Sustainable living, 'crazy music' to define Earth Week
Environmental advocates at the College recently launched a "Reinventing Earth Week" initiative aimed at instigating heightened awareness of Dartmouth's environmental groups.
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Environmental advocates at the College recently launched a "Reinventing Earth Week" initiative aimed at instigating heightened awareness of Dartmouth's environmental groups.
After garnering 192 votes from members the Class of 2006, Jennifer Krimm '06 won the 2006 Class Council presidential election, a contest characterized by an overall air of apathy. Samuel Jackson '06 won the vice-presidential seat with a total of 138 votes. Although last year's race was highly contested, this year's campaign ended without an organized debate about current issues.
Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara Daniel Klein pointed out the primacy of Democratic professors at leading Californian universities at a lecture in the Rockefeller Center Wednesday night.
After a decade of struggle due to unexpected warm weather, political controversy and insufficient design considerations, the official snow sculpture that is the core of the Dartmouth Winter Carnival tradition looks to have returned to its former pinnacle of creativity and immensity.
Students who do not yet have a date for Valentine's Day can buy one at Wednesday's Valentine's Day Charity Date Auction in Collis Commonground. The event will raise money for the United Way and Habitat for Humanity.
The number of Dartmouth students rejecting corporate jobs and graduate school careers to embark on Peace Corps projects reached record highs this year. The College's 33 volunteers were enough to place Dartmouth second in the Peace Corps' annual rankings for small colleges and universities.
Despite forecasts of unbearably cold weather and last-minute changes to courses and event schedules, a record number of volunteers and over 140 participating teams are eagerly anticipating the third annual Winter Special Olympics set to take place Saturday at the Dartmouth Skiway.
From the western hunter to the mountain skier to the avid climber, the Dartmouth Outing Club provides ample opportunities to explore the wilderness, to hike the Appalachian Trail and to kayak rapids on the Connecticut River.
Co-architect and designer of the World Trade Center memorial Michael Arad '91 will deliver the Convocation address to officially open the College's 235th academic year on Tuesday, Sept. 21.
Through a series of parabolic arcs aboard a NASA aircraft, four recent Dartmouth graduates experienced hours of weightlessness to experiment their solutions to muscle atrophy, the most common physiological problem astronauts experience in space.
In place of a typical Friday evening on frat row, the Sexual Awareness Peer Advisors have organized a street-wide event to fight rape on campus, giving away their ever-popular "Consensual Sex is HOT" T-Shirts.
It appears that the arrival of sophomore parents and siblings this weekend will not diminish the amount of drinking that takes place on a typical weekend, as many Greek organizations have planned parent-child pong tournaments and afternoon cocktail parties. While fraternities and sororities plan on including parents in their nighttime festivities, the college has also prepared various activities for Sophomore Family Weekend.
After a seven-year struggle including countless meetings with department chairs, deans and administrators, students advocating for the creation of an Asian-American studies minor may have finally achieved their goal. College administrators will begin the search for a tenure-track Asian-American studies professor this fall, Associate Dean of the Faculty Lenore Grenoble announced recently.
If students have one gripe about sophomore summer, a term traditionally idealized as time of relaxation and enjoyment with classmates, it is the lack of dining options.
Auditing a class, especially during the notoriously laid-back Summer term, may seem like an appealing option. But it's better to sit in on larger classes rather than to disrupt smaller classes, professors say.
Students have long casually poked fun at the College's social norms program, renowned for distributing colorful posters and free Nalgene water bottles with information on alcohol use at Dartmouth. But this year, undergraduate mathematics students and one professor have charged that the program's most popular claim is inaccurate and misleading.
Add a mud fight, a few beers and more committed participants to the scene at Dartmouth's Memorial Field Friday night, and the torrential downpour may have provoked a reenactment of Alpha Delta fraternity's Green Key lawn party.
The 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision to end segregation in public schools was coupled with the recognition of a distinguished scholar who forms inquiries on urban minority history and equal opportunity of all races in inner cities.
Asian-American studies began on the West Coast during the 1960s as part of a trend to pluralize college curricula. Now, the Dartmouth administration is considering creating its own minor in the field.
As the Relay for Life cancer research charity run draws near, competition on campus has intensified as athletic teams vie for first place in collecting the most donations, and Dartmouth organizers watch how they compare with the rest of the Ivy League.