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(09/14/12 2:00am)
An LGBT affinity house is expected to open for student use and residence in 2013 or 2014, according to Pam Misener, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership's advisor to LGBTQA students. Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson said that the house will be located on North Park Street.
(09/11/12 2:00am)
Two pilot advising initiatives will supplement existing Deans Office programs this academic year, easing freshmen's transition into academic life at Dartmouth, according to Inge-Lise Ameer, associate dean of the College for student academic support services. A consolidated advising center will open at the beginning of Winter term, though its location is not yet public, Ameer said.
(09/04/12 2:00am)
Inter-Fraternity Council President Tim Brown '13, who was not in residence for the Summer term, said he was impressed by Folt's communication with off-campus students. Her announcement regarding the death of Stephanie Pignatiello '12, for example, was timely and "sensitive," he said.
(05/24/12 2:00am)
Dartmouth's Board of Trustees is composed of the president of the College, the governor of New Hampshire, 16 charter trustees and eight alumni trustees. While the Board's composition has changed dramatically throughout its history, many continue to argue that it should include a more diverse range of members.
(05/23/12 2:00am)
Dartmouth's Board of Trustees has witnessed many changes and experienced significant controversies since its inception in the late 18th century, but the Board maintains its founding function of overseeing the financial, administrative and academic affairs of the College. Shifting levels of alumni influence and the restructuring of responsibilities have shaped the composition of today's Board and its specific goals.
(05/18/12 2:00am)
Staff and faculty from the College and its graduate schools also met with Helman, Mandel and Diana Taylor '77, the search committee's vice chair, in two forums earlier on Thursday.
(05/07/12 2:00am)
The audience, fluctuating between five and 20 members, heard discussions, poems and presentations. The group then watched two movies about homelessness, Brown said.
(04/27/12 2:00am)
In light of concerns over the funding of Vita Clamantis' pro-life demonstration on April 18, students interviewed by The Dartmouth said they supported the Council of Student Organization's current policy on fund appropriation. COSO funds events regardless of content that "engender discussion among the Dartmouth community," though these events cannot violate Dartmouth's Principle of Community, according to Will Hix '12, a COSO representative for issue-oriented organizations.
(04/24/12 2:00am)
Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson sent an email to undergraduate students yesterday detailing future initiatives to ground the College in "respect, inclusion and intellectual engagement." Johnson said she will work with Palaeopitus Senior Society to provide Google Moderator technology to increase "candid" communication, and termly Deans' Forums, which will include partnerships with student organizations, will begin May 9. Johnson highlighted a focus on mental health, seen in a recent Inter-Community Council survey and the hiring of two counselors and one psychiatrist in Counseling Services, who will join the College in fall 2012, the email said. The College will adopt the Committee on Standards' Sexual Assault Review recommendations and has hired an additional Sexual Assault Awareness Program coordinator, as well as an external expert to advise administrators on how to reduce sexual assault on campus. "Enhanced" dining, expanded social spaces in the Class of 1953 Commons and Collis Student Center and a new advising center are among initiatives that show progress in addressing other campus problems, Johnson said.
(04/11/12 2:00am)
Although the plant's construction has been in the planning stages for several years, zoning issues, the economic recession and other setbacks have delayed its completion.
(04/10/12 2:00am)
U.S. Central Command commander Gen. James Mattis provided insight into the military's role in the Middle East at a lecture in Moore Theater in the Hopkins Center on Monday. Nariah Broadus, director of outreach and project development in Dartmouth's President's Office, said that the event was "a candid discussion for an academic audience," and that General Mattis' office specifically requested that his remarks remain off the record. The presentation, which lasted for over an hour, included an extensive question-and-answer session with students, faculty and other members of the audience. Mattis has served in the military for 40 years, commanding at multiple levels within the U.S. Marine Corps. In 2010, he was appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama to succeed Army Gen. David Petraeus as commander of U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in 20 Middle Eastern countries including Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Syria.
(04/05/12 2:00am)
Gregg Meyer, senior vice president of the Edward P. Lawrence Center for Quality and Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital, will fill the new position of chief clinical officer and executive vice president for population health for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system, which includes Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's various campuses, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, according to a DHMC press release.
(04/02/12 2:00am)
Kevin Cheng, of Bethesda, Md., didn't have to tell his parents he was accepted regular decision to Dartmouth.
(03/29/12 2:00am)
The results of a poll conducted using a convenience sample of 130 students pointed to a difference in perception among individual classes at the College regarding Kim's tenure. While members of the Class of 2012 rated Kim's tenure at Dartmouth as 4.26 on a scale of 1-10, members of the Class of 2015 rated it a 6.85 out of 10.
(03/07/12 4:00am)
Charitable contributions to the College fell from $152,419,767 in fiscal year 2010 to $146,756,731 in fiscal year 2011, according to a survey done by the Council for Aid to Education's, which collects information about funding to private educational institutions. Dartmouth ranked 42nd in total donations among respondents this year, Amy Kaplan, director of the Voluntary Support of Education Survey, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(03/05/12 4:00am)
Christine Hull Paxson, a Princeton economist and dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, was named Brown University's 19th president on Friday, the Associated Press reported. The search process began last September when Ruth Simmons announced her imminent resignation, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Paxson will replace Simmons on July 1 and called the opportunity to join the Brown community a "privilege," according to the AP. Paxson's hire marks the first time since 1970 that Brown has not chosen someone who previously served as a university president or provost, according to The Chronicle. Her research focuses on the link between health and socioeconomic status in developed and developing nations, according to the AP.
(02/16/12 4:00am)
Robert Champion's parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the owner of Fabulous Coach Lines and the driver of the charter bus on which Champion, a student and band member at Florida A&M University, was hazed before dying as a result of the November 2011 incident, The Associated Press reported. The lawsuit states that drivers working for the bus company were told by company managers to ignore instances of hazing occurring on their vehicles. New band members were allegedly forced to run from the front to the back of the bus while current members kicked, slapped and hit them, the AP reported. Band "pledges" were also forced to answer questions while being suffocated with a pillow, the AP reported. The bus driver, Wendy Mellette, allegedly forced Champion back on the bus when he exited to vomit, according to the AP. Champion, who had been a "vocal opponent of hazing," served as drum major for the university's band, according to the AP.
(02/14/12 4:00am)
Both Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the new Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua campus have sought to expand their centers for collaborative decision-making to help patients make difficult medical choices, according to Susan Berg, interim program director for the Center for Shared Decision Making at DHMC.
(02/07/12 4:00am)
Sex trafficking in the Upper Valley primarily victimizes vulnerable, female adolescents, Abby Tassel, WISE assistant director and former College Sexual Abuse Awareness Program coordinator, said in a Monday discussion held in Fahey-McLane hall in front of about 20 students coordinated by the Modern Abolition Initiative. Many are unaware that sex trafficking exists even in the Upper Valley, according to Peggy O'Neil, executive director of WISE.
(02/02/12 4:00am)
When pediatric cardiologist David Crowley walks the halls of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester, his Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center identification card swings with the pace of his stride, hanging from the Boston Children's Hospital lanyard around his neck. Crowley, a doctor at DHMC's outpatient location in Manchester, attends to patients in both Manchester and Boston.