Future housing examined
The averted housing crisis of fall is resulting in the review of College policies that have allowed larger enrollments during the Fall term than other terms.
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The averted housing crisis of fall is resulting in the review of College policies that have allowed larger enrollments during the Fall term than other terms.
Freshman Orientation Week concluded last night in a packed Leede Arena with a lecture by English professor William Cook on the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass."
Students will soon find condoms next to their candy and chips in dormitory vending machines in an effort to increase condom availability, Dean of Residential Life Mary Turco said.
A boy wearing red pants hangs upside-down from the gun barrel of a rusted tank, his hand capping the muzzle. It is one of the few images in "James Nachtwey: Photographs" now on view at the Hood Museum of Art with an air of playful grimness; mostly the photographs are simply grim -- in the words of one critic, "beyond tragedy."
"Bird Songs of the Mesozoic," "The Flying Karamazov Brothers" and "The Coney Island Circus Sideshow" are just a few of the more bizarre acts scheduled to appear at the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts this term. The seemingly wacky sensibility behind these selections belongs to the new Director of Programming Norman Frisch.
The women's soccer team opened its season on the wrong end of an overtime thriller, losing to the University of Connecticut 1-0 Sunday afternoon.
If the Dartmouth football team was trailing by four points with less than five minutes to go and Jay Fiedler '94 was leading the team down the field, it was almost assumed that Dartmouth would end up on the right side of a fourth-quarter comeback.
Despite hopes for a strong season led by a crop of excellent juniors, the women's field hockey team split its first four games before heading into league competition this weekend.
Jay Fiedler '94 fulfilled his childhood dream when he made the Philadelphia Eagles, becoming the first Dartmouth football player since Jeff Kemp '81 and David Shula '81 to make the National Football League.
Sometime during the summer term I went to my fraternity's parking lot to find that our cars had been ticketed by a Dartmouth Parking Operations officer.
I decided to lead a Dartmouth Outing Club Trip because, as a senior who had been studying abroad since sophomore summer, I felt that I needed a proper reintroduction to Dartmouth. It turned out to be one of the most fun and rewarding experiences I have had at Dartmouth.
Put away those fans, unplug those air conditioners and jump into a pile of leaves. Fall is here, like it or not. But aside from the beautiful autumn scenery here in northern New England, there is a much greater sign that Fall term has begun. Shmen!
It's unmistakably fall at Dartmouth when the first tinges of red and orange appear on the tips of leaves, when swarms of first-year-obs dance the "Salty Dog Rag" at high speed in front of Robinson Hall and the lines at Thayer dining hall stretch out the door.
Bjorn Kilburn '95, an experienced outdoors man and a trained Wilderness First Responder, said speed is imperative if you are going to successfully rescue a heart attack victim on the trail.
Most students arriving at an elite Ivy League institution for the first day of college expect to be greeted by advisers with books, maps and maybe a beer - not Tweedledee, Mickey Mouse and a cow.
Members of the Class of 1998 gathered Sunday night to watch the "Community at Dartmouth" presentation, a series of skits and narratives designed to introduce new students to some of the social issues present on the Dartmouth campus.
For the second year in a row, Dartmouth ranked eighth in U.S. News and World Report's annual rating of national colleges and universities.
Despite a housing waitlist that peaked at 400 in May and remained at 278 in July, all students who remained on the list received campus housing due to changes in enrollement patterns and creative housing solutions by the College.
Computer Science Professor Donald Johnson, a brilliant scientist and the creator of Dartmouth's nationally respected computer science program, died September 10 while hiking Mount Cube near Orford, N.H. with his fiancee's daughter. He was 60 years old.
Wednesday's convocation exercises, marking the official opening of the College's 225th academic year, will include a keynote address by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala as well as speeches by College President James Freedman and Student Assembly President Danielle Moore.