Seven seniors share stories in annual panel
Seven members of the Class of 2014 discussed issues including identity, mental health and healing from childhood trauma at the annual Women of Dartmouth panel on Monday.
Seven members of the Class of 2014 discussed issues including identity, mental health and healing from childhood trauma at the annual Women of Dartmouth panel on Monday.
After five years in Hanover, Yama Restaurant II will gain a new owner, a new name and perhaps a new Japanese-Korean menu by June, manager Yong Jeon said.
A proposed campus climate survey will likely not be conducted until next fall or winter, college spokesperson Justin Anderson said. Anderson said the Office of the Provost will be involved in the survey, with incoming provost Carolyn Dever leading the survey’s implementation.
Three students were arrested last weekend, Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said, which marked the lowest number in recent history. This year’s Green Key weekend saw the usual boost in campus police activity, Kinne said, and most calls were related to alcohol.
A new human-centered design minor, approved last week by the Committee of Chairs, will launch this fall. Sponsored by the engineering sciences department, the interdisciplinary minor aims to incorporate knowledge, research and innovation from various disciplines to address human needs. Thayer School of Engineering professor Peter Robbie and computer science professor Lorie Loeb will serve as faculty advisors.
Women comprise around 30 percent of students at the Tuck School of Business, facing particular challenges, including a lack of role models. Earlier this month, more than 100 people gathered to promote discussion about women in business at the Tuck Initiative for Women Symposium, which began May 1.
This year, we decided to suspend our annual Green Key issue in favor of an in-depth look at the subject that has seized campus dialogue — sexual assault.
The College’s fiscal year 2013 revenue totaled $1,193,865,978, a $226,161,333 increase from last year, according to Dartmouth’s 990 tax form filed yesterday. The increase is the largest since the 2010 fiscal year.
This week, the standing faculty committee on senior fellowships selected Hannah McGehee ’15, Bennie Niles ’15 and Yomalis Rosario ’15 as senior fellows for the 2014-15 year, giving them the opportunity to pursue in-depth research projects instead of taking classes. Director of undergraduate advising and research Margaret Funnell said the three were selected because their projects were unique and aligned with the program’s goals.
Though most at the College have put the days of SAT prep books behind them, Johns and a number of other Dartmouth students work as SAT tutors, some as local volunteers and others with national and international companies.
Participation in the Hanover Alcohol Diversion Program fell by around 30 percent between 2012 and 2013, dropping from 91 students in 2012 to 62 in 2013. The number of Dartmouth undergraduates taking part in the program — which offers first-time underage drinking offenders an educational alternative to court — nearly halved, with 45 students participating in 2013 compared to 87 students the previous year.
Despite growing up in a county where around one-fifth of the population identified as Asian — more than three times the national percentage — Fischer Yan ’14 said she felt like she lived in a white suburb. Before an audience of over 100 people in Collis Common Ground yesterday night, Yan and four other panelists — Saaid Arshad ’14, Karima Ma ’14, Francis Slaughter ’16 and Maan Tinna ’13 — spoke about their experiences as Asians and Asian Americans both at Dartmouth and beyond.
The College will announce its first four massive open online courses, hosted in partnership with the edX online learning platform, later this month. Though the College originally hoped to launch its first MOOC this fall, followed by three additional courses during the 2014-15 academic year, director of digital learning initiatives Josh Kim said the College now plans to release its first course early in 2015.
Following last night’s monologue performance of Futurist manifestos, the French and Italian department will kick off a conference commemorating the upcoming centennial of World War I this afternoon. The conference examines the war’s political and cultural ramifications from a breadth of perspectives.
Next year’s funding allocated to Student Assembly dropped to $40,000 from this year’s allocation of $58,000, the UFC announced Tuesday. The committee said in a press release that some of the assembly’s proposals “were not in the spirit of the Student Activities Fee.”
The Hanover Finance Committee proposed an amendment to decrease the town’s budget at Hanover’s annual town hall meeting Tuesday night, but attendees dismissed the initiative, eventually approving a $22.1 million operating budget for 2014-15.
Colleges across the Ivy League have faced student pressure to release course review results to students, with many universities offering online open assessments in some form. Of the eight institutions, all except Dartmouth offer some sort of institutionalized method for students to see course evaluations.
Gregg Fairbrothers ’76, the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network’s founding director who teaches at the Tuck School of Business, will officially leave Tuck June 30. Students, alumni and faculty have rallied as news spread, circulating a petition that garnered over 270 signatures as of press time to keep Fairbrothers at Dartmouth.
About 30 people discussed current and future global experiences at the College and abroad at yesterday’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” conversations. Topics covered at the session, the last in the series, included new foreign study programs in Ghana and South Africa.
About 40 percent of the state’s 1.3 million residents obtain their drinking water from private wells, which do not require regulation, and around 20 percent of these wells have arsenic levels higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety standard.