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(04/08/10 2:00am)
In an effort to improve the living conditions of hospital patients residing at the Upper Valley Hostel on 17 South Street in Hanover, Dartmouth students have formed a new organization also called Upper Valley Hostel which aims to provide the hostel with important housework and fundraising services, according to UVH co-chair Justin Lee '11. The hostel accommodates long-term patients of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center who cannot afford to stay at a hotel while receiving treatment, Lee said.
(04/02/10 2:00am)
College administrators are considering increasing the size of the Class of 2014 as a way to generate additional revenue for the College in the budget planning process, but they have not yet made a decision on the issue, Laskaris said.
(03/31/10 2:00am)
Julia Griffin, Hanover town manager, is joining efforts to expand broadband networks in the State of New Hampshire. Griffin along with state legislators, telecommunications vendors and the Keene, N.H., town manager is partnering with Network New Hampshire Now, a program that presented a $66-million broadband proposal to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, NHBR.com reported. Public and private groups alike agree that the expansion could increase Internet capacity and initiate economic growth. The proposed fiber-optic network aims to create better Internet infrastructure to service home and business networks, creating opportunities for economic development through the extension of the Internet to more isolated areas, George Bald, the DRED Commissioner, said. A private company, the New Hampshire Fiber Network, would manage the network under the proposal, NHBR.com reported.
(03/30/10 2:00am)
Peabody attributed the recent global recession to sub-prime mortgages and securitized lending, or bundling loans into securities for sale.
(03/04/10 4:00am)
Hoping to reduce annual base spending by $11 million, the University of Nevada at Reno announced a plan to remove several academic programs from its curriculum, Inside Higher Ed reported Wednesday. Thirty-five tenured and tenure-track faculty members would be laid off as a result, Inside Higher Ed reported. If instated, the University would join other higher education institutions in departing from widely-accepted policies enacted by the American Association of University Professors, which state that only institutions proclaiming "financial exigency" can lay off tenured faculty, according to Inside Higher Ed. The colleges of agriculture, German studies, French and Italian are included in the list of programs slated for elimination. Because the University has agricultural interests as Nevada's land grant university, however, the institution will continue to support agriculture studies through other means, Marc Johnson, University of Nevada at Reno provost, told Inside Higher Ed.
(03/02/10 4:00am)
"We knew that warming was going to have an effect on ice," Pfirman said. "We are now in a new phase much more warming and a more steady [ice] decrease."
(02/16/10 4:00am)
Yalowitz described how the two countries formed in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's dissolution.
(02/12/10 4:00am)
It is indisputable Winter Carnival has left its glory days behind. What was once Dartmouth's snowy celebration of winter a jamboree marked by soaring ski jumpers, thousands of visitors on campus and the classic Carnival Ball is now a snowless weekend of frivolity and flair. Yet students, alumni and community members disagree about whether Winter Carnival's changes are natural responses to the shifting times or indifference-driven devolutions.
(02/05/10 4:00am)
"In coming out to the vigil, students will demonstrate to staffers that we truly, deeply feel that Dartmouth staffers are vital members of our Dartmouth family," co-founder of Students Stand with Staff Lina Stepick '10 said before the event.
(01/25/10 4:00am)
At a time of increased public attacks toward business executives for their lack of accountability, theories proposed in "Why Smart Executives Fail," a book written by Sydney Finkelstein, professor at the Tuck School of Business, has recently become increasingly noteworthy for its explanations of executives' refusals to apologize.
(01/22/10 4:00am)
Honestly, I was surprised to hear The Mirror's theme for this issue was budget cuts. Budget cuts are a depressing reality, and depressing realities never make readers laugh. Reports fluttered through our blitz inboxes describing financial plans, while flyers announcing vague financial discussions dappled Collis bulletin boards. These continual regurgitations of statistics and warnings that layoffs will happen and organizations will lose funding seemed relatively distant even when the administration announced their plan to cut $100 million from the budget over the next two years.
