Tuck Mall sidewalk project in the works
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.
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.
ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Staff Director of the Global Water Policy Project Sandra Postel outlined global water problems and offered potential solutions to them to a packed audience in Filene Auditorium on Friday. The discussion, co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Nature Conservancy, focused on current freshwater supply issues, the future of the earth's freshwater supply, and proactive step towards freshwater resourcefulness worldwide. "Water is the basis of life.
Due to the nature of the voting mechanism used in Dartmouth trustee elections and the perceived existence of two distinct slates of different sizes, the election of a trustee candidate nominated by the Alumni Council is contingent on a large voter turnout, scholars of election methods said. As of May 13, 17 percent of eligible alumni had voted online, according to voxthevote.org. The winner of the trustee election, which will end on Tuesday, is selected using the approval voting method.
In an effort to follow through on its recommendations, the Student Governance Review Task Force, formed this winter to conduct a review of Dartmouth's student government organizations, will meet with members of the Undergraduate Finance Committee on Monday.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff For Patti Morgan of South Stratford, Vt., the 35th Annual Dartmouth College Pow-wow is just one in a long line of Pow-wow memories. "I come out every year," Morgan said, estimating that she has attended the Pow-wow for the past 10 years.
The recently found body suspected to belong to 16-year-old James Holley was confirmed to be his Sunday night, his father Robert Holley told The Dartmouth. "Indeed that was my son's body that was found, and yes, he was brought to the state medical examiner in Burlington for an autopsy by Dr. Shapiro [acting chief medical examiner for the Vermont Department of Health]," he said. Two neighborhood women discovered Holley's body Wednesday evening on a walk through the woods outside of Holley's home in Norwich, Vt., Norwich Police Sgt.
Shoveling chicken excrement, cleaning horse stalls, stacking wood and working other odd jobs helped Thetford Academy students raised money to help Ethiopian orphans last week.
Maggie Goldstein / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth economics professor Pascaline Dupas spoke about the need to implement foreign aid programs with proven positive results at an informal discussion group of 15 students on Thursday.
Lauren Wool / The Dartmouth Senior Staff This year's room draw process closed with relative ease in comparison with years past because of the Office of Residential Life's housing guarantee for upperclassmen and the introduction of gender neutral housing, according to Rachael Class-Giguere, ORL director of undergraduate housing. "Last year we were surprised with the increase in the number of seniors and juniors that participated.
Jess Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff Ann Rhoades, founding executive vice president of people at JetBlue Airways and founder and president of consulting firm People Ink, spoke to an attentive audience about the leadership values that make companies successful in Cook Auditorium Thursday. The focus of Rhoades' work has been in improving personal relations in a variety of service-based industries including Southwest Airlines and Jetblue.
Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff The 35th annual Dartmouth College Pow-wow, a celebration of the Native American community at the College, is set to take place on the Green this weekend.