Live Free or Die
"Live Free or Die" New Hampshire's state motto is proudly inscribed on its license plates, echoing the state's libertarian history.
"Live Free or Die" New Hampshire's state motto is proudly inscribed on its license plates, echoing the state's libertarian history.
CHRISTOPHER RHOADES / The Dartmouth The University of New Hampshire snapped the Big Green field hockey team's four-game winning streak on Wednesday, shutting Dartmouth out 4-0. Head coach Amy Fowler expressed disappointment at the team's play on Wednesday "I'm bummed we had a no-show and people didn't step up," she said.
So much for institutional memory. Just three short months after Provost Barry Scherr announced he would remain in his current role through June 2011, he's jumping ship, in the latest high-profile departure from Parkhurst.
When it was announced that College President Jim Yong Kim had been selected to be Dartmouth's next president, a stranger asked me in passing whether or not I agreed with the assertion that Kim seemed to call to mind President Barack Obama.
Courtesy of Betterworldbooks.com Long before the boys of "Hangover" (2009) roofied it up in Las Vegas or Chad Kultgen had his hero dump his fat girlfriend in the novel "The Average American Male" (2007), Tucker Max was the original all-American a-hole. A Duke Law School graduate, Max gained legions of fratastic fans by recounting his alcohol-addled fornication adventures on the web.
College Democrats at Dartmouth and other colleges and universities nationwide held events to observe "Health Care Action Day" on Wednesday, according to College Democrats of New Hampshire communications director Ryan Tincher '12.
Lebanon School District superintendent Mike Harris '72 announced publicly last week that he will join the Dartmouth faculty next June as director of the Dartmouth Teacher Education Program.
Courtesy of GMU The College defended its recent governance decisions in its response to a brief filed by former Dartmouth Trustee Todd Zywicki '88 in support of the ongoing lawsuit against the College.
In last week's column, I predicted that our football team would win, the season finale of "Entourage" would seem too short and Michael Moore's new film would tank.
/ The Dartmouth Staff Pairs of photographs currently line the walls of the Upper Jewitt Corridor in the Hopkins Center.
The Cutting Edge
zach ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Following extensive renovations, the College's Lone Pine Tavern will reopen as One Wheelock, a lounge and coffeehouse, later this fall, according to Eric Ramsey, director of Collis Center and student activities.
Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Throughout American history, homeowners have had a large impact on the development of school systems, from their demands for national standards to their need for more advanced studies, Dartmouth economics professor William Fischel said in a lecture on Tuesday. "Schools were established by local people," Fischel said.
Student Assembly passed two pieces of legislation in its first General Assembly meeting of the Fall term Tuesday evening, including a proposal allocating $2,000 for laptop vouchers to provide students who have broken their computers with temporary replacements.
The Dartmouth men's golf team was unable to build its momentum following its win last weekend. The Big Green finished ninth at the MacDonald Cup held at Yale this weekend. Yale took first place, shooting a two-over-par 842, and Iowa State University took second, with a five-over-par 845. Dartmouth scored an 871, shooting 31 over par. Last year's Ivy League Player of the Year Pete Williamson '12 finished in fifth place individually with a score of 210, par for the course. "Williamson is our number-one player," Davis Mullany '11 said.