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(04/03/07 9:00am)
At the beginning of every term, Heather Strack '07 makes sure to check the library on the first floor of Sigma Delta sorority to see if any of the books that she needs for her courses are hiding among the shelves.
(03/05/07 11:00am)
"It is not that I can't handle what is being written about me or that I think that others can't handle it," Sen said. "I just don't think it is necessary for people to go on to a site, type in their names, and find malicious, hurtful comments about them that could really affect them should they have low self-esteem."
(03/02/07 11:00am)
Editor's note: This is the third and final part of a series that examines what it takes to become an athlete in the Ivy League. This story focuses on the admissions process.
(03/01/07 11:00am)
"It was painful, but it's something that all freshmen go through, kind of like a rite of passage," Beattie said. "You just have to focus on practice when you are there and really crack down on work when you are done."
(02/28/07 11:00am)
At colleges and universities across the country, administrators, coaches and student-athletes struggle to find a balance between academics and athletics. For athletic departments in the Ivy League, known for high admissions standards and rigorous curricula, the challenge is all the more difficult. In the NCAA's fast-paced world of major-conference athletics, where celebrity players and million-dollar coaching contracts are commonplace, the Ivy League's lack of academic scholarships and rigid academic standards seem somewhat anachronistic.
(02/15/07 11:00am)
As the steady stream of formally dressed Dartmouth students heading down Main Street for job interviews slows to a trickle, many students who aren't on campus this term are left wondering whether it is more beneficial to be at Dartmouth during the process of corporate recruitment.
(02/13/07 11:00am)
DURHAM, N.H. -- In a gymnasium whose atmosphere resembled that of a rock concert more than that of a political lecture, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who recently announced his presidential candidacy, delivered a campaign speech to a crowd of over 1,000 at the University of New Hampshire on Monday night.
(02/09/07 11:00am)
When Kari Cholnoky '10 volunteered as a guide at the Special Olympics one Saturday morning this winter, she never expected that her good deed would leave her unable to move her face for the rest of the day. Temperatures had dropped to -20 degrees Fahrenheit at the Skiway and after spending the majority of the day volunteering outside, she realized that the muscles in her cheeks stuck when she smiled. Kari had gotten a mild case of frostbite.
(02/01/07 11:00am)
In a town-hall style speech, the former senator from North Carolina stressed the need for the American people to reemerge as leaders in the global community by becoming the forerunners in the battles against global warming, disease and genocide.
(01/26/07 11:00am)
Blinded and deafened by clouds of dust and the sound of wrecking balls, students walking on the pathway north of Baker-Berry Library are beginning to notice the demolition of the Gerry and Bradley buildings. Demolition, which began in early December, is slated to continue through the winter and pave the way for a landscaping project that will leave a bowl-shaped open area that will separate Baker-Berry library from the newly built Kemeny Hall.
(01/16/07 11:00am)
The College celebrated the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend with a variety of programs that included panels, multimedia presentations and a candlelight vigil. This year's celebration, "Lift Every Voice: Freedom's Artists and the Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights," focuses on the power of the arts to invoke change.
(01/05/07 11:00am)
The Dartmouth women's basketball team drew record-breaking crowds to the annual Dartmouth Blue Sky Classic tournament Dec. 29-30. They placed third overall, losing to Duke University, 77-40, but coming back the next day to defeat the University of Dayton in a consolation game, 76-71.
(01/04/07 11:00am)
The Skiway is continuing to produce snow, but high temperatures during the past week have limited the area's snow-making capabilities. Currently, the Skiway has between six and 12 inches of base coverage.
(11/20/06 11:00am)
Bruce Rauner '78, private equity investor and chairman of GTCR Golder Rauner LLC., announced his interest in buying the Chicago Cubs baseball team to Crain's Chicago Business magazine on Nov. 17. Many of Chicago's top dealmakers are preparing buyout offers in anticipation that the team will become available due to the takeover or breakup of its owner, Tribune Co.
(11/17/06 11:00am)
The event began with presentations from five student speakers followed by dinner and small group discussions. The presentations, given by students from a variety of spiritual backgrounds, focused on what it means to be a student of faith at Dartmouth.
(11/15/06 11:00am)
Executives and members in the Coed, Fraternity and Sorority system expressed frustration with the College's "keg policy" as it is outlined in the SEMP guidelines, a set of policies that were revised last spring and implemented in late September. Some members said that the current guidelines are incompatible with the social environment at Dartmouth.
(10/23/06 9:00am)
The year in collegiate sports has been marred by aggressive on- and off-field behavior by student-athletes, both at Dartmouth and at campuses across the nation.
(10/23/06 9:00am)
"Jim was an intellectually curious man. He encouraged the community to question, probe and take pleasure in learning about ourselves and our world," Wright said in his address. "He made Dartmouth a fundamentally more interesting place."
(10/06/06 9:00am)
Michael Sullivan, author of the new children's book Escapade Johnson and Mayhem at Mount Moosilauke, was in Portsmouth on Wednesday as a part of a promotional book-signing tour. Escapade Johnson and Mayhem at Mount Moosilauke is the story of 10-year-old Escapade and his fifth-grade class' eventful field trip to Mount Moosilauke. This is the first in a series of children's books with 16 tentative releases scheduled over the next eight years. The series is geared toward children between the ages of 10 and 13. The second book in the series, Escapade Johnson and the Coffee Shop of the Living Dead, is slated to come out in April 2007. Sullivan is also the author and publisher of several books for educators and teaches folklore at Plymouth College and library science at Simmons College. He is a chess teacher, an origami master, a storyteller, a juggler and an avid climber of Mount Moosilauke.