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"Hello, I'm Zach Goldstein and I go to The Dartmouth."
Last May, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority hosted two annual spring traditions within a week of each other. On May 28, Kappa sponsored its third-annual Breast Cancer Walk/Run fundraiser, with all proceeds to benefit the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. A week later the sorority held its traditional senior banquet -- a sumptuous buffet served by Blood's Catering. But when it came time to pay the cancer center and the catering company, the sorority's funds were not sufficient to write checks to both. The caterer got paid. The cancer center did not.
When they opened their mailboxes in December, 397 high-school seniors received the news they had all been waiting for: they were the first members of the Class of 2009.
There's a reason why an overwhelming majority of the College opts for laptop computers. With a wireless network blanketing the entire campus, from the library to the dorms to the middle of the Green, students can access the Internet and (more importantly) BlitzMail from anywhere on campus, without plugging in.
From the highs to the lows, a look back at the last four years at Dartmouth.
The College's Class of 2008 is firmly cast in place, as 1,095 students have submitted letters of intent to matriculate at Dartmouth come Fall term. The number matriculating came very near to the admissions office's expectations, marking the third time in the last four years the yield has been 51.1 percent.
He was "one of the greatest Dartmouth ends in recent years," The Dartmouth proclaimed in 1953.
For the fifth year in a row, U.S. News and World Report ranked Dartmouth ninth in its annual "America's Best Colleges" report released Tuesday.
Dartmouth may not be this year's hottest Ivy League school, but the College did receive the honor of hottest "tech-savvy" institution according to Kaplan and Newsweek's "How to Get Into College Guide" and the list of "America's 25 Hottest Schools."
Dartmouth food may still be great, but apparently the campus isn't as beautiful as it used to be. Princeton Review released its highly-touted "The Best 357 Colleges Book" Tuesday, including its annual college rankings, with Dartmouth sliding in many important categories. Nonetheless, Dartmouth remains the leader in the Ivy League in the number of categories in which it is highly-ranked with seven.
BOSTON -- As a Massachusetts liberal, John Kerry's goal coming out of last week's Democratic National Convention was to establish himself as a candidate who could also appeal to the moderate swing voters. But one group of important voters, the age group represented by Dartmouth students, was seemingly uninterested in the speech, remaining politically apathetic.
BOSTON -- By 4 p.m., the close of a typical summer workday, hundreds of Dartmouth sophomores have called it quits. But for two fervent Democrats here as delegates to the Democratic National Convention, a packed schedule of schmoozing and politicking has just begun to pick up.
As he rode into Paris Sunday for a record sixth-consecutive year clad in the yellow jersey, Lance Armstrong celebrated his place in history with a flute of champagne and a smile. In the 101-year history of the Tour de France, no other rider has ever won more than five tours.
The Democratic National Convention kicked off Monday night in Boston amid much fanfare and heavy security. While most Dartmouth students watched the first night of the political spectacle on television, two students were actually participating on the inside.
An underground cable failure near Hanover High School Sunday that contributed to two local power outages over the last two days has proven irksome to students living both on and off campus.
The Dartmouth Bookstore changed ownership for only the second time in its 132-year history on June 10 when Hanover accountant John Schiffman '62 finalized his purchase of the retailer. The store has been owned and operated by the Storrs family for the past 121 years.
They were the first freshman class of the new millennium and much has happened in their four years spent on campus. From the highs to the lows, a look back at the life of the Dartmouth Class of 2004:
The Undergraduate Finance Committee finalized decisions Thursday on where it would allocate its $755,000 budget for fiscal year 2004-05, beginning June 30.
The College's Class of 2008 is now cast in place, as 1,095 students have submitted letters of intent to matriculate at Dartmouth come Fall term. The number matriculating came very near to the admissions office's expectations, marking the third time in the last four years the yield has been 51.1 percent.
Editor's Note: This is the fifth and final article in a series examining higher education admissions in the wake of last year's University of Michigan Supreme Court decisions. This article looks at the benefit given to athletes and compares other common preferences given to applicants that were discussed in this series.