South Korean president sends congratulatory letter to Kim

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak congratulated Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim on his inauguration as the College's 17th president in a letter to Kim and the Dartmouth community dated Sept.

Touch the Fire 2009-09-22

The Myth of the Blank Slate

Sitting on the steps of Robinson Hall during this year's DOC Trips, I heard yet another dean invoke the idea of the "blank slate" while speaking to a group of enthusiastic incoming freshmen. What he described was the chance for all students to hit the reset button, start over and begin anew.

Kinne to serve as associate Dean of College temporarily

Director of Safety and Security Harry Kinne is temporarily serving as interim associate Dean of the College, filling in for Marcia Kelly, who is acting as interim secretary to the Board of Trustees, The Dartmouth confirmed on Monday. The administrative shift occurred shortly before the resignation of Dean of the College Tom Crady, who had been in office for less than two years, and the recent departure of several other senior deans. "I am just on loan to help the division in the time of transition to fill in for Marcia," Kinne said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Keiselim Montas, associate director of Safety and Security, is filling in as interim director. In his interim position, Kinne is in charge of overseeing Safety and Security, Career Services and the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Kinne said he has been workingclosely with several of the other deans on a variety of projects. Kinne, who said he expects to return to his role as director of Safety and Security by Jan.

Daily Debriefing

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.

Storming Parkhurst

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.

Kim's arrival, admin. turnover mark summer

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.

$4 Coffee 2009-09-22

PIH co-founders share close bond

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 is ‘self-indulgent'

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.

H1N1 vaccine likely to be available in October

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.

Kim shaped by ‘practical' father, ‘big-thinking' mother ‘‘

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.

Men's soccer splits weekend at Calif. tourney, falls to No. 14

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.