Wennberg given health care award
Dartmouth's John E. Wennberg was granted the 2008 Gustav O. Lienhard Award by the Institute of Medicine on Oct.
Dartmouth's John E. Wennberg was granted the 2008 Gustav O. Lienhard Award by the Institute of Medicine on Oct.
John Shi / The Dartmouth An increase in expenses across-the-board forced Dartmouth Dining Services to raise the cost of food on campus after an annual review of prices last month, according to DDS's Director of Financial Operations Don Blume. The increasing expenses have also prompted DDS to raise meal-plan prices between 4 and 5 percent since last year, depending on the meal plan, Blume said. "For the current fiscal year, to date (through Sept.), DDS's expense for food sold is 19 percent greater than last year, while for the same period our retail sales are up by 11.4 percent," Blume said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth.
Eric Tanner / The Dartmouth The votes of college students will count more than ever in this year's presidential election, particularly in New Hampshire, actor Justin Long said at a meeting of the Dartmouth College Democrats Wednesday.
Dartmouth's three coeducational fraternities -- Alpha Theta coed fraternity, Phi Tau coed fraternity and The Tabard coed fraternity -- have all accepted new members this term as campus-wide rush activities wrap up this week.
I began laughing the moment I opened the thin, innocent-looking envelope. Someone, or perhaps more than one person, had anonymously mailed me a photo of an inside joke from my DOC Trip, scrawling various one-liners on the outside of the envelope.
My little sister recently sent me an angry Facebook message with a link to a Wall Street Journal opinion column.
Marina Agapakis / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's soccer team dominated play en route to a 1-0 victory against Bryant University on Wednesday afternoon at Burnham Field.
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Like a true prima donna, Karita Mattila only gave a few pithy remarks to the reporters outside her dressing room door as she walked to the stage to star in the Metropolitan Opera's production of "Salome" last Saturday. A Hanover audience assembled in the Loew Theater and viewers all around the world followed Mattila backstage thanks to the Met's Live in HD program, which broadcasts operas in high definition from New York. For the second consecutive year, Sydney Stowe, manager of film at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, has been the leading force in bringing the series to Dartmouth.
The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication Vioxx may increase the risk of stroke and heart attack one year after patients stop taking the drug, according to a recent follow-up study by a group of researchers that includes Dartmouth Medical School professor John Baron.
In the fall of his sophomore year, Jesse Victor '09 pledged the Greek organization he had felt the strongest connection to as a freshman, Alpha Delta fraternity.
Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff Student Assembly passed legislation to provide up to $1,000 for the student-faculty programming fund at the weekly meeting of the General Assembly Tuesday evening.
JONATHAN ERDMAN / The Dartmouth Staff Barbara Thompson, a solar physicist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, outlined variations in the Sun's magnetic field and described how scientists analyze such changes and their effects on the Eart in a speech Tuesday night in Wilder Hall.
Fall fraternity and sorority rush came to a close this week, as 273 women were offered bids and 308 men sunk bids from single-sex Greek organizations.
Money only has value because we as a society have agreed to give those pieces of paper meaning. What a beautiful human gift: to be able to give meaning.
This year's election cycle marks my first opportunity to delve into the world of American politics.