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(04/29/14 6:56pm)
In its first spring season dedicated solely to sevens, the women’s club rugby team turned in a dominating performance to win the Ivy League Championships on Saturday in New Jersey. The team defeated Princeton University in the final by a score of 34 to 7. With the win, the Big Green advanced and will compete in the American Collegiate Rugby Association’s women’s small college national sevens tournament May 3-4 in Michigan.
(04/27/14 10:21pm)
For the first time since its 2012 launch, a first-year student living in any residential cluster can opt in to receive a mentor this fall through the First-Year Peer Mentoring Program. The program, which previously matched mentors to students living in the Russell Sage or River clusters, will interview prospective mentors this spring.
(04/10/14 10:50pm)
On Tuesday, the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee released a bill that would repeal the death penalty in the Granite state, setting up a likely senate-wide vote on the future of capital punishment next week. As legislators across the state ponder their final votes, The Dartmouth sat down with mathematics professor emeritus John Lamperti, who has investigated the impact of capital punishment on the U.S. the murder rate.
(04/10/14 8:00pm)
In a first in College history, the Big Green men and women’s club fencing team won the U.S. Association of Collegiate Fencing Club’s national championship in Knoxville, Tenn., last weekend. Buoyed by strong performances across the board — including a first place finish in women’s foil and a second place finish in men’s epee — the Big Green fencers now answer to a new title: national champions.
(04/08/14 11:18pm)
Only 10 female commencement speakers have addressed a graduating class from behind the Lone Pine podium since the start of the 20th century, accounting for just 17.5 percent of the College’s recorded commencement speakers over that time span.
(04/06/14 8:25pm)
On March 26, as Dartmouth students trudged through lingering piles of snow on the third day of spring classes, student-athletes across the country had more than just the distant promise of better weather to celebrate. In Chicago, a regional director for the National Labor Relations Board ruled that football players at Northwestern University could be considered employees of the institution, giving them the right to unionize and bargain collectively — a landmark ruling for the college athletes’ rights movement.
(11/12/13 9:03pm)
Following strong performances at their respective Ivy League championship tournaments, the men’s and women’s rugby teams both seem poised for continued postseason success. While the men look to build on a dominating performance at the Ivy 7s championship in Princeton, N.J., last weekend, the women will focus on drawing positives from an undefeated regular season and a strong but ultimately disappointing Ivy 15s championship showing that saw them drop the tournament final to Harvard University.
(11/11/13 11:01pm)
An analysis conducted by the Institute of International Education in conjunction with the State Department found that a record number of international students came to study in the United States this year, up 7 percent from last year, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Even with this increase, the total number of international students in the U.S. represents less than 4 percent of the total student population. Among the countries sending students to the U.S., China, India, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Canada lead the way, with China alone sending 235,000 students to the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Purdue University, New York University and Columbia University enrolled the most international students.
(11/10/13 10:34pm)
Fackler began with a brief history of the Fukushima disaster, noting that he generally skips this background information while speaking to Japanese audiences. One of the first foreign journalists to be allowed access to the Fukushima plant in the aftermath of the disaster, Fackler said he often discusses Fukushima as a “triple” disaster, with the earthquake and tsunami serving as the first two and the nuclear disaster serving as a third, man-made tragedy.
(11/10/13 7:25pm)
In a disappointing weekend on the road, the women’s hockey team failed to shake off an early season slump, dropping back-to-back contests against No. 6 Clarkson University on Friday evening and St. Lawrence University on Saturday. Over the road swing, the Big Green (1-6, 1-5 ECAC) was outscored 5-1, and did not score until the weekend’s final period of play.
(11/03/13 10:04pm)
In a weekend road swing through frigid upstate New York, the women’s hockey team captured its first win of the season on Saturday, knocking off a tough Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute team by two goals. Powered by a phenomenal performance from goaltender and co-captain Lindsay Holdcroft ’14, the Big Green (1-4, 1-3 ECAC) snapped a four-game slide that had started the season on a negative note, showing impressive resilience to rebound from a Friday night loss to Union College.
