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(01/22/10 4:00am)
The Grafton County Superior Court's decision to dismiss the second alumni lawsuit against the Board of Trustees on Tuesday ("Second alumni suit dismissed by court," Jan. 21) likely ended the prospect of a judicial resolution to the debate on preserving parity between alumni-elected and Board-selected trustees. Judge Timothy Vaughan's dismissal was predicated on specific procedural grounds, however, and did not offer much analysis of the parity issue that was central to the case.
(01/15/10 4:00am)
The College's decision to postpone the implementation of the Organizational Adjudication Committee's student board ("Implementation of OAC student board postponed," Jan 13) was abruptly announced Tuesday following months of preparation and support from the student body. The reasons cited for delaying the board's first training session ranged from budget cuts to the Phi Delta Alpha fire and ultimately raised more questions than they answered.
(01/08/10 4:00am)
The completion of the Capital Campaign ("Dartmouth completes $1.3 billion campaign," Jan. 8) signals that despite the recent recession, donors are still enthusiastically supporting the College. The name attached to the fundraising effort "Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience" expresses precisely why we believe donations have not ceased in this economic climate. Alumni, parents, students, faculty and staff understand that their investment will maintain the high standards of excellence at the College, and ensure that future generations will have as positive an experience as those that came before them.
(11/20/09 4:00am)
College President Jim Yong Kim will never be accused of sitting idle during his first five months in office Parkhurst Hall has undergone significant restructuring under his watch, much of it long overdue. While we have been apprehensive about some of the change mostly notably the unusual timing of former Provost Barry Scherr's decision to step down earlier this fall these rearrangements have represented significant steps toward addressing inefficiencies and redundancies that have plagued the College's central administration for years. Many of these inefficiencies were enumerated in a McKinsey and Company review of the College conducted four years ago.
(11/13/09 4:00am)
The Dartmouth Board of Trustees announced last weekend that the College will implement a series of budget cuts over the next two years that could total $100 million in an effort to address a 23-percent drop in Dartmouth's endowment and a $34-million fiscal deficit ("College aims to cut $100 million over two years," Nov. 9).
(11/06/09 4:00am)
Last winter, after a series of clashes between Greek houses and the administration, voices across campus called for reform of the College's organizational adjudication process ("Five Greek Orgs. May Be Placed on Probation," Jan. 30). In the spring, the Organizational Adjudication Committee review commission proposed changes to the committee's structure including the formation of a student board to oversee cases in which organizations had allegedly committed minor infractions ("SA endorses OAC reform proposal," May 27).
(10/30/09 3:00am)
Last May, a group of Dartmouth students, frustrated with the College's Student Accessibility Services Office, presented a report to the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity advising that revisions be made to the College's accessibility policy ("Accessibility Services lacking, students say," June 2). These students argued in favor of increasing funding for Accessibility Services and improving guidelines for professors on how to best accommodate students. Their goal was to ensure that students with disabilities were granted equal access to all facets of the Dartmouth experience.
(10/23/09 2:00am)
It is no secret that Dartmouth's football team is in the midst of some of the worst days of its storied history. The Big Green's 17-game losing streak is currently the second longest in the NCAA's Football Championship Subdivision behind only that of Indiana State University and the signs of hope Dartmouth showed early this season are starting to look like false omens.
(10/16/09 2:00am)
It is a perennial criticism even a platitude that women's rush at Dartmouth is flawed, and getting worse.
(10/09/09 2:00am)
This week, College President Jim Yong Kim unexpectedly announced that Provost Barry Scherr would be stepping down after more than eight years as Dartmouth's chief academic officer ("Scherr to Step Down as Provost," Oct. 5). The announcement of Scherr's retirement as provost comes after a series of rapid resignations and departures by high-level officials in the Kim administration, including former Dean of the College Tom Crady and former Dean of Undergraduate Students Rovana Popoff.
