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(11/10/09 4:00am)
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his socialist Sandinista party have betrayed the principles of the Sandinista Revolution, former Sandinista Vice President Sergio Ramirez told a crowd of approximately 100 students and community members gathered in Filene Auditorium on Monday. Ramirez left the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1995 to found the reformist Sandinista Renovation Movement, and is currently serving as a guest professor in Latin American Studies at Harvard University.
(10/08/09 2:00am)
Lebanon School District superintendent Mike Harris '72 announced publicly last week that he will join the Dartmouth faculty next June as director of the Dartmouth Teacher Education Program. Harris will replace Andrew Garrod, who will step down as director and education department chair in June after more than 25 years at the College.
(06/02/09 2:00am)
The global economic crisis has brought the national debt to the forefront of the public consciousness, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor James Poterba. The recession and accompanying stimulus bill have pushed the annual deficit to a record-high peacetime level. The deficit rose from 12 percent of U.S. gross domestic product in 2007 to 12 to 13 percent of the GDP in 2009, he said.
(05/13/09 7:26am)
A total of five wallets have been stolen from administrative and faculty offices over the past few days, according to College Proctor and director of Safety and Security Harry Kinne. The thefts occurred when the victims were at work but had temporarily left their offices, which were left unlocked. Hanover Police has identified a suspect and has obtained a search warrant to investigate the case further, Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone said.
(04/09/09 7:31am)
Dartmouth may relinquish its current stake in Hanover water utilities, which are currently owned by a private utility, as part of a new effort to municipalize the town's water system. Town water rates would not change under the proposed plan, which would likely save the town more than $100,000 annually, according to a Town of Hanover press release.
(02/17/09 7:48am)
"This is the end of the two decades boom, and perhaps bubble, in consumer spending," he said. "It's hard to ask the question of what comes next."
(01/21/09 10:55am)
Dennett said religions are "brilliantly designed products," but that the presence of religion does not prove God's existence: A design does not necessarily mean there is a designer, he said.
(09/24/08 8:00am)
In recent years, College President James Wright has expanded his work outside of Dartmouth, garnering national attention for his efforts to increase educational opportunities for U.S. veterans. Most notably, Wright, who started an initiative to provide college counseling to wounded veterans, worked with members of Congress to design the new G.I. bill, which dramatically expanded veterans' college-tuition benefits for the first time since World War II.
(08/15/08 6:50am)
"There's a lot of money to be made here," Immelt said. "It doesn't make me afraid or scared. There's a tidal wave coming, and you either get ahead of it or you get crushed."
(08/12/08 6:15am)
Wilson will serve without pay as a short-term contractor to the Treasury until the end of President George Bush's term in January 2009 and will provide Paulson with "in-depth analysis on financial markets" as the Treasury responds to current turbulence in the financial sector, Brookly McLaughlin, a Treasury Department spokeswoman, told The Dartmouth on Monday.
(08/08/08 7:34am)
The United States government must address the country's growing income inequality to stem the dangerously rising tide of economic protectionism, Tuck School of Business professor Matthew Slaughter told a crowd of more than 300 community members gathered in Spaulding Auditorium on Wednesday. Slaughter's lecture, "A New Deal for Globalization," was the fifth in the Institute of Lifelong Education at Dartmouth's summer series, "Positive Solutions."
(08/05/08 6:32am)
Tuck School of Business professor Matthew Slaughter coauthored a bipartisan policy brief calling for the country to revamp its unemployment compensation system. The report was released by the Financial Services Forum, an economic think tank headed by the CEOs of twenty of the country's largest finance companies. The report calls for a new $22 billion "Adjustment Assistance Program" to mitigate the uncertainty workers face in an increasingly globalized and technology-based economy. The program would include wage-loss insurance, paying workers who are forced to take lower-paying jobs and increasing job training programs. Slaughter is a professor of international economics at Tuck and a former Bush administration economist.
(08/01/08 6:47am)
Mankind is putting unprecedented strain on the world's water supply, as demand for this increasingly-polluted natural resource continues to rise, journalist Marq de Villiers said Wednesday in a lecture in Spaulding Auditorium. De Villiers spoke alongside environmental engineer Alice Outwater about the need to improve management of the planet's water resources. This week's talk, which drew a crowd of about 300 community members, was part of the Positive Solutions lecture series sponsored by the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth, an Upper Valley adult education program.
(07/29/08 6:23am)
About 500 parents descended on the Dartmouth campus on Friday and Saturday for Sophomore Family Weekend. Events, planned by the 2010 Class Council, included lectures by Dartmouth professors, a sophomore talent show and tours of the Baker Library bell tower. The summer is a convenient time for many parents to visit campus because they do not have children in school, according to Sam Parsons '10, the co-chair of the Family Weekend committee. The weekend allowed students to share their experience at Dartmouth with their parents, said Frances Vernon, president of the 2010 Class Council. "It's a great opportunity for students to show the families they made here whether through sports teams, Greek houses or other activities," Vernon said.
(07/25/08 7:45am)
The U.S. health care system can be reformed to cut costs and improve quality, Dartmouth Medical School professors Elliott Fisher and Gerry O'Connor told an audience of over 300 community members at Spaulding Auditorium on Tuesday. Their speech was part of the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth's summer lecture series, "Positive Solutions."
(07/22/08 6:50am)
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice is teaming up with Consumers Union to launch a web tool which will rank nearly 3,000 hospitals online. The rankings were originally published in the organization's July magazine Consumer Reports in an article entitled "Too Much Treatment," which highlighted the wide disparity in hospital's treatment and patient outcome throughout the country.
(07/18/08 8:03am)
Six dollars a year is all it takes to end the power of corporate lobbyists and create a national public campaign finance system, John Rauh, founder and president of Americans for Campaign Reform, told an audience of approximately 400 local residents at Spaulding Auditorium on Tuesday. Rauh's speech was the second in the summer lecture series "Positive Solutions," sponsored by the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth.
(07/15/08 7:09am)
The Prouty saw record student participation, likely spurred by three $1,000 prizes offered by Wes Chapman '77 Tu '81 to those Greek houses that raised the most money, had the largest percentage of volunteers or had the largest number of students complete the 100-mile bike race. The $1,000 awards must be spent on non-alcoholic social events by the end of the term.
(07/11/08 7:21am)
Companies are beginning to jump on the environmental bandwagon as they see the profit opportunities in adopting eco-friendly policies, Lovins said, adding that investors are now forcing companies to disclose their carbon footprint, and insurance companies are threatening not provide coverage to those who do not release that information.
(07/08/08 4:57am)
The falling value of the dollar has spurred high numbers of international students to enroll in U.S. colleges for this fall, as an American college education is now less expensive for many foreign students, The Boston Globe reported Saturday. Nearly 583,000 international students have enrolled in American colleges this year, the most since 2001, when Congress tightened student visa requirements following the World Trade Center attacks. At Babson College, where foreign student enrollment saw a 67 percent hike, international students will constitute a quarter of the school's incoming class, according to The Globe. The largest percentage of international students were from India, followed by students from China and Korea, The Globe reported.