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(01/31/08 5:26pm)
The College will require all incoming students to take at least two writing courses, abolishing exemptions from the current writing program, as part of the new Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, according to Wednesday's press release from the Office of Public Affairs. The institute will combine the existing writing program, which includes the first-year writing courses, writing seminars and writing support services, with new courses in speech, rhetoric and advanced writing.
(01/25/08 10:39am)
The search for a permanent SAAP Coordinator will continue over the course of Robert's stint as interim coordinator, according to Xenia Markowitt, director of the Center for Women and Gender, and will include interviews with potential candidates at an upcoming national job placement exchange. Roberts declined to comment about whether she would like to be considered for the permanent position.
(01/14/08 2:36pm)
William Green, former chair of microbiology and immunology at Dartmouth Medical School, assumed the position of Dean of DMS following the resignation of former Dean Stephen Spielberg, College Provost Barry Scherr announced on Jan. 7.
(01/07/08 10:32am)
Thomas Crady, former vice president of student services at Grinnell College, began his tenure as dean of the College today.
(12/04/07 1:34pm)
Mohammad Usman '10 was recently featured in the Boston Globe for currently being the only male enrolled at Wellesley College, an all female institution in Massachusetts. Usman applied to spend the semester at Wellesley with another male friend. His term away from Dartmouth is allowed as a result of an agreement among 11 universities, including Dartmouth, for student exchanges. Usman and his friend were both accepted for this fall, but only Usman decided to attend. There have been male exchange students in the past at Wellesley, but Usman is the first in years, making him well-known throughout the campus. "Being at an all women's institution has raised my awareness on the barriers gender sometimes places on women within an academic setting," Usman said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth. "Specifically, I have noticed -- relative to my Dartmouth courses -- that women at Wellesley exhibit a greater degree of freedom and feel more comfortable expressing their opinions within the classroom, in my opinion." Usman is living on campus and holds a Wellelsey school ID that he is frequently asked to produce in order to prove his enrollment and legitimacy on campus. He applied to Wellesley without the knowledge of his parents, the Globe reported.
(12/04/07 8:20am)
Nelson has served as acting dean since James Larimore left the College to fill a position at Swarthmore in July 2006.
(11/30/07 8:12am)
While a recent analysis conducted by the American Association of University Professors concluded that nationwide tenure-track faculty hold a minority of positions at universities, Dean of Faculty Carol Folt says that the number of tenure-track positions at Dartmouth is actually increasing.
(11/20/07 7:43am)
Although Jamie Keith '09 could recall a variety of campus discussions focusing on issues of racism, sexism and gender identity, Keith, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership student intern, felt that one aspect of diversity on campus was not being explored fully: socioeconomic class. In an effort to address this failing, Keith and other members of the Dartmouth community, including representatives from OPAL, Student Assembly and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity joined together this Fall to create the Dartmouth Stories Project.
(11/20/07 7:42am)
The 24 members of the Class of 2008 whose cumulative grade point averages were among the 20 highest in the grade were inducted into the Dartmouth chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society on Monday night in a ceremony held at the home of College President James Wright and Susan Wright. Phi Beta Kappa, the largest academic honor society in the country, recognizes college students for scholastic achievement.
(11/08/07 6:40am)
Blood drive co-chair Constantinos Spyris '09 said that this year's drive has been going smoothly and that the drive appeared to be on target towards meeting its donation goal. As of 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, 126 people had scheduled appointments to give blood and 22 people had donated as walk-ins. Spyris, who also co-chaired the drive that occurred last spring, said that he expects comparable numbers of walk-ins and scheduled appointments overall.
(10/25/07 5:19am)
Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, advertised by controversial posters depicting a terrorist holding a gun to a figure's head as the person cowers on the ground, has aroused emotional responses among students concerned about the connotations of the event's title.
(10/12/07 4:46am)
While gaggles of female sophomores will continue to rush sororities in a process that began Tuesday, this year's relatively quick fraternity rush season will begin Saturday and run a total of six hours. Events will be three nights, with two-hour sessions during each.
(10/05/07 7:05am)
Although Computing Services took over responsibility for maintaining the College's public BlitzMail terminals from Student Assembly this summer, terminals in some of the most trafficked campus locales are out of commission, just as the Fall term is beginning.
(09/28/07 6:42am)
Beer may actually improve your memory, a new scientific report by the University of Auckland states. The study found that moderate beer drinking of two or three beers a day improved the recognition ability of rats. Scientists attributed this to the fact that alcohol stimulates the Nr1 neuron receptors, which are critical for cognitive functions in the brain. The studied maintained, however, that it is still better to abstain from alcohol than to abuse it. Rats who were given excessive amounts of alcohol performed worse on recognition tests than rats that received no alcohol. The alcoholic rats did, however, perform better on an emotional memory test. "People often drink to 'drown sorrows,'" molecular medicine professor Maggie Kalev said. "Our results suggest that this could actually paradoxically promote traumatic memories and lead to further drinking, contributing to the development of alcoholism."
(09/27/07 9:12am)
Many of the candidates' critiques focused on Clinton's foreign policy. Former Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska, criticized Clinton for voting in favor of a resolution that would designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a foreign terrorist organization, and commended Delaware Sen. Joe Biden and Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd for voting against this resolution.
(09/26/07 8:20am)
Every four years, Hanover seems to attract national attention as candidates flock to campus in anticipation of the New Hampshire primaries. Despite tremendous buzz for this year's big event, not all of the debates at Dartmouth garnered quite the same fanfare -- just four years ago, the political showdown turned out to be more of a late-term letdown.
(09/19/07 6:49pm)
"I was like, 'I'm seriously going to die today,'" said Falloon, of Munster, Ind.
(06/10/07 2:39am)
Members of the Class of 2007 enjoyed Dartmouth careers marked by a mix of highs and lows. During their time at the College, the graduating seniors witnessed dramatic changes in the faculty, participated in surprising Student Assembly presidential elections and mourned the death of a classmate.
(05/24/07 5:25am)
Dartmouth's financial aid office will require students to find their own student loans beginning the next school year in response to ongoing national controversy about the use of "preferred lender lists" in the student lending industry. Dartmouth's practices have not been implicated in the scandal.
(05/23/07 5:45am)
Seven senior women shared their experiences at the annual Women of Dartmouth panel held in a crowded Collis Common Ground Tuesday night. Panelists conveyed deeply personal stories, covering topics that varied from self-mutilation to issues related to gender and sexuality.