Women achieve gains in faculty, but few in the upper admin.
Thirty years after the first coed class matriculated at Dartmouth, the gender ratio among students is nearly 50-50. But only about a third of Dartmouth's professors are women.
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Thirty years after the first coed class matriculated at Dartmouth, the gender ratio among students is nearly 50-50. But only about a third of Dartmouth's professors are women.
Philip Glass has managed to carve out a unique niche for himself: composing music to accompany visual art. While composers from John Williams to Thomas Newman have built reputations on scoring movies, their work must never overshadow the film itself.
"Everyone deserves music" was one refrain Michael Franti shouted and sang over and over again last night, during "What Does Democracy Look Like?," an event that ambitiously sought to blend art with politics.
"Most of my material is stolen directly from the works of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Hustler Magazine," comic musician Stephen Lynch recently told Time Out New York, his tongue no doubt well-ensconced in his cheek.
While the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks defined the news cycle during the Class of 2002's final year at Dartmouth, tumult has characterized the graduates' world since their arrival -- a presidential impeachment, conflict in the Balkans, a bizarre presidential election and the start of a new "war on terrorism" have all come to pass in the '02s college careers. Here is a look back at those and other happenings in the news from the last four years.
Important things often happen at the last minute.
Weezer seems more determined than ever to keep all but the most blindly devoted fans scratching their heads by perpetuating an ongoing identity crisis: are they a pop act, emo pioneer or punk band?
College administrators are mulling possible uses for the mostly-vacant North Fairbanks Hall, and among the suggestions is a new student dance club.
In next year's Organization, Regulations and Courses book, for the first time, students will be able to look for course listings under "GLBT Studies" or "Queer Theory."
Touted by some as a wonder drug that can replace sleep, a relatively new drug called Provigil has failed to win widespread support from the medical community as anything more than a treatment for some sleep disorders.
Dartmouth will spend $2 million over the next five years to guarantee health insurance and to increase stipends for its nearly 300 graduate research and teaching assistants, the College announced last week.
In the mid 1980s, two alcohol-education researchers named Wesley Perkins and Alan Berkowitz hit upon a revolutionary idea: instead of trying to scare college students into not drinking, it might be more effective to tell them how little their peers were drinking. If they listened, the theory went, the psychology of peer pressure would mean that they soon start drinking less.
Duke University, for the last two years, has been asking applicants the unique question: "How much help did you receive on your college application essays?" Neither Dartmouth nor many other institutions have added this question to their applications.
Alice Gomstyn '03 expected to immerse herself in an unfamiliar culture when she embarked on the geography Foreign Study Program to the Czech Republic this spring. But she didn't expect her room would be broken into and her wallet stolen on separate incidents just a week apart.
Winona LaDuke, who ran with Ralph Nader on the Green Party ticket in the last two presidential elections, calls her job "political gardening."
Fred Rogers, beloved children's television icon, will return to the college where he spent two years of his life to give this year's Commencement address, the College announced yesterday.
Owais Aslam Ali, a key figure in South Asian journalism, used examples from the history of his native Pakistan to paint a bleak picture for the future of worldwide civil rights yesterday in a Rockefeller Center lecture on "Civil Liberties in Developing Countries: The Impact of the War on Terrorism."
Get out the flashlights. Start stockpiling canned goods. Find some funky threads. There will be a blackout on campus Saturday night -- a Deep Banana Blackout.
In the Dartmouth "Alma Mater," College alumni hold memories of their years in Hanover "in their muscles and their brains." Soon they may also keep them in their wallets.
Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman says he is "100 percent sure" the College's new electronic door-locking system will be on-line for this Fall term, although testing of the system may begin this summer.