Towers tapped as head men's lacrosse coach
Andrew Towers, former assistant men's lacrosse coach, has been tapped to head Dartmouth's men's lacrosse program by Athletic Director Josie Harper, the College announced late last week.
Andrew Towers, former assistant men's lacrosse coach, has been tapped to head Dartmouth's men's lacrosse program by Athletic Director Josie Harper, the College announced late last week.
Wright delivers final valedictory address as College president
Board also votes to move forward with elections for vacant alumni trustee seats
The Associated Press James von Brunn, charged Thursday in the shooting death of a security guard at the U.S.
Big Green right fielder Nick Santomauro '10 was drafted by the New York Mets today in the tenth round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player draft.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.