Mock trial teams qualify for national tourney
Strong cross-examinations and convincing testimony qualified three Dartmouth mock trial teams for the American Mock Trial Association national championship this month.
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Strong cross-examinations and convincing testimony qualified three Dartmouth mock trial teams for the American Mock Trial Association national championship this month.
When Bill Simmons, ESPN's "Sports Guy," launched a worldwide search for a new intern, Matt Bank '04 leapt at the chance to escape his humdrum corporate job and landed a spot among the 16 finalists.
Pilobolus -- a groundbreaking modern dance troupe founded in 1971 by two Dartmouth students -- donated the valuable newspaper clippings, playbills, photos, videos, publicity material and posters that archive their history to the Rauner Special Collections Library, the College announced Thursday.
Doctors in the new physical activity awareness program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center don't just prescribe diet pills for their patients -- they prescribe specific exercise regimens to whip overweight Upper Valley residents into shape.
Frustrated by Fidel Castro's continued rule in Cuba, Cuban-American Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego '07 recently attempted to rally the Cuban community on campus through a BlitzMail call to arms.
India Queen owner Bhavnesh Kaushik, a fixture in the local community and well-known friend of many students, hosted his third annual Valentine's Day Charity Auction Saturday evening.
Prior to the implementation of coeducation, Hanover was a lonely place for men seeking a date. "Road-tripping" to nearby women's colleges, such as the "Seven Sisters," Colby Junior College and Skidmore was commonplace. But for Winter Carnival, the dates trekked to Dartmouth -- arriving in droves by bus, car and train.
Tom Wolfe's newest work of fiction, "I Am Charlotte Simmons," focuses mostly on the title character's encounter with the sordid stereotypes of college culture. But Wolfe also drew attention to Dartmouth psychology professor Michael Gazzaniga, whose book "The Social Brain" was referenced in the phonebook-sized novel.
A team of Dartmouth researchers headed by former Dean of the Faculty and cognitive neuroscience pioneer Michael Gazzaniga beat out dozens of colleges across the nation Tuesday to receive the National Science Foundation's $21.8 million grant, the largest peer-reviewed grant ever awarded to the College, to establish a new Center for Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience.
Friends and family gathered in Rollins Chapel Friday to celebrate the memory of Christina Porter '06, who recently passed away from head trauma received during a skiing accident last February. Close friends shared personal stories about Porter, affectionately known as Stina, and her fellow Glee Club members performed some of her favorite songs for the emotional crowd.
Instead of returning home following an off-term teaching English in the coastal Sri Lankan town of Chilaw, Michael Mina '06 decided to put his biochemistry degree at Dartmouth on hold -- and be ordained as a Buddhist monk.
The Tucker Foundation launched a new fundraising campaign for the rebuilding of the structurally unsound Charfassion orphanage in Bangladesh Monday. Green rubber bracelets, stamped with the phrase "Make it Happen," went on sale for $3 at the start of the business day.
Presumably, Dartmouth students pay $40,000 a year for an elite education because they expect to be compensated for it some day, likely with job opportunities after graduation.
CBS News anchor Dan Rather probably never thought a few computer nerds would corner him into a surprise spring retirement. But, since a group of Dartmouth alumni "bloggers" uncovered the controversy behind Rather's "60 Minutes" Texas Air National Guard report, Americans are taking notice of a new technological phenomenon crossing generations and spanning the globe.
Three Dartmouth students joined the family and high school friends of Lindsay Della Serra '06 to mourn her loss at a somber, open-casket wake Dec. 4 in New Jersey. Della Serra succumbed to lymphoma at her home in Cranford, N.J., on Nov. 30.
WEB UPDATE, Dec. 13, 2:11 p.m.
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles profiling students who at first glance embody various Dartmouth stereotypes. In this piece, The Dartmouth examines the college jock.
Sasha Earnheart-Gold '04 came to Dartmouth with no course credits, no grades and no diploma.
The several dozen supporters of defeated Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry who met for a candlelight vigil on the Green at midnight Wednesday to mourn their candidate's defeat expected a low-key gathering -- not triumphant Republicans and the presence of Safety and Security.
Democratic and Republican party challengers questioned few students' right to vote at the polls at Hanover High School Tuesday, despite reports of 500 same-day registrations and widespread speculation that challenges would be common.