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(09/10/04 9:00am)
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.
(09/10/04 9:00am)
From the western hunter to the mountain skier to the avid climber, the Dartmouth Outing Club provides ample opportunities to explore the wilderness, to hike the Appalachian Trail and to kayak rapids on the Connecticut River.
(09/10/04 9:00am)
Six hours every day. That's how long the offices on the second floor of Robinson Hall are quiet when The Dartmouth is in production.
(09/10/04 9:00am)
Incoming freshmen are encouraged to jump directly into student government at Dartmouth College. Dartmouth's student government is the Student Assembly, and while Assembly officers are elected every Spring term by the student body, freshman representatives are elected during Fall term, after they matriculate, to represent their dorm clusters.
(09/10/04 9:00am)
College admissions officers continue to focus on increasing the diversity of incoming classes, including Dartmouth's Class of 2008. This year, African-American students had the best chance of getting into Dartmouth, at a rate of 44.6 percent, and Native Americans and Latinos experienced similar acceptance rates of 34.6 and 29 percent, respectively. Whites, who make up over 60 percent of applicants, had an acceptance rate of 16.2 percent.
(09/10/04 9:00am)
Dartmouth's administration, led by the 16-member Board of Trustees and College President James Wright along with deans involved with student and faculty affairs, has focused on priorities including increasing diversity and expanding facilities in recent years.
(09/10/04 9:00am)
From the highs to the lows, a look back at the last four years at Dartmouth.
(09/10/04 9:00am)
Since its founding in 1769, Dartmouth College been home to a diverse range of characters including Daniel Webster, Robert Frost and Keggy. The story of how the College emerged from humble beginnings as a small log hut in the woods of New Hampshire to become one of the most distinguished academic establishments in the world is as intriguing as one would expect of an institution with such an eclectic heritage. Dartmouth College, the ninth oldest college or university in the country, is a relatively small institution that has influenced the hearts and lives of many of this country's greatest minds.
(09/10/04 9:00am)
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.
(09/10/04 9:00am)
As September rolls around and high school friends have long departed for their college orientations, the members of the Dartmouth Class of 2008 will anxiously await their opportunity to join their new classmates. Yet, while eagerly anticipating their chance to experience college life, they can also look forward to the surplus of unique Dartmouth traditions that await them in the year ahead.
(09/10/04 9:00am)
Welcome to Dartmouth!
(08/26/04 9:00am)
He was "one of the greatest Dartmouth ends in recent years," The Dartmouth proclaimed in 1953.
(08/26/04 9:00am)
"In going to Dartmouth, I think I'll find the things I'm looking for," said David T. McLaughlin '54.
(08/26/04 9:00am)
The selection of David T. McLaughlin '54 as the 14th president of the College came at a special Feb. 23, 1981 faculty meeting after a weekend of secret trustee deliberations in Hanover and Boston. Only hours later, the College's professors began to question the businessman's academic qualifications -- the first signs of a problem that would last throughout his tumultuous six-and-one-half-year tenure.
(08/26/04 9:00am)
Editor's Note: The following is excerpted from an interview conducted with then-trustee chairman David. T. McLaughlin Feb. 21, 1981 at the Hanover Inn, two days before the announcement of his new role as president was made.
(08/26/04 9:00am)
David T. McLaughlin, a member of the Class of 1954 who, as Dartmouth's 14th president, oversaw a campus-wide building boom and enacted fundamental changes in the Dartmouth Plan, died Wednesday morning in Dillingham, Alaska's Woodriver Lodge while on a fishing trip with friends and his two grown sons.
(08/25/04 9:00am)
WEB UPDATE -- Aug. 25, 9:49 p.m.
(08/24/04 9:00am)
Autobiography in film has always been a tricky business. Having the director also write and star in an autobiographical film is even more dangerous. And more perilous still is having a first time director write and star in an autobiographical film. There exists an immense possibility of plummeting into the abyss of bad films made by otherwise talented people.
(08/24/04 9:00am)
Following in the footsteps of such journalistic luminaries as Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters and Bonnie Bernstein, The Dartmouth's Steven Orbuch catches up with the big sports names on campus and asks the questions that others have too much professionalism or integrity to ask. Today, Orbuch sits down with crew star and sex symbol Dan Donoho '06.
(08/24/04 9:00am)
To the Editor: