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August 5, 2026
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Pres. search may look for College affiliations

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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.


The College has named Josh Compton as its new lecturer of speech and rhetoric at Dartmouth's Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.
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Compton hired as rhetoric prof

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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.



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Class helps youth stage Shakespeare

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.


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Christianity in classroom stirs debate, mixed views

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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.


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BADA supports Undying at reunion

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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.



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Spaulding resigns in controversy

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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.


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Daily Debriefing

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Amanda Merrill Gr '79 announced her candidacy for the State Senate seat currently held by Sen. Iris Estabrook, D-Durham on Wednesday.



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Al-Nur functions as hub of Muslim life in Upper Valley

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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.


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Phrygian members take stand in AoA elections

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The ongoing Association of Alumni elections, which end June 5, have drawn more student involvement than most -- with students circulating letters, authoring editorials and reaching out to alumni in order to affect the vote -- but there are similarities between the student movements in this election and those in recent ones. The most widespread student movement comes from the pro-parity, pro-lawsuit side.



Administrators spoke with students Thursday about the College Review Committee's report on changes for the Committee on Standards.
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Thompson, Burke defend COS

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ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Staff At a public forum hosted by Student Assembly, administrators justified the discrepancies between the College Review Committee's report on the Committee on Standards released Monday and the recommendations made in 2006-2007 by an Assembly committee. Senior Associate Dean Katherine Burke, who chaired the administration's Review committee, and April Thompson, director of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs, led Thursday's talk.


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Daily Debriefing

New York Governor David Paterson nominated Galen D. Kirkland '72 to be the state's next commissioner of the Division of Human Rights, according to a press release issued by the Governor's office last week.




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Alumni collect laptops for Bronx school

Two recent Dartmouth graduates, in collaboration with a teacher from a high school in south Bronx, N.Y., have begun a program that will transfer Dartmouth students' old laptop computers to the hands of students at New Day Academy, in an effort to improve the education of underprivileged youth.


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Government lauds College for information assurance

The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have selected Dartmouth as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research for the years 2008-2013, a distinction that provides the College with opportunities for shared research, as well as increased undergraduate access to scholarships, grants and internships in the information assurance field. Information assurance refers to measures that protect and defend information and information systems, including work commonly known as "cyber-security," according to the NSA web site. This is the first year that NSA and DHS have awarded the CAE-R designation.


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Board hires firm for pres. search

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Dartmouth's Board of Trustees has retained the executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to advise the College's presidential search committee in its hunt for the College's next president, according to an e-mail sent to the Dartmouth community by Board Chairman Ed Haldeman '70 and Trustee Al Mulley '70 Wednesday afternoon.