(10/31/13 11:01pm)
The College is reevaluating the future use of the planned $150 million North Campus Academic Center, interim vice president for campus planning and facilities Bill Anderson said.
(10/23/13 2:00am)
Walking across campus on Sunday, it was not difficult to find a superhero. Flamboyantly dressed students and community members, running to raise money for the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, streamed across the Green for most of the afternoon, shouting out support to one another. But as the run came to a close, participants left their neon colors behind them and began to blend back into the crowd. For cross country star Abbey D'Agostino '14, it has become increasingly difficult to leave behind her superhero status. After all, there's not much to say about her accomplishments as an athlete that has not already been said by the national media. In an excellent profile published last month by Running Times, Sarah Lorge Butler traced D'Agostino's rapid rise to stardom after an unheralded freshman fall, summarizing some of her most notable achievements: multiple national track-and-field titles, near-qualification for the U.S. Olympic team and multiple top-three finishes at collegiate cross country nationals. Looking at D'Agostino's performances as a runner, it is hard not to view her as a real-life superpower.
(10/21/13 2:00am)
In an attempt to make the cost of attending one of the nation's most expensive schools less prohibitive, New York University plans to announce a long-term campaign to raise $1 billion for financial aid, The Chronicle for Higher Education reported. The six-year fundraising campaign intended to enhance NYU's current scholarship offerings will introduce two new scholarships for students nearing graduation and for students wishing to study abroad at one of the university's satellite campuses in Paris, Beijing, and Abu Dhabi. In past years, NYU has failed to meet the full financial needs of its students by up to $250 million, and NYU had recently began calling admitted students whose aid did not meet their needs to suggest NYU might not be the best fit. The current cost of attending NYU, including tuition, fees, room and board, is approximately $62,000.
(10/11/13 2:00am)
Although Homecoming is traditionally seen as a weekend crafted by and wholly dedicated to first-year students, members of the Class of 2017 will be largely barred from attending fraternity and sorority parties over the weekend due to the new policy that prohibits freshman from entering Greek houses serving alcohol for the first six weeks of school.
(10/09/13 2:00am)
"We played well," head coach Rich Parker said. "The course was really in good condition this year, the best condition it's ever been in my nine years."
(09/30/13 2:00am)
A study performed by Boston College's Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment showed that female students studying at Boston College lost self-confidence between their freshman and senior years, USA Today reported on Thursday. The study was based on student surveys, in which most female students gave themselves weaker self-evaluations while taking the survey in their final year. Abbey Clark, founder of the Boston College's female empowerment community I AM THAT GIRL, said the results startled her and hopes to change the trend by creating a strong community to increase women's empowerment.
(09/26/13 2:00am)
Every fall, Big Green student-athletes train hard in pre-season workouts not only to prepare for the rigor of a new season, but to facilitate chemistry among new recruits and walk-ons. This year, the men's golf team looks set to have a head start on this process, thanks to the former geographic proximity of two new players, Sean Fahey '17 and Scott Jaster '17.
(09/23/13 2:00am)
Uploaded on Sept. 11, the athletic departments' "You Can Play" video has quickly circulated across campus, filling inboxes and newsfeeds on the way to attracting over 7,000 views. In the video, Big Green administrators, coaches and student-athletes take a stand against homophobia, racism and sexism on and off the field.
(09/20/13 2:00am)
On Wednesday, Wellesley College will launch an online calculator intended to determine the real cost of attending the Massachusetts liberal arts college, The New York Times reported. Economix, a Times blog, hailed Wellesley's calculator as the simplest of its kind, asking families for very little information to make a calculation. Harvard University, the College Board and other institutions offer similar online resources, but ask families for more information. While Wellesley's calculator does not count student loans or work-study wages as part of predicted family contributions, its simplicity may help to clear up misconceptions surrounding the cost of attending elite colleges. The calculator specifically estimates the cost of attending Wellesley, but that number is a good estimate for attending similar liberal arts schools, The Times reported. The Wellesley student body already includes a higher percentage of low-income students, but the calculator may help this percentage rise.