Editor's Note

Goodbyes are always hard, something I was reminded of when some this week's writers, namely the seniors on The Mirror staff, kept Blitzing me with their writer's block woes.

Shoemaker '04, Olympic triathelete, to appear on Wheaties box

Competing in possibly the most grueling sport around today, Jarrod Shoemaker '04 has, in all senses of the term, made it.

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$4 Coffee 2008-05-22

Daily Debriefing

New York Governor David Paterson nominated Galen D. Kirkland '72 to be the state's next commissioner of the Division of Human Rights, according to a press release issued by the Governor's office last week.

Alumni collect laptops for Bronx school

Two recent Dartmouth graduates, in collaboration with a teacher from a high school in south Bronx, N.Y., have begun a program that will transfer Dartmouth students' old laptop computers to the hands of students at New Day Academy, in an effort to improve the education of underprivileged youth.

Government lauds College for information assurance

The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have selected Dartmouth as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research for the years 2008-2013, a distinction that provides the College with opportunities for shared research, as well as increased undergraduate access to scholarships, grants and internships in the information assurance field. Information assurance refers to measures that protect and defend information and information systems, including work commonly known as "cyber-security," according to the NSA web site. This is the first year that NSA and DHS have awarded the CAE-R designation.

Board hires firm for pres. search

Dartmouth's Board of Trustees has retained the executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to advise the College's presidential search committee in its hunt for the College's next president, according to an e-mail sent to the Dartmouth community by Board Chairman Ed Haldeman '70 and Trustee Al Mulley '70 Wednesday afternoon.

Touching The Void

I've recently experienced my first Green Key weekend, and I have to say that it was a weekend like any other weekend, except longer and with more ennui.

Filling Their Shoes

There are a number of privileges that we freshmen get to enjoy for just three terms: We can suck at pong, be unabashedly promiscuous and go frat hopping in obnoxious groups of 15, just to name a few. By the time we come back next fall as sophomores, it's expected that we'll have grown out of all this.

Hodes Knows Best

As much as I should have called it a wrap after Monday's drubbing of Schmidley, I just couldn't resist penning one final column before I leave the friendly confines of Hanover.

Frisbee concludes record season

Courtesy of Tien Ha-Ngoc Dartmouth's men's ultimate frisbee team faced stiff competition at the 2008 Ultimate Players Association College Championships last weekend, finishing the tournament with a 2-4 record. Despite ending the tournament with a losing record, the team's performance was a milestone for Dartmouth's frisbee program, which had never won a collegiate championship match until last weekend. Co-captain Watson Sallay '08 attributed Dartmouth's performance at the tournament to a strong overall team effort. "The tournament went incredibly well," Sallay said.

Daily Debriefing

Former Dartmouth football coach Jake Crouthamel '60 will be inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame in recognition of his work as athletics director for Syracuse University from 1978 to 2004, according to the NACDA web site.

Asian clubs raise money to help after earthquake

After a catastrophic earthquake hit China's Sichuan Province on May 12, it was not long before Elva Fan '11 began brainstorming with fellow students about how to raise funds for relief efforts.