Failing safety check, Panarchy closes until July
Panarchy undergraduate society has been closed for the summer, effective 8 p.m. Thursday. Current residents were given until that time to vacate the building.
Panarchy undergraduate society has been closed for the summer, effective 8 p.m. Thursday. Current residents were given until that time to vacate the building.
The feedback gathered by Moving Dartmouth Forward, an umbrella initiative that intends to drive change on campus, will impact various student life concerns from housing to Greek life, Will said.
When asked to bring a team of about 10 people to the top of a steep ramp located in the Storrs Pond ropes course, fellows from President Barack Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative first attempted to climb the ramp individually. After a few trials, some fellows crounched on their knees, enabling others to step on their backs to reach the top, while those at the top pulled up those at the bottom by their wrists. Soon the group completed the challenge.
Every day after an exhausting shift, a woman enters the pale-blue residence at 1673 Maple Street in Hartford, about a 10 minute drive from Hanover. She sprawls out on a large blue sofa in front of the television set and flips the channel to her favorite crime shows on the Investigation Discovery (ID) channel, a routine so habitual that fellow residents have taken to calling her the “IDiva.”
Ameer heads the student academic support services and campus life initiatives in the office of the Dean of the College, where she has worked to expand advising services and accessibility at the College.
King Arthur Flour will likely close its Baker-Berry Library location in December, retail and cafe operations director Kelly Mousley said Monday afternoon. Mousley said that the company’s decision resulted from tension over what services King Arthur Flour can provide.
The Center for Community Action and Prevention, originally slated to open July 1, has pushed back its opening to the fall to allow additional time to find a for director, associate Dean of the College Elizabeth Agosto ’01 said.
Starting this summer, students will be able to roll over up to $100 of DBA per term over the course of the academic year, according to a late May post on Dartmouth Dining Service’s website.
A two-day event last weekend called “The Startup Experience Workshop” urged students to devise a sustainable solution for a social problem.
Geisel School of Medicine dean Wiley “Chip” Souba will not seek reappointment to a second term, College President Phil Hanlon announced Wednesday. Souba served as Geisel’s dean for one four-year term. Though Souba, who is currently traveling, was unavailable for comment, he will as a member of the medical school faculty continue his work on nationally expanding his interests in the future of medical education, according to Hanlon’s statement.
Heather Lindkvist, the Title IX officer and an anthropology professor at Bates College, will begin serving as Dartmouth’s Title IX coordinator and Clery Act compliance officer in August, the College announced earlier this month.
Following Commencement on June 8, Trevor Rees-Jones ’73 retired from the College’s Board of Trustees, replaced by Gregory Maffei ’82.
Hanover Police Chief Charlie Dennis has begun to settle into the position after his first two weeks as department head.
Geisel School of Medicine dean Wiley “Chip” Souba will not seek reappointment to a second four-year term, College President Phil Hanlon announced this morning. Souba plans to continue to work in medical education at Geisel.
Heather Lindkvist, of Bates College, will implement policies and collect data to ensure that the College complies with Title IX, a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex at federally funded institutions, and the Clery Act.
Commencement featured speeches from one valedictorian and alumna Shonda Rhimes, who received an honorary degree. Take a look at The D's slideshow here.
About 13,500 people gathered on the Green Sunday morning to celebrate Commencement, at which 1,116 students received undergraduate degrees. In her address to the graduates, screenwriter Shonda Rhimes ’91 emphasized the importance of action over dreams, maintaining perspective and understanding that no one is perfect.
After one four-year term, Trevor Rees-Jones ’73 retired from the Board of Trustees following Commencement, the College announced Sunday. He was replaced by Gregory Maffei ’82. The Board's termly meeting was Friday.
The College will offer four massive open online courses through a partnership with edX beginning in early 2015, focusing on introductory environmental science, 19th-century American literature, introductory opera and engineering structural forms. Dartmouth is the final Ivy League institution to offer free courses accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.
Based on charter and alumni trustee term limits, which permit the trustees to serve up to two four-year terms, eight trustees who were elected before 2012 are expected to leave the 26-member Board in the next three years.