Helfand touts alternative university model

Emily Fletcher / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Drawing on his experience as president of Quest University Canada, David Helfand spoke about reforming traditional university models to better focus on undergraduate students and how individuals' brains function in the Rockefeller Center on Monday as part of the "Leading Voices in Higher Education" lecture series.

Area hotels raise prices, sell out for graduation

Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Many hotels in the Hanover area are already booked for this year's Commencement, forcing graduating students' families to seek housing from the College's Office of Residential Life. The Hanover Inn, Six South Street Hotel, the Norwich Inn, the Trumbull House Bed and Breakfast, the Marriott in Lebanon and the Holiday Inn in White River Junction are among the hotels already sold out for the June 9 event, according to their websites and managers. "We get guests asking about graduation sometimes when they found out their student has been accepted," Norwich Inn Manager Taryn Foster said. Six South Street Hotel reserved its 69 rooms for members of its "E-Club" parents who have previously stayed in the hotel according to Don Bruce, the hotel's manager.

NAS celebrates 40 years with symposium

20x20 strategy proceeds as planned

Amelia Acosta / The Dartmouth Staff Since announcing the start of the 20x20 strategic plan an initiative to elevate the Geisel School of Medicine to one of the country's top 20 medical schools by 2020 in June 2011, the Geisel School has hired new faculty members, continued with plans for a new research center and pursued curricular revisions. The 2013 U.S.

Housing quality, rents often vary

Nushy Golriz / The Dartmouth Staff From upperclassmen trying to recreate their freshman year experiences to varsity athletes looking to live as close to practice as possible, many students choose to live off campus with friend groups to garner a sense of hominess not found in College housing despite the relatively high cost of rent and occasional mishaps. Although it varies by term, between 8 and 9 percent of enrolled undergraduate students live off campus, according to Director of Undergraduate Housing Rachael Class-Giguere. Patrick Campbell '15 said he decided to live off-campus so that he could live with all of his lacrosse teammates in one place.

Folt celebrates Beijing Normal University partnership

Courtesy of Sam Blader Interim College President Carol Folt and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael Mastanduno are spending the week in China to commemorate the College's 30-year educational partnership and student exchange program with Beijing Normal University. The partnership is the only educational collaboration between the United States and China that has lasted for 30 years, according to Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literature professor Alan Li.

Professor examines privacy violations

Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth Staff College-educated Americans tend to be concerned about the issues of privacy and information sharing but often fail to take the necessary precautions to protect their privacy, Illinois Institute of Technology sociology professor Christena Nippert-Eng said in a Wednesday lecture in Haldeman Hall. Nippert-Eng whose 2010 book "Islands of Privacy: Selective Concealment and Disclosure in Everyday Life" explores how people try to protect their privacy said that different people have different perceptions of privacy and therefore react differently to privacy violations. Her research among college-educated individuals has shown that people define privacy in three primary ways: the ability to control access to personal information, physical isolation and the freedom of self-determination, Nippert-Eng said. "Privacy was something that was hugely important to people," she said of the research findings.