Students succeed in touching fire

MAGGIE ROWLAND / The Dartmouth Staff Seven students were arrested on the Friday and Saturday of Homecoming weekend, marking fewer arrests than previous years, according to Assistant Director of Safety and Security Keiselim Montas.

Congress likely to cut Pell Grants, experts say

KATIE TAI / The Dartmouth As both Congressional chambers develop proposals to preserve the $5,550 maximum award for Pell Grants in light of recent budget cuts, students of different income levels face varying consequences that will depend on which plan is eventually signed into law, according to Amanda Wintersteen, the assistant director for government relations at the National Association for College Admission Counseling. The House of Representatives' proposal to narrow the eligibility criteria for federal Pell Grants which would render the highest-income beneficiaries in the program's current form ineligible would not affect Dartmouth students, Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid Laura McClay said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

Experts discuss cyber operations

Ricahrd Yu / The Dartmouth Despite the growing importance placed on cyber operations and security, the field still has an air of "magic" surrounding it, Martin Libicki, a senior management scientist at the policy think tank RAND Corporation, said in a Thursday evening panel in the Rockefeller Center. During the lecture, three leading cyber security experts discussed the background of current cyber operations technology and the degree to which governments and citizens should be concerned.

College ranks eighth for on-campus housing

DHMC receives $6.1 mill. grant

Yang offers alternative career path

Richard Yu / The Dartmouth Self-proclaimed "business guy" Andrew Yang, founder and president of the non-profit organization Venture for America, promoted taking the career path less traveled and working for entrepreneurial start-ups in front of an audience of approximately 20 Dartmouth students in Carson Hall on Tuesday evening. Venture for America is a new two-year fellowship program that places selected recent college graduates from the "top 30 national institutions" with start-up companies in "low-cost" cities such as Detroit, New Orleans or Providence, Yang said. "[Venture for America] thinks that too many of our smart and talented people have blindly gotten into finance, consulting and law," Yang said, "Not enough have chosen to go the business and entrepreneurial route." Yang revealed that about 50 percent of Harvard undergraduates pursue law school, medical school, finance or consulting internships or other offers from organizations such as Teach for America.