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(04/06/10 2:00am)
Dartmouth employees may soon receive cuts to their health and retirement benefit plans as administrators struggle to reduce the College budget, faculty committee chairs announced Monday at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting. Administrators may also change the College's sabbatical program to cope with budget constraints, the chairs announced.
(03/31/10 2:00am)
Technology developed by Ashifi Gogo, a Ph.D. candidate in the Thayer School of Engineering's Innovation Program, could potentially eliminate the threat posed by counterfeit drugs with the help of a simple text message. Gogo's company, Sproxil, can allow consumers to check the authenticity of pharmaceuticals by verifying codes printed on drug containers, he said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(03/30/10 2:00am)
The number of New England colleges and universities charging over $50,000 a year for tuition, room and board will double next year, The Boston Globe reported Sunday. Next year, Dartmouth will join the 58 private institutions that currently charge $50,000 or more annually, along with Harvard University and Brown University, The Globe reported. Although the size of this year's cost increases are not unprecedented, the psychological impact of the $50,000 figure could discourage applicants before they research available financial aid options, according to The Globe. Representatives from some private colleges and universities argue that because of financial aid, many students pay a fraction of full price for their education.
(03/08/10 4:00am)
Starting with students admitted to the Class of 2013, Dartmouth officials have worked to attract admitted students who indicated interest in the College's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and allied community, Caroline Kerr, the senior assistant director of admissions and the coordinator of LGBTQA outreach efforts, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(03/02/10 4:00am)
Members of the Dartmouth Outing Club elected Alice Bradley '11 as president of the club for Spring, Fall and Winter terms and Chris Randall '12 as Summer president. For vice presidents, Athena Aicher '11 and Brannon Cavalier '12 will serve in the Spring, Cavalier and Nancy Dietman '12 in the Summer, Cavalier and Suzanne Kelson '12 in the Fall and Aicher and Dietman in the Winter. Erin Dauson '11 will be treasurer in the Spring, Fall and Winter, with Carsten Hansen '12 serving in the position in the Summer.
(03/01/10 4:00am)
Candidates will be allowed to enter the race early in Spring term, although officials have not yet scheduled dates for the entry deadline or the election, according to Elections Planning and Advisory Committee Chair David Imamura '10.
(02/24/10 4:00am)
Former U.S. Representative Charlie Bass '74 announced on Feb. 17 that he would compete for his old seat representing New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional district. Bass will be running against Democrat Ann McLane Kuster '78 if both candidates receive their party's nomination.
(02/15/10 4:00am)
Students had previously expressed concern that Kim's appointment to the council, which occurred on Feb. 2, would take his focus away from the College.
(02/12/10 4:00am)
While this year's Winter Carnival pays homage to the ancient Romans, the first Carnival theme 1925's "Jutenheim Iskarneval" celebrated the diverse customs of Scandanavian carnivals, after which Dartmouth's Winter Carnival was patterned. The inception of the "Winter Meet" in 1910, however, was not inspired by international tradition instead, it was the result of a fervent letter published in The Dartmouth.
(02/09/10 4:00am)
Thirty-eight current employees will be laid off and full student grants for families with incomes over $75,000 will be will be eliminated as the first steps toward mitigating the College's $100-million budget shortfall, College President Jim Yong Kim announced at a press conference Monday afternoon. The announcement follows the College Board of Trustees' approval of a budget plan for the next two fiscal years at its meeting over the weekend.
(02/03/10 4:00am)
College President Jim Yong Kim has been officially named to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services press release. The council "provides advice, information and recommendations to the President through the Secretary of Health and Human Services on domestic and global HIV/AIDS policy issues," according to the release. Kim is one of 23 new members of the council, which usually meets two to three times each year.
(01/29/10 4:00am)
The United States' short and long-term humanitarian responses to the earthquake in Haiti must take into account Haitian history, a group of professors said Thursday at a panel, "Perspectives on Haiti: An Interdisciplinary Discussion of the Haitian Revolution."
(01/26/10 4:00am)
The tale of the short-lived commune was one of the anecdotes Hooke related in a "Smoke Talk" on the history of the Dartmouth Outing Club. The Smoke Talk, named for the Outing Club newsletter "Woodsmoke," described the 100-year history of the Outing Club as an integral part of the College's identity that Hooke detailed in his 1988 book "Reaching That Peak: 75 Years of the Dartmouth Outing Club."
(01/15/10 4:00am)
The Dartmouth will offer live coverage of College President Jim Yong Kim's open forum on the College budget scheduled for Friday at 12:30 p.m.
(01/14/10 4:00am)
The Tech@Tuck program this year focused on mobile strategy and included vendor demonstrations and a speaker panel focused on mobile technology's present state and projected changes over the next few years.
(12/02/09 4:00am)
"Increased [numbers of] students, even at the current level of financial aid, would be a budget positive," Kim said in the interview. "But we have to be sure that the student-teacher ratios don't go up. We have to be sure the classroom experience remains of the same quality."
(11/24/09 4:00am)
Dartmouth professors already routinely receive job offers from other institutions, and discrepancies in salaries, staff support or facilities which may follow on the heels of what could be $100 million in budget cuts over the next two years could tip the hiring balance to Dartmouth's disadvantage, according to several faculty members interviewed by The Dartmouth.
(11/10/09 4:00am)
In the wake of this weekend's announcement of targets for College budget reductions, many faculty and students leaders interviewed by The Dartmouth said they are now looking to prioritize the programs and aspects of Dartmouth life that they feel are most important. As the College stares down its second round of budget cuts in under a year, however, many of these individuals said they recognize that Dartmouth will have to make substantial changes to meet the reduction goals.
(11/06/09 4:00am)
As the College's administration and Board of Trustees plan for a second round of budget cuts, they will have to contend with a faculty that is concerned about the size and fairness of potential cuts, as well as how priorities will be communicated to the Dartmouth community in the wake of perceived missteps during the first round of cuts last winter.
(11/05/09 4:00am)
New Hampshire has received only 85,000 of the 700,000 H1N1 vaccine doses state officials say the state needs, WMUR New Hampshire reported on Tuesday. The state Department of Health and Human Services, which serves as a mediator between local health providers and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, works to distribute vaccines proportionately according to regional populations. Local hospital officials say they have received thousands fewer doses than they ordered, though several officials also said they hope to obtain additional vaccines this week, according to WMUR. Distributors delivered more than 3,000 doses to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, but the hospital has requested 1,500 additional vaccines by the end of the week. Although health care providers must inform the state of the age of those vaccinated, state officials said they cannot follow every stage of distribution to ensure absolute fairness, WMUR reported.