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October 9, 2026
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Acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears took over the position in the wake of former Dean Tom Crady's abrupt departure in August.
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Spears works to finish AMP review

By Turia Lahlou | September 14, 2009

ELISABETH ERICSON / The Dartmouth Staff Now just three weeks into her term as acting Dean of the College following the abrupt resignation of former Dean Tom Crady, Sylvia Spears is tasked with overseeing two of Parkhurst's most controversial endeavors the formulation of an Alcohol Management Policy and the restructuring of the First-Year and Upperclass Dean's Offices while also managing orientation for the Class of 2013 and special events in conjunction with College President Jim Yong Kim's upcoming inauguration. While AMP a new set of guidelines on alcohol use at social events was originally proposed in spring 2008, the procedures have yet to be implemented, following several rounds of feedback from student organizations. Spears, in an interview with The Dartmouth on Monday, said there is still no definitive date set for an announcement regarding AMP, but added that "we will need some conclusion by Fall term about how we will operate." "[We will] talk about where the discussion about the management of alcohol on campus began, what has happened in the past couple years, and I will brief [Kim] about the differences between [the Social Event Management Procedures] and the recommendations from the task force," she said. Kim, in a Monday interview with The Dartmouth, said that he wants to put a policy in place that "makes sense for everybody." "I think we all share exactly the same perspective and values about the alcohol policy," he said.

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Rockefeller Center launches new leadership initiatives

By Conrad Scoville | September 14, 2009

Correction appended Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center will launch a series of leadership initiatives this fall after receiving a $5.6-million donation in June from Fritz Corrigan '64 and his family. The center will offer a new set of curricular and co-curricular programs designed to enhance students' leadership experience, centering on a management and leadership development program and the public policy minor, Rockefeller Center Director Andrew Samwick said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The minor, first developed during government professor Linda Fowler's tenure as the center's director, did not previously offer specific courses in leadership, Samwick said. "We had not, to date, made the study of leadership a part of the curriculum," Samwick said, adding that such study is not something that happens in an "intentional way in a liberal arts education." The new leadership sequence in the minor will include three pillars comprising a "foundations" class, a class in institutional leadership and a class on leadership in civil society. The classes will not be restricted by class year or have prerequisites, such that any student can enroll, according to Rockefeller Center Associate Director Ronald Shaiko, who is in charge of the center's curricular offerings. "We want to expose as many students as possible to this process," he said. The center plans to launch the civil society class during Spring term 2010 and the foundations class in Fall 2010, followed by the institutional leadership class in Winter 2011, Shaiko said. Other departments may also begin offering classes in leadership, Shaiko said. "It would be very rare in the other classes I've taught at Dartmouth, in my discipline, to pause and think about leadership," Samwick, who is also an economics professor, said.

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Zywicki '88 files brief in alum. suit

By Anya Perret | September 14, 2009

Courtesy of GMU / The Dartmouth Staff Former Dartmouth Trustee Todd Zywicki '88 has submitted a brief in support of the ongoing alumni lawsuit against the College, just five months after the outspoken alumnus was denied reelection to a second term on the College's board a process which has historically been routine. The current lawsuit is the second legal challenge to the Board's September 2007 decision to increase its size by adding additional Board-appointed members.

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College officials prep for swine flu

By Greg Berger | September 14, 2009

Although fewer than 10 Dartmouth students have reported influenza-like illnesses amidst the resurgence of the H1N1 virus this fall, College officials expect that number will quickly rise as more students arrive for the beginning of the term, according to College Health Services Director John Turco. "It is not if we're going to get the outbreak, it's when and how effective we can be to keep it as limited as possible," Turco said. Several hundred students are currently on campus for Dartmouth Outing Club Trips, pre-season athletic training and other obligations. "I have not heard of any [students with swine flu]," head athletic trainer Jeffrey Frechette said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Daily Debriefing

September 14, 2009

Police are currently questioning a suspect who failed a lie detector test in their investigation of the murder of Annie Le, a Yale University pharmacology graduate student, according to CBS News.

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Dean's office sees second departure

By Turia Lahlou | September 14, 2009

Dean of Undergraduate Students Rovana Popoff announced her departure from the College on Monday, less than one month after the resignation of Dean of the College Tom Crady, who had been in office for just two years. Popoff, who first came to Dartmouth in 2007, served as the dean of upperclass students until August 2009, when the Upperclass Dean's Office was merged with the First-Year Office. Former Dean of First-Year Students Gail Zimmerman was laid off at the end of February, following the implementation of College-wide budget cuts.

