Cortines faces challenges as NYC school chancellor
Ramon Cortines spoke last night about the problems he has encountered and the goals he maintains as chancellor of the New York City school district, which is the largest in the nation.
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Ramon Cortines spoke last night about the problems he has encountered and the goals he maintains as chancellor of the New York City school district, which is the largest in the nation.
The New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union has received at least 12 written complaints against the Hanover Police Department's "internal possession" policy and will meet today to discuss taking legal action.
Last night at about 8:10 p.m., Tiffany Battle '98 was thrown from her bicycle after colliding with pedestrian Julie McGuire '98, who was stepping off the sidewalk by Thayer School of Engineering next to Cummings lot.
The Meal Plan Task Force's proposed dining plan was met with both anger and enthusiasm by students and College employees at an open forum last night.
The renowned African American sculptor Melvin Edwards recently visited the Hood Museum where the first ever retrospective of his work is on view. Edwards has won critical acclaim for "Lynch Fragments," a series of small relief sculptures made of found objects such as chains, railroad spikes and bolts, which, forged together, evoke the more brutal aspects of African-American experiences.
When the Dartmouth Women's Rugby Club won its first league game of the fall season, defeating Radcliffe 12-5, the road towards another great season began. The club has a history of impressive fall season play and Dartmouth is known as the team to beat in the New England Playoffs.
After a disappointing 1993-94 season, the men's hockey team is looking to improve last year's 5-21-1 record starting this Saturday when Dartmouth takes on Boston College.
To the Editor:
Recently, The New York Times reported that two separate studies had shown that, on average, men whose wives stayed home and didn't work received more pay raises and substantially higher salaries than men whose wives did work.
At a time when colleges and universities across the country are scaling back or eliminating their need-blind admissions policies, administrators say the College can maintain its policy in the near future despite the increasing burden it places on the College's budget.
Environmental activist and acoustic artist Dana Lyons yesterday urged an alliance between members of the environmental movement and indigenous peoples in order to combat the current destruction of the earth's resources.
The 20 seniors with the highest grade point averages were inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society in a ceremony yesterday afternoon at College President James Freedman's house.
A task force charged with evaluating campus meal plans has recommended replacing the mandatory freshman meal plan with a system that gives students the option of paying a $70 fee to have only a declining balance account.
The Student Assembly passed both a bylaw to enforce meeting attendance and a resolution to co-sponsor a forum on the Hanover Police Department's policy on "internal possession" of alcohol at its meeting last night.
In a tribute to modern music, Sally Pinkas performed the world premiere of Kathryn Alexander's progressive composition "A Moment, A Kind of..." Thursday night in Spaulding Auditorium. Pinkas, the College's pianist-in-residence since 1985, also performed other classical works spanning two centuries of piano composition during her first solo recital this year.
Although it did not win Ivy championship, the Dartmouth field hockey team will have a chance at the Eastern College Athletic Conference, which, as announced last night, will be held at Chase Field this weekend.
The men's soccer team limped home from Boston after a hard-fought 0-0 overtime tie with Harvard on Saturday afternoon.
I like to think of myself as the people's columnist, so I am always looking out for the well-being of everyone here at Dartmouth. I endeavor to expose all injustices and preserve the autonomy of every single individual on our campus.
This past weekend I traveled to Harvard to visit a friend.
The Trustees have decided to raise the goal of the "Will to Excel" campaign to half a billion dollars. Four hundred twenty five million or 500 million, either way, it is an inconceivably large amount of money. But do we, as students, even take note of the fact that people are willing to invest that kind of money to improve our education?