(01/20/10 4:00am)
Institutional subsidies for collegiate sports programs continue to grow even as the schools regulate salaries and lay off employees, according to data on sports revenue and expenses collected by USA Today and reported in Inside Higher Ed on Tuesday. Operating expenses for the sports programs of most schools have remained largely flat since 2005, but the proportion of their budgets from "allocated" sources, which include student fees and institutional support, has risen dramatically, according to Inside Higher Ed. This also applies to sports programs that pay for themselves, Inside Higher Ed reported. While two-thirds of the sports programs reported higher revenues than operating expenses, only one-fourth made a profit after factoring in the cost of subsidies, according to Inside Higher Ed. The question of whether sports programs should be self-sufficient remains controversial, however, as some argue that institutional subsidies allow for benefits like discounted student tickets and prevents increased commercialization, according to Inside Higher Ed.
(01/13/10 4:00am)
Harvard University said in financial documents that it is one of 40 colleges that the Internal Revenue Service will audit this year as part of its review of some non-profit organizations' tax-exempt status, Bloomberg reported Monday. Four hundred colleges and universities, including Harvard, received an IRS questionnaire about taxable operations and endowment funds in October 2008, Harvard officials said in financial filings. Harvard officials do not think the audits will negatively affect the institution's operations, nor will they influence Harvard's tax-exempt status, Bloomberg reported. Harvard is the world's wealthiest university, with an endowment of $26 billion as of June 30, according to Bloomberg.
(01/08/10 4:00am)
Before attending Dartmouth, I had the same conversation over and over, mostly with relative strangers while I was working as a waitress.It usually went something like this:"Where do you go to school?""I'm going to Dartmouth in the fall.""Oh man, you gotta like the cold. Do you like the cold?""I don't think anyone really likes the cold, but I don't mind it if I'm dressed warmly.""You also gotta like the outdoors. You like the outdoors?""Uh, yeah sure I like the outdoors.""No. You really gotta like the outdoors. I'll take a whiskey straight up."
(01/08/10 4:00am)
Medical centers around the country must alter their continuing medical education practices to improve the overall health-care system and ensure that medical professionals are free from bias, according to Richard Rothstein, associate dean for continuing education at Dartmouth Medical School, and Mary Turco, director of the Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
(11/30/09 4:00am)
Media coverage of health news is often exaggerated, causing unnecessary anxiety and unfounded fears in the general public, according to an editorial written by three medical experts, including two Dartmouth Medical School professors. The article, "Promoting Healthy Skepticism in the News: Helping Journalists Get it Right," was published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on Nov. 20 and suggests ways that both journalists and researchers can avoid the exaggeration of medical developments.
(11/20/09 4:00am)
Josh Riddle '12 and David Rufful '12 also known as "The Young Cons" never considered rap careers until their conservative rap songs, originally featured on YouTube, launched a series of national press coverage and television appearances, including "Fox and Friends" and "Huckabee." Now they may be changing their tune.
(11/19/09 4:00am)
Education Secretary Arne Duncan pledged to re-examine Higher Education Act reporting requirements for colleges and universities in light of criticism about the preparation and filing costs, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on Tuesday. Federal officials, though, have made similar assurances in the past. These promises have not brought fiscal relief, as federal reporting requirements continue to grow. Many institutions argue that the new federal reports, which are intended to improve student performance, do not achieve this goal, instead serving only as a financial burden. Duncan said he will reduce some of this regulatory burden if colleges improve overall student achievement. Congress approved a bill last year that mandated an examination of reporting costs within two years of the act's passage, The Chronicle reported.
(11/16/09 4:00am)
"The past few weeks have been pretty quiet," he said. "Some classes I guess are rowdier than others, but I guess for the past few years, the classes haven't been quite as rowdy."
(11/13/09 4:00am)
Do students at Dartmouth tiptoe around the subject of religion? Susan Ackerman, chair of the religion department, thinks so, and said as much the panel discussion "What does G( )d have to do with it?" last Wednesday with professors David Peart, Eric Posmentier and Sergei Kan.