Plan invests in west campus
Expect to see more scaffolding around campus. The College announced a plan on Sept. 8 to expand and reconstruct the west side of Dartmouth in an effort to connect central campus to the Connecticut river.
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Expect to see more scaffolding around campus. The College announced a plan on Sept. 8 to expand and reconstruct the west side of Dartmouth in an effort to connect central campus to the Connecticut river.
Student Assembly President Nick Harrington ’17 is no newcomer to politics. In addition to serving as the 2015-16 Assembly’s co-Chief of Staff, Harrington — a government major — has interned at both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the New York State’s Comptroller’s Office.
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Around 250 students, faculty, staff and community members attended a town hall yesterday where executive vice president of the College Rick Mills, chief financial officer Mike Wagner, vice provost for academic affairs Denise Anthony and Provost Carolyn Dever spoke about the results of the Dartmouth Community Study and fielded audience questions on diversity, inclusivity and transparency in the tenure process.
Rather than snapping selfies, students pulled out their iPhones to capture an image of Mercury’s transit of the sun, reflected by projection telescopes on the Green yesterday morning. Mercury’s transit occurs once every five to 10 years, and its next one is set to take place in 2019.
In a discussion today with Dickey Center for International Understanding director Daniel Benjamin, former National Counterterrorism Center director and former General Counsel of the National Security Agency Matt Olsen will address the nature of the threats the United States currently faces and convey measures the government is taking to counter those threats. Olsen is this year’s Class of 1950 Senior Foreign Affairs Fellow.
The second Student Assembly debate this afternoon largely focused on the role of the Assembly on campus, its budget, inclusivity, student body apathy towards the governing body and the details of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative. Six Assembly presidential candidates and four vice presidential candidates participated.
This year’s first debate for Student Assembly presidential and vice presidential candidates focused on the Greek system, although questions also addressed the candidates' leadership experience and initiatives. The Greek Leadership Council hosted the event last night in Collis Common Ground with around 40 students in attendance, moderated by chair of the Greek Leadership Council Austin Welch ’17 and GLC public relations chair Becca Rodriguez ’17.
Seven students announced their candidacy for 2016 Student Assembly president early Saturday afternoon. Joby Bernstein ’17, Sean Cann ’17, Aaron Cheese ’18, Nick Harrington ’17, Ben Packer ’17 and Shiv Sethi ’17 are vying for the role in an unusually crowded field. Matt Zubrow ’17 suspended his campaign on Monday night, the Elections Planning and Advisory committee announced.
Not all the old traditions fail. Over spring break, Dartmouth students kept one tradition alive by contributing to the age-old process of maple sugaring in the Upper Valley.
A recent petition, written by Zac Hardwick ’16 and Ben Wood ’16, urged the College to invite English comedian, political commentator and television host John Oliver to be the commencement speaker for this year’s graduation ceremony. The petition said that Oliver would continue Dartmouth’s rich history of inviting speakers “who bring an interesting, non-traditional perspective on life” to the graduating class.
With the surge of high school juniors and seniors, one might think it is a holiday weekend full of families touring campus. In fact, the 400 high school students crowding Dartmouth’s campus over the next few days are part of the 11th Dartmouth Model United Nations Conference. The conference, planned entirely by Dartmouth students, will last from today through Sunday afternoon.
Visiting associate professor Yorke Brown, who teaches two physics classes taken predominantly by pre-health students, has a different style of teaching than most other professors. Brown, who moved to Hanover in 1993, began teaching Physics 3 in the summer of 2003. The Dartmouth sat down with Brown to talk about his unique classroom methods and philosophy on education.
Andrew Gilmour opened his lecture yesterday by joking that he had never before had the honor of speaking to a standing audience throughout his career in government. Students, faculty and Hanover residents crowded into the aisles and rear of Haldeman 041 yesterday afternoon to hear Gilmour, a senior analyst in the CIA’s directorate of analysis, provide a strategic perspective on the Middle East.
Kata Thai Kitchen, the newest addition to Hanover’s food scene, opened Jan. 8 at 6 Allen Street, across from Everything But Anchovies. Named after its owner Kata Chompupong, its name means “cooking pan” in Thai. The restaurant joins two other Thai establishments in Hanover, Tuk Tuk Thai Cuisine and Thai Orchid.
Serving and educating through our diversity — “Sirviendo y educando a través de nuestra diversidad” — reads the motto of Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., a multicultural sorority that may establish a chapter at Dartmouth in the near future.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) joked, “This is the only way I could get into an Ivy League School — by running for president,” at a town hall meeting Wednesday afternoon. Graham is the second presidential candidate to be featured in “America’s Economic Future,” a lecture series co-sponsored by the Tuck School of Business and the Rockefeller Center.
Former undersecretary of state for political affairs Wendy Sherman said that when she’s at the negotiating table, “I’m the United States of America, not just Wendy Sherman,” at a talk Tuesday about her critical role as the chief American negotiator in the Iran nuclear deal talks.
In recent years, the environmental studies program has made a push to encourage students to get their hands dirty — literally.
There were 20 percent fewer reports made to Safety and Security over Homecoming weekend this year than there had been the previous year and reports of intoxicated individuals were also down, Safety and Security directory Harry Kinne said.