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(04/26/12 2:00am)
As Dartmouth students gear up for room draw, they will have additional options for gender-neutral housing, as Mid-Massachusetts Hall, the Lodge residence hall and the second, third and fourth floors of New Hampshire Hall will be added to the list of locations where students of any gender can cohabitate, according to Director of Housing Rachael Class-Giguere.
(04/17/12 2:00am)
Kim's appointment marks the end of his almost three-year tenure as the College's 17th president and the first Asian-American president of an Ivy League institution. Kim will take leadership of the international financial institution, designed to reduce poverty through loans to developing countries, after current Bank president Robert Zoellick, steps down on June 30, according to the Associated Press. Zoellick announced his resignation in February.
(04/16/12 3:10pm)
Kim will take leadership of the international financial institution designed to reduce poverty trough loans to developing countries after current Bank President Robert Zoellick, who announced his resignation in February, steps down on June 30, according to the Associated Press.
(04/13/12 2:00am)
New Hampshire Senate Bill 409, currently under consideration in the state House of Representatives' Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee after narrowly passing 13-11 in the Senate two weeks ago, proposes controversial legislation on the statewide legalization of medical marijuana.
(04/04/12 2:00am)
When Stephon Alexander was 12 years old, the wife of a New York Yankees baseball player insisted her husband give up his rarely used saxophone. Alexander, a physics professor recently hired as the Ernest Everett Just 1907 faculty chair, began to play that very same saxophone after his father purchased it for him, around the same time that his middle school science classes ignited his love for physics.
(03/29/12 2:00am)
While Kim said in a campus-wide email last week that he would continue in his role as College president during the nomination process, his appointment as World Bank president is a virtual certainty.
(03/26/12 2:00am)
If his nomination is confirmed when the Bank's 25-member executive board votes on April 19, Kim will become the head of the organization Obama called "one of the most powerful tools we have to reduce poverty and raise standards of living" in poor and developing countries.
(11/18/11 4:00am)
The six debaters expected the wide range of questions from the debate's moderator, government professor Deborah Brooks, according to College Republicans president J.P. Harrington '14.
(11/11/11 4:00am)
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.
(11/04/11 3:00am)
The New Hampshire House of Representatives is currently considering a bill that would replace existing same-sex marriage laws with civil unions, according to State Rep. David Bates, R-Rockingham, the bill's sponsor. House Bill 437 which the House will vote on in January 2012 proposes a return to the definition of marriage as the "union between a man and a woman," which was New Hampshire law before the state voted to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples in April 2009, Bates said.
(10/25/11 2:00am)
After a four-year long study involving "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), psychology professor James Haxby could probably quote the film word for word and image for image. Haxby used test subjects' reactions to "Raiders" in combination with other visual stimuli to discover a "common code" for the way in which individual brains process visual information and translate images into perceptions, Haxby said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(10/21/11 2:00am)
The most important part of Homecoming is what we share: Dartmouth, and all the good and bad things this school has offered us since 1769. More than any other time at the College, Homecoming is about friends, fun, more than a little mischief and the beautiful color palette of the fall leaves.
(10/12/11 2:00am)
As part of a pre-rally event, the College's chapter of the Student Global AIDS Campaign arranged a Skype session with the Rwandan Minister of Health Agnes Binagwaho, who discussed the need for awareness and education about HIV/AIDS issues.
(10/04/11 2:00am)
The number of reported forcible sexual assaults at the College more than doubled from 2008-2009 to 2009-2010, rising from 10 to 22, according to the College's Annual Security and Fire Safety Report released on Sept. 30. The number of liquor law arrests increased to 134 in 2009-2010 from 123 in 2008-2009 and 77 in 2007-2008, according to the Safety Report.
(09/30/11 2:00am)
Editor's Note: This is the final installment of a two-part series on College professors' sabbaticals.
(09/29/11 2:00am)
Sept. 24, 2:15 a.m. Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
(09/29/11 2:00am)
Editor's note: This is the first installation of a two-part series on College professors' sabbaticals.
(09/27/11 2:00am)
Plans for a bake sale on Thursday hosted by the College Republicans at University of California, Berkeley, ignited campus-wide controversy when organizers announced that the event would feature a pay scale determined by the race of the buyer, according to The Daily Californian. Student organizers planned the "Increase Diversity Bakesale" to protest SB 185, a bill that would allow California public universities to consider race and ethnicity, among other non-academic factors, in the admissions process. The bill is currently awaiting the decision of Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif. The bake sale, which students intended to be "satirical," prompted an emergency town hall meeting after the event's Facebook page explained that "White/Caucasian" students would be charged full price, while racial and ethnic minorities as well as women would receive discounts, according to The Daily Californian.
(09/21/11 2:00am)
Prospective students visiting Dartmouth will soon have access to the entire campus in the palms of their hands or, more specifically, on the screens of their phones. Over the next month, the Admissions Office will release an application for phones that allows visitors to explore and learn about the College with a virtual aide, according to Senior Assistant Director of Admissions John Beck Jr. '09.
(09/14/11 2:00am)
The College successfully completed its reaccreditation process, Provost Carol Folt announced in an August letter to the Dartmouth community. The New England Association of Schools and Colleges' Commission of Institutions of Higher Education confirmed Dartmouth's accreditation in July following an almost three-year internal and external review process, Barbara Brittingham, director of NEASC, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.