Law puts limits on protests
At next year's Homecoming bonfire, students may want to think twice before pelting the nearest police officer with a snowball.
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At next year's Homecoming bonfire, students may want to think twice before pelting the nearest police officer with a snowball.
Applications to Dartmouth for the Class of 2008 dropped nominally from last year's record number of applicants, according to preliminary numbers from Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg. As of Wednesday, the Admissions Office had received 11,750 applications for next year's freshman class, down 100 -- less than 1 percent -- from last year's total. However, at this time last year only 11,700 applications had made their way to McNutt Hall.
The textbook industry is unnecessarily gouging the wallets of college students, according to a report released yesterday by the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group. The report found that college students spend an average of $898 per academic year on textbooks. The report, entitled "Ripoff 101: How the Current Practices of the Textbooks Industry Drive Up the Cost of College Textbooks" complements recent legislation sponsored by Oregon Rep. David Wu (D - Ore.) to investigate the textbook industry's pricing practices.
Though few people on campus use the services of telephone operators, those that do dial "0" frequently are being greeted by a new voice this term -- that of a computer.
Profits from Dartmouth's endowment rebounded back into black ink with a 2 percent gain over the 2003 fiscal year. However, the College's endowment was the only one in the Ivy League to decrease in market value over the 2003 fiscal year, according to the latest annual survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
Continuing the recent trend of falling acceptance rates for Dartmouth applicants, only 30 percent of the 1,278 high-school seniors who applied for admission under the early decision program this year were accepted. The number represents the lowest early decision acceptance rate in over five years and comes a year after a record-low overall acceptance rate of 17.5 percent for the class of 2007.
Three emergency aid workers from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center are providing medical care to victims injured in an earthquake that rocked Bam, a ancient city in Iran, on Dec. 26.
Dartmouth students and Hanover residents show little concern about the recent discovery of mad cow disease in the United States, as managers of local eateries report no drop-off in sales of beef and steak products.
Compared to the national average of 22.6 percent, only 11.1 percent of Dartmouth undergraduates are national Pell Grant recipients, according to a study released earlier this month by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. The article entitled "Pell Grant Count Puts Most Ivy League Schools Near the Bottom in Percentage of Low-Income Students" revealed that all eight Ivies scored below the national average in percentage of undergraduates receiving Pell Grants.
Seventy-six students are no longer able to access the campus Internet after Computer Services followed through on its threat to disconnect virus-infected computers last week. "Probably a couple dozen more" had been disconnected but were granted renewed access after removing the virus from their computers, according to Bill Brawley of Computing Services.
Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of articles that will explore how students tackle the costs of college outside of tuition.
While other top schools such as Harvard, Yale and Stanford changed their early admission policies for the class of 2008, Dartmouth stuck with its long-standing early decision program and saw a moderate increase in the number of early applicants for the third year in a row. Early applications rose just over five percent from last year to a seven-year high of 1,270 early decision candidates.
A new music sharing network debuted at Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week, giving students legal access to over 3,500 CDs, and a similar system could be implemented at Dartmouth. However, some major hurdles do exist, Director of Telecommunications and Network Services Robert Johnson said.
As the Recording Industry Association of America continues to bear down on illegal file-sharers across the country, Dartmouth has not gone unnoticed. The College has "seen a pick up in the number of complaints from the RIAA" in the form of Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests, according to Network Services Director Bill Brawley.
A virus is plaguing the Dartmouth campus, but this time it's not pink eye. In this case, it's a computer virus called the Welchia worm, which has infected 2000 computers -- nearly half of all student computers on campus -- and is drastically slowing down the campus network.
It's Homecoming weekend. That means three days of fun, partying and most importantly, no class, right? Wrong.
The College revealed further details about campus construction plans at a Collis Commonground event yesterday afternoon for interested students. Dean of the College James Larimore and Mary Gorman from the Provost's office elaborated on the academic, residential and dining construction plans announced last month at Convocation, and displayed models of the proposed buildings.
Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John Edwards made a campaign stop in Hanover last night, speaking to an overflowing crowd in a town hall meeting at the Top of the Hop.
The U.S. Supreme Court was back in session last week with a new slate of cases ready to be tried in the upcoming term, but this weekend one of the nine Justices was not in the nation's capital, choosing instead to venture up north to Hanover.
When Megan Peck '06 applied last February for the Art History Foreign Study Program in Florence, Italy, she had visions of spending her sophomore spring in some of Medieval Europe's most gorgeous cathedrals.