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(08/09/11 2:00am)
Upon matriculation, incoming freshmen are assigned to live in one of five residential clusters, which are a collection of dorms that aim to foster a sense of community by housing primarily freshmen in their halls. Each cluster varies in room sizes and arrangements, as well as its classification as freshmen-only or mixed-class housing. Much of the freshman housing experience is defined by all-freshman floors, as clustering freshmen together provides an opportunity for first-year students to connect with their peers as they adapt to life at Dartmouth.
(08/09/11 2:00am)
By CASEY AYLWARDThe Dartmouth Staff
(07/26/11 2:00am)
New genetic research has potentially cracked the long unsolved mystery of the turtle's evolutionary origins by determining that turtles and lizards have a close common ancestor, according to biology professor Kevin Peterson.
(07/26/11 2:00am)
Two interns in the Office of Sustainability Jack Boger '13 and Benji Kessler '13 are working closely with summer Greek organization sustainability chairs to initiate a new Greek council on sustainability. The council will provide a forum for Greek organizations to share ideas and work together to promote efficient resource use in their physical plants, Boger said.
(07/19/11 2:00am)
Using mobile sensors to record details about physical and mental activity may be a useful way to monitor senior citizens' health, according to a pilot study by Dartmouth Medical School professor Ethan Berke. Changes in everyday behaviors can potentially predict health problems, such as dementia or depression, the study found.
(06/10/11 2:00am)
While it may be easy to remind you all of the day you first stepped onto Robo lawn for your DOC trip, ran around the bonfire during your first homecoming and won your first game of pong (or if you haven't what have you been doing all of Senior Week?), for many of you the experiences that stand out most are not those that appear on the Dartmouth bucket list, but rather the moments that were uniquely your own.
(05/27/11 2:00am)
Chi Gamma Epsilon's physical plant was spray-painted with the words "no means yes, and yes means anal" and "rape" as well as other obscenities late Wednesday evening or during the early morning hours of Thursday, according to a Thursday email sent to fraternity and sorority presidents by Chi Gam president Sean Schultz '12 and obtained by The Dartmouth. After discovering the graffiti on the outside of the fraternity house, Schultz contacted Safety and Security regarding the vandalism, he said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Several other fraternities including Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, Gamma Delta Chi fraternity and Theta Delta Chi fraternity were also vandalized with similar profanities. The word "rufies" [sic] was spray-painted onto the exterior of GDX, and the word "rape" was spray-painted onto Theta Delt. Hanover Police informed the fraternities that had been vandalized that officers caught the perpetrators on Thursday evening, Alpha Chi president Eric Sussman '12 said in an email to The Dartmouth. Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College, declined to comment on the incident, citing the ongoing investigation.
(05/20/11 2:00am)
The eight presidents of Dartmouth's Panhellenic sororities formalized the details and clarified the procedural response to their recently-announced policy regarding violence against women clauses in fraternities' bylaws, Sigma Delta sorority president Danielle Levin '12 said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Panhell's revised policy followed a meeting with the Greek Leadership Council on May 17 at which Panhell received feedback on initial drafts of the policy, Levin said. The policy states that all social events held in conjunction with a fraternity in which a member has assaulted a female student will be cancelled unless internal adjudication processes are invoked in a timely manner.
(05/13/11 2:00am)
The success of economic development programs hinges on public support, which requires connecting economic and political issues and engaging middle-income countries, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in a lecture in Raether Hall on Wednesday. Speaking to a room overflowing primarily with Tuck School of Business students, Zoellick discussed several dimensions of economic policy-making and the importance of "modernizing multilateralism" in developing emerging markets.
(05/03/11 2:00am)
Dartmouth will collaborate with 13 other colleges and universities on a new initiative the Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking that the College created to address alcohol use on campuses across the country, College President Jim Yong Kim said in a press conference Monday afternoon. The Collaborative is an information exchange partnership that will track the progress of initiatives designed to reduce harmful alcohol-related incidents and binge drinking, Kim said.
