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(05/28/10 2:00am)
The College will begin renovating Thayer Dining Hall immediately after Commencement and Reunion with a $12 million gift from the members of the Class of 1953, according to a College press release. The building was officially dedicated and renamed the Class of 1953 Commons on May 25, and is expected to be completed by Fall of 2011. The Class of 1953 donation was originally intended to construct a new dining facility, but budget cuts forced the funds to be redirected into the renovation of Thayer. The Class of 1953 Commons will have a more modern architectural design, additional space for dining and studying and energy-efficient renovations that will eventually repay the costs of renovation.
(05/25/10 2:00am)
MBA graduates from Harvard Business School have the highest earnings over the span of their careers, Bloomberg reported on Monday. MBA graduates from the top 45 business schools in the country will each make about $2.5 million on average within their first 20 years after graduation and will receive a 75-percent increase in base pay and bonuses, according to research conducted by Bloomberg and BusinessWeek. On average, graduates from the Tuck School of Business experience a 46-percent rise in income over their careers. The starting salaries of Tuck graduates have also dropped 7.5 percent over the last year. MBA graduates from higher-ranked business schools which also tend to have higher tuition rates tend to earn more than graduates from lower-ranked schools, Bloomberg reported. The location of the school and the industries that the school sends their graduates into also factor greatly into the average salary of business school graduates, according to Bloomberg.
(05/18/10 2:00am)
The three panelists Emma Wright, a former Peace Corps volunteer and first-year student at Dartmouth Medical school, Deborah Peterson, co-founder of a Tibet-based environmental non-governmental organization, and Thayer School of Engineering professor Daniel Lynch discussed the relationship between human rights, health and environmental issues, as well as the role that health professionals can play in improving these aspects of global human rights.
(04/29/10 2:00am)
Teenagers whose parents allow them to watch R-rated movies are more likely to start drinking at a younger age than their peers whose parents do not, according to a study conducted by Dartmouth Medical School pediatrics professors Susanne Tanski and James Sargent.
(04/23/10 2:00am)
"I think primarily [the Executive Committee] was concerned about [Sievers'] attendance," Michael Cryans, a Grafton County commissioner, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(04/19/10 2:00am)
The Elections Planning Advisory Committee has issued a tier-one warning to Student Body presidential candidate Elena Falloon '11 and Student Body vice presidential candidate Will Hix '12 after a supporter of both candidates sent a recipient-repressed e-mail encouraging recipients to vote for Falloon and Hix, which is a violation of campaign rules. The sanction itself does not impose any punishments on Falloon or Hix. "This is a simple warning, there will be no restrictions or regulations on your campaign as a result of this sanction," EPAC chair David Imamura '10 wrote in an e-mail to the candidates on Sunday. "Please ensure that your supporters are aware that they cannot blitz to repressed recipient lists." Hix said he was appealing the sanction because the student who sent the e-mail is not part of his campaign. EPAC issued a tier-one warning to Student Body presidential candidate Eric Tanner '11 last week over a similar issue. Voting for both Student Body president and vice president occurs today and lasts until 11:59 p.m.
(04/13/10 2:00am)
Economics professor Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth Medical School research professor Fran Norris, playwright Mildrid Ruiz-Sapp and Ibrahim Elshamy '09 agreed that because the components of disaster relief are so complicated, it is difficult to determine the extent of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's responsibility to victims of the 2005 Gulf Coast disaster.
(04/12/10 2:00am)
Employers in California will have more discretion in whether to pay their interns, under revised guidelines from the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, The New York Times reported Friday. While the federal criteria requires that, in order for an intern to be unpaid, the intern must be given training and not replace a regular employer, California's labor department has released a looser set of criteria, according to The Times. Under the new state guidance, interns can occasionally perform tasks done by regular employees as long as the intern's work "does not unreasonably replace or impede the education objective for the intern and effectively displace regular workers," David Balter, acting chief counsel for the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in California, told The Times.
(04/09/10 2:00am)
As part of Berger's psychology honors thesis, Berger and Dartmouth education professor Donna Coch found that the brain is slower at processing text messaging language than standard written English.
(04/02/10 2:00am)
Former N.H. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, a Republican candidate for New Hampshire's Senate seat, visited the College on Thursday and spoke with several students, including members of the College Republicans. Ayotte and businessman Bill Binnie, who is also running as a Republican, both lead Democratic candidate Rep. Paul Hodes '72 in polls by significant margins, predicting a difficult contest in the Sept. 14 Republican primary, according to Rasmussen Reports.
