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October 10, 2026
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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.


Construction of Dartmouth's power plant is scheduled to begin in June, as construction on nearby New Hampshire residence hall continues.
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Power plant to shut down for 8 weeks of construction

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ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Staff The College will shut down its power plant for approximately eight weeks this summer to replace one of its four boilers, according to Ken Packard, Dartmouth's assistant director of engineering and utilities.


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Former Dartmouth football coach Jake Crouthamel '60 will be inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame in recognition of his work as athletics director for Syracuse University from 1978 to 2004, according to the NACDA web site.



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Panel examines trials faced by local area senior citizens

Seniors living in the Upper Valley and the organizations devoted to assisting them face a variety of financial and social obstacles to self-sufficiency, a panel of local experts on senior issues said at the Hanover Terrace Healthcare facility on Tuesday, giving the example of a 78-year-old Hanover resident who had to return to her job as a substitute teacher after her husband, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, gambled away their savings.



Student Assembly discussed differences between the Committee on Standards review report and their own suggestions for COS during Tuesday's meeting.
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COS review, SA proposal differ

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Chris Parker / The Dartmouth An official report on the College's Committee on Standards released by the COS Review Committee on Monday does not adequately reflect the Student Assembly's 2006-2007 recommendations on Dartmouth's judicial system, Assembly members complained in the organization's weekly meeting Tuesday. David Imamura '10, who compiled a document comparing the review committee's recommendations with those of the 2006-2007 Assembly committee, said he was disappointed by how little the reports had in common.



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Tuck study analyzes faculty savings

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Female Dartmouth employees are more likely than their male counterparts to save for retirement, despite health concerns and the costs of supporting a family, according to a recent study conducted at the Tuck School of Business.


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Laura Ray, professor at the Thayer School of Engineering, has developed a hearing system for soldiers that would improve battlefield communication, The New Hampshire Union Leader reported Monday.





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Student veterans build solidarity in new group

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.