Towns plan joint wireless network
The Town of Hanover is working to acquire a high speed telecommunication network, but progress has been slowed due to funding difficulties.
The Town of Hanover is working to acquire a high speed telecommunication network, but progress has been slowed due to funding difficulties.
Thanks to graduating student employees at Dartmouth's libraries, "Superbad" will soon have space on a library shelf beside the likes of "Casablanca" and "Citizen Kane" through the Student Library Service Bookplate Program.
Hanover Water Works Company mistakenly overinjected baking soda -- five extra milligrams per liter -- into the town's water supply a week and a half ago, causing student and town residents to complain of an unpleasant taste.
Ten veterans at the College, searching for mutual support during the transition to their lives as students, have established the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association, a campus organization that aims to raise awareness of veterans' issues and provide support to student veterans with issues that may arise at Dartmouth. "What really motivated us to form our group is so that we can meet other undergraduate veterans and increase awareness about veteran issues because we are in the Dartmouth bubble," Phil Aubart '10, who has served in the U.S.
The Committee on Standards Review Committee recommended that the College make the COS process more transparent and give accused students better access to resources in a report released Monday, but did not incorporate all of the suggestions of the Student Assembly COS Review Task Force.
International law recognizes the right of countries to intervene in other states for humanitarian purposes, but many members of the international community have criticized the doctrine in practice, said British diplomat Sir Emyr Jones Parry and Edward Luck '70, special adviser to the United Nations secretary-general, at a Friday lecture in Kemeny Hall. Parry and Luck focused on the concept of the "responsibility to protect" in international relations.
After 20 years with only minor changes, BlitzMail will receive a complete facelift. The upgrade, expected to be completed by fall 2009, could include a built-in calendar, threading capabilities, increased search options and a new design for the interface. "[BlitzMail now] is like keeping a black and white TV in your house," Susan Warner, director of communications for Computing Services, said.
Courtesy of Joe Mehling 69 Daniel Becker '09's prize-winning essay on the benefits of the Indian Child Welfare Act has won him $5,000, a trip to a conference in Tucson, Ariz., and access to a network of environmental and Native American tribal policy professionals as one of 80 national Udall Scholarship recipients selected by the Morris K.
San Diego State University ended a yearlong investigation of drug and firearm possession on the campus last week, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Chris Parker / The Dartmouth A blackout Saturday night may have delayed many students' plans to head to Webster Avenue, but it did not deter almost 80 students from meeting at the Bema for a Green Key celebration.
The House of Representatives passed a GI bill partially designed by College President James Wright that would provide tuition, room and board for veterans attending college Thursday.
Dartmouth Medical School faculty gave feedback about the qualities they would like to see in Dartmouth's next president at an open forum held by Trustee Al Mulley '70, chair of the presidential search committee, and DMS Dean Bill Green on Friday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
In an amendment to its constitution, the Alumni Council removed language requiring the Council to submit three candidates for trustee elections at its biannual meeting Saturday.
U.S. soldiers in Iraq and up to 23 other countries will soon be able to take on-site college courses with professors from three U.S.
Elisabeth Ericson / The Dartmouth Staff The federal government can take vast steps toward reversing climate change by offering economic incentives for companies to reduce emissions, but the government must act soon, speakers agreed at a panel discussion on Thursday.
A nationwide campaign for state laws that would require colleges to track students' illegal file sharing could cost the College millions of dollars if the laws are passed, Ellen Young, manager of consulting services at Dartmouth Computer Services, said in an e-mail message to The Dartmouth.
Ty Moddelmog '08 was offered an $80,000 salary to work at an Atlanta-based consulting firm but decided he did not want to start at the bottom of the corporate ladder, he said.
Dartmouth has recruited seven students to begin testing the Xythos online file-storing system today.
Dartmouth will give 10.2 acres of land to Hanover following a Tuesday vote by town residents to accept the exchange, according to Town Manager Julia Griffin.
May 7, 3:02 a.m. West Wheelock Street Emergency services received a call from a female who said she believed there was a prowler in her apartment.