(04/01/10 2:00am)
President Barack Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 into law on Tuesday. The act included a $2 billion budget over the next for years for improvements in community colleges, according to a White House press release. This fall, Jill Biden will host a summit about community colleges with students and leaders in education and business, the release stated. The act also calls for the investment of over $40 billion in Pell Grants to ensure that all eligible students will receive a grant and that the awards will increase in the future as college costs rise, according to the release. The act also caps repayments of student loans at 10 percent of student borrowers' discretionary incomes. The effort will be funded by ending current government subsidies to banks and other financial institutions, according to the release.
(03/08/10 4:00am)
Stevenson won 95 votes while his opponent, Terry Sluss, a former county commissioner, received 25, according to Brice Acree '09, communications director for Stevenson's campaign. Stevenson significantly exceeded the 60 percent of votes necessary to secure the endorsement, according to the Brainerd Dispatch.
(02/17/10 4:00am)
Sixty-five percent of the 18,755 applicants for the Class of 2014 indicated their intent to apply for financial aid, a similar percentage to last year's figure, according to Maria Laskaris, dean of admissions and financial aid. Although the total number of financial aid applicants increased this year, the change reflects the increase in the total number of applicants to the College, Laskaris said.
(02/10/10 4:00am)
Bruce Etling, director of the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University; Elham Gheytanchi, a sociology professor at Santa Monica College; and Evgeny Morozov, a fellow at Georgetown University, presented information about the impact that social media has in the context of protest movements.
(02/08/10 4:00am)
Dartmouth was ranked No. 12 in the Peace Corps' top 25 list of small schools with alumni currently serving as volunteers, the College announced on Friday. There are 17 undergraduate alumni from the College now serving in the Peace Corps, rivaling other small institutions including St. Olaf College, which ranked first in the small school category with 26 volunteers. The University of Washington and George Washington University came in first in the categories for large and medium schools, respectively. Since the Peace Corps was founded in 1961, 606 College alumni have participated as volunteers, according to a College press release.
(02/04/10 4:00am)
Lynch unveiled details about the program at a launch event held at UNH on Wednesday, according to a University press release.
(01/25/10 4:00am)
The number of applications to Yale decreased slightly this year, in contrast with the trend of increased applications at other Ivy League schools, according to the Yale Daily News. Jeff Brenzel, the Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, said that he could not explain why Yale differed from the general trend, but said he believes that Yale will continue to attract students of the same caliber as past years and that the decrease in applications this year may well be the result of random fluctuations. College counselors proposed reasons such as students' hesitancy to apply because of Yale's low acceptance rate and the impact of the recent murder of Annie Le and the death of Andre Narcisse, who were both students at Yale. Yale has also seen a small decrease in the number of early action applicants, but greater numbers of male, low-income and minority applicants, according to the Yale Daily News. The University is planning to maintain the 7.5 percent admission rate employed last year, the Yale Daily News reported.
(01/14/10 4:00am)
Reports published following two federal inspections at Dartmouth Medical School catalogue over a dozen violations against the Animal Welfare Act, including an incident in which a live hamster was accidentally placed in a freezer, according to an article in the New Hampshire Union Leader. The inspections also revealed several primates that showed signs of psychological distress, the Union Leader reported.
(01/07/10 4:00am)
The percentage of law students expecting to work in private law firms dropped to 50 percent this year, from 58 percent in each of the last three years, according to an annual survey by the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Wednesday. The percentage of law students surveyed that expected to work in the public-interest sector rose to 33 percent from 29 percent. The findings indicate that law students are adjusting their career expectations due to the current economic climate, Lindsay Watkins, the survey's project manager, told The Chronicle. "The amount of law-school debt did not seem to affect students' choices to enter traditionally lower-paying fields like public-interest law or government service," Watkins said.
(01/06/10 4:00am)
Active managers of mutual funds are employed for their skill in increasing investment yields, but according to a study co-authored by a finance professor at the Tuck School of Business, investors who hire managers may actually lose money in the long run. The study, authored by Tuck professor Kenneth French and Eugene Fama, a finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, found that active managers often do not increase returns enough to offset the fees investors pay them, and that people might be better off leaving the performance of their mutual funds up to chance.