Daily Debriefing
Dartmouth will offer tuition-free education to a group of Haitian students whose studies were put on hold by the recent earthquake in their country, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in a press conference Monday.
Dartmouth will offer tuition-free education to a group of Haitian students whose studies were put on hold by the recent earthquake in their country, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in a press conference Monday.
Several alumni praised College President Jim Yong Kim's commitment to maintaining Dartmouth's academic standards and considerate approach to determining staff layoffs in the $100-million budget cut plan announced to the Dartmouth community on Monday.
Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Staff Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Staff Student Assembly unanimously passed a resolution calling for Hanover Police to reevaluate the new alcohol enforcement policy Chief Nicholas Giaccone announced last week at their General Assembly meeting Tuesday night. The resolution, sponsored by the Student Assembly Executive Committee, calls for the Hanover Police Department and Hanover Town Select Board to negotiate with the College and students and develop policies that will maintain or improve students' safety.
College will lay off thirty-eight employees, reinstitute student loans
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Greek leaders restated their opposition to Hanover Police's new alcohol enforcement policy at Monday night's meeting of the Hanover Board of Selectmen, prompting members of the Board to express concerns that current campus attitudes towards alcohol may lead to alcohol-related deaths.
College President Jim Yong Kim has continually emphasized the importance of maintaining the College's academic mission as he seeks to reduce inefficiency in College operations and cut $100 million from the budget for fiscal years 2011 and 2012.
College President Jim Yong Kim outlined budget decisions to an anxious audience of faculty packed into Alumni Hall at a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Monday afternoon.
Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Murdered professors and daily car bombings are not experiences most Ivy League applicants have to consider including in their path to college admissions, but for Ihab Basri '13, these experiences were all too real.
President Barack Obama nominated Pamela Joyner '79, a member of the College's Board of Trustees, to be one of six new members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
Correction appended Despite Monday's release of details concerning financial aid and layoffs which together account for $10 million of the $100-million total budget reduction several other aspects of the budget will be developed between now and the April Board of Trustees meeting, the College announced in a press release Monday. The budget plan approved by the Board of Trustees this weekend finds $25 million in savings in "administrative reorganization and restructuring," the largest single segment of the proposed cutback, according to the release.
Thirty-eight current employees and full student grants for families with incomes over $75,000 will be the first specific casualties in the College's efforts to mitigate its $100-million budget shortfall, the College Office of Public Affairs announced in a press release Monday afternoon.
A new patient-monitoring system launched by a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center team has decreased the likelihood of post-operation complications by almost half and postoperative rescue calls by two-thirds, according to a paper written by DHMC anesthesiologist Andreas Taenzer and his colleagues. Patients in the study were monitored by oximetry finger probes, which measure blood oxygen levels and notify nurses when a patient's condition deteriorates, according to the paper, "Impact of Pulse Oximetry Surveillance on Rescue Events and Intensive Care Unit Transfers: A Before-and-After Concurrence Study," published in the February issue of Anesthesiology.
Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Students and alumni have been quick to condemn an announcement made by Hanover Police Thursday night that the department will begin alcohol law compliance checks at campus Greek organization events in the coming months.
Correction Appended Battling patients' sepsis, tetanus and renal failure, the Dartmouth Haiti Response emergency medical teams fought to deliver care in conditions "worse than Iraq," team members said in a panel discussion held in Cook Auditorium on Friday. A total of 20 physicians and nurses from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center traveled to Haiti to assist in relief efforts in Hinche and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following the Jan.
Dartmouth was ranked No. 12 in the Peace Corps' top 25 list of small schools with alumni currently serving as volunteers, the College announced on Friday.
It might take stunts like an underwater cabinet meeting conducted by the president of the Maldives to illustrate the potential consequences of rapidly increasing sea levels, according to glaciologist Robert Bindschadler of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Campus Greek organization leaders circulated an e-mail response campus-wide Friday evening, responding to the announcement made by Hanover Police Thursday night to begin alcohol law compliance checks at Greek organization events in the coming months. The change in policy came in response to a perceived rise in alcohol use and abuse by underage individuals, Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone said at the Thursday meeting. In the e-mail, Greek leaders argued against Hanover Police's proposed use of undercover operatives to investigate whether Greek organizations are providing alcohol to underage individuals.
Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff The Green was aglow Thursday evening, lit with candles held by Dartmouth students, faculty, staff and local community members who gathered to offer support to Dartmouth workers fearing layoffs in the upcoming round of budget cuts.
Hanover Police announces ‘sting operations'
Editor's note: This is the second part of a weekly series profiling various properties owned by the College outside Hanover. Frank Sinatra, Dartmouth's Board of Trustees and the committee that drafted the 1999 Student Life Initiative may not have much in common, but all three have spent some time at the Minary Conference Center, a College-owned waterfront property on Squam Lake in Holderness, N.H. The Center was donated to the College in 1970 by William Paley, the founder of CBS Broadcasting, and it has since served the Dartmouth community, alumni and others as a venue for both meetings and retreats, according to Drew Hinman, manager of the Minary Center. The Minary Center, which can accommodate up to 35 guests, tries to go beyond simply providing lodging for customers, aiming to foster a productive atmosphere for the conferences held there, Hinman said. "At a traditional hotel, they put in meeting facilities to sell rooms," said Hinman, who has been manager for 24 years.