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(09/22/10 2:00am)
In response to public disapproval from employees, College officials will partially reverse their previous decision to terminate employee death benefits, Provost Carol Folt announced last Wednesday. The original decision, which was met with a strong backlash from retirees and current staff, was part of the two-year effort to close the College's $100-million budget shortfall.
(06/11/10 2:00am)
If the Class of 1960 is any indication, a Dartmouth education can prepare graduates for a variety of careers. From campaign finance to comedic novels, Bob Farmer '60, Bruce Ducker '60 and Duncan Mathewson '60 represent the many paths that the College's alumni have pursued since their time at Dartmouth.
(06/01/10 2:00am)
Hanover Police officers responded to an anonymous call Sunday night regarding an event at Gamma Delta Chi fraternity, director of Safety and Security Harry Kinne told The Dartmouth. The caller claimed that activities related to the organization's "Hell Night" were "putting people at risk," Kinne said. Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone contacted Kinne, requesting that College Safety and Security perform a walk-through of the house with the organization's president, Kevin Gallagher '11, Kinne said. No one in the house was at risk and the call was "not accurate," Kinne said. Gallagher declined to comment.
(06/01/10 2:00am)
Tabard did not provide the individual arrested with alcohol, Tabard President Paloma Ellis '11 said in a statement, also noting that The Tabard supports Hanover Police's efforts to curb underage drinking.
(05/18/10 2:00am)
The Office of Alumni Relations plans to release an updated alumni directory in December that will provide new services to alumni, including an online directory, a broadcast e-mail service and an electronic commerce service, according to Vice President for Alumni Relations David Spalding. Some alumni have criticized the office's selection of Harris Connect the new company hired to oversee production of the directory citing concerns that e-mails about the directory were misleading about its cost.
(05/14/10 2:00am)
Ongoing construction on Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and the recent reopening of Zeta Psi fraternity mark important changes that students may note as they carouse along Webster Avenue this Green Key weekend.
(05/12/10 2:00am)
"These books created a climate of opinion, a debate with many other books growing around it," Parini said. "These books changed America's idea of itself as a democracy or had some powerful lasting influence on the culture."
(05/11/10 2:00am)
Two Mexican universities have halted exchange programs with the University of Arizona because of Arizona's new, more strict immigration law, The Arizona Republic reported May 7. Officials from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi told The Republic they believe that the law, which allows for increased policing of potential illegal immigrants, would lead to harassment of their students through ethnic or racial profiling. The decision will affect 14 students from the two Mexican universities scheduled to visit Arizona during the summer, according to The Republic. The University of Arizona, which has academic exchange agreements with 31 Mexican universities, does not expect any other universities to cancel their academic-exchange arrangements, The Republic reported.
(05/06/10 2:00am)
Despite the rapid response to what College officials feared would be a severe and highly-contagious H1N1 flu outbreak this past Fall, most infected Dartmouth students experienced only "relatively mild illness," according to College Health Services Director Jack Turco. While H1N1 which spread to the College for the first time in May last year has abated and concerns about it have since calmed, the virus's effects could have been much worse if College officials had not prepared for the possibility of a more serious illness, Turco said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(05/04/10 2:00am)
In recent years, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has developed new partnerships with other hospitals in the region, including a new arrangement with Mt. Ascutney Hospital in Windsor, Vt., and the controversial partnership with Catholic Medical Center in Manchester. Now, DHMC has looked to potentially expand its services to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt., as part of its effort to form "community partnerships" and advance local health care, according to Deanna Howard, DHMC's vice president of regional development.
(04/22/10 2:00am)
A February plan in which Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Medical School would license a psychiatric facility at the White River Junction Veterans Hospital is now "in limbo" after Medicaid licensing conflicts and funding requirements halted the proposal, Vermont Mental Health Commissioner Michael Hartman told The Dartmouth.
