BlitzMail to UGAs: Dartmouth students enjoy unique culture
As you come to Dartmouth ready to spend your next four years in the Hanover environs, you're probably wondering many things. Where am I going to study?
As you come to Dartmouth ready to spend your next four years in the Hanover environs, you're probably wondering many things. Where am I going to study?
Greetings! Let us be among the first to welcome you to Dartmouth College! We would like to extend a warm welcome to you, the Class of 2001, as you prepare to begin one of the most exciting times of your lives. It was not long ago that we, too, stood on the brink of this adventure into the unknown called college.
Hidden beneath the bright smiles of the Class of 2001 when they arrive on campus is a dizzying array of talent and pre-college experiences. Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg said this year's incoming freshmen have accomplished many extraordinary feats. One student demonstrated exceptional athletic ability with a gold medal in the Paralympics. The Connecticut River might be a welcoming sight for the student who worked on a riverboat as a wheel man.
As you look forward to beginning your freshman year at the College, you might already be anxiously awaiting the arrival in your mailbox of the little slip of paper that holds a piece of your first-year destiny -- the name of your roommate and your room assignment. The random assignment of your new home and living mates can influence your choice of classes and preferred dining establishments (especially in the bitter winter months) and the people you will meet. And unfortunately, not all campus housing is created equal.
Each year the mass of incoming freshmen is bombarded with resources to answer the millions of questions that arise during Orientation and the opening weeks of school. Whether their questions are general or specific, Dartmouth's first-year students have a myriad of places to find advice, the foremost of which is the First-Year Office in Parkhurst Hall, the administrative building. Although many students obtain much of their information from peers and upperclassmen, the sole function of the freshman deans is to aid and educate the temporarily clueless 'shmen. 'A sense of place' Dean of First-Year Students Peter Goldsmith said deans are a valuable information resource for new students, and their job is to ease the transition to college life. He said the deans offer social, academic and emotional counseling, and they often refer students to other resources. "Students have to learn to find the motivation from within," Goldsmith said.
There are some things in life you can depend on. Every day in elementary school, at the stroke of noon my class would march single-file to the lunchroom.
Group shifts from sexual harrassment to positive gender relations
Cold weather, clouds and wind mark this summer's river festival
The default $750 plan and $525 plan with option cost prove most popular
DDS director 'actively' seeks another position
A 23-year-old male was treated at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center early Saturday morning after being assaulted near Foodstop. The victim, Scott Rouleau of Etna, N.H., said he was assaulted on Maple Street in Hanover between Fleet Bank and Foodstop at 2 a.m.
All College residence hall clusters, with the exception of the Choates and the Fayerweathers, have been wired for cable television.
Saturday marks the 10th anniversary of College President James Freedman's inaugural address and his 10 years of refocusing on intellectualism. Although his presidency has been highlighted by a successful capital campaign raising over $586 million, the construction of new facilities and an increase in women and minority students, in a recent interview with The Dartmouth, Freedman was modest when discussing his impact on the College. Freedman said his 10 years only represent four percent of the College's history.
Everything But Anchovies removed its 25-cent surcharge on orders paid for with the Hanover Green Card last week through an agreement to cooperate with the Green Card. EBAs co-owner Charlie Dowd said the policy change occurred because the surcharge was not helping either business. The charge, implemented in late June, was in response to the fee charged by the Green Card for each transaction, Dowd previously told The Dartmouth.
The Class of 1999 may be far from typical in its involvement and interests at the College, but '99s are predictable in their choices of majors. Members of the Class of 1999 finished filing majors early this term and did not deviate much from the usual pattern, Assistant to the Registrar Teresa Rodimon said. The most popular major for the Class of 1999 is government, followed closely by the four biological sciences.
Research recently conducted at the Dartmouth Medical School has proven that the HIV virus can infect women not only through sexual intercourse by passing through a tear in the vaginal wall, but it can also infect organs in the upper reproductive tract. "What this may mean down the road in terms of vaccine development, if one ever becomes available, is that it will have to be tested to see that it protects at all levels of the reproductive tract," DMS Physiology Professor Charles Wira said. The research was conducted at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction, Vt.
About 200 fraternity members from 11 Greek houses competed Sunday in the InterFraternity Council Olympics, an alcohol-free afternoon of cross-fraternity competition. IFC President Jonah Sonnenborn said the olympics were part of an effort to draw the houses together in a non-alcoholic sporting event. Almost all active houses participated in at least one event, and the final round of events -- such as the championship arm wrestling match, hot dog eating contest and keg toss -- drew many curious non-Greek spectators. "One of the greatest achievements of the event was that the friendly rivalry and competition between the houses stayed friendly," Sonnenborn said.
More than 80 percent of Dartmouth women want to lose weight
The Hood Museum of Art will be closed until Sept. 15 due to interior renovations consisting of replacing worn carpet, replacing windows and painting one of the galleries. Director of the Hood Museum Timothy Rub said the nature of these renovations required "removing the entire [art] collection from all the galleries" in the museum. The most important and most disruptive of the renovations will involve replacing the carpeting in the entire museum, he said. Rub said Summer term was the best time to perform the renovations. While summer is "a good time for visitation from the public," it was important to choose a time that was low in terms of use by College faculty and students, Rub said. Although the galleries are closed for the term, the museum offices, study facilities, storage facilities and the Hood Museum Gift Shop will remain open during the renovations, he said. When the museum reopens Fall term in time for freshman orientation, it will open in two stages.
The basement of Theta Delta Chi fraternity may not seem like a very romantic place, but for Emily Csatari '99, it was where her parents first met. Over the past two years, students have become familiar with Emily's name, not only because of her status as Dartmouth's first double legacy, but also for her parents' story. Rose Murphy, an administrative assistant in the Admissions Office, said it is a "technical question" whether Csatari is the very first double legacy. "There were earlier graduates whose parents were also graduates of the College but they may have been transfer students," she said. Love at Theta Delt Tom Csatari '74, Emily's father, served as the captain of the football team during his time at Dartmouth and was a brother at Theta Delt. Judy Csatari '76, her mother, was a member of the first Dartmouth class to have women admitted. The Class of 1976, which was the College's first coed class, was also the first to result in the possibility of a double legacy. It all began in the fall of 1972, when the football team hosted a party at Theta Delt to celebrate the end of preseason training, Tom said. Judy said she was in Hanover waiting for freshman orientation to begin and decided to check out a "social gathering" at Theta Delt with some friends from her Dartmouth Outing Club freshman trip. "I knew nothing about Theta Delt at the time," she said. "My dad was playing pong," Emily said. Tom was helping out a freshman with whom he was playing, she said.