Students fight for kosher options
The student campaign to push the College to provide better kosher dining options has been making slow progress in recent weeks, as the working group set up to discuss the issue has yet to meet.
The student campaign to push the College to provide better kosher dining options has been making slow progress in recent weeks, as the working group set up to discuss the issue has yet to meet.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Elliot Health System and Frisbie Memorial Hospital announced on Oct. 5 that they have partnered with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care to form Benevera Health, a company devoted to improving health care in New Hampshire at reduced costs.
As Kyle Hendricks ’12 prepares for his likely National League Championship Series debut next week, both current and former Big Green baseball players reflected that the poise and unwavering confidence of the Chicago Cubs’ starting pitcher has contributed to his success in Major League Baseball.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, a cohort of mainly Native students trudged from residence hall to residence hall, removing flyers encouraging students to “celebrate Columbus Day all year” with “vintage” apparel featuring the Dartmouth Indian.
Now on its sixth term since its creation in winter term 2014, BarHop continues to offer a social space for students, with free drinks, music and other activities every Thursday at the Hop Garage. After experimenting with hosting the event two nights a week beginning in winter term 2015, BarHop has returned to a once-weekly schedule due to staffing issues, director of student performance programs at the Hopkins Center Joshua Price Kol ’93 said.
The Interfraternity Council, in conjunction with the Panhellenic Council, the Greek Letters Organizations and Societies office and the Dartmouth Center for Service, has announced plans for an annual Greek Philanthropy Competition that it hopes will excite Greek members about service, enhance intra-organization community and add structure to current philanthropic efforts on campus.
With the change of the seasons comes a photographer’s dream — thousands upon thousands of leaves saturated in the characteristic warm hues of fall. Once the leaves begin to change color, Hanover is swarmed by tourists toting cameras hoping to snap an Instagram-worthy picture of the foliage.
Former Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush spoke to a crowded room, including between 40 and 50 Dartmouth students, at the Grafton County Senior Citizens Council in Lebanon on Tuesday night.
Greek Letter Organizations and Societies director Wes Schaub left his position last Friday after more than four years in the post, associate dean for student life Eric Ramsey wrote in an email to Greek leadership.
Student Assembly will be holding events over the next several weeks as part of its “I’m Here For You” initiative, which aims to remove the stigma from mental health.
On Monday — the federal holiday Columbus Day — posters advertising apparel featuring the Dartmouth Indian appeared in various residence halls on campus. Today, Provost Carolyn Dever and Dean of the College Rebecca Biron co-signed an email to campus condemning the flyers, calling the act of distributing them around campus “cowardly and disrespectful.”
George “Skip” Battle ’66 has pledged to contribute up to $5 million to the College for the construction of the new Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, the College announced on Friday. Battle, former Ask.com CEO and senior Aspen Group member, will match donations from any source up to $5 million, for a possible $10 million gift in total, more than half of the total projected cost of $17 million to rebuild the structure.
Last week, Bosco, a genetics professor at the Geisel School of Medicine, won the $3.7 million Pioneer Award — a five-year grant sponsored by the National Institute of Health — for his research on the behavioral epigenetics of fruit flies. The sum will continue Bosco’s research.
On Monday, Oct. 12, the Dickey Center for International Understanding conducted a Humanity Uprooted panel to explain the causes and effects of Europe’s refugee crisis. The panel was held in Cook Auditorium in the late afternoon.
There were 20 percent fewer reports made to Safety and Security over Homecoming weekend this year than there had been the previous year and reports of intoxicated individuals were also down, Safety and Security directory Harry Kinne said.
Seventy-nine percent of professors, of those who were scheduled to have a special Saturday class, elected not to hold class on Saturday, Sept. 26, according to an anonymous survey of faculty conducted by The Dartmouth. Eighty-four percent indicated that they do not intend to hold class Saturday, Oct. 24.
Following its elimination of dues earlier this term, Phi Tau gender-inclusive fraternity saw a slight increase in number of bids offered. Overall, 32 students were offered bids at coed Greek houses this year, officers of Phi Tau, Alpha Theta and the Tabard gender-inclusive fraternities said.
From members of the Class of 2015 who graduated only four months ago to former students returning now with their families, the Dartmouth Night Ceremony and Homecoming bonfire are expected to draw 5,000 to 8,000 alumni this weekend, alumni relations communications project manager Rachel Hastings said.
In light of the increase in activity and events during the upcoming Homecoming weekend, Safety and Security will work with the Hanover Police Department and Green Mountain Security to dispatch additional patrol officers. Safety and Security will also collaborate with the College’s Emergency Medical Services, who will be on call at Dick’s House, Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said.
Over 20 student demonstrators held signs — with slogans such as “Stop telling me my rape was my fault” and “Rapists are not victims” — during a presentation titled “The College Rape Overcorrection” featuring controversial Slate columnist Emily Yoffe on Thursday afternoon.