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(04/11/13 2:00am)
Here at Dartmouth, I am a member of the Class of 2014 and a government and economics double major. I am a social chair for Sigma Delta sorority, co-captain of the women's rugby team, liaison for the Inter-Community Council and a tour guide for the Admissions Office. Over my sophomore summer, I was a mentor in the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program. I studied abroad in Barcelona and spent my last winter in Washington, D.C., interning at the Legal Aid Society.
(04/19/12 2:00am)
Vita Clamantis president Robert Smith '14 said that the group wants to spur discussion about creating environments in which women do not feel pressured into having abortions.
(04/11/12 2:00am)
As part of a new program to bring visiting chefs to the College, award-winning chef and self-professed advocate of wok-style cooking Grace Young is spending two days this week sharing her recipes, featured at the Class of 1953 Commons, with staff and students. During her stay on Tuesday and Wednesday, Young will also lead two cooking classes for students, whom she will teach to cook simple and inexpensive stir-fry dishes.
(11/14/11 4:00am)
"There is little doubt that Americans are interested in doing the right thing for veterans, but they don't know what the right thing might be because few are touched by these wars," Wright, a former Marine, said in the Rockefeller Center.
(10/21/11 2:00am)
A preliminary location search for a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender affinity house is underway as students and administrators continue to finalize plans for such a house, according to Pam Misener, advisor to LGBT students and the acting director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership.
(09/26/11 2:00am)
Approximately one year later, Jones has not only enhanced her language skills, but has also made significant progress toward improving the local education system by helping girls remain in school, constructing a community library and organizing a youth leadership camp.
(09/22/11 2:00am)
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services passed a budget plan for the Education Department on Tuesday that maintains Pell Grants but cuts government subsidies on student loan interest, Inside Higher Ed reported. The 2012 budget plan allocates $68.4 billion to the Education Department and upholds funding levels for many higher education programs such as federal work-study programs and keeps the maximum Pell Grant at $5,550. In order to preserve the full Pell Grant amount, the panel voted to end government subsidies on the interest that accumulates on undergraduate loans during the six-month grace period students have after college before they must begin repayment. Students will still be allowed a grace period under the new plan, but will now be responsible for the interest accrued during those months, saving the government just under $6 billion over 10 years, according to Inside Higher Ed.
(05/25/11 2:00am)
In the last Student Assembly meeting of the term attended by six students, three of whom were elected officers Student Body President Max Yoeli '12 outlined the issues he will discuss with College President Jim Yong Kim and Chief of Staff David Spalding in his first meeting with Kim on Friday. Yoeli said he will focus on four major areas in the meeting creating a freshman male mentoring program, making the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps an official Dartmouth-sponsored program rather than having it run through Norwich University, ensuring that the College administration remains flexible about the SmartChoice dining plan and increasing the scope of Green Team and reworking College alcohol policies. Yoeli said the mentoring program would be called "Men's Link Up" and that it would help send positive messages to freshman males when they are first on campus and "more impressionable." Students in attendance suggested that the Assembly should focus on distributing cards outlining student rights with respect to Hanover Police and alcohol-related crimes, and should also work toward allowing students to use the Non-Recording Option in government and economics classes.
(05/20/11 2:00am)
"When you're abroad as a college kid it's the most unbelievable time you're completely free and everyone's looking to do ridiculous stuff," Hochman said. "Our book facilitates getting yourself into a ridiculous adventure in a foreign city."
(05/11/11 2:00am)
Feinberg discussed the ethical difficulties of assigning monetary values to compensate for the loss of human life.
(04/19/11 2:00am)
Salas founded the Peace of Art project in 2010 to educate communities about violence in the borderland between the United States and Mexico. Salas' family still resides in Juarez, and her personal ties to the city motivate her artistic initiative.
(04/01/11 2:00am)
Christian Brandt '12 will receive up to $30,000 following his selection as a 2011 Harry S. Truman Scholar, according to a College press release. The scholarship application includes a public policy proposal, in which Brandt an anthropology major focused on homelessness, Brandt said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Although Brandt has not taken any public policy classes at the College, he said he drew on his anthropological knowledge to improve "job training services" for the homeless in his proposal. Brandt said that public job training services for homeless people are designed for the "average person," and do not consider a myriad of other factors that homeless people face, such as drug addiction, mental illness and lack of a permanent address. For his public policy proposal, Brant used ethnographic research on local homeless populations and applied it to existing public policy proposals to improve them. The scholarship, which goes to college juniors, requires that recipients pursue graduate studies following graduation and work in the public sector after receiving their PhD, according to the press release.
(03/07/11 4:00am)
Trustee Annette Gordon-Reed '81, a professor at Harvard Law School and a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, discussed history's role in race relations and the historical portrayals of race in America. The dynamic between whites and blacks in America is a direct product of America's history of slavery and segregation, she said.
(03/04/11 4:00am)
Office of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs Program Coordinator Marilyn Sturman resigned from her position as of March 1, according to e-mails sent by Undergraduate Judicial Affairs Office Manager Laurie Welch and Director of Judicial Affairs Nathan Miller and obtained by The Dartmouth. Sturman was involved in the Committee on Standards and the Organization Adjudication Committee while at the College, according to Welch's e-mail. Sturman began her Dartmouth career as assistant director of Student Housing and worked for the Tucker Foundation and as an usher for the Roth Center for Jewish Life before joining Judicial Affairs in 2001, according to the e-mail.
(02/17/11 4:00am)
Since the American University in Cairo resumed classes on Feb. 6, several faculty members have contacted administrators to inquire about the establishment of new security measures such as evacuation plans and airport transportation, University President Lisa Anderson said in an e-mail that the University believes there are no longer "significant security issues," according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Anderson announced it would be assumed that professors who failed to return or communicate their intent to resume teaching had resigned, according to The Chronicle. Since the University reopened, several faculty members expressed safety concerns and anger that financial considerations may have influenced the University's decision to continue teaching, according to The Chronicle. Although the departure of approximately 350 study-abroad students has harmed the University's financial situation, the University reopened so that it is able to continue fulfilling its educational mission and not due to monetary concerns, Anderson said in an interview with The Chronicle.
(02/15/11 4:00am)
Collegiate Spark, created by Watanabe and Harvard junior Ben Enowitz, serves as a middle ground between a social networking site like Facebook and a dating site like Match.com, according to Watanabe. The service is a "catalyst" for dating, meant to "spur relationships you've already started with people in your community," Watanabe said.
(02/10/11 4:00am)
The hotel will have five or six of its 69 rooms and all its facilities available to guests, Bruce said. On Friday, a group of 20 individuals and the hotel's owners from the Maine Course Hospitality Group will arrive for cocktails and 20 rooms will be open for the remainder of the weekend, according to Bruce.
(02/07/11 4:00am)
The U.S. Department of Education announced that 25 percent of students who took out federal loans to pay tuition at for-profit colleges have defaulted on their loans within three years of beginning repayment, The Washington Post reported. The default rate among students rose from 21 percent in December 2009, according to the new federal report that will be published Friday, The Post reported. The federal government is currently reviewing proposed regulations intended to address the issue. Many of the for-profit higher education institution leaders oppose the proposal, which would require colleges and universities to help students find employment, according to The Post. In order to remain eligible to receive federal funding for financial aid, colleges cannot allow the default rates of their loans to rise above a certain level. The new report is only preliminary, however, and will not be used for enforcement purposes, according to The Post.