Student gov't election results delayed
Student government election results are not yet available due to a delay in compiling polling data, according to Elections Planning and Advisory Committee chair Justin Varilek '11.
Student government election results are not yet available due to a delay in compiling polling data, according to Elections Planning and Advisory Committee chair Justin Varilek '11.
Three Dartmouth students were elected to the New Hampshire College Democrats state executive board at the College Democrats of New Hampshire Conference, held Saturday at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
ANDREW FOUST / The Dartmouth Staff Beauty-queen-turned-evangelist Anita Bryant gave the religious right its anti-homosexual voice in the late 1970s, Mark Jordan, a Harvard University Divinity School professor, told an audience gathered in the Rockefeller Center on Friday.
The Elections Planning and Advisory Committee will allow candidates to campaign today until the polls close at 11:59 p.m., reversing a previous decision to prohibit campaigning after noon, according to EPAC chair Justin Varilek '11.
Correction appended Dartmouth Board of Trustees Chairman Ed Haldeman '70 released a statement on Friday outlining and defending the Board's reelection process for second-term trustees following recent controversy surrounding the Board's decision not to reelect Trustee Todd Zywicki '88.
Correction appended Dartmouth Board of Trustees Chairman Ed Haldeman '70 released a statement on Friday outlining and defending the Board's reelection process for second-term trustees following recent controversy surrounding the Board's decision not to reelect Trustee Todd Zywicki '88.
College President James Wright will throw the first pitch when the Boston Red Sox face the Texas Rangers at Fenway Park on June 6, according to a College press release.
Unable to convince the Board of Trustees to add a graduate school representative to the presidential search committee, Samuel Bakhoum, a fourth-year M.D./Ph.D candidate, and Bradley Demay, who will complete his Ph.D in biology in 2010, decided to create an advocacy body for graduate students.
ANDREW FOUST / The Dartmouth Staff About 70 percent of the population often feels incompetent and unsuccessful, Valerie Young, a workshop leader and motivational speaker, told students gathered in Kemeny Hall on Thursday.
While many universities across the country have cut their academic conference travel budgets in light of the current economic crisis, Dartmouth's official policy on professional development funding has not changed, according to Robertson McClung, associate dean of the faculty for the sciences. "Participating in academic conferences is critical to the success, professional growth and reputation of our faculty," McClung said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth.
Three employees have been laid off from the admissions and financial aid office as part of the effort to trim $72 million from the College's budget by 2011, according to Dean Maria Laskaris.
Student body presidential candidate John Nolan '10 admitted that his recent criticisms of the current Student Assembly administration were motivated by a "desire to win" and are not representative of his personal beliefs in an e-mail to Student Body President Molly Bode '09 and Assembly Vice President Nafeesa Remtilla '09 obtained by The Dartmouth on Thursday. Nolan, in a presidential debate on Wednesday, said Bode's administration was "bogus" and that Bode had failed to adequately advocate for students' interests.
The New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee held a public hearing on Wednesday for a bill that seeks to allow gay marriage, the Associated Press reported.
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Kathleen Mayer '11 had to take her final exams over the Internet, using her host family's computer, during her Language Study Abroad to Toulouse last term after a strike by professors and students blocked the entrance to the University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail.
The Dartmouth Energy Conservation Campaign kicked off on Wednesday afternoon with an event in Collis Common Ground.
Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Geography professor Jennifer Fluri always has a heaping assortment of chocolate and nuts and a steaming cup of tea ready in case visitors stop by her office, bringing a bit of her fieldwork in Afghanistan back to Hanover. "It is an Afghan tradition to have sweets and tea ready for company," Fluri said, explaining that she often benefited from such hospitality during the time she spent doing research in Afghanistan. Fluri began studying Afghanistan as a graduate student, and has continued to do so as a professor at Dartmouth. Fluri, who came to the College in 2005 and is also a member of the women and gender studies faculty, said she can connect the subjects she teaches, which include classes like "Women, Gender and Development" and "Gender, Space and Islam," with her research, which addresses gender roles in Afghanistan and the effectiveness of international development organizations. "I began wanting to see how groups and organizations were using education as a form of political resistance -- specifically the Taliban," Fluri said.