Belafonte speech honors MLK
In a crowded Spaulding Auditorium, entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte delivered the keynote address for the College's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.
In a crowded Spaulding Auditorium, entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte delivered the keynote address for the College's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.
Four Dartmouth faculty members offered different perspectives on what it means to be well educated in a forum held at Dartmouth Hall yesterday evening. The panel, moderated by Dean of the College Daniel Nelson, is the second in a series of forums held the first Thursday of every term sponsored partly by the Tucker Foundation. Responses to the question "What does it mean to be well educated?" ranged across the spectrum.
A current case before the Office of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs calls into question whether witnesses to campus crimes can remain anonymous -- even when they request anonymity -- according to a document obtained by The Dartmouth.
The Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council will kick off Winter term recruitment this weekend, with about 70 percent more women rushing this term than last winter.
Dr. James Weinstein, an orthopedic surgeon at Dartmouth Medical School, was featured Thursday in a New York Times fitness article, "When It's O.K.
Former Democratic senator Mike Gravel spoke to a crowd of roughly 50 students Thursday in one of the earliest stops on his presidential campaign.
Artist-cum-activist Harry Belafonte is slated to deliver a keynote address Monday as part of the College's 2007 Martin Luther King Jr.
Vincent DiFiglia '63 was publicly admonished by the Commission on Judicial Performance Tuesday. According to the Commission, DiFiglia violated judicial ethics when he presided over a case without revealing his personal relationship with the plaintiff's attorney.
Despite the wide variety of music available today, it is often difficult for a person to actually find something that agrees with his or her tastes.
Campus-wide implementation of a complete, updated version of BlitzMail, which includes standard security features that the current client lacks, is not a priority for Computer Services, according to David Bucciero, director of technical services.
Lou Ann McLeod had always been conscious about social issues and the plight of local small farmers, but until she heard about Localvore, she didn't know how to help.
Kevin Hudak '07 will resign from his post as president of The Dartmouth Review, he announced at a staff meeting Monday. His decision comes as a result of the cover on the newspaper's Nov.
In a panel discussion including representatives from Facebook and Time Warner Cable, Tuck Business School explored corporate management of consumer information as part of its ninth annual Tech at Tuck program. Tuck's Center for Digital Strategies, which sponsored the event, encourages the potential of technological processes to help organizations develop more competitive business strategies.
Computer science professor Hany Farid has developed a method for analyzing video data to detect potential tampering.
Dartmouth's chess team placed 21st out of 24 in college chess's World Series over winter interim -- a feat that seems impressive only after considering the team competed against national chess powerhouses, had never competed officially before, won the highest award in its division, and was manned by only three sophomores. Robert Cousins '09, Kevin Fischer '09, Daniel Leung '09 and Nikhil Jain '09 competed at the newly formed team's first collegiate tournament, held Dec.
About 75 students attended Student Assembly's first meeting of Winter term on Tuesday night, during which the Assembly passed a resolution in support of a "Leadership Social." The social, to be held on Jan.
A consulting project that a team of students from the Tuck School of Business started last year changed business operations at Whaleback Mountain, a local ski venue, this winter. Scott Roman Tu '07 and his classmates evaluated the project and provided suggestions on how to improve Whaleback's business practices as part of their first-year and subsequent "Business Bridge" projects at Tuck. "We all like skiing and thought it was kind of cool to work at a local mountain," Roman said. "We came in and we worked with [Whaleback co-owner Evan Dybvig] and mapped out a game plan of what sorts of things we could do with him to help him out." Early on, the Tuck students researched other local ski mountains to learn about their methods of operation and sources of revenue. From this initial research, they learned what would and would not be successful for a local ski hill.
The Women's Health Program at Dick's House projects that by next September, Dartmouth will provide free vaccinations against the human papillomavirus to female students under 19 as a part of a New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services immunization project.
Students demonstrated their interest in consulting at a discussion hosted by the Consulting Club on Tuesday night, in which two Dartmouth alumni, both associates at the Boston Consulting Group, spoke to a large crowd about their job.
Starting this term, students can fulfill the College's physical education requirement while performing community service, thanks to the athletic department's recent decision to grant credit to Habitat for Humanity project participants. Susie Chung '07 and Tyler Brown '07, co-chairs of Habitat for Humanity at Dartmouth, formalized the plan with Associate Director of Athletics Roger Demment.