The Facts Behind Work-Study
To the Editor: Bret Vallacher '10 suggested that his inability to find a job at Dartmouth was the result of "blatant classism" ("Work-Study Woes," Jan.
To the Editor: Bret Vallacher '10 suggested that his inability to find a job at Dartmouth was the result of "blatant classism" ("Work-Study Woes," Jan.
The 12 recently elected members of the Senior Executive Committee gathered together Friday at Blunt Alumni Center to appoint eight members for the committee.
Although Dartmouth can't claim any players in this year's Super Bowl, Lloyd Lee '98 traveled to Miami as a defensive assistant coach for the Chicago Bears.
Founded as a sports conference, the Ivy League has long been host to competitions in athletics, academics and prestige.
The College administrative system must become more transparent, according to a College report released Feb.
Most people have nightmares about being naked in public. However, most people do not work as nude models in Dartmouth's drawing classrooms where baring it all is one of the best jobs on campus.
At 2:30 in the morning on July 17, 1918, the last czar of Russia, Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, his children and several of his servants were taken down to the cellar of the house where they had been confined for months.
World-renowned tenor Ian Bostridge will not perform with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at the Hopkins Center on Friday as was originally expected, due to an illness that prevents him from traveling to the United States from London.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, a likely candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, gave the inaugural "Health Policy Grand Rounds" lecture at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center yesterday.
After receiving a working proposal for gender-neutral housing on Tuesday, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman confirmed during a discussion hosted by Palaeopitus Thursday that such housing will likely be available Fall term. "Gender-neutral" means students can room with any other student, regardless of sex. "This isn't the greatest environment for students who don't fit with what some might call the norm," Redman said at the discussion.
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former director general of the World Health Organization, pressed for international collaboration on issues of health and sustainable development in her keynote address Thursday, a part of the celebrations for the John Sloan Dickey Center's 25th anniversary. "There is no alternative to building a moral and scientific basis for taking more shared responsibility across nations," she said.
The Dartmouth chapter of the International Humanitarian Foundation recently began a new project in Ecuador, forming a partnership with the Ali Shungu Foundation based in the small Ecuadorian village Otavalo. Ali Shungu, a grassroots non-profit organization founded by Frank and Margaret Kiefer, conducts development projects that are led by community members in the five communities closest to Otavalo.
An Office of Residential Life document ranking the average grade point averages of the Greek organizations showed that, overall, sororities boasted a slightly higher academic record than coed organizations, and both had a higher average GPA than fraternities over Fall term.
Members of the Panhellenic Council elected sorority members to seven positions for next year. The council elected Kate Robb '08 as president, Sarah Shaw '08 as vice president of recruitment, Mary Healy '08 as vice president of organization, Cathy Wu '09 as treasurer, Cena Miller '08 as secretary and Jean Ellen Cowgill '08 and Rebecca Beasley-Cockroft '08 as programming chairs.
By Ben Nunnery February may be the month to shorten showers, unplug computers and towel-dry hair, at least for students participating in a campus-wide power-reduction competition.
Economics professor David Blanchflower, also a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, delivered a speech to the Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce in January.
The College's "Sophomore Program," the brainchild of the Upperclass Deans office, the Dean of the Faculty office and the Office of Residential Life, seeks to provide advising targeted to sophomores but has seen less-than-overwhelming interest and attendance so far. Many students don't know the program's purpose or the fact that it is open to all sophomores.
Following an unsuccessful attempt by Adam Shpeen '07 to bring reform legislation forward for discussion, a resolution to participate in and fund the 2007 Native American Pow-Wow was passed at Tuesday night's Student Assembly meeting. Shpeen moved to "untable" his legislation to make an Assembly review group that was not discussed at the Assembly's Jan.
Over the past five years, Student Assembly presidents have both viewed their job descriptions and treated their terms in office in drastically different ways: Janos Marton '04 ran as a reform-minded candidate like current president Tim Andreadis '07 did, while seasoned Assembly members Julia Hildreth '05 and Noah Riner '06, who secured their presidencies by narrow margins, attempted to make few big changes during their tenures and were generally viewed with indifference. Marton, the only two-time Student Body President in College history, championed a vastly popular, if ultimately impotent, organization that engendered the largest consistent student interest in the Assembly's recent history. During Marton's first campaign in 2002, he promised students higher on-campus wages and better Greek-administration relations.