Liberian president to deliver Commencement address
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf will speak to the Class of 2008 about the attributes of leadership as today's Commencement speaker.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf will speak to the Class of 2008 about the attributes of leadership as today's Commencement speaker.
The Dartmouth Board of Trustees has voted to "freeze" its membership until the Association of Alumni's lawsuit against the College has been resolved.
Lean Granger, the wife of Dartmouth professor Richard Granger, was convicted Wednesday of stealing approximately $320,000 from a church in California, where the couple previously resided.
The Undergraduate Finance Committee gave Dartmouth's Student Assembly $85,000 on Tuesday for its budget for the upcoming year, which is $10,000 more than the committee allocated to the Assembly last year.
Brian Goldner '85 joined the ranks of Dartmouth alumni presiding over major corporations last week, beginning his post as the chief executive officer of Hasbro, the nation's second largest toy company whose products include Monopoly, Mr. Potato Head and Transformers. In his new position, Goldner hopes to popularize the Hasbro brand in the marketplace and lead the company to pursue ventures beyond toys and games, he said. "We are really focused on our own brand -- reinventing, reigniting and reimagining -- not only as far as toys and games but in any number of play experiences," he said. In the near future, Hasbro plans to broaden its involvement in the family entertainment world to include digital, console, online and cellphone games, along with television shows and motion pictures, Goldner added. "We are trying to give consumers a chance to enjoy our brand at all levels," he said. For Goldner, working in entertainment is nothing new.
ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Staff Editor's Note: This is the final installment in a four-part series examining religious life at Dartmouth. A college campus, with its various temptations, might not seem like an ideal breeding ground for a devout religious lifestyle -- especially a religion outside of the traditional mold.
The unusually early election of Student Assembly's new leadership this year allowed the organization to implement several new initiatives this term, a departure from past years in which the Assembly made little progress during Spring term. "Outreach has never really been as prevalent as it has this term," Student Body President Molly Bode '09 said, adding that the Assembly has made a new commitment to involve more of the student body in the organization. Bode plans to continue to focus on increasing alternative social spaces over the coming terms, she said.
Dartmouth alumni of Beta Theta Pi fraternity contend that current students hold misconceptions about the fraternity's history at the College, regarding the fraternity as a group of football-playing troublemakers and not the brotherhood committed to charity work and diversity that alumni maintain it once was.
Former Dartmouth writing instructor Priya Venkatesan '90 said she no longer plans to publish a memoir in the near future, recanting previous statements that she would write a book that would identify specific Dartmouth students who she claims discriminated against her and in addition to including their anonymous course evaluations.
Former and current college presidents, administrators, professors and possibly a member of the current Bush administration could make it onto the Board of Trustees' search committee's list for a successor to College President James Wright, who will step down in June 2009.
COURTESY OF THE DARTMOUTH AEGIS Three years after the College ended its speech program, Josh Compton will assume the role of lecturer of speech and rhetoric at the College's Institute for Writing and Rhetoric on July 1, 2008, according to a press release from the Office of Public Affairs.
Construction of a 72-room hotel planned for downtown Hanover was postponed after the developer discovered soil contamination at the proposed building site during routine soil tests, The Valley News reported.
For two hours each week, the cafeteria and gymnasium at Sharon Elementary School in Sharon, Vt., is transformed into the set for Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," performed by 27 fifth and sixth graders.
Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a four-part series examining religious life at Dartmouth. A desire to spread God's love -- which Alex Mercado '11 said grants "the free gift of eternal life" to those who accept Christ -- drove Mercado to test the rhetorical skills he had learned in his native Texas by "presenting the Gospel" to a fellow student over lunch.
The Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association rallied member support for Dartmouth Undying, an alumni organization that opposes the Association of Alumni's lawsuit against the College, at its 18th reunion held at the College last weekend. "We are extremely upset and frustrated with this other group of alumni who are wasting so much money and resources that we could spend on tuition for the kids," BADA President Ricki Fairley-Brown '78 said.
Student involvement in the Association of Alumni elections took a new turn as members from at least two sororities took part in a Monday night phone drive organized by Dartmouth Undying that targeted alumnae.
Courtesy of Dartmouth College Library Steven Spaulding, director of Dartmouth's chapter of the Navigators Christian Fellowship, was accused of misconduct, allegedly involving female student members of the Navigators, and stepped down from his position Thursday.
Amanda Merrill Gr '79 announced her candidacy for the State Senate seat currently held by Sen. Iris Estabrook, D-Durham on Wednesday.
Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a four-part series examining religious life at Dartmouth. The Upper Valley is not exactly teeming with religious diversity, but the resources available to practicing Muslims are especially low, even for tweedy rural New Hampshire and Vermont.