'Breaking E.D.E.N.' examines modern labor issues
"We wanted to deal with topics as current as possible," theater lecturer Christian Kohn, who directed the play, said. "It becomes a vital piece of theater and not a museum piece."
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"We wanted to deal with topics as current as possible," theater lecturer Christian Kohn, who directed the play, said. "It becomes a vital piece of theater and not a museum piece."
Alanis Obomsawin presented her documentary on the controversial firing of professor Norman Cornett on Friday night.
We’ve all heard of the Board of Trustees, but does anyone really know what it does? “Well, I don’t know, they’re a board of people that Dartmouth trusts,” some may respond — in this case a '15 who prefers not to be named. This enigmatic group of Dartmouth alums possesses significant power over our beloved Dartmouth, and their decisions impact each of us. According to Dartmouth’s original charter, the Board is given the power to establish the “ordinances, order and laws as may tend to the good and wholesome government” of Dartmouth. Its website also states that the Board has control over “the appointment of faculty and principal administrative officers, the purchase and disposition of real property, the establishment of salary scales, and the awarding of degrees.” In other words, it's pretty important. Most students have a decent, but vague, grasp of what the Board does. An assortment of responses about their duties includes: “they deal with the budget,” they “decide what money in the budget should go towards,” they try to “keep up with alumni networks,” and they “figure out how to spend the endowment and the money to best help the students, hopefully.” The Board also appoints the president of Dartmouth and approves institutional policies. It is composed of the governor of New Hampshire and President Kim, as well as eight alumni trustees and 16 charter trustees. Charter trustees are elected by a majority vote of the Board, while alumni trustees are nominated by alumni. The duties and powers of both are identical and each member, aside from the president and the governor, serves no more than two four-year terms. Gail Koziara Boudreaux ’82 and Bill Burgess ’81 were elected to the Board in April 2011. Almost 16 percent of Dartmouth alumni, or 10,572, voted in the election. Board members are very high-profile individuals, so it’s no wonder that some nominees, such as John Replogle, even create campaign videos to gain votes. Members include the CEO and president of eBay, the senior adviser of Morgan Stanley, a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the CEO of GE and the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Twenty of the 26 trustees received graduate degrees from either an Ivy League school or Stanford University. There are seven women on the board and 19 men. Previously, the Board restricted alumni of less than five years from joining, but this limitation has been abolished. The vast majority of members, however, are graduates from the 70s or 80s, with three from the 60s. Last year, the Board’s focuses, according to Chair Stephen Mandel Jr. ’78, were “ensuring the ongoing financial health of the College” and increasing “visibility and accessibility to the broader Dartmouth community.” In terms of finances, the Board of Trustees recently enacted a plan to cut $100 million in expenses. In April, the Board also approved the construction of the Alpha Phi sorority house project, responding to student desire for more sororities. In an effort to reach out to alumni, the Board is hosting several alumni club events across the country this year, hoping to hear from alumni firsthand about different perspectives on Dartmouth life and ideas for improvement. Kim will make an appearance at several of those events. The Board met Nov. 4-5 will have another March 2, 2012. In case you forget, every time you see a green light shining from Baker Tower, you know the trustees are in town. If so inclined, you can like the Board of Trustees on Facebook — though I’m warning you, you might be the first in your friend group to do so. Nonetheless, it's not a bad idea to brush up on your knowledge about the people that pull the strings that control the college you attend.
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To the Editor:
This September, I gave the First-Year Lecture to incoming '15s and talked about how globalization is changing our lives. But I ran out of time and never revealed my last Powerpoint slide: A green and gold "G," the logo of the Green Bay Packers.
Next week, when many students view their course schedules for Winter term, they will be sorely disappointed. As they are term after term, a number of students will be turned away from classes that are simply too full, left to enroll in courses that interest them far less.
Julian Sarkar '13 and approximately 20 other students filed a breach of contract notice with the Office of Residential Life on Thursday, Sarkar said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The students, who met in the basement of North Massachusetts Residence at noon on Thursday, allege that the College violated the legal rights of undergraduates who signed a housing contract this past spring by "secretly" changing the terms of the contract during the summer, Sarkar said. While the original contract stipulated that students living in College housing purchase at least the $1,225 Mini Green plan, the modified contract replaced that option with three more expensive SmartChoice meal options starting at $1,440 per term, Sarkar said. The breach of contract notification is an attempt to halt the administration's "exploitation" of students, Sarkar said. Sarkar who said that living on campus became financially impossible due to the altered terms of the contract plans to file a class action lawsuit if the College fails to respond. Dartmouth's legal counsel is currently reviewing the matter, according to Director of Media Relations for the College Justin Anderson, who declined to comment further. Sarkar is a member of The Dartmouth Opinion Staff.
Since graduating from Dartmouth and its Reserve Officers' Training Corps program, Chris Koppel '09 Th'10 has experienced a world far removed from Hanover. Whereas most recent graduates traveled to the urban jungles of New York City and Boston, Koppel, now a lieutenant in the United States Army, traded the mountains of New Hampshire for the expansive deserts of Iraq and Kuwait.
During the Cold War, the world was "very different" from the world in which students live today, Slaughter, who served as director of policy planning for the United States State Department from 2009-2011, said.
Dartmouth's GlobeMed chapter, which became a College-sanctioned organization this fall, has planned a number of fundraising events and education campaigns throughout the year to further the mission of the national GlobeMed organization and align itself with the goals of Kachin Women's Association.
The Seeds Consulting Group, a non-profit group that provides consulting services to Upper Valley businesses and other worldwide ventures, hosted the eighth installment of its 10-part educational workshop series in Carson Hall on Thursday evening. Since its inception in Fall 2008, the student-run organization has evolved its mission and operations to provide individuals with the experience and "courage" to pursue a wider range of consulting opportunities than those offered on Wall Street, Seeds director of marketing Noah Bond '13 said.
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign opened its first New Hampshire office in Portsmouth, N.H., on Saturday to increase local awareness and activism in the months preceding the state primary and the November 2012 election, according to Peter Kavanaugh, New Hampshire general election director for the Obama campaign. The office will act as a "nerve center" for grassroots campaigning efforts throughout New Hampshire, Kavanaugh said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
The new regulations have largely been applauded since the October announcement, although sports commentators have observed that the requirements might put additional strain on smaller institutions with less resources and a lesser ability to compete with well-known Division I powerhouses.