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(02/13/06 11:00am)
Preliminary murder hearings for the accused slayers of Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 finally drew to a close Feb. 10 in a surprising twist when Christopher Wilson pleaded no-contest to accessory to murder and implicated close friend Christopher Hollis in the killing. Hollis will stand trial for murder and assault with a deadly weapon, Judge Carlos Ynostroza ordered.
(02/10/06 11:00am)
Former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, age 72, and retired Dartmouth professor John Hennessey, 80, never expected to get remarried at this stage in their lives. But this Sunday of Winter Carnival, the couple will unite in a personalized civil ceremony at the Equinox Hotel in Manchester in front of 34 family members.
(02/10/06 11:00am)
Dartmouth Outing Club founder Fred Harris '11 spurred the event's creation with a 1909 editorial in The Dartmouth calling for an annual winter athletic showcase. Although Harris sprained his ankle escaping the South Fayerweather dormitory when it burned to the ground and was unable to attend the first "Winter Meet" himself, his voice was heard, and the ancestor of the Carnival was first held on February 26, 1910 at Occom Pond.
(02/01/06 11:00am)
Granted immunity by the prosecution, Mitchell offered his version of the July 17 events during preliminary hearings on Jan. 26 and 31 and explained that he was drunk and asleep in the passenger's seat in the moments before Christopher Hollis allegedly shot Willis-Starbuck from the moving vehicle.
(01/24/06 11:00am)
"I'm so proud and very, very humbled to be able to have a chance to be a part of the leadership of this great jewel of international higher education," Skorton said during a press conference at Cornell University on Saturday.
(01/11/06 11:00am)
The two men charged with the murder of Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 faced a judge Tuesday for a preliminary hearing that was finally able to move forward -- more than five months after her death. Willis-Starbuck was gunned down after a night out in Berkeley, Calif. took a tragic turn in July of 2005.
(06/12/05 9:00am)
National news stories sometimes go unnoticed by students sheltered under the Dartmouth bubble, but the tragic events of September 11 sent shock waves into every nook and cranny of the nation -- even the wilderness of New Hampshire.
(05/27/05 9:00am)
When Mats Lemberger '06 arrived in the McCulloch Lounge Thursday, he didn't know he'd be receiving an award. He showed up in a flannel shirt wielding his guitar and harmonica for an English Department forum on Bob Dylan's music, as his friends led him to believe. Instead he found administrators, his parents and friends waiting to congratulate him as this year's surprise recipient of The Ranny B. Cardozo Prize for Most Outstanding Junior.
(05/19/05 9:00am)
After hours of deliberations, the Undergraduate Finance Committee voted May 10 on how to distribute $790,000 in student activities fees for the '05"'06 fiscal year. Six of the seven organizations receiving funding will have larger budgets than last year, with Student Assembly and the Council on Student Organizations securing more funding than in any previous year.
(05/13/05 9:00am)
On Saturday afternoon, students will flock to the famed Alpha Delta lawn party, where they will revel in the flow of Keystone, the laid-back, musical atmosphere and the company of 500 of their closest friends.
(05/12/05 9:00am)
Intoxicated students wary of the Safety and Security Sport Utility Vehicles will have a new type of vehicle to evade -- bicycles. The Safety and Security bike patrol program, established in 1995, reappeared two weeks ago after a year-long hiatus. The bicycles will only be used from April to October.
(05/12/05 9:00am)
For College fundraisers, April Fool's Day was no joke. The Kresge Foundation, a private grant-giving organization, promised to reward the College with a whopping $1 million challenge grant toward the construction of new math department home Kemeny Hall if it could raise $10.6 million by April 1.
(05/06/05 9:00am)
Students taking Portuguese courses this year claim the faculty and administration misled them about the prospects of a Language Study Abroad or a Foreign Study Program in Fall 2005. Twelve students attended an informational session on travelling to Brazil with the department, but were later told the program would not take place. Many of the students had enrolled in Portuguese classes and were charting their academic paths upon hearing the news.
(04/28/05 9:00am)
After five years of working full-time for computer services, 29-year-old Stephen Cochran will finally be parting ways with the College -- but he will be taking a Dartmouth degree with him. Under Dartmouth's Special Community Student Program, Cochran has been able to take one class every term he has worked here on the College's bill.
(04/27/05 9:00am)
Ira Magaziner, chairman of the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, told an audience in Filene Auditorium Tuesday of the pressing need to address the worldwide AIDS crisis. The former Clinton senior policy advisor also attempted to set the record straight concerning the controversial healthcare plan he co-authored with former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
(04/21/05 9:00am)
After battling pneumonia in Dick's House for the first four days of Student Assembly campaigning, Jeffrey Coleman '08 recovered in time to contend with candidates Travis Green '08 and Christopher Galiardo '06 for the Student Assembly Vice Presidential seat, winning handily with 58 percent of the vote. Green came in second, receiving 41 percent.
(04/19/05 9:00am)
The anticipation to learn which candidates will prevail in this year's Student Body President and Vice President races has overshadowed the goings-on of the numerous other elections run by the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee. The other elections include the Organizational Adjunctions Committee, Committee on Standards, Green Key Society, Assembly representative spots and Class of 2008 Class Council, which launch elections Tuesday with their own sets of heated issues.
(04/13/05 9:00am)
Fourteen Dartmouth seniors and one junior will embark on a cross-country road trip this summer without ever paying the skyrocketing cost of gassing up their bus' fuel tank.
(04/11/05 9:00am)
Investigative reporter Nigel Jaquiss '84 received a Pulitzer Prize April 4 for exposing former Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt's sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old female babysitter. Jaquiss unearthed the incident in May, after an emotionally harrowing two-month pursuit of the story that had been concealed for three decades.
(03/31/05 10:00am)
The Dartmouth Bookstore lured students inside during this week's book rush with free coffee and cookies, and rocketing sales may mean that its market-share war with locally-owned Wheelock Books could intensify.