After 2013 death, River Fest canceled
A beer garden on Gold Coast lawn, faculty lectures in the Black Visual Arts Center and trips to the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and Worthy Burger marked new programming for this spring’s senior week.
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A beer garden on Gold Coast lawn, faculty lectures in the Black Visual Arts Center and trips to the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and Worthy Burger marked new programming for this spring’s senior week.
The recent rebranding of Mentors Against Violence to Movement Against Violence, in addition to the upcoming introduction of the Center for Community Action and Prevention, shows the latest stages of the decades-long evolution of sexual assault prevention programming.
The Hanover Finance Committee proposed an amendment to decrease the town’s budget at Hanover’s annual town hall meeting Tuesday night, but attendees dismissed the initiative, eventually approving a $22.1 million operating budget for 2014-15.
Earlier this week, Stanford University announced that it would divest its endowment from coal companies, becoming the most prominent university to make the decision so far. Divest Dartmouth began a pushing the College to stop investing in all fossil fuel companies last year. This week, The Dartmouth discussed divestment with environmental studies professor Andrew Friedland.
A one-hour DBI overview talk will be a prerequisite for participation in Interfraternity Council or Panhellenic Council recruitment this fall. Students taking part in recruitment through Coed Council, the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations or the National Pan-Hellenic Council must complete that training before the end of their first term as a member.
Introductory computer science students took midterms in five different rooms this term after a surge in enrollment across the department’s courses left professors scrambling to accommodate demand. Next fall, the department will cap enrollment in introductory sections at 180 students after enrollment nearly doubled, from 143 students last fall to over 280 students this spring.
Pending approval from College faculty, undergraduate students may be able to view their peers’ online course evaluations dating back to 2006, starting next year. Spearheaded by the Student Assembly’s academic affairs committee, this proposal has attracted support from both students and faculty.
In a meeting Monday, the Undergraduate Finance Committee unanimously voted to reject Student Assembly’s resolution that would have provided scholarship funds to the governing councils of Greek organizations based on completion of Dartmouth Bystander Initiative leadership training sessions.
Students will no longer be able to travel to the Republic of the Marshall Islands to teach English in primary and secondary schools, due to the cancellation of the Dartmouth Volunteer Teaching Program. For the past 15 years, the program has sent about eight student interns to the Islands each winter term.
Presenters at yesterday’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” sessions, which focused on digital learning, spoke about the transition from Blackboard to a new online management system, Canvas, the College’s recent partnership with the online learning platform edX and possible plans to redesign large courses to feel more like seminars. The noon session attracted about 70 attendees, who were mostly staff and faculty.
The recent snowstorm, coupled with the sunny weather and popularity of the “Carnival of Thrones” theme and sculpture, led to higher student turnout at the Winter Carnival events and a record number of entries in the human dog sled race this past weekend.
Tens of thousands of children in northern New England do not receive essential lead screening tests, while thousands of others undergo unnecessary CT scans for stomachaches, according to a Dartmouth Atlas report on children’s health care in northern New England. In the study, released on Dec. 11, researchers found striking variations in pediatric medicine across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, suggesting that local hospitals may need to reexamine their health care delivery systems.
Twelve recent multiracial graduates share their personal experiences in the anthology “Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories,” which examines the identity development of mixed-race students.
Every day, the average American spends over eight hours looking at a screen, but only 20 minutes reading from a print source, Pulitzer Prize finalist Nick Carr ’81 said in a lecture Monday evening. Carr, author of The New York Times bestseller “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,” examined society’s growing dependence on technology and encouraged audience members to reexamine technology’s influence on their daily lives.
William Taber has worked on nearly every spacecraft project that has left Earth since 1983, including the Voyager, Hubble Space Telescope and Curiosity rover. Taber, the group supervisor for mission design and navigation software at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., spoke about the mathematics behind these projects to a packed audience in Oopik Auditorium on Wednesday night.
Kapi'olani Laronal will become director of the College's Native American Program on Sept. 30. Members of the search committee and students expressed excitement for Laronal's focus on uniting global Native communities.
On Tuesday, at least three members of Christian group Luke 24 vs 47 demonstrated first on the Green and later outside of Dirt Cowboy Cafe, where they preached their beliefs to passersby. One member used a microphone to broadcast the group's ideologies across the Green, declaring "You can't have parties in heaven" and "Life is short, eternity is longer." Another member handed out pamphlets and movies. Group members travel together to spread their message, with visits to the University of New Hampshire, the University of Maine at Portland and the University of Massachusetts at Boston scheduled later this month, and have held past demonstrations in Jamaica and the United Kingdom.
Twice as many freshmen as last year will participate in the Dickey Center's Great Issues Scholars program, following a substantial donation from Tom Russo '77 and his wife Gina Russo '77. Welcoming 100 students, the program allows students to engage in foreign affairs and serves as a "gateway experience" into other College programs with a global focus, Dickey Center director Daniel Benjamin said.
This fall, the Dean of the College's office will introduce the Intergroup Dialogue program, in which faculty and staff will facilitate conversations to promote awareness on issues of identity, diversity and inequality.
Over 15 students presented research at the symposium on Wednesday in Baker-Berry Library.