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(01/18/08 9:55am)
Following the New Hampshire primary, Republican candidates headed to Michigan to campaign for the state's primary on Jan. 15. Before the contest, polls showed Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., leading the field -- a situation similar to the run-up to the New Hampshire primary. Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., placed third in most polls.
(08/07/07 7:31am)
Annie Rittgers '09, 2009 Class Council president, said she hopes that this year's Fieldstock will serve as "a precedent as a party weekend on the level of Green Key" for future summers and that everyone has fun during the festivities.
(07/27/07 8:06am)
Negotiations are underway for an acquisition deal between two textbook publishing companies: Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group and American business of the Harcourt division of Reed Elsevier. If the deal -- in which Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group would acquire the Harcourt division of Reed Elsevier for $4 billion -- is approved, the new company would become the largest textbook publishing company in America. The Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group is itself the result of a recent $3.4 billion acquisition deal between the Dublin-based Riverdeep and the Boston-based Houghton Mifflin. Analysts say that these deals, and other recent acquisitions between textbook publishing companies, are being spurred by the industry's steady revenue stream, minimal competition and new requirements in some states, such as California, which are calling for schools to replace their current textbooks.
(07/22/07 10:54pm)
Dartmouth Dining Services held a vendor food show in Food Court this past Tuesday in an effort to gauge the response of Dartmouth students and other DDS customers to a variety of new food options that DDS is considering for the upcoming school year. With 21 booths featuring over 75 items to sample -- including lobster bisque, organic chocolate milk and gourmet ravioli -- students and customers were invited to complete response sheets after sampling the various items. The black bean spice patty was the most mentioned item on the response sheets, Beth Difrancesco, the DDS purchasing manager, said. It was followed by the prepared whole grain salads. The food show was hosted in conjunction with Roma Foods, DDS's primary vendor, and also involved staff and managers sitting down to discuss how each of the new foods could be incorporated into the current DDS menus.
(07/20/07 6:29am)
Dartmouth Dining Services held a vendor food show in Food Court this past Tuesday in an effort to gauge the response of Dartmouth students and other DDS customers to a variety of new food options that DDS is considering for the upcoming school year. With 21 booths featuring over 75 items to sample -- including lobster bisque, organic chocolate milk and gourmet ravioli -- students and customers were invited to complete response sheets after sampling the various items. The black bean spice patty was the most mentioned item on the response sheets, Beth Difrancesco, the DDS purchasing manager, said. It was followed by the prepared whole grain salads. The food show was hosted in conjunction with Roma Foods, DDS's primary vendor, and also involved staff and managers sitting down to discuss how each of the new foods could be incorporated into the current DDS menus.
(07/10/07 6:48am)
"I've always loved high school dances and dance parties but it was nothing I ever took seriously," Donahoe said.
(07/06/07 6:42am)
Renowned poet Philip Booth '47 died Monday following a long illness complicated by Alzheimer's disease, according to The Bangor Daily News. He was 81 years old. Booth was born in Hanover on October 8, 1925, the son of Edmund Booth, a former professor in Dartmouth's English department. Following his service in the US Air Force during World War II, Booth studied poetry at Dartmouth alongside Robert Frost. He received a Master's Degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Dartmouth for one year before joining the faculty at Wellesley College. He later founded a graduate program in creative writing at Syracuse University. In 2002, following an Alzheimer's diagnosis, Booth returned to Hanover to an assisted living community. He is survived by his wife of sixty-one years, Margaret and his three daughters Margot, Carol and Robin.
(06/27/07 1:08am)
The College is demolishing three buildings near Dartmouth Medical School this summer, as part of the first phase in a planned $94 million construction project to provide a new home for the biology department. The new Life Sciences Building is intended to fix inadequacies in Gilman Hall, which currently houses the department and contains only one classroom and a small number of teaching laboratories.
(06/26/07 6:55am)
The College is demolishing three buildings near Dartmouth Medical School this summer, as part of the first phase in a planned $94 million construction project to provide a new home for the biology department. The new Life Sciences Building is intended to fix inadequacies in Gilman Hall, which currently houses the department and contains only one classroom and a small number of teaching laboratories.
(06/22/07 6:49am)
Jay Buckey, a Dartmouth Medical School professor and former astronaut, formally announced his candidacy for the United States Senate on June 14, three months after forming an exploratory committee to evaluate his candidacy. Buckey will enter the Democratic primary in September 2008, running against several other candidates. The primary determines who will challenge Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., in the 2008 general election.
(02/27/07 11:00am)
In a study published in the February issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, researchers from the Dartmouth Medical School and the Veterans Affairs Outcomes Group in White River Junction, Vt., questioned the usefulness of a test that guides decisions about the use of cholesterol-lowering medication. The study finds that the C-Reactive Protein test, which has received nationwide backing, should not be implemented. Through analysis of national data, the study discovered that the testing strategy, in addition to current cholesterol-based guidelines, would make over half of Americans over 35 and older eligible for cholesterol-lowering therapy. "A general population use of the test would identify millions of low-risk people, and we don't know if exposing them to cholesterol medications will do more good than harm," co-author of the study Lisa Schwartz, a professor of medicine at DMS, told Dartmouth's Office of Public Affairs.
(02/26/07 11:00am)
Like Dartmouth's annual Winter Carnival, the winter carnival at the Tuck School of Business features snow sculptures, ski races and drinking. But Tuck's carnival is held two weeks later, and every imbiber of alcohol is of legal age.
(02/20/07 11:00am)
Drawing parallels between the 1940s and the post-9/11 world, three women whose families were directly affected by Japanese internment camps during World War II ran a panel discussion hosted by the Dartmouth Japan Society. The event, held on Monday night, marked the 65th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt's issuance of Executive Order 9066, which called for the internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans.
(02/16/07 11:00am)
A year and a half after Hurricane Katrina dashed Jenna Klebanoff's hopes of enrolling at Tulane University in New Orleans, La., she will finally make it to the Gulf Coast. Klebanoff, a sophomore at Boston University, camped out for 24 hours to secure a slot on one of BU's coveted alternative spring break trips to New Orleans.
(02/09/07 11:00am)
Thanks to the beauty of the trimester system, Dartmouth's calendar calls for three big festival weekends per year. (Apologies to Tubestock, the recently-defunct fourth celebration: you will be sorely missed.) While many colleges on a traditional semester hold their major weekends in the fall and spring, several nearby schools embrace the bone-chilling temperatures of a New England winter with their own annual incarnations of a winter carnival.
(01/30/07 11:00am)
Members of the Class of 2007 voted Monday night to elect 12 of the 20 members of the Senior Executive Committee.
(01/22/07 11:00am)
Confirmed seeker of the U.S. presidency Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., participated in a question-and-answer session on Sunday. About 130 attendees filled the Hinman Forum at the Rockefeller Center while other students watched from the balconies as the senator answered questions about the economy, America's foreign policy in Iraq and in Iran, as well as his candidacy in the 2008 presidential race.
(01/17/07 11:00am)
The American Finance Association elected Kenneth French, a professor of finance at the Tuck School of Business, as its next president. French, who has been a member of the AFA for 20 years, will serve as president for a one-year term.
(01/10/07 11:00am)
A consulting project that a team of students from the Tuck School of Business started last year changed business operations at Whaleback Mountain, a local ski venue, this winter.
(01/09/07 11:00am)
Two graduates from the Tuck School of Business and one from the Thayer School of Engineering spoke about their experiences starting businesses fresh out of school -- with varing results -- at a panel discussion at Tuck Monday night.