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Administrators hope “Moving Dartmouth Forward” changes will create an intellectual campus environment.
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Panelists, students discuss increases to academic rigor

By Parker Richards | March 5, 2015

College President Phil Hanlon’s proclamation that Dartmouth’s curriculum would become more academically rigorous in his Jan. 29 “Moving Dartmouth Forward” announcement sparked debate and worry amongst many students. A panel on academic rigor on Tuesday evening attempted to address these fears by having panelists, many of whom served on the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee, discuss changes that will be associated with its enactment.

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Wall Street 101 will bring financial modeling course

By Erin Lee | March 5, 2015

Campus organization Wall Street 101 will host a two-day financial modeling course run by Adventis CG, a former financial consulting firm that now offers instruction to professionals and undergraduate students. Wall Street 101 secretary Max Hannam ’16 said that the course offers a service not available anywhere else on campus, even though a large portion of Dartmouth students go into finance — 51 percent of members of the Class of 2014 who had secured jobs at the time of graduation reported they were hired as a financial analyst, associate or consultant, according to the “cap and gown” survey results.

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NAD students travel to Ivy League social

By Kelsey Flower | March 5, 2015

This past weekend, 17 Native American Dartmouth students attended the Yale University Midwinter Social to meet with Native students from across the Ivy League, eat Native foods like frybread and chowder, watch dances and listen to drumming from popular regional powwow groups.

A group of administrators answered student questions at a panel Monday.
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MDF working groups begin planning for spring

By Noah Goldstein | March 4, 2015

As part of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative, three working groups — focused on student and organization standards and review, social event and alcohol management and community citizenship — began meeting last week to examine current policy and potentially recommend changes in the wake of the plan’s announcement on Jan. 29. The groups will meet regularly and submit final proposals by the end of spring term for implementation this fall.

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Big Green Careers hopes to offer career services

By Lauren Budd | March 4, 2015

Though many students view the formal corporate recruiting process as the default when thinking about future high-paying careers, Dartmouth sustainability director Rosi Kerr wants to turn the Big Green Careers program, now a two-year pilot program, into a viable, robust parallel to corporate recruiting. The program seeks out students, Kerr said, who are interested in “making the world better but also making a living.”

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Asian/Asian-American discussion group will resume in spring

By Erica Buonanno | March 3, 2015

The Asian/Asian-American Exploration Group, an organization formed to encourage open discussion about what it means to be Asian or Asian-American on campus, will resume with weekly discussions starting next term. The group, created and facilitated by Dick’s House counselors Da-Shih Hu and Sarah Chung, has operated in two previous terms and is open to self-identifying Asian and Asian-American undergraduate and graduate students.

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Sexual assault bill aims to protect survivors and accused

By Annie Ma | March 3, 2015

A bill aiming to protect the rights of both the survivor and the accused when combating sexual assault on campuses was reintroduced to the Senate last Thursday. The revised bill, titled the Campus Safety and Accountability Act, contains proposals outlining initiatives for campuses to adjudicate sexual assault cases.

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College announces stricter sanctions under new alcohol policy

By Parker Richards | March 2, 2015

The College has clarified and expanded the disciplinary action for violations of the alcohol policies announced by College President Phil Hanlon in late January as part of his “Moving Dartmouth Forward” initiative. Punishments for hard alcohol violations will include college probation and suspension for first- and second-time offenders, respectively.

Administrators answer student questions surrounding the implementation of “Moving Dartmouth Forward.”
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Admins answer student questions in “MDF” panel

By Timothy Connor | March 2, 2015

Student Assembly, Palaeopitus senior society and the Office of the President hosted a “Moving Dartmouth Forward” town meeting last night in Filene Auditorium, during which a panel composed of College President Phil Hanlon, Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer, Provost Carolyn Dever and Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno answered questions from facilitators and audience members about the plan’s five major initiatives.

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Tuck Executive Education minority programs head appointed

By Emilia Baldwin | March 2, 2015

The Tuck School of Business recently announced the appointment of Fred McKinney as the managing director of its minority business programs. McKinney has worked for the past four years as the president and chief executive officer of the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council, a non-profit organization that dedicates itself to advancing business opportunities for certified Asian, black, Hispanic and Native American businesses.

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Mock Trial team has successful year

By Erin Lee | March 2, 2015

The Dartmouth College Mock Trial Society came away with a seventh place finish at the Buffalo, New York, regional tournament last weekend and received a bid to attend this weekend’s opening round championships at Pennsylvania State University — the first round of the American Mock Trial Association’s national competition — marking the first time in recent years the team has automatically qualified from competition.

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"3 Day Startup" promotes creativity

By Parker Richards | March 2, 2015

A group of young entrepreneurs from the Dartmouth community gathered at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network on Friday evening with a purpose: to share, innovate and their own ideas and, in 72 hours, put those concepts into a distributable form before a panel of judges with experience in entrepreneurship.

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Professor develops board game for social change

By Sara McGahan | March 2, 2015

Monarch — a soon-to-be produced board game created by film and media studies professor Mary Flanagan — transports its players into a pan-cultural fantasy world where sisters, all heirs to the throne, vie to become queen. A strategy game for both gamers and families, Monarch features strong female characters, a feature typically uncharacteristic of board games.

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Organizers prep for Dartmouth’s first hackathon

By Emilia Baldwin | March 2, 2015

Seventy college students, including students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology, have signed up for HackDartmouth — Dartmouth’s first annual hackathon — since registration opened last week, student organizer Colby Ye ’16 said.

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Improve Dartmouth plans to expand program

By Steffen Eriksen | February 26, 2015

With over a year of experience crowdsourcing student ideas, including the now-implemented digitization of timesheets for on-campus employees, the renovation of Novack Cafe and the addition of cell phone charging stations to Baker-Berry Library, Improve Dartmouth recently made changes to its site and plans for program expansion and ways to increase online participation, co-founder Gillian O’Connell ’15 said.

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Tim Rieser ’76 helped shape Cuba policy changes

By Erin Lee | February 26, 2015

Many call native Vermonter, avid cross-country skier, fluent Spanish-speaker and blue-jean aficionado Tim Rieser ’76 one of the most influential behind-the-scenes forces in Washington today. Recently, Rieser helped secure the release of Alan Gross, an American imprisoned in Cuba since 2009 on accusations of espionage.

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