Published alum shares studying tips
Author of "How to Win at College" and "How to Become a Straight-A Student," Cal Newport '04 shared the insights presented in his books at a lecture in Moore Hall Tuesday evening.
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Author of "How to Win at College" and "How to Become a Straight-A Student," Cal Newport '04 shared the insights presented in his books at a lecture in Moore Hall Tuesday evening.
An Office of Residential Life document ranking the average grade point averages of the Greek organizations showed that, overall, sororities boasted a slightly higher academic record than coed organizations, and both had a higher average GPA than fraternities over Fall term. Greek affiliated students, with an average GPA of 3.33, did better than unaffiliated students, who averaged 3.26.
In an effort to encourage student reading outside of the classroom and foster informal student-faculty interaction, five of six jointly led book clubs met yesterday to distribute books and introduce members.
Campus-wide implementation of a complete, updated version of BlitzMail, which includes standard security features that the current client lacks, is not a priority for Computer Services, according to David Bucciero, director of technical services. E-mail encryption, the main feature of the new version completed last May, prevents other users from reading private BlitzMail messages as they are sent and received -- a common feature of other clients, like Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird.
Implemented during Summer term, the College's online system of course evaluations has seen approximately 80 percent of students completing the evaluations during the last two terms, Dean of Faculty Carol Folt said.
After a recent study revealed the relationship between Brown University's founding and slavery, similar questions about Dartmouth's own ties to the institution have arisen.
The 13 crew members selected from 34 applications for this summer's Big Green Bus trip were announced after a two-week selection process.
Testing the delicate balance between student privacy and the opportunity to help out students in need, the Committee on Standards enacted the Judicial Resource Network, a peer resource program that allows students brought before COS to contact students who have gone through the process as a defendant or who have served on the COS board. The program was initiated based on Student Assembly suggestions to the COS last winter.
Homecoming weekend arrived more quickly than we could have thought. In no time, the first weeks of class passed by, Greek rush hit and we barely had time to blink before Homecoming fell upon us. It's here now, and we couldn't be more excited to celebrate some of Dartmouth's oldest traditions.
"I felt such an obligation not to make this Convocation speech the typical 'welcome to Dartmouth, you're a great class' speech. I really, really wanted to challenge the Class of 2010 to get involved in these issues that are already going on on campus," Andreadis said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
Anchorman Bill Weir introduced the student project as "a group of Dartmouth students [who] want to make a statement about our dependence on foreign oil, about safety of the environment, clean fuel and all of that."
Ann Scott
Despite the College's decision to allow additional fraternities in June 2005, the Inter-Fraternity Council has placed a moratorium on accepting applications for sponsorship until January 25, 2007.
Faced with a week packed with papers and exams, Mita Sharma '08, a nominee for the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Scholarship, dealt with a major setback when her computer crashed, and she lost her entire nearly-completed scholarship application four days before it was due.
Dartmouth men were viewed as "animals that were locked up in the wilderness and went crazy when women were around," Lenore Bowne, of the class of 1966 at the University of Mary Washington, said. Bowne visited her future husband Marty Bowne '63 each year for Green Key.
At the request of Adam Gardner, lead singer of the band Guster, Dartmouth's Big Green Bus will join the band on some of its summer tour dates.
Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and Montgomery Fellow Edward Albee drew frequent laughter and nods of approval from a packed Moore Theatre crowd during his lecture Tuesday afternoon.
"He's a really important figure in political science, history, government, Spanish and literature. [This is] one of the first times that we go beyond just a literature person," comparative literature graduate student Lillian Kanso said, whose department invited Fuentes to speak.
"The source of the problem is not women's and girls' behavior, its men's behavior. True prevention means going into male culture," said Katz, who founded the Mentors in Violence Prevention Program at Northeastern University.
Albee is a three-time Pulitzer prize winner for "Delicate Balance" (1966), "Seascape" (1975) and "Three Tall Women" (1994), and only playwright Eugene O'Neill has won more Pulitzer Prizes. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962), his most well-known drama, won a Tony award and was revived on Broadway last year. Known for absurdist drama and plays that offer critiques on American life, Albee was also awarded the National Medal of Arts by former President Bill Clinton in 1997.