Beyond Safety and Security

One of the questions parents ask most frequently during college visits (after "How much money will you be taking from my wallet?") is "How safe is it on campus?" Unfortunately, in the wake of random acts of violence and school shootings across the country in recent weeks and months, it has become increasingly apparent that no campus is truly safe. From last month's shooting at Northern Illinois University -- in which a gunman open fired on students during a geology lecture, killing five people before turning the gun on himself -- to the massacre at Virginia Tech less than one year ago, deadly violence has touched colleges across the country.

Verbum Ultimum: An Effective Search Committee

After its quarterly meeting last weekend, The Dartmouth Board of Trustees announced that trustee Al Mulley '70 will lead the search committee for Dartmouth's 17th president. The search falls at a time of highly publicized conflict about the College, after four years of turmoil surrounding alumni governance, which has now reached a fever pitch.

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The Glove

A little over a month ago, I wrote a column urging restraint in hoping the 7-8 Dartmouth men's basketball team would break out and become an Ivy League power. At the time, the Big Green was 1-1 in conference play, and The Dartmouth stated that men's basketball "has its eye on greater things, more importantly an Ivy League Championship and its first NCAA berth since 1959." Since that time, Dartmouth men's basketball has gone 2-8 in the conference (leaving them 9-16 overall), with two of the team's recent losses decided by four points or less and another two ending with just a 10 points margin.

Judgment at Brattleboro

Zip across Ledyard Bridge, cruise down I-91 South for about an hour, and you will soon enter the quaint village of Brattleboro.

Daily Debriefing

Oliver Grau, an image science professor at Danube University in Austria, discussed the importance of the digital humanities, a discipline devoted to the study of digital art like computer graphics, animation and nanotechnology, in a lecture held in Kreindler auditorium Tuesday.

Hong examines Chinese artifacts

In 1959, a poor farmer in the Shanxi Province of northern China stumbled upon an incredibly elaborate tomb containing the remains of a husband and wife from the early 12th century, intricate bas-relief sculpturing and five mysterious wooden figurines whose brightly painted colors offset the dull gray of the tomb's walls.

Citizens support police action in cheating cases

A vote by citizens of Hanover and Norwich, Vt., affirmed on Tuesday that Hanover High School was correct in allowing the police to investigate and criminally prosecute students involved in the cheating scandal last June. According to the Valley News, the vote was 1137 to 875 in favor of the article, with 19 percent of Dresden school district citizens voting. Norwich resident George Fraser filed this question as an advisory article in the Dresden warrant, part of the area's budget, last Thursday.

Marchand backs youth political voice

Encouraging students to begin their involvement in political life, former Portsmouth, N.H. Mayor Steve Marchand focused on the possibilites for youth participation in government in a speech given to the Dartmouth College Democrats in the Rockefeller Center's 1930's room . "You have to start now getting involved; you don't have to wait until you're 40 or 50," the 34-year-old Marchand told the students attendees. "Don't let people tell you you're not old enough to participate -- that's garbage, that's folks who just don't want the competition," he said. A diversified education that extended beyond government and public policy has been instrumental to Marchand's political career, he said. As an undergraduate, Marchand majored in public relations and minored in French, which he said helped him campaign in New Hampshire. "You want to find a niche that gives you a leg up," he said. It is crucial to build relationships with people before, not after, asking them for help, Marchand said.

House refuses state control over charter

The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to reject legislation that would have allowed the state control over changes Dartmouth makes to its charter on Wednesday. The bill came before the full House following its Feb.

The Tree House Divide

At a liberal arts college like Dartmouth, it seems inevitable that undergrads will study social movements at some point in their education.

Men's squash praises captain Adam King '08

The crowd of fans at Dartmouth men's squash team's last home match was large, despite an early start time and the fact that squash is not traditionally a spectator sport. It was not immediatly clear why so many people came out to watch the squash matches at 11 a.m.