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(05/31/11 5:00pm)
New modifications to the College's SmartChoice dining options have been created to meet student demand for greater flexibility and choice, Dartmouth Dining Services Director David Newlove said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The modifications will be sent to all students in a campus-wide email today, Justin Anderson, director of media relations, said.
(05/25/11 2:00am)
Jewish populations have existed in the North African regions of current-day Yemen, Iraq and Libya since ancient times, according to Goldberg. During the 20th century, over 30,000 Jews lived in the Libyan region, he said.
(05/23/11 2:00am)
College officials predict a $2.6 million dollar surplus in the College's budget for the 2012 fiscal year, according to a finance report that will be presented at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting on Monday. This marks the first time since the Strategic Budget Reduction and Investment initiative began in September 2009 that the College is predicting an operating surplus, according to the report that was obtained by The Dartmouth.
(05/20/11 2:00am)
Although the College is preparing for its annual Green Key festivities, many universities across the nation have canceled their equivalent spring weekends due to overwhelming safety concerns, largely regarding the excessive alcohol use that commonly takes place during spring weekend events. The College is not taking any steps to decrease the size or scope of Green Key events this year because the weekend has generally run smoothly in the past, Safety and Security Director Harry Kinne said.
(05/18/11 2:00am)
The College's fiscal year 2009 revenue totaled $864,555,839, marking an increase of over $200 million since the prior fiscal year, according to the College's May 16 federal tax filing the first IRS filing since College President Jim Yong Kim arrived at the College. Out of the College's $870,326,318 in 2009 expenses, employee compensation and benefits totaled $435,615,604, the tax filing said.
(05/09/11 2:00am)
Hanover Police arrested an undergraduate student for one count of acts prohibited for the possession of marijuana on May 5, according to a May 6 Hanover Police Department press release. Hanover Police intercepted a FedEx delivery that contained "over two pounds" of marijuana and that had been ordered by the student, Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(05/05/11 2:00am)
When Montgomery Fellow Louise Erdrich '76 wrote her first novel, "Love Medicine," in 1984, she did not think anyone would read it, Erdrich said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Today, Erdrich is a bestselling author of over 25 works of Native American literature, including "The Plague of Doves," a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
(04/25/11 2:00am)
New Hampshire residents remain pessimistic about the nation's economic future and said they would vote for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney over President Barack Obama in a general election, according to the results of the fourth annual "State of the State Poll" released on April 21 by the Rockefeller Center. The poll, conducted from April 11 to 14, surveyed 426 registered New Hampshire voters about the current state of affairs in New Hampshire and the United States, according to Associate Director of the Rockefeller Center Ron Shaiko.
(04/20/11 2:00am)
"It was a guerrilla war, you fought wherever you were," Marder said. "I'm taking the class because I want to know why I was there."
(04/15/11 2:00am)
Colleges across the nation are spending far less on educating students than they claim, according to a report released April 7 by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. The controversial report, which has received national media coverage in The Chronicle of Higher Education, cited Dartmouth's spending model as an example of the gap between the actual costs of providing an education and what an institution says it spends.
(04/14/11 2:00am)
Barely a minute after University of Minnesota mathematics professor Andrew Odlyzko began his Wednesday lecture, the projector he was using unexpectedly lost its connection signal. This interruption proved to be the ideal start for Odlyzko's discussion of cryptography and security's role in society.
(04/13/11 2:00am)
Trustee Steven Roth '62 Tu'63, his wife Daryl Roth and their family donated $15 million to the College to endow two new professorships and an academic faculty fellowship, according to a College press release on Tuesday.
(03/30/11 2:00am)
The minor is designed so that students can learn the concepts and tools needed to move society toward a "sustainable transition," Anne Kapuscinski, environmental studies professor and director of the program, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(03/29/11 2:00am)
As Japan faces a nuclear radiation leak, a team of researchers from Dartmouth Medical School is offering use of its radiation exposure device to assess radiation levels and determine who needs medical assistance. The offer, however, has been declined by Japanese officials, according to Harold Swartz, a radiation oncology professor at DMS and director of the project developed by Dartmouth's Physically-Based Biodosimetry Center for Medical Countermeasures Against Radiation.
(03/08/11 4:00am)
"Senior College administrators were getting complaints and concerns that students on financial aid were not able to eat 21 meals a week without going negative [on DBA]," Newlove said. "Then the bills go home and a lot of times families are unable to pay that additional dollar amount."
(03/01/11 4:00am)
College Registrar Meredith Braz also presented alternatives to the academic calendar that would alter the ending date of Winter term in order to better accommodate students who travel home for Thanksgiving break. Faculty members will vote on the various proposals in May, Braz said.
(02/22/11 4:00am)
Members of Green Team, a student-run bystander intervention program aimed to reduce alcohol harm on campus, monitored their first event on Friday at Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority, according to Cyrus Akrami '11, co-chair of the Student Assembly Alcohol Crime and Reduction Committee. Theta requested Green Team's services for Thetaroo, a concert open to campus that the sorority hosts every term, Theta president Emily Carian '11 said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth.
(02/22/11 4:00am)
Members of Green Team, a student-run bystander intervention program aimed to reduce alcohol harm on campus, monitored their first event on Friday at Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority, according to Cyrus Akrami '11, co-chair of the Student Assembly Alcohol Crime and Reduction Committee. Theta requested Green Team's services for Thetaroo, a concert open to campus that the sorority hosts every term, Theta president Emily Carian '11 said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth.
(02/18/11 4:00am)
The event brought together several campus political groups, according to College Democrats communications director George Helding '14. The College Democrats, College Republicans, College Libertarians and Student Assembly, in addition to various other student and Greek organizations, cosponsored the event.
(02/10/11 4:00am)
A recovered version of the Student Assembly Course Guide, which had been inaccessible since October, is now available online, Ian Webster '11, a member of the College's Hacker Club, said in a campus-wide e-mail on Wednesday. Students can now read course reviews written by other students between 2002 and 2010, although students are unable to submit reviews in Course Guide's current version. Course Guide which was previously hosted on a Student Assembly server is now available on a new website developed by the Hacker Club, a group of Dartmouth students interested in computer programming.