Daily Debriefing
Founder of Bose Corporation Amar Bose donated the majority of the company's stocks to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the form of non-voting shares on April 29, according to an MIT press release.
Founder of Bose Corporation Amar Bose donated the majority of the company's stocks to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the form of non-voting shares on April 29, according to an MIT press release.
*Correction appended**## Comedian and talk show host Conan O'Brien will deliver the Class of 2011 Commencement address on June 12, College President Jim Yong Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth Editorial Board. O'Brien, who hosted NBC's Late Night from 1993 to 2009, currently hosts his self-titled show on TBS weeknights.
Lotta Nygren / The Dartmouth Staff Men need to take an active role in preventing gender-based violence, Jackson Katz, co-founder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention program, said in a lecture in Filene Auditorium on Tuesday.
Student Assmebly co-speaker Rohail Premjee '14 will serve as acting student body vice president while Student Body Vice President Amrita Sankar '12 is off campus for personal reasons, according to an Assembly press release. Premjee has served as an elected member of the Membership and Internal Affairs Committee, an Undergraduate Finance Committee representative and a Class of 2014 Cluster Representative, according to the release. "I'm excited to work with Rohail and am fully confident in his abilities and knowledge of the organization," Student Body President Max Yoeli '12 said in the release. After she was elected on April 15, Sankar announced she would leave campus to return home to Ridgefield, Conn., and then travel to India, The Dartmouth previously reported.
Correction appended Dartmouth will collaborate with 13 other colleges and universities on a new initiative the Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking that the College created to address alcohol use on campuses across the country, College President Jim Yong Kim said in a press conference Monday afternoon.
A low-flying Army National Guard helicopter located a group of kayakers including several Dartmouth students that was believed to be missing early Friday morning, according to kayaker Chelsea Liddell '11.
Confident that an environmentally-friendly house could be built for $300, Tuck School of Business professor Vijay Govindarajan organized a global competition to solicit design ideas for such houses, which could improve the quality of life for billions of poor individuals in developing countries.
Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth Staff In the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge genocide, the pursuit of justice has been hindered by various political and social concerns including a desire to achieve national unity among Cambodian and United Nations leaders, according to Uma Mullapudi '10, winner of the 2010 Chase Peace Prize.
Princeton University's Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life recommended that the university prohibit students from joining Greek organizations until their sophomore year and proposed the suspension of organizations that conduct rush for freshmen, The Daily Princetonian reported.
Dartmouth will collaborate with 14 other colleges and universities on a new initiative the Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking to address alcohol use on campuses across the country.
A buzzing room of business students and professionals of all ages fell silent as a deep voice broke into a chant.
Panelists discussed the benefits of shared decision making a process that includes collaborative patient-physician discussion regarding the multitude of health care options at the College's annual "Law Day" panel.
A recent Wall Street Journal column entitled, "Shutter Fraternities for Young Women's Good," is part of a larger trend of criticizing and evaluating fraternity culture and has gained recent national attention, Insider Higher Ed reported.
Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff Students, administrators and community members shared concerns about sexual abuse even recounting personal experiences with sexual violence during Friday evening's annual "Take Back the Night." The event, meant to encourage prevention and raise awareness of sexual assault at the College, was held as part of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program's observance of Sexual Assault Awareness month. Anneliese Sendax '13 delivered the evening's solemn keynote speech, in which she challenged observers to reconcile what she sees as the "two Dartmouths" of day and night. "We will be able to build a community in which no voice, no matter how quiet, is silenced," she said. Following the address, a crowd of approximately 70 people, including College President Jim Yong Kim, gathered in front of the Hopkins Center to begin a protest march across the campus, in conjunction with marches held on college and university campuses across the nation. Holding vivid signs with slogans such as "Awareness is Sexy" and "Claim our bodies, Claim our rights, Take a stand," the demonstrators marched past Collis, down Massachusetts Row and along Webster Avenue before circling around Baker-Berry Library and returning to the center of the Green.
Tuck School of Business and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers partnered for the first time to host 40 of the nation's most esteemed executives in cable technology and operations, according to M.
The Inter-Community Council presented a report on diversity detailing the College's recruitment and retention rates of minority faculty members in an open meeting sponsored by the People's Coalition on April 30.