(10/02/09 2:00am)
Despite recent and unsettling setbacks in College alcohol reform ("Spears says College will not adopt AMP," Sept. 24), this week offered encouraging reminders of the progress Dartmouth continues to make in crafting an enlightened approach to dealing with underage drinking on campus.
(09/25/09 2:00am)
In his inaugural address this past Tuesday, College President Jim Yong Kim discussed the philosophy of a fellow Iowan, the late W. Edwards Deming.
(05/29/09 2:00am)
The reforms proposed by the Organizational Adjudication Committee Review Commission represent a positive step toward more consistent and just treatment of student organizations ("SA endorses OAC reform proposal," May 27). Whereas, under the current system, all but the most serious cases are often heard by a single dean, the commission's proposal calls for students to take the lead in making decisions in all cases thus allowing for true peer adjudication, fairness and, ideally, transparency.
(05/22/09 6:06am)
Last June, the College's Board of Trustees voted to "freeze" its membership until the Association of Alumni's lawsuit against the College had been resolved. Over a year has passed, however, and the freeze remains in place. As a result of the Board's decision, trustee elections, which were scheduled to take place this spring, were postponed indefinitely, and the two-term limits of alumni-elected Trustee Michael Chu '68 and Board-selected Trustee Russell Carson '65 -- both of whom were slated to finish their final terms in June 2009 -- have been indefinitely extended. In addition, the Board put off the reelection of several first-term trustees.
(05/15/09 7:36am)
While it has its detractors, Dartmouth's progressive alcohol policy has long allowed students to imbibe safely. Still, however, students occasionally exceed their limits, putting themselves at serious risk.
(05/08/09 6:36am)
The recent announcements from College Health Services that seven students "suspected" to have swine flu have tested negative for the virus ("Four more students test negative for flu," May 6), and that the H1N1 virus is no more serious than normal influenza, have left members of the Dartmouth community doing a double take. What looked at first like an impending catastrophe -- with the World Health Organization announcing an unprecedented phase five pandemic alert, and the U.S. government declaring "a public health emergency" -- has now been reduced to little more than an inconvenience.
(05/01/09 7:15am)
This week, New Hampshire took a major step forward in the struggle to establish equal rights for all. On Wednesday, the New Hampshire Senate voted 13-11 to legalize same-sex marriage ("N.H. Senate votes to legalize same-sex marriage," April 29), after making two notable modifications to the bill, a version of which had been approved by the New Hampshire House of Representatives in March ("N.H. House approves same-sex marriages," March 30). Assuming no interference from Gov. John Lynch, D-N.H., the bill will become law, making New Hampshire the fifth state in the country to legalize gay marriage.
(04/24/09 7:47am)
With her decisive victory on Monday, Student Body President-elect Frances Vernon '10 was given a clear mandate to act on behalf of the College's student body. Although our first choice in the race was Boyd Lever '10 ("Verbum Ultimum: Vote Lever," April 20), we hope that Vernon will take this opportunity to make bold and swift changes as president.
(04/20/09 9:09am)
In any democratic election, it is an unfortunate situation when the presence of a big-name candidate eclipses the discussion and consideration of substantive issues. Two weeks ago, when Frances Vernon '10 announced her candidacy for student body president ("Field changes in SA president race," April 6), we thought the fate of the race had been sealed. It seemed that Vernon's three years as 2010 Class Council president, along with her involvement in numerous other campus organizations, made her the only candidate with enough relevant experience to be an effective leader. The burden thus fell on her competitors, John Nolan '10 and Boyd Lever '10, to prove that they too had something to offer.
(04/17/09 8:24am)
We were dismayed to learn of the Board of Trustees' decision not to reelect Trustee Todd Zywicki '88 for a second term ("Board votes not to reelect Zywicki '88," April 7). Even in the wake of Zywicki's open letter to the Dartmouth community on Tuesday ("Zywicki '88 criticizes Board in open letter," April 15), the Board has yet to provide the Dartmouth community with a sufficient explanation for the removal.