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(02/06/12 4:00am)
The modest growth in the number of applications received by the College for the Class of 2016, amounting to an increase of 3 percent from last year, reflects a trend among several peer institutions, although some universities saw a decrease in applications, according to Dan Parish, director of admissions recruitment. Dartmouth was one of three institutions in the Ivy League in addition to Yale University and Cornell University to experience an increase in applications this year.
(02/01/12 4:00am)
The persistence of hazing at Dartmouth goes against the College's principle of community and its core values, according to members of the College faculty interviewed by The Dartmouth. Many professors expressed their concern that students are participating in activities that are detrimental to their wellbeing and academic performance. Most professors said they are aware that some form of hazing occurs on campus, and that they have a responsibility to help students effectively combat hazing.
(01/30/12 4:00am)
This past winter, I attended a public thesis defense of a Dartmouth biology PhD candidate. Following the defense's successful completion, I asked the new doctor which institution she'd be off to next. To my surprise, she replied that she would not be joining academia. Rather, she was hoping to join a research patent law firm and take night classes to earn a law degree. When I prodded further, she replied that there were limited opportunities in the United States for a freshly-minted PhD, and rather than trudging along for years in postdoctoral positions while grasping for chances at tenure, going into law or industry would allow her to reap immediate pecuniary benefits from her degree. Other members of the same lab from first-year graduate students to weathered post-docs all seemed to agree with this bleak forecast of the academic job market.
(01/27/12 4:00am)
Hanover may not be a cosmopolitan culinary center in the way that nearby cities such as Boston and New York are, but it still features plenty of means for students, faculty and community members to satisfy their cravings for a range of international foods.
(01/20/12 4:00am)
The College intends to accept roughly 2,100 students approximately 9 percent of applicants making this "the most selective year we've had in terms of the admissions process," Laskaris said.
(01/20/12 4:00am)
Tim Tebow is the most polarizing figure in sports since Barry Bonds, Tiger Woods and Hulk Hogan. You either love or hate the man, but it's rare to find someone who's never heard his name. Surprisingly, even people who don't even like football have some sort of opinion about Tebow. He's one of the few athletes who has developed a fan (and enemy) base with no logical territorial boundaries. Though he played college football for the University of Florida Gators and currently plays in the NFL for the Denver Broncos, millions from around the nation are glued to the TV whenever he takes the field.
(01/04/12 4:00am)
It has been nearly three months since Occupy Dartmouth set up camp in front of the Collis Center. Despite bitter cold and some harassment, members of Occupy remain determined to stimulate discussion about political and economic inequities. While student protesters can be commended for making the world's troubles their own, they are mistaken in pointing blame at corporate greed and free market capitalism.
(11/30/11 4:00am)
In Dartmouth's 3-2 win over Harvard University last Wednesday a game that Holdcroft said was "huge" and "exciting but nerve-racking" the goalie notched 27 saves, helping Dartmouth to its third victory over a top-10 opponent this season.
(10/28/11 2:00am)
Cohen, who is from Johannesberg, South Africa, said soccer has been part of his life for almost as long as he can remember. He began playing the sport with his father and brother when he was four or five years old, and was playing for a high-level club team by the time he was a teenager, he said. "My whole family loves soccer," Cohen said. "In South Africa, where I'm from, soccer is the big sport. I've grown up with it and never had to choose between many other sports."
(10/24/11 2:00am)
Press presented defense spending cuts as a way to counteract the reality of a looming budget deficit and increasing costs of entitlement programs, noting that spending cuts will not weaken the United States as a superpower.
(10/14/11 2:00am)
Despite national trends emphasizing technical career-specific education, the humanities remain an essential element of schooling, Harvard University anthropology professor Arthur Kleinman said in a lecture Thursday afternoon in the Haldeman Center. Speaking to an audience of approximately 30 people that mostly included medical students and professors, Kleinman argued that while cynicism has become a natural reflex for people, studying the humanities can help brighten a person's outlook.
(10/10/11 2:00am)
While accounts of life under oppressive dictators and stories of different cultures and world views may seem ubiquitous, the reality of these accounts can at times be difficult to grasp without watching them unfold visually. The New England Festival of Ibero-American Cinema of 2011, hosted at the College from Oct. 5 to Oct. 9, offered students the opportunity to more fully immerse themselves in stories from Ibero-America, a term used to refer to Spain, Portugal and former colonies of Portugal and Spain.
(10/07/11 2:00am)
Multiple studies reveal a positive correlation between religiosity and overall mental health, according to Whitley, who teaches at Dartmouth and McGill University. There is also a negative correlation between religiosity and rates of delinquency, depression, suicide, anxiety, phobia, bulimia and drug abuse, he said.
(09/29/11 2:00am)
This year's career fair, which ran on Tuesday and Wednesday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., offered a more varied selection than those of years past, according to acting co-Director of Career Services Monica Wilson. Arranging for organizations to visit campus can be difficult, as employers only attend the fair if they have entry-level positions available, and Dartmouth's remote location and modest size makes the costs of participation for many organizations greater than the benefits, particularly for non-profits, Wilson said.
(09/22/11 2:00am)
Co-captain Kelly Hood '12 notched her 114th career point by scoring the game's first goal, breaking the points record previously held by Lauren Welsh '03.
(08/16/11 2:00am)
Dartmouth chemistry professors Russell Hughes and David Lemal were named fellows by the American Chemical Society a society of over 160,000 internationally recognized chemists on Aug. 8, according to the ACS website.
(06/28/11 2:00am)
To begin the session, director of the Rockefeller Center and economics professor Andrew Samwick, who moderated the discussion, asked Geithner about the goal of recent economic reforms. Reducing the U.S. budget deficit from 10 percent of American gross domestic product to below 3 percent is "the necessary thing [even though] it's not really the hardest thing and it's not really the most important thing," Geithner said in response to a question by Samwick.
(05/27/11 2:00am)
On May 21 at 6 p.m., people around the world celebrated when the Rapture did not occur. I was not one of them. Sure, life would go on longer than predicted, but I knew the expiration date was nigh. For I, Emily Hirshey, can see what is coming: On June 12, 2011, the world will end. G-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named is rapidly approaching, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.
(05/23/11 2:00am)
Friday's Verbum Ultimum discussed Student Assembly's failure to address issues that are important to the student body. Do you think the Assembly should always spearhead student efforts to lobby the administration?
(05/06/11 2:00am)
Overpopulation is not a subject much discussed in the present day for good reason. By now, it is a problem associated with authoritarian solutions. After the horrifying forced abortions of China's "One Child Policy" and the terrifying prospect at least for men of forced vasectomies courtesy of Indira Gandhi, the movement to curb overpopulation seemed to have lost steam in the early '80s. In fact, I thought it was a completely dead issue, until I read an article in The New York Times on Monday reporting that the United Nations predicts the world population to increase to 10.1 billion people by 2100. Within the last dozen years, we've already added another billion people to the population, reaching 7 billion total. If birthrates don't change, the UN projects that the population of Africa already so wounded by AIDS, wars and famines will triple. On a smaller scale, the population of Yemen, which already faces "critical water shortages," will quadruple.
