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Dartmouth is among five colleges and universities that have signed an agreement pledging their commitment to open-access publication, according to a Harvard University Library press release.
Dartmouth is among five colleges and universities that have signed an agreement pledging their commitment to open-access publication, according to a Harvard University Library press release.
ZACH INGBRETSEN / The Dartmouth Staff Hungry for its first win since 2007, the Big Green football team fell to Colgate University in its season opener at home on Saturday, 34-15. The Raiders (3-0, 0-0 Patriot) looted Dartmouth's game, as Colgate rushed for 292 yards and passed for 172 yards.
In the latest issue of Dartmouth Life, College President Jim Yong Kim spoke with Student Body President Frances Vernon '10 about the nature of student protest on Dartmouth's campus.
The arrival of a new College president, the departure of several high level administrators and continued debate over alumni governance marked Dartmouth's Summer 2009 term. NEW COLLEGE PRESIDENT Jim Yong Kim took over as College President on July 1, citing his belief in Dartmouth students' bility to tackle global problems as one motivating factor in his decision to assume the post. ADMINISTRATIVE TURNOVER Several senior officials left the College, in addition to former College President James Wright, who stepped down when Kim took office.
College President Jim Yong Kim used to joke that he and Harvard Medical School professor Paul Farmer were "twin sons of different mothers," Tracy Kidder wrote in his 2004 book "Mountains Beyond Mountains." This friendship which has prompted some students to ask whether Farmer will join the Dartmouth faculty may now lead to a partnership between Dartmouth and Partners in Health, the non-profit organization Farmer and Kim co-founded. Partners in Health executive director Ophelia Dahl brought up the possibility of such a collaboration during last Wednesday's "first lecture" to the incoming Class of 2013, which featured Dahl, Kim and Farmer. Kim and Farmer first met in 1983 during a snowstorm in Cambridge, Mass., when they were both students at Harvard Medical School.
Muse's latest album, "The Resistance" (2009), is unabashedly epic, from the acid-trip-through-space cover artwork to the lush orchestration of its songs.
The first batches of vaccine for the H1N1 virus will likely be made available to Dartmouth's Health Services in late September or early October, according to Health Services Director Jack Turco.
As an international student in the segregated American South of the 1950s, Oaksook Kim, College President Jim Yong Kim's mother, was very conscious of race and inequality, according to her daughter, Heidi Kim.
JESSICA GRIFFEN / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Behind College President Jim Yong Kim's desk hangs a collection of 16 portraits, one of each of his predecessors individuals that Kim said he will keep in mind as he is officially inaugurated this morning. "I get that I have been given an unbelievably important, sacred trust," Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth last week. In an interview with The Dartmouth this week, Kim said he plans to convey his appreciation for his place in Dartmouth's history during his inaugural address on Tuesday. He also said he will pledge to "take care of this institution, to preserve it, to make it grow, to help it adapt to the times" as Dartmouth's past presidents have. "I need to show [the Dartmouth community] that I've thought deeply about what previous presidents have done, and that anything that I do will be very much in keeping with the spirit of my 16 predecessors," Kim said. Kim said he also plans to discuss what he believes makes a liberal arts education, and specifically a Dartmouth education, so valuable. He will speak to the responsibility that Dartmouth students have to make a difference in the world, he said. THE HISTORIC MOMENT In his 1987 inaugural address, then-College President James Freedman acknowledged the historical weight of the ceremony in which he was participating. "These inaugural ceremonies, like education itself, are an exercise in reflection and renewal," Freedman said.
The Dartmouth men's soccer team split its two games in California this weekend, defeating the University of San Diego 3-2 Friday before dropping a close contest to Loyola Marymount University 3-2 on Sunday.
The Dartmouth will offer live coverage of the event, "Reflections on Leadership for Social Change," to be held today at 4 p.m.
The Dartmouth Alumni Council has voted to nominate only one candidate to seek election for each of the two Board of Trustee seats vacant in the spring 2010 trustee race, the Council announced in a statement released Sept.
Jim Yong Kim will be officially inaugurated as Dartmouth's 17th President in a formal ceremony on the Green on Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano '73, D-Mass., formally announced that he will seek the late Edward Kennedy's U.S.
Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff Partners in Health began as a small organization with board meetings held over pizza and Chinese food, but was able to grow to provide medical care to low-income communities across the world because of the friendship of the organization's founders, PIH president and executive director Ophelia Dahl said before a packed Spaulding Auditorium Wednesday night. College President Jim Yong Kim and Harvard University professor Paul Farmer fellow PIH co-founders joined Dahl to deliver the traditional "first lecture" to the incoming Class of 2013, billed as a discussion of the students' summer reading assignment, Tracy Kidder's 2004 best-seller "Mountains Beyond Mountains." Dahl, at the end of the event, hinted that efforts are underway to explore a partnership between PIH and Dartmouth. The discussion among the three panelists which touched on a wide range of topics, including leadership and social justice was marked by friendly banter and playful jibing.
This scenario happens to every Dartmouth student at least six times a week: You are on your way to meet some friends for dinner at Food Court.
Although billed as a discussion of the health care reform effort, College President Jim Yong Kim's interview with PBS' Bill Moyers, which aired Friday night, was also a discourse on Kim's rise to the Dartmouth presidency and hopes for his coming tenure. Kim, who took office as College president July 1, will be officially inaugurated on Sept.