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(09/23/09 2:00am)
Nurses working in the global context must avoid imposing their own cultural views on the communities with which they are working, lecturers at the conference "The Role of Nursing in Promoting Global Health: The Power of One" held at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Monday, told the more than 50 nurses who attended the event.
(07/14/09 2:00am)
This year's Prouty drew over 4,600 participants, a 10-percent increase from last year's participation, according to Jean Brown, executive director of Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
(07/07/09 2:00am)
SEAD participants are selected through a competitive application process based on academic promise and all of the students are eligible for the Federal Free-Lunch subsidy, according to the SEAD web site. This summer, 28 students are enrolled in the program, which runs from July 4 to July 28, according to Jay Davis, program director and professor of education.
(07/01/09 2:00am)
Outgoing Provost Barry Scherr and Steven Kadish, Kim's senior vice president and strategic advisor, have led President Jim Yong Kim's transition to the presidency in recent weeks, working to familiarize Kim with the College. Since assuming his post June 15, Kadish said he has studied the operations of the College, but has not developed any tangible policies to recommend to the incoming administration.
(03/02/09 12:18pm)
Students pursuing careers in foreign policy often lose their way in a competitive job market, Josh Marcuse '04, president and founder of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, told an audience of about 40 students on Friday afternoon. Marcuse, who founded YPFP to help students enter the field of foreign policy, offered students advice and shared personal experiences from his work in Washington, D.C.
(02/19/09 9:18am)
Grafton County commissioner Ray Burton moved to transfer investment authority to the county's deputy treasurer and away from current treasurer Vanessa Sievers '10 at the Board of Commissioners' weekly meeting on Tuesday, the Valley News reported. Burton said Sievers "simply is not doing her job," according to the Valley News. The Board criticized Sievers for not attending Board meetings, relying on e-mail to conduct county business, and allegedly mishandling the county tax receipts fund that holds $9.8 million, according to the Valley News. Sievers said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth that she had an investment plan, but cannot move forward without the Board's approval. "I am stunned at the allegations especially since things have been on an up turn since last week's article," Sievers wrote in the e-mail.
(02/06/09 9:50am)
"Our cultural schizophrenia, the political roller coaster we are riding is shown in the two biggest GLBT events of 2008 -- the passage of [Proposition 8] and the popularity of the film 'Milk,'" she said. "I think this epitomizes the bookends of American political engagement with GLBT issues."
(01/26/09 10:17am)
Charles Wheelan '88 described life on the campaign trail to a group of Dartmouth students, including several of his former pupils, at a lunch held in the Rockefeller Center on Friday afternoon.
(01/20/09 8:28am)
Dartmouth fraternities accepted at least 27 men during this year's winter rush, which came to a close on Sunday. As in previous years, fewer men sank bids and fewer fraternities accepted new members in the winter than in the fall.
(11/19/08 10:17am)
Over the past three decades, Latin American literacy rates have steadily risen, the infant mortality rate is the lowest in the world's developing regions, and, due to improved education for women, the birth rate is now under control, Cason said. He added that increased international involvement is one of the major signs of Latin American development.
(10/22/08 6:56am)
"People hear much more about what's going wrong [in Iraq] than about what's going right," Burns said, citing dramatically decreased levels of violence.
(10/14/08 6:59am)
Dartmouth's Reserve Officers Training Corps is relatively invisible on campus now, but during the Vietnam War the program ignited such controversy that it was banned from campus by the administration. The current Dartmouth chapter of ROTC, reinstated in the early 1980s, consists of a small but dedicated group of students taking military ethics courses, doing regular physical training and planning to devote several years after college graduation to serve their country.
(10/13/08 6:36am)
In the most recent incarnation of a controversy that has reappeared in various forms since the Vietnam War, advocacy groups continue their battle to reinstate the Reserve Officers Training Corps at the multiple Ivy League institutions where they are currently banned. Recent years have seen opponents of the ROTC raise objections on the grounds that the program, through its ties to the U.S. Armed Forces, legitimizes the military's policies regarding homosexuality.
(09/29/08 12:37pm)
Senator John McCain's presidential campaign has selected three Dartmouth students as leaders of New Hampshire Students for John McCain, the Republican campaign's new grassroots organization made up of students from colleges and universities across the state. Greg Boguslavsky '09 was chosen to co-chair the organization, and Tom Huzarsky '09 and Jennifer Bandy '09 were selected to lead the organization's efforts at Dartmouth.
(05/28/08 10:01am)
A college campus, with its various temptations, might not seem like an ideal breeding ground for a devout religious lifestyle -- especially a religion outside of the traditional mold. Still, many Dartmouth students exploreand even adopt lesser represented religions at the College.
(05/23/08 9:54am)
Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a four-part series examining religious life at Dartmouth.
(05/12/08 7:15am)
Perfect weather and an unprecedented turnout made the Tuck School of Business' 24th Annual Run for the Kids on Saturday the most successful yet, as the event more than doubled its previous record turnout.
(04/29/08 5:35am)
Hui has served under U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao since April 2004, overseeing Chao's nationwide employment efforts by helping to organize events, plan internships and coordinate programs that assist and train Americans looking for jobs. Hui encouraged students to look at the current job market with a positive attitude.
(04/23/08 9:12am)
"It's pretty nasty," she said, "But it makes me want to make less garbage and not leave it on the ground and stuff."
(04/15/08 7:07am)
More than 45 widely respected and admired individuals -- ranging from anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu to former U.S. President Gerald Ford to Grammy winning singer Sheryl Crow -- have visited the College through the Montgomery Endowment, now marking its 30th anniversary.