Scherr ends tenure as provost
"It's the ability to work with really all different areas of the campus at the same time," Scherr said of the role of the provost. "It's a very inclusive job."
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"It's the ability to work with really all different areas of the campus at the same time," Scherr said of the role of the provost. "It's a very inclusive job."
I, like many of you I'm sure, rely heavily on Internet services to facilitate my television addiction.
Quarantined in my bedroom, sweating, coughing and nauseated, I felt like Glenn Beck responding to callers demanding a public option. Luckily, I had the prophylactic powers of the Dartmouth library to assuage my swine-induced boredom. After a quick search of the database, I found that the term "Simpsons" yielded 46 results. I could immediately feel my worries dissolving like a sugar lump in warm tea.
Three thousand colleges and universities received letters from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan this week encouraging them to prepare for the proposed federal Direct Loan Program for the 2010-2011 school year, The New York Times reported on Monday. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act last month, which extends the government's direct lending and discontinues the present program that includes government subsidies and loan guarantees for private lenders, The Times reported. If the bill passes in the Senate, colleges will be required to switch to the federal Direct Loan Program by July 1, 2010 a move most institutions are not prepared for, according to The Times.
It's not hard to grasp why the White House hates Fox News. Since President Obama moved into the White House, the network has been attempting with surprising success to embarrass his administration's every move. What is hard to grasp, however, is why Obama, the seemingly unfazed, post-partisan politician, has made it a priority of his administration to delegitimize the news station. Wasn't he supposed to be above it all? Wasn't he going to leave the partisan bickering to the rest of us?
Using the prevalence of perforated appendixes as an indicator of health care disparities, two Dartmouth researchers have found that patients in rural areas tend to have diminished access to health care compared to patients living in cities and suburbs.
While the United States can safely move to reduce the size of its nuclear arsenal a possibility currently being explored by the Obama administration it must retain its smallest, most accurate warheads, according to an Oct. 22 paper in Foreign Affairs by Dartmouth government professor Daryl Press. These weapons will act as a credible deterrent against nuclear escalation during a conventional war with a nuclear-armed adversary, Press argues in the paper.
Arguing that the United States' university-based teacher programs need "revolutionary change," U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan criticized the programs for failing to prepare students to teach and for having too few resources in an address at Columbia University last week. Dartmouth education professors, however, said that Duncan's criticisms largely do not apply to the College's Teacher Education Program because of its small size, its grounding in the liberal arts and the opportunities the program provides for hands on experience.
Molly Scott '11 and Mary Beth Winingham '10 made it to the semifinals of the Northeast Regional Tennis Indoor Championship doubles bracket at Yale last weekend.
While "legacies don't come with provosts," according to unofficial College historian and history professor emeritus Jere Daniell '55, former Provost Barry Scherr's eight-year tenure, which ended on Monday, was marked by strong support for the arts and efforts to secure research funding for the College, according to administrators, faculty and students interviewed by The Dartmouth. Scherr, reflecting on his term in an interview with The Dartmouth, said he sought to facilitate College operations and promote collaboration among all areas of the College "to try to fulfill the academic mission of the institution."
I can't even remember the last time I was available to watch "Community" or "Glee" on the night it actually aired.
"I always do my wrist tape," he said. "It's not really a big superstitious thing I just think it looks good."
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual survey of the 400 largest nonprofit organizations in the United States found that even the nation's largest and most stable nonprofit organizations will likely see a 9-percent drop in donations for the year 2009, according to The Boston Globe. While the most stable non-profits will persevere through the economic downturn, many charities, especially smaller ones, will continue to experience difficulties in the coming years, Chronicle of Philanthropy editor Stacy Palmer told The Globe. State governments, which typically provide financial support, will likely be unable to help these struggling organizations, as they face their own financial difficulties, The Globe reported. Palmer told The Globe that she anticipates that it will take at least two years for nonprofit organizations to return to prior donation levels.
Even as news reports forecast the collapse of print journalism in the U.S., a late-night visit to the offices of the Valley News offers a glimpse into a distinctly lively newsroom writers frantically type amidst a flurry of papers as the 11 p.m. deadline looms near, and three stories of monstrously large machinery gear up to begin the nighttime printing process. Despite the threat of a nationwide recession, this routine at the Valley News is unlikely to change, Mark Travis, publisher of the Valley News told The Dartmouth this week.
Seemingly taking to heart the dictate to "lead by example," College President Jim Yong Kim made a personal donation of $25,000 to the Dartmouth College Fund at the annual Scholars Luncheon on Friday. Kim's donation will support Dartmouth's financial aid program, said Carolyn Pelzel, College vice president for development.