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(05/18/07 6:24am)
To begin, let's examine the Green Key foam party hosted by Chi Heorot fraternity. In essence, the brothers fill their basement with a liquid foam substance, setting quite the mood for the annual grindfest.
(05/18/07 5:13am)
"Our idea in coming up with this project was to provide our students in Spanish 1 and 2 with a real dialogue between real people on the Dartmouth campus," she said.
(05/15/07 6:12am)
The Inter-Community Council, La Unidad Latina and Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity hosted the second annual Free Speech Forum in Tindle Lounge Monday night. At the forum, participants attempted to create a definition of free speech and discussed its role at Dartmouth and how it applies to society as a whole. The specific topics discussed at the forum vary annually. The forum encouraged respectful discussion of diverse opinions regarding free speech, while trained moderators facilitated roundtable discussions.
(05/14/07 5:08am)
The discussion, co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Nature Conservancy, focused on current freshwater supply issues, the future of the earth's freshwater supply, and proactive step towards freshwater resourcefulness worldwide.
(05/01/07 5:20am)
The discussion, attended by approximately 30 Dartmouth students and faculty, as well as Hanover residents, focused primarily on the importance of individual initiative in resolving world hunger and obesity. It was sponsored by the Rockefeller Center and the Dartmouth Animal Welfare Group.
(04/23/07 12:13pm)
The Office of Residential Life will offer "gender-neutral" housing - housing that will allow students of the opposite sex to live together - beginning in the 2007 Fall term. The housing option will be available on the programming floor of McLane Hall, as well as in various rooms in Thomas Hall, the East Wheelock and Fahey-McLane residential clusters and the Maxwell and Channing Cox apartments.
(04/16/07 9:01am)
According to a recent poll reported on the New Hampshire Union Leader's website, a majority of survey participants oppose same-sex civil unions. Of the 1,753 people who participated in the survey, 53.3 percent said they opposed legalized civil unions, while 46.7 percent said they supported them. The poll closed Friday afternoon. Senate President Sylvia Larsen decided to postpone a bill legalizing same-sex unions on its way to the Senate, which gained approval in the New Hampshire House last Wednesday. Gov. John Lynch has not taken a public stand on the postponement, nor has it been rescheduled.
(04/16/07 9:01am)
The National Science Foundation recently awarded funding to nine Dartmouth alumni for graduate study.
(04/10/07 9:00am)
A group composed mostly of Dartmouth women gathered at Casque and Gauntlet senior society Monday night to discuss an article that appeared last Sunday in The New York Times, focusing on the pressures of college admissions and high school women.
(04/04/07 9:00am)
He wants to eliminate homelessness, ban guns and replace the kitchen knife -- and, he's running for president. Sixty-year-old Hanover resident Ed O'Donnell announced his candidacy for president of the United States in the 2008 election, explaining that he is running in the Democratic primary to gain publicity in order to get his name on the ballot as an independent.
(03/28/07 9:00am)
Karen Liot Hill '00, programming coordinator of the Rockefeller Center, was re-elected to the Lebanon City Council by a landslide victory on March 12. A Democrat, she won her second term on the Council with 346 votes to 134 votes for her opponent, Republican Karen Melendy Cervantes.
(03/05/07 11:00am)
The International Student Association hosted an AIDS benefit dinner in Collis Commonground Sunday night. At the event, professors, students and doctors discussed global health and fighting AIDS in Africa. Mary Turco, head of Dartmouth's Global Health Initiative, economics professor Pascaline Dupas and Asian and Middle Eastern language professor Justin Rudelson attended the event. Grassroots Soccer, an organization founded by Tommy Clark '92 to help youth in Africa avoid HIV by playing soccer, presented a film about the organization. The DarDar project, a group of Dartmouth Medical School students fighting AIDS in Africa, presented a film as well. Students for Africa performed at the event. The dinner was catered by Taste of Africa, and all donations went to the Grassroots Soccer organization.
(03/02/07 11:00am)
"The moose is very outdoorsy, like Dartmouth," Thomas Santamaria '10 said. "I think it relates to our school very well."
(02/26/07 11:00am)
Even with the envelope in her hand, Kate Cameron '07 found that she could not mail her agreement to take a generous job offer with a hedge fund after graduation. After much consideration, Cameron realized that her heart lay somewhere far above the financial sector. Instead of joining the corporate world, she will work toward gaining certification as a fighter pilot for the U.S. Marine Corps.
(02/13/07 11:00am)
The Hanover Fire Department has not determined a cause for the fire that occurred in Bissell Hall around 8 p.m. Wednesday, except that the fire originated from a wooden part located inside the radiator, according to Director of Facilities, Operations and Management Woody Eckels.
(02/09/07 11:00am)
For decades the brothers of Chi Heorot fraternity have thrown their annual Winter Carnival Kountry Kwencher party, which even included the appearance of live farm animals, bales of hay and other festive decorations in the past. While the presence of pigs in the basement -- literal ones, that is -- has ended in recent years, the western-themed party has continued to be an important part of the Carnival's events until this year. As a result of a keg violation in November, Heorot, which typically sees most of its party traffic during Winter term, will not be able to host its infamous carousal this weekend.
(02/09/07 11:00am)
Ken Bain, author of the best-selling book "What the Best College Teachers Do," spoke to an audience composed mostly of professors in Filene Auditorium Thursday. Dartmouth's Center for the Advancement of Learning hosted the event.
(01/29/07 11:00am)
The 2007 Social Justice Awards Ceremony, organized by the Martin Luther King Celebration Committee, took place in Collis Common Ground on Friday. Four alumni received awards at the ceremony. Thomas W. Wahman '60, the founder and president of the internationally oriented Resources Development Foundation, was one award recipient. Karen Kramer Hein DMS'68 received an award for her role as former president of the William T. Grant Foundation and founder of the United States's first adolescent HIV/AIDS program. Jim Butterworth Tu'91, founder of Incite Productions and producer and director of the film Seoul Train, and Paul D. Holzer '00,director of Higher Education at the Latin American Youth Center in Washington, D.C., also received awards. The Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program and the Mascoma Clinic were also recognized at the event.
(01/24/07 11:00am)
Mostly freshmen gathered Tuesday evening for a student panel that focused on internships: which ones are available, how to search for them and how to fund them. The event was one of several events scheduled for the First Year Internship Week.
(01/19/07 11:00am)
Tom Stebbins knew something was changing when he noticed a steady increase in the quantity of plasma televisions, car engines and designer clothing that started popping up more and more. An employee of the mail room for 26 years, Stebbins has concluded that Dartmouth students have upped their online purchasing.