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(04/22/10 2:00am)
In one of its biggest accomplishments, Vernon said in an interview with The Dartmouth, the Assembly initiated structural changes to the Student Budget Advisory Council to communicate budget information more effectively among different student groups.
(04/21/10 2:00am)
Dartmouth Medical School professor William Weeks, who was accused of conflict of interest in contracts involving the College, was acquitted on Tuesday of all five counts filed against him by federal prosecutors. Weeks, a professor of psychiatry and community and family medicine, filed a still pending civil suit against the prosecution for engaging in illegal activities during the investigation, he said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(04/13/10 2:00am)
As administrators finalize plans to cut $100 million from Dartmouth's budget over the next two years, Students Stand With Staff has criticized the College over the past week for lacking transparency and accountability and adopting a "corporate" ideology toward budget cuts. College administrators, as well as several faculty members, have disputed these complaints.
(04/07/10 2:00am)
The health-related portion of the benefits changes will cover close to $6 million, while the changes in the retirement plan will cover the remaining $3 million, chief human resources officer Traci Nordberg said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(04/05/10 2:00am)
Students walking to class this week may encounter a variety of "teach-ins" discussing the effects of the ongoing budget cuts on College staff. Members of Students Stand with Staff, a campus group concerned about layoffs stemming from the College's recent budget cuts, plan to raise campus awareness through a series of outdoor lectures April 5-9 as well as at a session for student reflection on April 11.
(04/02/10 2:00am)
Despite struggles with foster care, an unstable home life and an absent father, Sharifea Baskerville is able to make her way to Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth, a program offered through the College for students from under-resourced schools, as represented in Christopher Wong's documentary "Whatever It Takes."
(11/17/09 4:00am)
The U.S. army enlisted the help of exiled Afghan warlords to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, operating under the principle that "the enemy of our enemy is our friend," Chayes said. The warlords' return to power, however, frustrated the Afghan people, who grew to resent the American involvement, she said.
(11/11/09 4:00am)
Just three months into her first official term as Student Body President, Frances Vernon '10 has made progress toward checking off several of the major goals outlined in her campaign including large-scale changes to the Organization Adjudication Committee. Although Vernon has not yet addressed all of her campaign platforms both changes to Hanover's alcohol policy and COS reform, for example, remain largely unresolved she has sought to take action on at least three of the five main issues she raised as a candidate.
(11/10/09 4:00am)
A group of 13 new faculty members, with interests ranging from electroacoustic music research to politics and public services for the rural poor of India, have joined Dartmouth's faculty this year in various departments across the College.
(11/03/09 4:00am)
As the proportion of female applicants to selective colleges increases, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is investigating whether undergraduate admissions processes discriminate against women to ensure an even gender distribution in their student bodies, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Title IX, the federal law that enforces gender equity, forbids gender-based discrimination at colleges and universities, except for private colleges that are not professional or technical institutions, according to The Chronicle. The commission will first determine whether preferences for male applicants exist and then look into the consequences of certain aspects of Title IX to see whether it is responsible for some of the inequity, according to The Chronicle.
(10/29/09 3:00am)
Almost five months after the release of a student report arguing that the College's Accessibility Services Office fails to provide students with disabilities the accommodations they need, several students with physical disabilities, in interviews with The Dartmouth, said the College has made progress addressing their difficulties, while students with learning disabilities were critical of the quality of services they receive.
(10/23/09 2:00am)
As the members of the Class of 2013 complete or not their 113 laps around the bonfire tonight, they will share their first Dartmouth Homecoming experience with College President Jim Yong Kim, who was officially inaugurated this September.
(10/15/09 2:00am)
Educators and regulators discussed distance-learning programs and the potential for students to be taken advantage of by unscrupulous program providers in a meeting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Each state regulates distance-learning individually, with no centralized system, The Chronicle reported. Advocates for change argue that the current structure, which requires educators to manage a complicated system of regulation and accreditation, is inappropriate for modern technology particularly the Internet, which is now the dominant communication medium for distance-learning. State regulators told The Chronicle that state regulations are necessary because states must oversee student complaints and faculty qualifications.
(10/08/09 2:00am)
The College defended its recent governance decisions in its response to a brief filed by former Dartmouth Trustee Todd Zywicki '88 in support of the ongoing lawsuit against the College. In its Sept. 30 brief, the College asserts that Zywicki's arguments do not address the main issues of the case, but warranted a response so that "silence is not construed as acquiescence."
(10/07/09 2:00am)
Student Assembly passed two pieces of legislation in its first General Assembly meeting of the Fall term Tuesday evening, including a proposal allocating $2,000 for laptop vouchers to provide students who have broken their computers with temporary replacements. The second piece of legislation will fund Peer Academic Link, a program that provides contacts for students looking for advice in selecting a major. Student Body President Frances Vernon '10 also presented the Assembly's new mission statement, which describes the Assembly's goal to "implement policy changes and services" based on the opinions and concerns of the undergraduate student body. At the meeting, members elected Reba Gillis '12 as secretary, Samantha Gutierrez '11 as treasurer, Eric Tanner '11 as historian a new position created by Vernon and Elise Smith '13 as a member of the Membership and Internal Affairs Committee.
(10/06/09 2:00am)
Unnecessary treatment and "misaligned" financial incentives are largely responsible for the poor state of the American health care system, according to former Dartmouth Medical School Dean John Baldwin, who recently stepped down as the president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Baldwin outlined his ideas to improve the nation's health care system, including the addition of a public insurance option, in a discussion at the Thayer School of Engineering, on Monday.
(09/22/09 2:00am)
The arrival of a new College president, the departure of several high level administrators and continued debate over alumni governance marked Dartmouth's Summer 2009 term.
(06/02/09 2:00am)
In their last year at Dartmouth, members of the Class of 2009 saw the College take on issues ranging from budget cuts and the economic downturn, to alumni governance and Greek expansion, to presidential elections both at the College level and on the national scale.
(06/02/09 2:00am)
Dartmouth anthropology professor Hoyt Alverson, in an open letter to the College's Board of Trustees and the Dartmouth community on Monday, criticized the College's recent decision to issue bonds in order to finance construction and build a reserve fund. In his letter his third in recent months on budgetary concerns Alverson questioned whether the bonds are the most cost-effective way to build financial security. Alverson said that he calculated the bonds will cost the College about $13 million each year for 30 years. He suggested that the College set aside "a modest amount regularly from endowment growth, over decades" to build a reserve fund, echoing the proposal he made in his April 9 letter. Under this plan, Alverson wrote, the College would receive interest while self-insuring against future risk.
(06/02/09 2:00am)
Certain factors in breast milk may block the transmission of HIV from mother to child during breast feeding when the virus is outside of cells, but have little effect on the transmission of the virus once it has entered them, according to a study published by Dartmouth Medical School researchers in the June issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.