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(01/30/08 7:41pm)
According to Crady, strict alcohol policies mask a school's drinking problems. Crady served as vice president of student affairs at Iowa's Grinnell College for nine years prior to beginning work at Dartmouth this month.
(01/28/08 9:06am)
Liz Ryan Cole, a professor at Vermont Law School, was raised in Hamilton County, one of the poorest counties in upstate New York. She moved to the Upper Valley because she believed it was an environment where her children would learn to respect people for what they could do rather than how much money they had. Cole and other members of the Upper Valley community gathered at the College on Sunday to discuss this and similar topics in "Class in the Upper Valley: A Community Panel."
(01/24/08 8:19am)
John Donahoe '82, a member of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, will assume the position of chief executive officer of eBay, Inc., when current C.E.O. Meg Whitman steps down from the post on March 31, the company announced yesterday. Donahoe, who began working for eBay in 2004, currently serves as the president of the company's marketplaces division, which brings in nearly 70 percent of eBay's total revenues.
(01/17/08 8:35am)
The final number of applicants is still being calculated but over 5,400 resums were submitted by more than 150 Dartmouth students, according to Monica Wilson, assistant director of employer relations at Career Services. Students participating in the resum drop chose between 42 entry-level job opportunities and 70 summer internship positions in fields ranging from financial consulting to education.
(06/10/07 2:26am)
Dartmouth seniors are not the only ones to say goodbye to Hanover after this year's Commencement, as four professors are retiring and others are moving to new settings.
(05/30/07 8:49am)
Furstenberg stated that his decision to retire at this time stems from the current strength of the College's admissions and financial aid offices.
(05/29/07 4:58am)
"Every single person in our office was very excited that she's going to be taking over for Karl next year," Damerville said.
(05/24/07 5:29am)
College President James Wright was featured in an article in Wednesday's New York Times highlighting his efforts to encourage wounded war veterans to obtain a college education. In coordination with the American Council on Education, he helped to raise $300,000 to begin a program that provides individualized college counseling to the injured soldiers. Currently, these educational counselors work at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas assisting a total of 100 injured veterans.
(05/18/07 6:11am)
The bands have been booked, the kegs have been tagged and the grills have been cleaned as the College's fraternities and sororities prepare for the 2007 Green Key weekend. The celebration kicked off Wednesday evening with Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority's tri-annual Tackies costume party.
(05/18/07 5:15am)
Sallie Mae, the country's largest provider of student loans, has found itself on the receiving end of political attacks regarding its domination of the student loans market, according to an article in Wednesday's issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. These attacks surfaced after two reports were issued Tuesday by the American Enterprise Institute and the Education Sector claiming that Sallie Mae manages $142 billion in student loans, which constituted twenty-seven percent of the federal student loan market in 2005. The purpose of the reports is to pressure Congress into reducing Sallie Mae's market domination at a time when the public corporation is being bought by two private-equity firms for $25 billion.
(05/17/07 7:00am)
Robert Oelman '31, former chairman of Ford Motor's finance committee and chief executive of the technology company NCR Corporation, died at the age of 97 in Delray Beach, Fla., last Thursday, according to an obituary in Wednesday's New York Times. Born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1909, Oelman graduated from Dartmouth and then attended the University of Vienna, where he met his future wife, Mary Coolidge. In 1968, Oelman helped to found Wright State University in Dayton. That same year, he was asked by Nelson Rockefeller to be the Ohio Republican chairman for Rockefeller's unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1968 and 1972. In addition to being a Dartmouth trustee, Oelman was chairman of the Wright State trustees as well as a trustee of the University of Dayton. He is survived by his wife, three children, nine grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
(05/17/07 6:57am)
Beginning July 1, Laskaris will replace outgoing Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg, who announced his plans to retire last fall and will be leaving the College after spending 17 years working for the Dartmouth admissions office and 13 years managing admissions at Wesleyan University prior to his time at Dartmouth.
(05/11/07 5:15am)
The focus of Rhoades' work has been in improving personal relations in a variety of service-based industries including Southwest Airlines and Jetblue. Throughout her speech, titled "People-Centric Cultures Pay Big Dividends: Lessons from Great Companies," Rhoades stressed three qualities that make entrepreneurs successful.
(05/01/07 8:47am)
The University of New Hampshire received a bomb threat via e-mail last Friday morning, the Union Leader reported on Saturday. The message, which turned out to be a hoax, claimed that there were four pipe bombs on the campus. UNH Police traced the message, which was routed through Canada and Germany to hide its origin, to a dorm room on campus, and questioned and later released the two freshmen living there. Police noted that someone might have hacked into the students' wireless network to send the e-mail. Classes continued as usual, and the threat was found to be a hoax by 4 p.m.
(04/25/07 4:43pm)
The event was organized by Greg LaMontagne '07, intern to College President James Wright, and Alyssa Scott '07, intern to Susan Wright.
(04/23/07 12:14pm)
As Lelia Tahaburt, a prospective student from Annapolis, Maryland, sat on the bus on the way to Hanover late Wednesday night, she thought to herself, "I really hope I just love Dartmouth." When she finally arrived at midnight, she attended the last performance of an a cappella showcase at the Top of the Hop, one of a plethora of Dimensions events that sold her on joining the Dartmouth class of 2011.
(04/16/07 9:01am)
Sorority sisters of all ages gathered at the Alumnae Connections Luncheon to celebrate the 30th anniversary of sororities at Dartmouth in Collis Common Ground Saturday afternoon.
(04/10/07 9:00am)
"He wanted to make sure that not only were we learning the language, but also that we were experiencing the culture and the lifestyle," Luccio said. "He would help us firsthand with that by arranging activities for us and coming along with us."
(04/09/07 9:00am)
Over 1,200 Easter eggs were scattered around Collis Common Ground on Friday afternoon, as more than 150 parents and children from communities in the Upper Valley arrived to enjoy the Green Spring Celebration organized by Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and its programming chair Ian Tapu '08.
(04/04/07 9:00am)
In an attempt to answer students' questions about the ongoing trustee elections, Palaeopitus Senior Society sponsored an event Tuesday night in Morrison Commons featuring College President James Wright, Alumni Relations Vice President David Spalding '76 and Assistant Director of Young Alumni and Student Programs Rex Morey '99. Wright and his colleagues addressed a range of issues including the role of money in the campaigning process, the nature of the nominating process and even why Baker Tower is lit in green for alumni events (it's a welcome home beacon). Open campaigning, Wright said, has drastically changed the level of debate present in the elections.