Daily Debriefing
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that Virginia Polytechnic Institute was not negligent when officials did not notify campus of a shooting on April 16, 2007.
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that Virginia Polytechnic Institute was not negligent when officials did not notify campus of a shooting on April 16, 2007.
Lindsay Ellis ’15 and Carla Larin ’15 will become editor-in-chief and publisher of The Dartmouth beginning next term, the outgoing directorate announced at Saturday’s annual Changeover ceremony at Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
A team of inspectors from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement arrived on campus last Saturday to examine Safety and Security facilities determine if the department is eligible for accreditation as a college security agency. This is the first time that Safety and Security is undergoing an accreditation process.
For centuries, scholars interested in Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” were accustomed to combing through heaps of physical documents, most of which were housed in Italy. These academics were granted instant access to historical and contemporaneous Dante scholarship through the Dartmouth Dante Project, which in 1988 began digitizing poem and commentaries from 1322 onward.
Since last fall, Collis After Dark has increasingly offered social alternatives to the Greek system, seeing steady attendance after the first-year ban lifted.
The College is reevaluating the future use of the planned $150 million North Campus Academic Center.
The number of students applying to law school has been on the decline, with October’s law entry exam administrations down nearly 11 percent from last year, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The third annual Global Employability Survey, published on Monday, indicates a trend toward a more international employment market, The New York Times reported.
Ponka-We Victors, the first Native American woman in the Kansas House of Representatives, spoke about her heritage's impact on her political career.
The College offered around $96 million in aid to 2,424 students during the last academic year, according to the College Fact Book, and, like other schools, offers federal loans as well as institutional loans for those not eligible for the former.
This winter, students can attend food tastings and restaurant trials in the Upper Valley, Boston and New York, as the Dartmouth Gourmet Food Society kicks off its inaugural term.
Members of the Class of 2018 will have the chance spend their first year in new living and learning communities focused on STEM subjects, entrepreneurship and the arts, if proposals for these residences move forward.
This summer, the College hired EthicsPoint, a regulatory compliance company, to run its compliance and ethics hotline, which allows community members to anonymously report violations of College policy as well as state and national laws. Program administrators said they hope the hotline will allow for people to report issues without fear of being identified.
Earlier this month, the Development Committee, which includes a board of governors from the joint World Bank-International Monetary Fund forum, announced its approval of the “World Bank Group Strategy,” former College President and current World Bank president Jim Yong Kim’s plan to restructure staff.
As the United States confronts allegations that the National Security Agency spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, students studying abroad in Berlin on the German foreign studies program find themselves at the epicenter of an international scandal.
New research has found Norse Greenlanders went extinct despite many attempts to adapt to changing climate. This finding revises previous scholarship that viewed the Norse as a inflexible society resistant to change, said Thomas McGovern, an anthropology professor at Hunter College, City University of New York.
The U.S. government is considering a plan to rate universities on their value to determine how much federal aid they will receive, The New York Times reported.
Since Sarner Underground opened over a year ago, students and organizations have used the space for concerts, dance parties and student gatherings. Unlike other meeting spaces on campus, only undergraduate students and organizations are permitted to use Sarner.
Before the early 2000s, Jordan’s national television channel would only show videos of its king meeting with other heads of states, but due to the demand for real information, the channel has since expanded its offerings.
Every day, the average American spends over eight hours looking at a screen, but only 20 minutes reading from a print source, Pulitzer Prize finalist Nick Carr ’81 said in a lecture Monday evening.