Smith '88 wins trustee election
Courtesy of Dartmouth Correction appended. Petition candidate Stephen Smith '88 was elected to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees after one and a half months of voting.
Courtesy of Dartmouth Correction appended. Petition candidate Stephen Smith '88 was elected to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees after one and a half months of voting.
Law professor is fourth consecutive petitioner to win
Robert Oelman '31, former chairman of Ford Motor's finance committee and chief executive of the technology company NCR Corporation, died at the age of 97 in Delray Beach, Fla., last Thursday, according to an obituary in Wednesday's New York Times.
Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff AIDS activist Mike Mutungi lectured to a small group of seven about "I Choose Life," a non-profit sectarian organization he founded to combat HIV/AIDS in Kenya.
Eight members of the Class of 2007 and three alumni have received grants from the Fulbright Program or its German equivalent to fund their plans for international research or teaching.
Maggie Goldstein / The Dartmouth Staff Wednesday marked the first day of a two-day American Red Cross Blood Drive that occurs once a term in Alumni Hall, a drive that comes at a time when the Northeast is experiencing a critical blood shortage. A decline in blood donations that began at the beginning of May has resulted in a current shortage of approximately 1,600 units of blood, according to American Red Cross spokeswoman Carol Dembeck.
Courtesy of Joseph Mehling / The Dartmouth Staff Maria Laskaris '84, the current Director of Admissions for the College, has been appointed Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, College President James Wright and College Provost Barry Scherr announced in a campus-wide e-mail notice released Wednesday. Beginning July 1, Laskaris will replace outgoing Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg, who announced his plans to retire last fall and will be leaving the College after spending 17 years working for the Dartmouth admissions office and 13 years managing admissions at Wesleyan University prior to his time at Dartmouth. Laskaris has worked in Dartmouth's admissions office since 1987 and became the Director of Admissions in 1996.
Juliet Coffey '09 grew up in an Irish Catholic household and arrived at Dartmouth with little exposure to Judaism.
May 8, 9:59 a.m., South Park Street An employee of the Co-op Service Station contacted Hanover Police about a matter stemming from an April 27 incident when a middle-aged man pumped a tank of gas and attempted to pay for it with a check bearing a name that wasn't his.
Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff Exploring the challenges facing scientific journalism in the new century, six current science reporters and editors spoke before a crowd of about 70 people in Filene Auditorium Tuesday night.
Ryan Yuk / The Dartmouth Staff Tuck Mall residents should expect to rise to additional early-morning construction noise through late spring as a new sidewalk is installed on the north side of the street.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the elimination of government subsidies to student loan providers on Tuesday in a nationwide conference call with student reporters.
Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff After two terms of controversy over student government efficacy, the Student Government Review Task Force presented its final report at Tuesday night's Student Assembly meeting.
The Inter-Community Council, La Unidad Latina and Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity hosted the second annual Free Speech Forum in Tindle Lounge Monday night.
Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Ryan McAnnally-Linz '06, the 2006 Chase Peace Prize Senior Thesis Recipient, presented his thesis about mass murder and genocide as part of a panel in Filene Auditorium on Monday night. Each year, the Chase Peace Prize is awarded to the senior who writes the best senior thesis involving the subjects of war, conflict resolution, the problems of maintaining peace or other related topics.
After toughing it through four years of college and the grueling search for a job, graduates might think that the worst is over -- until they attempt to find an apartment.
A new student organization, Por Latinoamerica, will hold its first meeting to announce its newly elected officers and lay out its purpose and goals to attendees Tuesday night.
ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Nondenominational Christian journal Apologia published its first issue last Monday, making it the first publication of its kind at Dartmouth.
ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Less than a week before Green Key weekend, Manchester-based criminal defense lawyer John Kacavas educated students about their constitutional rights at Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity on Monday.
The Tuck School of Business will host its annual charity road race, Run For Kids, Monday morning in Hanover.