Daily Debriefing
Bruce Rauner '78, private equity investor and chairman of GTCR Golder Rauner LLC., announced his interest in buying the Chicago Cubs baseball team to Crain's Chicago Business magazine on Nov.
Bruce Rauner '78, private equity investor and chairman of GTCR Golder Rauner LLC., announced his interest in buying the Chicago Cubs baseball team to Crain's Chicago Business magazine on Nov.
Alicia Moldeen / The Dartmouth The outgoing 2007 Directorate of The Dartmouth announced Saturday that Phil Salinger '08 and Eddie Kalletta '08 will take over as editor-in-chief and publisher of The Dartmouth beginning next winter. Kalletta and Salinger will assume a staff of nearly 200 undergraduate students and self-amassed assets of over $600,000. Salinger, an economics major from Newton, Mass., and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, is currently studying in Rome on an Italian LSA.
As part of Thursday's nationwide Great American Smokeout, the Alcohol and Other Drug Education program at Dartmouth organized a four-hour long event to educate students about the resources available on campus to help students quit smoking. The Great American Smokeout is an annual event that aims to raise awareness about the different ways to quit smoking and challenges smokers to quit smoking for one day. "The Great American Smokeout is a great instrument for all people interested in tobacco control," former U.S.
Danny Gobaud "Voices of Faith," an annual inter-faith dinner and discussion which was held in Collis Commonground last night, focused on understanding spirituality and faith on Dartmouth's campus. The event began with presentations from five student speakers followed by dinner and small group discussions.
Though comic greats Jack Kirby and Stan Lee received no formal education in the art of comics, the medium has greatly evolved since its golden age and the breaking into the industry may be daunting to some.
College disciplinary committees determined that Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority did not violate the College Standard of Conduct regarding hazing during a Oct.
Editor's note: This is the third in a three-part series that examines gender dynamics at Dartmouth.
Paul Christesen '88, assistant professor of classics at Dartmouth, was named the New Hampshire Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on Thursday.
Zakien Bigio / The Dartmouth Students gathered for a "hunger banquet" Wednesday evening in Collis Common Ground as part of this year's National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week efforts at Dartmouth.
At Columbia University and Harvard University, soap operas produced and directed by students have come to captivate audiences on campus, online and in the media.
The August departure of Associate Dean Tommy Lee Woon, who headed the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, has left Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia to oversee the office in addition to fulfilling her duties as a dean.
Congressman Michael Capuano '73 (D-Mass.) was appointed to head Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) transition team for when she becomes Speaker of the House in January.
Nov. 1, 3:44 p.m. Employees of the Co-op Food Store spotted a 28-year-old female shopper in the store taking bottles of Twisted Tea, Hard Iced Tea and Mike's Hard Lemonade into the bathroom.
Reports of increasing casualties have continually flooded the news since the Iraq war began in 2003, but the large number of injuries that also result are seldom mentioned.
Hanover has recently found itself in the limelight -- of the computer screen -- due to a virtual replica of the town in the increasingly popular 3-D virtual online world Second Life. "It's funny because I've had a lot of Dartmouth alums visiting the [virtual] town and telling me about it," said Christopher Carella, the creator of the replica and an employee of The Electric Sheep Company, which oversees and manages Second Life. Second Life is an open-ended virtual space that is designed to be an extension of real life and boasts 1.3 million users. Users can interact with each other, engage in a free market economy with Second Life's currency, known as Linden dollars, and add any new features they feel are lacking by writing new software. Linden dollars are exchangeable for real U.S.
Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series that examines gender dynamics at Dartmouth.
Phil Bracikowski / The Dartmouth Staff As Fall term comes to a close and the many Greek houses previously on probation begin to re-open their doors, many organizations are questioning how effective the College's Social Event Management Procedures are at keeping Dartmouth students safe. Executives and members in the Coed, Fraternity and Sorority system expressed frustration with the College's "keg policy" as it is outlined in the SEMP guidelines, a set of policies that were revised last spring and implemented in late September.
While the Facebook.com group "Wikipedia is the source of all my knowledge" was created out of humor, its title has a grain of truth for many students at Dartmouth.
Mark T. Hegel, Ph.D. of the psychiatry department and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth Medical School recently conducted a study showing that almost half of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients are afflicted by significant emotional distress or symptoms of psychiatric disorders before treatment.