(05/02/11 2:00am)
A buzzing room of business students and professionals of all ages fell silent as a deep voice broke into a chant. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev the keynote speaker for the "Tuck India Business Conference: Ideas From India" recited a traditional invocation before starting his speech on business management, which focused on the incorporation of Indian spirituality in personal success.
(04/29/11 2:00am)
Chu began his presentation with two predictions that the price of oil will continue to rise in coming decades as demand for oil from developing countries increases, and that humans will live in a "carbon-constrained" world in which carbon emissions aggravate rising global temperatures. While scientists still do not fully understand the land-biosphere interaction, data from the past 35 years show steep increases in greenhouse gases that cannot be attributed to natural fluctuations, he said.
(04/08/11 2:00am)
Despite official College policy that prevents any local Greek organization from colonizing on campus, the Inter-Fraternity Council officially recognized Beta Alpha Omega fraternity as a local fraternity on March 8, making Beta an exception to the six-year College standstill, acting Director of Greek Letter Organizations and Societies Kristi Clemens said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(04/04/11 2:00am)
Approximately 50 million monthly gamers generate annual revenues of over a billion dollars for the industry, according to Tuck professor and panel moderator Eric Johnson. The social gaming industry is projected to expand 30 percent this year and social gaming companies will need to find ways to convert such growth into increasing profits, according to Johnson, who serves as director of Tuck's Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies, which hosted the event.
(04/01/11 2:00am)
Christian Brandt '12 will receive up to $30,000 following his selection as a 2011 Harry S. Truman Scholar, according to a College press release. The scholarship application includes a public policy proposal, in which Brandt an anthropology major focused on homelessness, Brandt said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Although Brandt has not taken any public policy classes at the College, he said he drew on his anthropological knowledge to improve "job training services" for the homeless in his proposal. Brandt said that public job training services for homeless people are designed for the "average person," and do not consider a myriad of other factors that homeless people face, such as drug addiction, mental illness and lack of a permanent address. For his public policy proposal, Brant used ethnographic research on local homeless populations and applied it to existing public policy proposals to improve them. The scholarship, which goes to college juniors, requires that recipients pursue graduate studies following graduation and work in the public sector after receiving their PhD, according to the press release.
(10/08/10 2:00am)
After entering the College following three years in the U.S. Army Reserve, Philip Aubart '10 needed more funding than the College's financial aid package could offer him. In exchange for a four-year commitment to the Army and enrollment in Dartmouth's Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Aubart received a full tuition scholarship that financed his educational expenses.
(09/29/10 2:00am)
The Center which is funded by a $35 million anonymous gift is meant to combine health care education and research, as well as to aide in academic and practical collaboration between the College, the Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the Thayer School of Engineering and the Tuck School of Business. The Center will offer health care-related classes to undergraduates as well as introducing a master's degree program through Tuck and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
(09/29/10 2:00am)
College Trustee Al Mulley '70 was selected to serve as the first director of the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, completing a national search process that began with the Center's May creation, College President Jim Yong Kim announced Tuesday.
(09/23/10 2:00am)
Officials at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center plan to cut 300 full-time positions over the next 12 months, according to Rick Adams, DHMC media relations manager. This decision comes as the hospital attempts to address an estimated $50-million budget shortfall for the upcoming year, which resulted from a decrease in Medicaid reimbursements in 2009, according to a Sept. 13 DHMC press release.
(09/22/10 2:00am)
For the first time since the 2008 financial crisis, Harvard University has told its schools to expect a 4 percent rise in the value of the endowment payout for the next fiscal year, The Harvard Crimson reported. Despite the 30 percent drop in the value of Harvard's endowment between June 2008 and June 2009, the Harvard Corporation, Harvard's highest governing body, decided to raise the payout based on the last three years of the endowment's performance. The planned rise in the endowment payout came two weeks after the University announced that its endowment over the past year experienced an annual investment return of 11 percent, according to The Crimson.