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(02/19/08 8:07am)
After a junior-year pole-vaulting mishap landed him in Dick's House, Steve Kelley '81 used the downtime during his recovery to reevaluate his work and his future prospects. The conclusion: Writing student life cartoons for The Dartmouth couldn't net him a real career. So he decided to branch into political cartooning, a growing field at the time.
(02/13/08 11:04am)
Director of Publications Rick Adams presented a new computer program that will improve communication at the College at Tuesday's Student Assembly meeting. The application, called "Dartmouth Daily Updates," or D2U, will send College-wide emails announcing campus events and providing links to the new D2U website, which will provide in-depth descriptions. Adams said D2U is designed primarily for the administration, but added that the Office of Public Affairs plans to update the events calender to make it easier for students to submit material. He also said his department will discuss coordination with the new Assembly website as the project moves forward.
(02/07/08 3:44pm)
Lured by the promise of six-figure incomes, a fast-paced atmosphere and prestige, many Dartmouth students enter the finance world immediately after graduation. Despite the popularity of this career track, a significant number of Dartmouth students said that as underclassmen they knew little about what investment banking and consulting actually entail. The Dartmouth Business Group has been working to remedy this knowledge gap.
(02/06/08 1:26pm)
The legislation, sponsored by Corey Chu '08, calls for the Assembly to appropriate $3,500 to hire web designers for the project. The legislation passed unanimously.
(02/01/08 12:23pm)
The South Carolina and Florida primaries this past week led to a winnowing of the Presidential contests for both Democrats and Republicans.
(02/01/08 10:37am)
Harry Kinne, head of Dartmouth Safety and Security, said his department is currently working with the New England Center of Emergency Preparedness, a non-profit organization, to develop scenarios testing the College's handling of a crisis. He could not discuss details on the current project but said a previous scenario had tested the College's ability to deal with a SARS outbreak.
(01/30/08 7:45pm)
Beta Theta Pi national fraternity delayed discussion of the possible re-recognition of a chapter at Dartmouth at a meeting of the national organization's Board of Trustees this weekend. The board decided it would wait to hear more from the Dartmouth Beta alumni group before discussing a decision, Jud Horras, the national fraternity's executive director, told The Dartmouth. Further dialogue between the two groups will occur at some point in the next two weeks, he said. Horras previously told The Dartmouth that the main factor hindering the alumni group's petition for re-recognition was disagreement between Beta national and the Dartmouth alumni group over re-recognition protocols and the proposed structure of the new chapter, including national guidelines that would restrict alcohol use within the chapter's physical plant.
(01/28/08 3:07pm)
At a time when top universities are making headlines for expanding their financial aid packages, elite college preparatory schools are spending their endowments to cut tuition as well. Endowments at independent private high schools have soared in recent years -- the average endowment per student rose 93.5 percent, according to the National Association of Independent Schools. Many schools have used this windfall to attract lower-income students. The percentage of students at boarding schools receiving financial aid nearly doubled from 22.5 percent in 2000 to 40.9 percent in 2007. Private high schools have also used their endowments to build new athletic facilities and amenities that rival those provided at many colleges.
(01/25/08 10:45am)
In the 2008 presidential primary race, the past week was highlighted by a high-stakes Republican primary and a contentious Democratic debate. Presidential hopefuls from both parties are now gearing up for the last two contests before the nation's Super Tuesday primaries on Feb. 5.
(01/23/08 3:41pm)
Three members of COS committee reported that the committee has been organizing its governance structure and will begin discussing substantive issues in early February. Acting Associate Dean of the College Kate Burke, a member of the committee, predicted the committee will be ready to submit a report by Spring term. The review committee was created in October 2007 to address issues relating to a spring 2006 report by the COS Student Task Force, among other disciplinary policies.
(01/09/08 10:28am)
"As soon as we dropped a group off we had to go right back to pick up more students," Jessica Guthrie '10, a chair of Vote Clamantis, said.
(01/08/08 11:37am)
Young people lead the voter increase at the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3, breaking voter turnout records and launching Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., to a first-place finish. But behind the explosion of 22- to 29-year old voters, specifically in the Democratic caucuses, lay some obstacles for college voters.
(12/05/07 12:42am)
Former President Bill Clinton told a crowd of 300 at West Lebanon High School Tuesday night that the experience and competence his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., would bring to the presidency makes her the strongest contender for the job.
(11/12/07 8:58am)
The Green sprang into brilliance Sunday night in observance of the major Indian and Nepalese holiday festival of Diwali. Diwali, which occurs in late autumn, celebrates the triumph of light over darkness and good over evil. On Sunday night, the second day of the week-long holiday, participants marked the occasion by lighting hundreds of candles along the pathways in the green. At the center, candles were arranged in the form of the auspicious symbol Ohm and to spell out the word Shanti, which means peace. The event was organized by the Upper-Valley Shanti organization, which consists of both college students and local families.
(11/06/07 7:31am)
Teach for America, a program that sends college graduates to teach in low-income schools, wrapped up its second wave of Dartmouth recruiting on Nov. 2 after attracting 35 Dartmouth applicants.
(10/29/07 7:34am)
In an effort to stop its iPhone from being resold, Apple no longer accepts cash purchases and has limited the number of per-customer iPhone purchases to two, The New York Times reported Saturday. Before Thursday, when the new policy began, customers could purchase up to five iPhones and were allowed to use cash to pay for their purchases. Apple's new policy was a response to customers who would unlock the phone for use on networks other than AT&T, Apple's carrier partner in the United States, and then resell them.
(10/29/07 7:30am)
At the time of the accident Lolies was riding his motorcycle home from his job at the Longhorn Steakhouse, a local restaurant. As he crested a hill, he could not see the road in front of him and ran into a car turning onto the street, according to Lolies' longtime friend, Harrison Simmons.
(10/25/07 5:21am)
Police in San Luis Obispo, Calif., now believe John Michael "Mike" Rivard was responsible for the murder of his wife, Dartmouth graduate Barbara Rivard '85 and their daughter Olivia Rivard in a double-murder suicide on Oct. 3, according to an Oct. 18 police-issued press release.
(10/24/07 5:54am)
In his first campaign appearance in the area since May, former New York City mayor and current Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani stressed economic growth and robust foreign engagement to an enthusiastic crowd of about 100 at Lebanon High School Tuesday night.
(10/18/07 4:15am)
On-campus job recruiting has hit the apex of its busiest year in College history as students schedule interviews with potential employers over the coming weeks. Thursday marks the last major deadline for students to submit applications.