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(04/01/09 6:53am)
Student Assembly elected Gaelle Tribie '10 as treasurer for the Spring term at its first meeting following interim on Tuesday. Tribie previously served on the Assembly's Membership and Internal Affairs committee. At the meeting, the chairs of the Academic Affairs committee announced their plan to work to encourage academic departments to designate more of their courses to satisfy the Culture and Identity World Culture Requirement, particularly courses offered on Language Study Abroad programs and Foreign Study Programs. The Assembly also confirmed Brian Almadi '11 as co-chair of the Academic Affairs Committee, Greg Knight '12 as co-chair of the Student Life Committee and Kashay Sanders '11 as co-chair of Diversity and Community Affairs Committee. Sanders is a former member of The Dartmouth Staff.
(03/31/09 7:22am)
The number of applications for undergraduate admission to the Class of 2013 at all eight Ivy League institutions increased over last year's record numbers, according to The New York Times. Applications to Dartmouth increased by 7.5 percent from last year, with a record-low 12-percent admission rate. Other top institutions also received large application increases, with Stanford University seeing a 20-percent increase, according to The Times. Several small liberal arts colleges, including Amherst, Williams and Middlebury, though, saw their application numbers decline, The Times reported. Of the 350 colleges and universities that use the Common Application for undergraduate admission, slightly more than half reported increases in the number of applications compared to last year, while the remaining institutions reported decreases, according to The Times.
(02/13/09 10:21am)
Winter Carnival weekend has become an integral part of the Dartmouth experience over the past 99 years, and it all began with an article in The Dartmouth.
(02/13/09 10:16am)
In what F. Scott Fitzgerald would later call "one of the silliest mistakes I ever made," the renowned author and recovering alcoholic visited campus in 1939 for an infamous weekend of drunken revelry while attempting to research for a screenplay about the College's Winter Carnival with co-author Budd Schulberg '36.
(02/03/09 8:07am)
Two years after its initial conception, the HealThySelf House project, an initiative to support students dealing with substance abuse and emotional difficulties, has decided to focus on reaching out to students in need rather than working to raise funds to obtain a physical plant, according to founder Bill Sjogren '67.
(02/02/09 9:39am)
The U.S. Senate is currently considering a bill that would raise the upper limit on the value of federal loans available to college students, according The Chronicle of Higher Education. The bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday, would increase the amount available per student by $2,000 per year. Several student organizations object to raising the student loan maximum, claiming that adding $8,000 to already heavy student debts will only worsen the economic burden of attending college, The Chronicle reported. The bill's opponents also argue that colleges may raise tuition bills in response to the increased loan limits, according to The Chronicle. Other organizations, including the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, support the federal loan increase, arguing that the measure will help students avoid taking out expensive private loans, The Chronicle reported.
(01/23/09 10:44am)
Students participating in corporate recruiting this term will likely receive fewer job offers because of the current economic uncertainty, according to Monica Wilson, associate director of employer relations for Career Services. Some students who went through corporate recruiting for Winter term have had their internship offers withdrawn.
(01/21/09 10:52am)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Barack Obama was sworn in as the nation's first black president just after noon on Tuesday.
(01/13/09 8:40am)
The College Democrats are currently concentrating on the inauguration and efforts to send a group of students to Washington, D.C. for the College Democrats of America conference the weekend preceding the event, according to organization President David Imamura '10.
(01/09/09 10:24am)
Dartmouth engineering professor Victor Petrenko and his colleagues at Ice Engineering LLC have developed a new de-icing system for power lines, according to a College press release. Petrenko and his team invented the variable resistance cable, which allows the electrical resistance of a cable to be increased. This increase results in heat, which can melt any ice that may form. Ice Engineering will implement a prototype VRC system later this month in Orenburg, Russia, according to the press release. Despite slight changes in power line installation and replacement costs, the VRC de-icing system benefits utility companies by reducing the need to fix power lines that would otherwise be damaged by the weight of snow and ice, Gabriel Martinez, Ice Engineering's vice president, told The Boston Globe on Wednesday.
(12/02/08 9:07am)
The Department of the Interior is the federal government's principal conservation agency. The department oversees bureaus such as the National Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Kitzhaber, who served as Oregon's governor for the maximum two terms, would bring experience mediating battles between environmentalists and the state's industries, notably the timber industry, to the Secretary of the Interior position.
(11/10/08 9:10am)
If there is a silver lining in the recent Wall Street meltdown, it may be the opportunity for Dartmouth seniors to pursue postgraduate options they would not have otherwise considered, like Teach For America, according to Monica Wilson, associate director of employer relations. Last Friday marked the end of the second of four rounds for TFA applications.
(11/04/08 9:01am)
Based on past trends, the current national economic crisis may cause more students to consider attending medical school and pursue jobs in medicine, as positions in business become more scarce, Witters said.
(10/21/08 5:47am)
Glen Elder, sociology and psychology professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, gave a lecture to members of the Dartmouth sociology department at the Rockefeller Center on Monday. Elder, who teaches at UNC's Carolina Population Center, identified key elements of World War II that shaped later lifestyles of American men. Elder said the age at which men entered the war, the bonds men formed during service and the specific pathways of war involvement shaped postwar life. Based on his past study of California residents who lived through both the Great Depression and World War II, Elder said the war benefited younger men who entered the service because it provided an escape from the Depression and access to higher education through the GI Bill. In contrast, older men that entered the war saw higher rates of divorce, increased dislocation and decreased physical health. Elder is the co-director of the Carolina Consortium on Human Development, where he manages a research program on life course studies. He was invited to speak at the College in part because of his research on adolescent development.
(10/07/08 7:02am)
Last week Wachovia froze approximately $9.3 billion of funds invested by nearly 1,000 colleges and universities held by the short-term education investment fund, Commonfund, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Monday. All institutions, including Dartmouth, were originally limited access to only 10 percent of their assets in the fund, according to The Chronicle, which caused a problem for institutions that were relying on assets in the fund for immediate cash expenses and payments. Colleges and universities presently have access to approximately 34 percent of their funds, According to The Daily Pennsylvanian. Representatives from Moody's Investment Services told the Chronicle that all institutions with assets in Commonfund will have access to approximately 57 percent of their funds by the end of the year.
(10/07/08 7:01am)
Dartmouth's sexual health programs were ranked 68 out of 139 colleges surveyed for Trojan Condoms' third annual Sexual Health Report Card, a significant drop from the College's 25th place ranking in 2007.