The Still North 2009-11-02

OAC student board to review minor cases

An Organizational Adjudication Committee student board will be formed by Winter term to hear allegations of minor misconduct involving student organizations, acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears said in an interview with The Dartmouth on Friday.

Indie darling Andrew Bird dazzles with whistles and violin

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. Andrew Bird was meant to be a musician: He is a man of prodigious musical talent, and he reaches a new musical stratosphere with his intense and gracious devotion to his vocation. Intensity was written all over Bird's face on Monday, Oct.

College to form new adjudication board for student orgs.

An Organizational Adjudication Committee student board will be formed by Winter term to hear allegations of minor misconduct involving student organizations, acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears said in an interview with The Dartmouth on Friday. Spears' announcement comes after a series of controversial OAC decisions last winter that resulted in lengthy probations for several Greek organizations. The student board will consist of 50 students.

Daily Debriefing

Richard Freeman, Jr., a transplant surgeon at Tufts University, has been named chair of the department of surgery at Dartmouth Medical School, according to a DMS press release.

Ask Miss Muffin Top

Dear Miss Muffin Top, I really want to go to a sorority semi-formal. How do I score an invitation? Lord of the Dance Dear Michael Flatley, Send a preemptive and unexpected blitz.

The DM Manual of Style

In an era plagued by painfully artsy hipsters flaunting destroyed clothing and androgenous wardrobes, it is refreshing to meet people, like Max Moran '12, who have an appreciation for the traditional.

Tales of the Transfers

Think back to the moment when you signed the enrollment agreement form confirming your decision to come to Dartmouth. I can almost guarantee that, as we signed the next four years of our life away to the College on the Hill, many of us were thinking the same thing: Thank the SAT gods, I will never again have to fill out another Common Application. But, if you think that doing your college applications was a huge pain in your proverbial ass, try having to do it two years in a row. I'm talking, of course, about transfer students: those select few who took a minor detour on their road to Dartmouth. If you're one of those people who is convinced that your senior year of high school was the most competitive admissions year of them all, try this statistic on for size: According to the Office of Institutional Research, Dartmouth's transfer student acceptance rate for fall 2008 was about 6 percent not exactly a picnic. Still, while their journey to Hanover may not have been the smoothest nor the most direct many transfer students interviewed by The Dartmouth this week said that the Big Green has been well worth the wait. "[I wasn't] completely satisfied with how things were [at Tulane]," Natalie Young '10, who transferred to Dartmouth from Tulane University after her freshman year.

Overheards

'13 Girl : I just really want to hook up with a Yale boy because I wanted to go there. It will be like closure. '10 Sigma Delt: You know you have a problem when you find your thesis notebook in the basement.

Phreddie 2009-10-30

Admin. explores calendar change

College administrators are currently exploring whether to change Dartmouth's academic calendar so that Fall term ends before Thanksgiving, according to Dean of Faculty and interim Provost Carol Folt.

VERBUM ULTIMUM: Accommodating Change

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.

Should I stay or should I go?

So now that our intrepid freshmen have officially cemented their place in history as the worst class ever (apparently it's possible to overlook a massive, belligerent mob screaming at you to "touch the fire already") I think it's time to take them to task for another serious fault: excessive friendliness.

Greek orgs. strive to lower members' dues

Following the College administration's lead in trimming operating budgets in light of the down economy, multiple Greek organizations on campus have begun to reassess their financial operations and the monetary burdens placed on their membership.