greeted the Class of 2006 with an exhortation to challenge the stereotypes and assumptions of racism and white privilege.
NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. -- A tearful James J. Parker received a sentence of 25 years to life in prison this afternoon after having pleaded guilty in December to the second-degree murder of Dartmouth professors Half and Susanne Zantop.
Three guitars, a cowboy hat and a sense of humor. Armed with these unlikely accoutrements, singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins played to an utterly enchanted audience in Spaulding Auditorium last Friday night.
He is helping to build the world's most compact satellite. He plans to travel to Nepal this fall to swap American healthcare information with Nepali medicine men. He is a double major in engineering and biology. What's next for this 20-year-old sophomore?
Bush's decision last Thursday to provide federal financial backing only to researchers working with existing stem cell lines provided at least one topic of heated debate on Capitol Hill this week.
A study conducted by the U.S Center for Disease Control and Prevention has found that bacterial meningitis -- which in the past few years has taken the lives of two members of the Dartmouth community -- is three times as prevalent among first-year college students than other undergraduates.
With 1146 members in the Class of 2005, this year's group of incoming freshmen will be Dartmouth's largest in history and may face some issues because of its size.
The Lebanon Zoning Board rejected a College request to build a rugby clubhouse at Sachem Field at Monday night's meeting, deciding that the proposed facility was not necessary to playing the sport.
After having decided last May to offer Korean language and culture classes, the College is now in the process of hiring faculty to begin teaching in the fall of 2002.
Despite its limited length, a casual stroll down Main Street, the only part of Hanover that, at a stretch, might be referred to as "downtown," yields a variety of shopping options.
After 30 years at the College, President James Wright was inaugurated as the 16th president in the Wheelock succession three years ago, beginning an era of controversial change at Dartmouth.
Although Dartmouth freshmen have traditionally been prohibited from attending parties at Greek houses during their Fall term, a near-unanimous resolution passed by the Student Assembly this May could increase Greek social options for the incoming Class of 2005.
In order to help accommodate the approximately 140 students still on the waiting list for Fall term housing, the Office of Residential Life is planning to construct temporary "small houses" in various locations around campus, according to Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman.
In a document submitted to the Office of Residential Life last Friday, the Greek Leaders Council officially proposed that the recently-mandated Safety and Security walk-throughs be conducted only twice per week and within a scheduled six-hour time window.
An electrical fire which began at 2:50 p.m. Wednesday afternoon kept the Baker Library Reserves out of commission for the evening.
Although Hanover will not be hosting a fireworks display this year, if you have a car, you won't need to sit at home and watch them on television.
President of the College James Wright was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 220-year-old academic organization composed of the world's leading scholars and public leaders.
Despite campus buzz about the possible illegality of ORL's recent announcement of increased Safety and Security monitoring and the prohibition of outdoor alcohol, experts say the College's controversial new policy is well within its constitutional rights.