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Kim talks health on ‘Bill Moyers'

By Tatiana Cooke | September 14, 2009

Although billed as a discussion of the health care reform effort, College President Jim Yong Kim's interview with PBS' Bill Moyers, which aired Friday night, was also a discourse on Kim's rise to the Dartmouth presidency and hopes for his coming tenure. Kim, who took office as College president July 1, will be officially inaugurated on Sept.

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Zywicki '88 files amicus brief in alumni lawsuit

September 13, 2009

Former Dartmouth Trustee Todd Zywicki '88 has submitted a brief in support of the ongoing alumni lawsuit against the College, just five months after the outspoken alumnus was denied reelection to a second term on the College's board a process which has historically been routine. The current lawsuit is the second legal challenge to the Board's September 2007 decision to increase its size by adding additional Board-appointed members.

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Kim discusses health care reform on PBS

By Tatiana Cooke | September 11, 2009

Although billed as a discussion of the health care reform effort, College President Jim Yong Kim's interview with PBS' Bill Moyers, which aired Friday night, was also a discourse on Kim's rise to the Dartmouth presidency and hopes for his coming tenure. Kim, who took office as College president July 1, will be officially inaugurated on Sept.

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Suspect in Petit trial seeks change of venue

By Conrad Scoville | September 9, 2009

One of the suspects in the 2007 home invasion in which Hayley Petit, who was to be a member of the Class of 2011, was killed is now seeking a change of venue for the trial citing pretrial publicity, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. An attorney for Joshua Komisarjevsky said in papers filed last week that William Petit Jr.

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Alumni file new brief in suit against the College

September 4, 2009

A group of alumni on Wednesday filed its response to a July 17 motion by the College, the latest step in the continuing legal saga surrounding the Dartmouth Board of Trustees' September 2007 decision to increase its size by adding Board-appointed members. The filing was a response to the College's motion for summary judgment, effectively a request for the suit to be dismissed.

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College plans sustainability minor

By Emily Goodell | August 24, 2009

Faculty members from the environmental studies program are working to develop a minor in "sustainability studies" over the course of the next academic year, which would aim to connect campus sustainability initiatives from the Organic Farm to the Sustainable Living Center under a common "umbrella," according to professor and environmental studies department chair Andrew Friedland. "I know a lot of undergraduates are extremely interested and excited to see a sustainability minor and a sustainability program happen at Dartmouth, and that's our intention," he said. A large number of faculty, staff, students and administrators have identified sustainability as an important subject to address academically, according to Friedland. "The word and the actual idea of sustainability' are appearing more and more often in this country and in the world when people have discussions about environmental issues," he said. Friedland said he expects one of the driving forces behind the development of a sustainability minor to be Anne Kapuscinski, who was recently hired as the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Sustainability Science. "One of her goals in her first year is to work on this sustainability science minor," Friedland said. Kapuscinski could not be reached for comment by press time. Although faculty members in the environmental studies program said it would be wonderful to implement the minor by the end of this year, they said they have not yet started the concrete planning stages of the project. "The environmental studies program is in the information-gathering phase," Friedland said.

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Dartheart set to expand to campuses nationwide

August 24, 2009

Courtesy of dartheart.com Dartheart, a non-profit organization founded in the winter of 2008 as a peer support network for Dartmouth students recovering from post traumatic stress disorder, will expand nationwide this fall with chapters at Columbia University, Brown University, Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, according to Jessica Olson '07, Dartheart's founder. "We felt like Dartheart had gotten to a point where the system could be adapted to support survivors at other colleges," Olson said.

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AMP review will fall to Spears

August 24, 2009

Newly appointed acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears will spend the coming weeks reviewing and addressing the Alcohol Management Procedure report, welcoming members of the Class of 2013 and reaching out to students campus-wide, she said Monday in an interview with The Dartmouth. Spears assumed control of the office in the wake of former Dean Tom Crady's abrupt departure last week, and will fill the position for the next two years, during which time the College will review the structure of the Dean of the College's office, The Dartmouth reported last week.

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Daily Debriefing

Jennifer Matos, a former adviser to Latina students at Smith College and a current doctoral student who is working to complete a dissertation about the factors that affect the educational success of Latino students, began her new position as an adviser to Latino students in the OPAL office on Monday, according to Acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears.

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