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(05/28/08 9:59am)
Dartmouth alumni of Beta Theta Pi fraternity contend that current students hold misconceptions about the fraternity's history at the College, regarding the fraternity as a group of football-playing troublemakers and not the brotherhood committed to charity work and diversity that alumni maintain it once was. Beta, which was permanently derecognized by the College in 1996, will regain possession of its house on 6 Webster Avenue, currently occupied by Alpha Xi Delta sorority, this summer. Beta alumni will be allowed to host recruitment events this Fall term but neither the College nor the Beta national organization have officially agreed to re-recognize the chapter at Dartmouth.
(05/22/08 6:50am)
New York Governor David Paterson nominated Galen D. Kirkland '72 to be the state's next commissioner of the Division of Human Rights, according to a press release issued by the Governor's office last week. The Division of Human Rights was created to uphold New York's Human Rights Law, which affords New York citizens "an equal opportunity to enjoy a full and productive life" and bars many forms of discrimination, according to the division's web site. Kirkland is currently the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the New York State Office of the Attorney General, where he has worked since 1999. Kirkland has served as the executive director of Advocates for Children of New York, overseeing educational advocacy programs for public schools, the executive director of the New York City Civil Rights Coalition, bringing together religious rights-based and service organizations, and the vice president and general counsel for West Harlem Community Organization, which provides low-income housing and promotes economic development. Kirkland, a regular financial contributor to Dartmouth, according to the College Fund, received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
(05/12/08 8:24am)
Dartmouth alumni of Beta Theta Pi fraternity addressed questions from male students, including men who are currently members of other fraternities, and a few undergraduate women at the final information session concerning Beta's return to campus, held on Friday afternoon. Students' concerns focused on membership diversity, alcohol policies and the Dartmouth chapter's relationship with Beta national fraternity.
(05/09/08 9:29am)
The Interfraternity Council initially threatened to boycott the open house based on a belief that they should have had more influence on the planning process, according to Taylor Holt '09, vice president of recruitment for the IFC. The IFC did not coordinate an organization-wide boycott, however.
(05/08/08 6:00am)
Confidential research and security information can be transmitted by the click of a button or by the exchange of a simple CD. A professor at one of Dartmouth's peer institutions learned this when one of her trusted post-doctorate students tampered with data on her computer and some of her valuable research-related CD's were stolen. To counteract these security risks, the College is currently searching for a candidate to take on the role of chief information security officer.
(05/01/08 5:57am)
An interdisciplinary approach to medical research could help advance studies on cancer, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and a number of other maladies, Dartmouth genetics professor Scott Gerber said. Gerber was one of the organizers of the first annual Dartmouth Integrative Biology Symposium held Wednesday in Alumni Hall. Speakers at the conference described how researchers can apply integrative biology to medical afflictions.
(04/24/08 6:47am)
This story was one of many retold in anonymous submissions read by Dartmouth students Wednesday night in Collis Common Ground during Speak Out, an annual student-run forum designed to show how sexual assault affects students at the College.
(04/23/08 9:10am)
Two student petitions regarding the Association of Alumni's lawsuit against the College began circulating on campus Tuesday, marking the first time Dartmouth undergraduates have organized mass efforts in response to the suit. At least one of the petitions will be mailed to alumni by Dartmouth Undying, an alumni group against the lawsuit.
(04/22/08 7:12am)
Gerard DiPippo '08, Claudio LoCascio '08 and Monica Yu '08 travelled to Washington, D.C. last weekend to present term papers from their senior seminar on topics ranging from the impact of jetlag on international trade to the effects of corruption on foreign investment. The students, along with peer economists, participated at the Carroll Round, an annual conference on international economics hosted by Georgetown University.
(04/18/08 7:38am)
The couple's research stems from studies they have conducted to analyze theatrical performances in the United States and South Africa. Claiming that performance is a "transformative force for institutional and social change," the Elams examined a variety of plays from these two countries. The research provided the couple with insight into the effect of the worldwide "mixed-race movement" on race politics and cultural identities, Harry said.
(04/14/08 10:18am)
As pharmaceutical drugs become increasingly complex, industry leaders, from drug manufacturers to representatives from the American Association of Retired Persons, continue to debate whether replicating the drugs is feasible. The debate over biogeneric copies of drugs was the focus of the Global Healthcare Conference held at the Tuck School of Business on Friday.
(04/14/08 10:13am)
As the words to the song "Shout" echoed across Alpha Delta fraternity's living room Saturday night, Chris Miller '63 and his friends "Mouse" and "Alby" sang along with the band. Students dressed in togas danced around the lead singer and beer flowed from tapped kegs.
(04/10/08 6:30am)
Construction at colleges around the country is continuing despite national economic problems, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Wednesday. While a handful of universities have postponed construction projects, most schools are continuing with their renovation plans and some are speeding up their projects to limit the effects of rising construction costs, according to the Chronicle. To deal with higher renovation costs, public universities are depending on their state legislatures for funding. To pay for construction on the seven campuses of the University of Maine, for example, the state government in Maine approved a $23 million bond measure in November. Private colleges that partner with for-profit construction companies are relying on school endowments to obtain the extra funds. "We've been projecting significant construction-cost escalations for the past several years, and unfortunately we've been right," Michael McKay, Princeton University's vice president for facilities told the Chronicle.
(04/09/08 6:18am)
"I learned to lay there and take it," one shirt reads. The shirt describes a student's encounter with a former fraternity president vaguely identified on the shirt. The man relentlessly pressured the student to have sex, the shirt alleges.
(04/04/08 7:49am)
Two tenured philosophy professors at Dartmouth will leave the College for Washington University in St. Louis at the end of this year, citing higher salaries and the ability to work with graduate students as the primary reasons for their departure.
(03/31/08 7:00am)
The phone call between Stuart Lord, dean of the Tucker Foundation, and Reverend Stanley Lord on a summer night last June was anything but typical for the twin brothers. Stuart had just learned that he qualified as a kidney donor for Stanley and, in an act of brotherly love, called to offer a kidney to his ailing twin.
(03/27/08 6:04am)
Dartmouth researchers may have found a way to stop breast cancer tumors from growing, which would make the cancer easier to treat. The findings are the result of experiments conducted on mice by Dartmouth Medical School professor William North and his team.
(03/25/08 8:17am)
JuicyCampus.com, a nationwide college message board known for posts with titles like "Sluttiest girl" or "Best rack (real or fake) on campus???," is under legal scrutiny for possible consumer-fraud violations. This winter, Dartmouth's page was one of many on JuicyCampus.com to gain popularity by allowing anonymous postings of anything and everything about members of the faculty and student body.
(02/22/08 9:30am)
A group of students are currently seeking to discredit recommendations to change the College's judicial system proposed by a Student Assembly-commissioned task force in fall 2006. Renewed consideration for raising the burden of proof and allowing direct questioning in Committee on Standards judicial proceedings has reinvigorated a debate about the effect of these proposed changes on cases of sexual assault at the College.
(02/08/08 3:16pm)
"Are your friends making you fat?" demanded headlines displayed on a number of media networks this July in response to a study published by Nicholas Christakis, a professor at Harvard University, and James Fowler, a professor at the University of California, San Diego. Christakis spoke about the study's conclusion, that the fluctuations of a person's weight affect the weight of people in one's social network, in a lecture at the Rockefeller Center on Thursday night.