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College receives $15.5 million in donations recognizing Wrights
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Turia Lahlou
| June 9, 2009
A total of $15.5 million in gifts have been made in honor of outgoing College President James Wright and his wife Susan DeBevoise Wright, the College announced on Tuesday.
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Dartmouth chief investment officer to leave College for Credit Suisse
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Turia Lahlou
| June 2, 2009
Dartmouth Chief Investment Officer David Russ has been hired to head Credit Suisse's new Investment Strategies and Solutions group beginning June 1, the banking company announced on Tuesday.
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Veterans share service experiences
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Nathan Swire
| June 1, 2009
Zach Kuster / The Dartmouth Staff Just one week after Memorial Day, seven military veterans from throughout the Dartmouth community spoke about their years of service and its effect on their lives in a panel discussion held in Collis Center on Monday.
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Senior athletes excel both on the field and in the community
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Elizabeth Sullivan and Stefanie Lazow
| June 1, 2009
Although the College's varsity athletes must juggle practices, away games, classes and exams, several graduating Big Green athletes said their Dartmouth careers have gone far beyond grade point averages and individual scoring statistics. Women's basketball captain Koren Schram '09 pairs intense dedication on the court with a commitment to her potential future career in medicine.
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Accessibility Services lacking, students say
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Erin Jaeger
| June 1, 2009
In an effort to address concerns raised by multiple students that the College's Student Accessibility Services fails to provide students with disabilities the accommodations they need, a group of Dartmouth students presented a report to the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity last Wednesday asking administrators to revise College accessibility policies. In the report, the students requested that the College develop guidelines for professors to grant students disability-related accommodations, increase funding to Student Accessibility Services and improve communication across administrative departments to ensure that students with disabilities receive equal access to all aspects of the Dartmouth experience. Multiple students said in interviews with The Dartmouth that they were frustrated with Accessibility Services' current practices, including the amount of time it takes to receive classroom accommodations.
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One-third of seniors have found jobs
June 1, 2009
Approximately one-third of graduating Dartmouth students surveyed by Career Services have secured future employment, according to Monica Wilson, the College's director of employer relations.
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Seniors on campus for alumni lawsuit, Greek expansion
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Madeline Sims
| June 1, 2009
Since arriving on campus, the Class of 2009 has witnessed an expansion of Greek life, controversy within the College's alumni community and visits by national politicians.
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DHMC lobbies state to restore funds
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Conrad Scoville
| June 1, 2009
Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center officials are urging state legislators to restore a portion of the $10 million the hospital may lose in state Medicaid funding due to budget cuts, according to Frank McDougall, DHMC vice president for government relations.
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Looking back at 2008-2009: Two new presidents, College-wide budget cuts and Greek expansion
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Ann Baum
| June 1, 2009
In their last year at Dartmouth, members of the Class of 2009 saw the College take on issues ranging from budget cuts and the economic downturn, to alumni governance and Greek expansion, to presidential elections both at the College level and on the national scale. Following President James Wright's February 2008 announcement that he would step down from the position of president in June 2009, a search committee chaired by Trustee Al Mulley '70 was formed that consisted of alumni, faculty, trustees and then-Student Body President Molly Bode '09. In July 2008, the presidential search committee began holding forums on campus and in cities across the country to solicit input from the Dartmouth community.
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Lord, six faculty leaving this year
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Conrad Scoville
| June 1, 2009
Six members of the College faculty, as well as associate provost Stuart Lord, will join the Class of 2009 and College President James Wright in leaving Dartmouth at the end of this year. Stuart Lord, associate provost and former dean of the Tucker Foundation, will leave the College to serve as the fifth president of Naropa University in Boulder, Colo.
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In Defense of Journalism
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Former Editor-in-Chief Katy O'Donnell '09
| June 1, 2009
According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal ("The Curse of the Class of 2009," May 9, 2009), we are all about to enter the toughest labor market in at least 25 years.
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Friends remember teammate Lolies '09
June 1, 2009
The Class of 2009 will graduate on Sunday without one of its members: Ben Lolies '09, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in his home state of Georgia while on leave from the College in October 2007. While at Dartmouth, Lolies experienced flare-ups of Crohn's disease, a chronic affliction that causes extreme stomach pain, lack of appetite and general malaise.
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Amid financial crisis, class breaks gift record
June 1, 2009
Despite the ongoing economic crisis, the Class of 2009 turned out in record numbers to donate to the College's Senior Class Gift, achieving a 96 percent participation rate up from last year's record of 92.5-percent participation and the highest rate among Ivy League schools this year, according to Katie Kobylenski, assistant director of the Dartmouth College Fund. The Class of 2009 is the fifth graduating class in a row to break the previous class' record for participation, according to a College press release. This year's senior class gift totals $105,161, which includes donations from not only students, but also parents, friends and alumni, Kobylenski said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth.
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College awards honorary degrees
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Tatiana Cooke
| June 1, 2009
The seven honorary degrees recipients at this year's Commencement ceremony will include a cartoonist, a retired Army General, a world-renowned doctor, an ecologist, a former professional basketball player and a microfinance expert. Roz Chast, a cartoonist known for her work in The New Yorker magazine, served as a Montgomery Fellow at the College during Fall term 2009 and will receive a Doctor of Arts degree. "I always loved making myself laugh and making other people laugh," Chast said in an interview with The Dartmouth earlier this year.
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Chemistry prof. dies of brain cancer
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Ann Baum
| June 1, 2009
Paul Veale, a former senior lecturer in the chemistry department, died of complications from brain cancer on Thursday, according to chemistry senior lecturer Siobhan Milde. Veale, who taught organic chemistry, was described by Milde as "a big man with a very big heart." "He really cared about his students and wanted to see them succeed," she said. Veale was diagnosed with brain cancer in September after he spent the Summer term teaching, according to Milde.
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Some Big Green athletes gained national spotlight
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Manisha Apte
| June 1, 2009
From the frigid racing tracks of Anchorage, Alaska, to a basketball court surrounded by more than 10,000 fans, several Dartmouth teams and individual athletes made appearances on the national stage this year. The Big Green baseball team (27-18, 16-4 Ivy) took the Ivy League Championship this year, following a season marked by the second highest number of wins in the program's history. Despite ending their NCAA tournament run after losing their first two games members of the baseball team said they were pleased with the season's outcome. "It feels tremendous to get this far, it's always been our goal and our first order in training was to be Ivy League Champions," captain Robert Young '10 said.
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Festivals, generals mark past graduations
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Jamila Ma
| June 1, 2009
This year's Commencement will be marked by the appearance of bagpipes and the College's first use of a Jumbotron screen during the ceremony, but in 1833 the event had a slightly different feel gamblers, jugglers and auctioneers awaited graduates on the Green following the ceremony. Now in its 238th year, the College's Commencement has featured several such unusual visitors over the years, ranging from a roasted ox, to the Secret Service, to a Civil War general. Only four students all transfer students from Yale University graduated at Dartmouth's first Commencement on August 28th, 1771.