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WEB UPDATE, September 4, 7:00 a.m.
As the Association of Alumni prepares to vote on a new proposed constitution this fall, heated debate has persisted throughout many sectors of the Dartmouth community. Factions on both sides participate, with weblogs becoming an important media for political dialogue.
For the past three weeks, 20,000 Dartmouth alumni have had the opportunity to respond to a 36-screen online survey about various aspects of the College.
A team of Dartmouth researchers has been selected to share in $2.3 million of NASA funds. The researchers will conduct studies that will facilitate auxiliary missions on a larger mission that will launch in 2012. Dartmouth's portion of the research will focus on "mechanisms that will cause the Earth's radiation belts to periodically drain away into the planet's atmosphere," according to a statement. The College is sharing the funds with researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Central Florida, Orlando, who have been assigned to conduct different studies in the same project. NASA has also provided $100 million in funds to be split between four teams of researchers conducting studies and supporting hardware for the main portion of the mission.
President Bush used his veto power for the first time in his presidency Wednesday when he struck down H.R. 810, a bill that would have increased federal funding for stem cell research. The veto, which Bush followed with a speech to 18 families who had adopted frozen embryos and raised children from them, caused some contention at Dartmouth, where several professors and a student group identify as strong supporters of the bill.
Beginning last week, Nels Armstrong '71 assumed his latest position as Assistant to the President for Special Projects, a position that will largely focus on diversity issues. Armstrong, who since 1995 has worked in the Office of Alumni Relations, most recently as its director, has stepped down from that post for the year "to give this position 100 percent of my attention," he said.
Students scrambled last week to consolidate loans and lock in favorable interest rates for federal Stafford and PLUS loans before the rates became fixed on July 1 at nearly two percentage points above those that have been available to students in recent years. The U.S. inflation rate hovers around four percent per year.
The deaths of Lindsay Della Serra and Christina Porter marked two tragedies in the story of the Class of 2006.
After countless nights of Novack coffee at 1:58 a.m., afternoons that disappeared on the Green and mornings walking home as the sun rises, you will leave campus Sunday night holding a Dartmouth degree. You will join the ranks of the Class of 1981 and the Class of 1956 as men and women of Dartmouth in business, education, the arts and in humanity.
Butts said that he was never driven by the grade that would appear on his transcript, but consistently did his best to produce quality work.
In the latest twist of the ongoing discussion over the Alumni Governance Task Force's newly proposed alumni constitution, the executive committee of the Association of Alumni has announced that it will postpone its annual fall meetings as well as the accompanying elections.
At the Alumni Council's three-day meeting this weekend, the body voted both to endorse the Dartmouth Alumni Association's newly proposed constitution and to revise the existing constitution to allow all-media voting on subsequent amendments to the Council's constitution.
Students may be looking forward to cutting loose and enjoying some springtime revelry this weekend, but the Green Key weekends of the past were even more prone to "Animal House"-esque behaviors, according to some College faculty and staff.
As part of his search for 15 students with "an infectious Dartmouth spirit," Rex Morey '99, the Assistant Director of Young Alumni and Student Programs, gave an informal white-on-green PowerPoint presentation discussing the yet-to-be-formed Hill Winds Society to about 40 undergraduates in Blunt Alumni Center Wednesday evening.
The search for a permanent dean for upperclass students has thus far been unsuccessful, Senior Associate Dean of the College Dan Nelson '75 announced Tuesday. The search committee charged with finding a new dean interviewed six candidates for the job, but did not extend any offers.
News of Larimore's candidacy for the Swarthmore position came to light in April, and he accepted the institution's offer for the job on Sunday. Larimore's job at Swarthmore will be similar to his post as dean of the College at Dartmouth, though he feels it may be possible to have a larger impact on a school less than half the size of the College.
The Hanover Institute, like many other Dartmouth alumni blogs, websites and organizations, is "dedicated to educating Dartmouth College alumni about important events at Dartmouth." Unlike many other grassroots efforts, though, the institute has been incorporated as a non-profit organization and solicits donations from Dartmouth community members and other interested parties -- an unusual two-thirds of which pay the salary of the organization's president, John MacGovern '80.
The teacher accreditations and certifications set forth by the No Child Left Behind Act are ineffective at increasing teacher efficacy, according to a new paper from the Brookings Institution co-authored by Dartmouth economics professor Douglas Staiger.
Distinguished journalist William Beutel '53 died in his home last Saturday in Pinehurst, N.C., following his long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
About 80 Dartmouth alumni met last night in Boston while others listened in by webcast in a "town hall-style meeting" to discuss the newly proposed alumni constitution, which among other changes, would bring the elite Alumni Council and the much larger, but less active, Association of Alumni under one umbrella as the Alumni Association.