(04/21/10 2:00am)
European colonists were concerned with their nations' mercantilist policies and engaged the Indians in voluntary trade, he said. The colonies lacked a formal set of trade laws, and issues of governance and official trade regulations were first considered only after the establishment of the post-revolutionary government, Pommersheim said.
(04/08/10 2:00am)
New Hampshire has lost a larger percentage of jobs to China over the last decade than any other state, according to a report released by the Economic Policy Institute last month. The 16,300 jobs lost in New Hampshire roughly 2.35 percent of total state employment are mainly the result of increased imports of computers, electronic equipment and parts, according to EPI's web site. An increasing amount of trade between the United States and China in recent years has led to the loss of 2.4 million jobs between 2001 and 2008, according to the report. Low worker wages as well as the manipulation of Chinese currency to keep the value of the yuan low despite growing exports are largely responsible for these job losses, according to the report. New Hampshire, which is responsible for a large sector of the United States' electronic and computer parts industry, suffered a decrease in demand for its goods in the early 2000s, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported Wednesday. As a result, technology manufacturing companies sought to produce goods more cheaply in China, according to the Union Leader. The growth of jobs in hospitality, retail and financial service industries, however, has allowed New Hampshire to remain among the states with the lowest rates of unemployment in the country, the Union Leader reported.
(04/06/10 2:00am)
Lincoln's ability to "accommodate and even blur the differences" between varying opinions regarding slavery helped to make him a "skillful politician in an internally divided country," panelist and history professor Robert Bonner said.
(04/01/10 2:00am)
Having low self-esteem changes the way the brain responds to social feedback, according to a new study by Dartmouth researchers published online Monday in the Oxford Journal Cerebral Cortex. The study, authored by Lean Somerville GR'08 and Dartmouth professors of psychology William Kelley and Todd Heatherton, provides a brain-based explanation for why people with low self-esteem are more aware of their social standing, pinpointing the area of the brain that is active when people with low self-esteem react to social situations.
(03/09/10 4:00am)
Stanford University's Faculty Senate decided last week to create a committee to evaluate reinstating the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program on campus, according to a March 4 press release from the University. Stanford ended its various ROTC programs in the 1970s over concerns about the academic standards of courses taught by military instructors and a provision that students could be drafted upon withdrawal from the program, according to the release. There was also opposition to the program from students and faculty who opposed the Vietnam War. Stanford currently maintains cross-enrollment agreements with three nearby universities that allow Stanford students to receive military training at other institutions. The committee was formed in light of the expected repeal of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy within the next few years, according to the release.
(03/02/10 4:00am)
Alekna will also communicate fraternity members' desires for possible modifications to the house and liaise with alumni donors, Lubka said.
(02/25/10 4:00am)
Vermont Governor Jim Douglas endorsed a plan on Feb. 18 to open a psychiatric facility at the White River Junction Veterans Hospital operated by the Dartmouth Medical School. The Vermont State Hospital Futures Master Plan, which was presented to a joint meeting of several state Senate and House committees Feb. 19, recommends three new facilities that would be opened by 2012 to replace the outdated Vermont State Hospital facilities by 2014.
(02/24/10 4:00am)
Members of Student Assembly unanimously ratified the proposed amendments to the Student Assembly constitution authored by Will Hix '12, during Tuesday's General Assembly meeting. The amendments will provide for the election of committee chairs by the General Assembly, schedule the student body president's inauguration sometime before May, allow the new Assembly to elect officers, remove defunct positions and streamline the Constitution from 18 pages to six. Members from the Student Budget Advisory Committee also gave a presentation to the General Assembly, explaining their organization's restructuring process and goals. They announced the formation of an advising committee that will look into methods of improving the advising system on campus and discussed ideas for future activities, including exploring the feasibility of an institutionalized peer advising system.
(02/19/10 4:00am)
While most honorary members are Dartmouth graduate students, house alumni and Hanover residents, College employees and friends and relatives of undergraduate members may also join coed organizations, according to Coed Council president and Alpha Theta member Reyna Ramirez '10.