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(04/28/08 8:22am)
The animation is part of a new initiative called Green Lite Dartmouth that seeks to minimize energy consumption by providing real-time feedback to students on the second floors of Goldstein and Thomas Halls and the third floors of Rauner and Bildner Halls. Students can access online graphs and charts showing the real-time energy consumption of their halls as well as conservation tips and links to environmental web sites.
(04/18/08 7:35am)
The question of whether Americans should be able to discriminate has a long history in U.S. political thought, Murdock said.
(04/11/08 7:06am)
Itzkovitz, an English professor at Stonehill College and the author of a number of articles on popular Jewish-American culture, used this story and several others to color his lecture on the changing Jewish identity in contemporary society.
(04/08/08 7:01am)
Jeff Deck '02 is best described as a "grammar vigilante." Deck, armed with his "typo correction kit" -- which consists of permanent and dry-erase markers, several types of Wite-Out, chalk, pens and crayons -- set off on an odyssey of typographical nit-picking to rectify grammatical injustices about one month ago.
(03/06/08 8:45am)
In 1959, a poor farmer in the Shanxi Province of northern China stumbled upon an incredibly elaborate tomb containing the remains of a husband and wife from the early 12th century, intricate bas-relief sculpturing and five mysterious wooden figurines whose brightly painted colors offset the dull gray of the tomb's walls. Jeehee Hong, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, made these strange carvings the central theme of her lecture "Theatricalizing Death and Life in Mid-imperial China" Wednesday afternoon in Carpenter Hall.
(03/03/08 9:42am)
The Registrar's Office will soon be swarming with students filing major cards to solidify their status as majors in the government or economics departments, but each year a small group of students select majors that have never before been completed by students at the College. These students choose to pursue "a special major" in fields of study that fall outside of the College's 57 defined majors.
(02/25/08 8:33am)
Accusations of professorial plagiarism have been met with mixed responses from the administrations of different universities over the past week. Professor Maddona G. Constantine of Columbia University's Teachers College will not be terminated from her position despite numerous charges of plagiarism, the university announced Wednesday. Constantine was accused of lifting more than 20 passages from the doctoral theses of two former students and using them in her work over the past five years, according to a memo released by the university. Constantine has been penalized for her alleged actions but will maintain her tenure and position at the Teacher's College, Marcia Horowitz, a spokesperson for Columbia, told The New York Times. Constantine also made national news last fall when she found a noose left on her office door, an action she claimed was proof that she was being "specifically and systematically targeted," The New York Times reported. In contrast to Columbia's response to academic plagiarism charges, Ohio University president Roderick J. McDavis revoked the title of "distinguished professor" from engineering professor Jay S. Gunasekera due to similar accusations. Gunasekera has been accused of plagiarizing student work, while at the same time carelessly overlooking plagiarism on the part of his students.
(02/25/08 8:29am)
Recognized for its excellence in treatment and health care for various forms of adult cancer, the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center received the Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies' Blue Distinction earlier this month. DHMC is one of three medical treatment facilities to win the award in the Complex and Rare Cancers category, a field recognized by the award for the first time this year.
(02/20/08 7:55am)
Hordes of "puzzle freaks" -- builders, designers, obsessive solvers and general aficionados of mechanical puzzles -- flocked to Dartmouth for Mechanical Puzzles Day, an eight-hour celebration and symposium of the enigmatic gizmos on Tuesday.
(02/11/08 4:47pm)
Giaccone noted that three arrests for unlawful possession were made during the weekend, which, according to Giaccone, is "less than usual for a big weekend." Although few of the annual Winter Carnival fraternity parties saw any incidents, Giaccone told The Dartmouth that an altercation occurred at Psi Upsilon fraternity involving two individuals, at 5 a.m. Saturday morning. Only one participant was apprehended and was subsequently charged with resisting arrest, criminal trespassing and possession of marijuana following his arrest and search.
(02/08/08 3:41pm)
While many students spend the midterm-filled days before Winter Carnival trapped in Baker-Berry Library, Jeff Wiltsey '09 and Benjy Meigs '10 have passed much of the last week on the Green, sacrificing sleep, warmth and the occasional cellular phone in pursuit of this year's Winter Carnival snow sculpture.
(01/28/08 9:04am)
From noon on Jan. 18 until noon on Jan. 25, Room 014 saw a constant flow of Dartmouth students gathering to maintain continual prayer. The 168-hour event was coordinated by five Dartmouth students representing three different Christian organizations on campus. Lead coordinator Laura Andreae '10, a member of the Navigators, said she her motivation to organize the event came both from the recent perpetual prayer movement and a similar gathering that occurred at Dartmouth last year.
(01/25/08 10:44am)
During freshman orientation, Lane Zimmerman '11 missed the tour of Dartmouth's libraries. So when it came time to use the resources in Baker-Berry Library, he found it difficult to navigate the building.
(01/08/08 10:36am)
Digital mammography holds few comparative advantages over traditional film screening methods of breast cancer detection, according to a study led by Anna N.A. Tosteson of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. The study, published in the Jan. 1, 2008 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, found that there was no comparative benefit for a large demographic of women, but that digital mammography proved more favorable for women under 50 and for women with dense breast tissue.
(11/29/07 6:46am)
The Dartmouth Skiway recently finished the first two phases of major renovation to its facilities. The new improvements include the construction of almost 1,400 feet of safety netting on the giant slalom course, tree removal, enlargement of trails, expansion of the area's snowmaking system and re-grading of skiways. The changes, initiated by a request from Skiway general manager Doug Holler and Dartmouth men's alpine ski coach Peter Dodge, will put the race course in-line with the safety requirements of the International Ski Federation. The Dartmouth Skiway is the host of several NCAA ski races and the College's annual Winter Carnival alpine ski races.
(11/09/07 7:57am)
"We fully intend to continue with the strategy we have adopted for the future of the museum," said Kennedy, who refrained from disclosing what this strategy entails. "We are not currently in a position to speak about further large-scale installations on the level of Wenda Gu."
(11/08/07 6:42am)
After an August 2007 eight-week internal investigation into its billing practices, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center recently notified government agencies about potential irregularities at one of the center's clinical services, the Valley News reported on Nov. 7. In a statement to the Valley News, DHMC spokesman David Evancich said, "legal counsel advised us that there was sufficient evidence to indicate some concerns were justified. Legal counsel advised DHMC leadership to report the matter to the appropriate agency and to immediately initiate a more comprehensive internal review." Evancich said that the subsequent review will be overseen by DHMC's office of compliance and audit services, as well as the hospital's attorneys.
(10/24/07 5:56am)
Ask John Replogle '88 about his defining memory at Dartmouth, and he'll recount the words of then-Dean of Freshman Margaret Bonz to the newly inducted freshman class.
(10/09/07 5:01am)
Jonathan Skinner, the John Sloan Dickey Center Third Century professor in economics, was among the 65 new members of the Institute of Medicine announced on Monday. The IOM is an internationally recognized resource for independent research on human health issues. IOM President Harvey V. Fineberg said Skinner was picked during "a highly selective process," and has been granted "one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health." Skinner's work, done alongside Dartmouth Medical School professors Elliot Fisher and John E. Wennberg, has studied the nature of unequal health care in the United States. Skinner's research has concluded that regional differences can account for as much as $125,000 per person in health care expenditures, and that hospital quality tends to be worse when dealing with African-American patients.