Death benefits taken off to help reduce budgets
Starting Jan. 1, retired College employees will no longer receive a previously guaranteed $5,000 death benefit, College President Jim Yong Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
Starting Jan. 1, retired College employees will no longer receive a previously guaranteed $5,000 death benefit, College President Jim Yong Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
Michael Wagner, chief financial officer of Dartmouth Medical School, has been appointed to serve as the College's vice president of finance, effective September 2010, according to a College press release. The position of executive vice president for finance and administration was previously held by Adam Keller.
Dartmouth's strategic budget reduction initiative, the College's preparations for reaccrediation and the visibility of the Board of Trustees were amongst topics discussed at the Board's weekend retreat, held Sept.
Correction Appended After a tumultuous eight months during which Greek organizations were investigated for serving alcohol to minors, while students organized to oppose Hanover Police policies the Inter-fraternity Council, the Greek Letter Organization and Societies Office, and Hanover Police have continued meeting regularly to address concerns about alcohol consumption on the Dartmouth campus, according to IFC president Tyler Brace '11. Although Brace said he appreciates the level of dialogue among students, the College and police, he hopes to see more transparency and clarity from the Hanover Police. Since Hanover Police announced plans to launch "sting operations" and compliance checks in February to crack down on Greek organizations serving alcohol to minors a policy that faced significant opposition from the student body the Student and Presidential Alcohol Harm Reduction Committee has been working to assess Dartmouth's drinking culture.
Newly-appointed Acting Director of Greek Letter Organizations and Societies Kristi Clemens has begun her term by meeting with student leaders to familiarize herself with the Dartmouth Greek System, Clemens said in an interview.
Three years after the murder of Hayley Petit, who was to matriculate with the Class of 2011, proceedings against Steven Hayes, one of her alleged killers, began Monday in New Haven, Conn. Hayes is one of two men charged with killing Petit, her mother and sister in a 2007 home invasion.
The College has converted 44 doubles in Fahey and McClane residence halls to triples to accommodate the rise in the number of students this year, and has started major renovations on the former Thayer Dining Hall, now called the Class of 1953 Commons. The College decided to change the rooms from two-room doubles to triples to accommodate the Class of 2014, which has roughly 50 more students than previous classes. These rooms were only offered to incoming freshman who indicated a preference for two or more roommates, Director of Residential Operations Woody Eckels said in an interview.
Michael Wagner, chief financial officer of Dartmouth Medical School, has been appointed to serve as the College's vice president of finance, effective September 2010, according to a College press release. The position of executive vice president for finance and administration was previously held by Adam Keller.
Courtesy of Shaun Akhtar Courtesy of Shaun Akhtar Over 17 Greek and community organizations staged informational booths and games such as sex-position twister and lubricant tasting during this year's annual Consent Day, which took place on Friday afternoon.
Before many members of the Class of 2014 begin their first classes at the College, they will experience a whirlwind of pre-orientation and orientation programming planned by the College and the student-run Orientation Team.
Ann Smolowe '81, who served as senior managing director for leadership giving in the College's Office of Development, died on Aug.
Although the town of Hanover is not easily confused with Hollywood, Calif., the independent film "Brief Reunion" (2011) was exclusively filmed in the Upper Valley this summer and will include several scenes that were shot at Dartmouth, according to "Brief Reunion" producer Ben Silberfarb '90. Written and directed by John Daschbach, the film is a psychological thriller that tells the story of a middle-aged man who reconnects with an old friend through a social networking site, only to see his life slowly dismantled through their rekindled relationship, Silberfarb said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The idea for the film was developed a year and a half ago, when Daschbach contacted former high-school classmate Silberfarb over Facebook with an idea for a new project.
Economics professor Douglas Irwin was selected as the lecturer for the 23rd annual Ohlin Lectures, a two-day lecture series at the Stockholm School of Economics in Stockholm, Sweden, according to a College press release.
Although they are spending summer in Hanover thousands of miles away from Africa, members of Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects have used this term to increase their presence in impoverished, villages overseas and are working to create a small-scale hydroelectricity system in Rwanda and improve wood burning and waste disposal technology in Tanzania, according to HELP member Ted Sumers '12.
From being shot at by Taliban forces in the Middle East to reporting live from the Pentagon as it was attacked on Sept.
SUJIN LIM / The Dartmouth Staff SUJIN LIM / The Dartmouth Staff Editors Note: This is the second installment in a series profiling visiting professors at the College. As an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, Montgomery Fellow and visiting English professor Alex Kotlowitz "made the mistake" of taking organic chemistry.
Nancy Marion, former chair of the economics department and economics professor, has been appointed associate dean of the faculty for the social sciences, Dean of Faculty Michael Mastanduno announced in an e-mail on Monday.
Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Staff Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Staff While the current Jewish and Islamic codes of law are often considered as two independent, unrelated entities, centuries of close interaction between Jewish and Muslim populations resulted in a number of similarities between the two legal doctrines, according to Hebrew University of Jerusalem law professor Gideon Libson.
High school students uncovered footprints, identified blood evidence and dusted for fingerprints in a mock crime scene on Wednesday for the class "Crime Scene Investigation" a part of the Summer Institute for the Gifted Program at Dartmouth.