Darfur Action Group to focus on aid and foreign intervention

Now that increasing numbers of colleges and universities are divesting from companies that do business with the Sudanese government, student activist groups working to end the genocide in Darfur are beginning to shift the focus of their mission. While the Darfur Action Group at Dartmouth will continue to track companies that could be complicit in the genocide for a divestment list, its members will also work to increase humanitarian aid and bring foreign intervention to the region. "The problem with Darfur now is basically an issue of political will," said Niral Shah '08, a member of the group's Advisory Committee for Investment Responsibility. Shah noted that the group will work with other student organizations such as Hillel, which will organize a trip to the Rally to Stop Genocide in Washington, D.C.

Bill aims to stop college students from voting

Professor develops machine to melt ice

Chris Takeuchi / The Dartmouth Staff Engineering professor Victor Petrenko, in conjunction with the Thayer School of Engineering, has successfully designed and patented an invention that melts ice off surfaces in the amount of time it takes to blink an eye. Christened as pulse electro-thermal de-icing, or PETD, the pioneering design will affect all applications dealing with very low temperatures, from airplane de-icing to winter skis.

Class of 2010 receives decisions

Last night approximately 14,000 high school seniors learned whether they had been accepted to the Class of 2010, as decisions were posted Thursday evening on the College's website in Dartmouth's most competitive year in admissions thus far. Of the 13,937 applicants to the class of 2010, a record low of only 15.4 percent were offered admission, which surpasses last year's previous record-low admission rate of approximately 17 percent. Of the 2,150 students offered admission this year, 398 were accepted as early decision applicants back in December. "It was the most competitive year ever," Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg said.

Gillibrand '89 to run for Congress

Kirsten Gillibrand '89 announced in January that she will leave behind her private lifestyle as a partner in a law firm in order to run against incumbent Republican John Sweeney for New York state's 20th Congressional District seat. Gillibrand, who has never held political office, has drawn press coverage since the beginning of her campaign by openly targeting Sweeney for his weekend ski trips to Utah with pharmaceutical lobbyists, asserting that he votes for legislations based on his own interests and the interests of the companies to which he is "beholden." "It was a lavish vacation for him, and what that does is undermine people's confidence in the system," she said.

PB books Guster to perform in Leede

Guster, a band that grew out of college friendships, will return to Dartmouth this spring for the Programming Board's annual big concert. The alternative rock group is scheduled to perform on May 5 at 7 p.m.

Goldstein '05 wins GLAAD award

Alum receives Media Award for ESPN piece profiling life as an openly-gay athlete

DDS switches to eggs from cage-free chickens

Jeewon Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Do happy chickens produce better tasting eggs?

Registrar Griffin leaves for Princeton

Polly Griffin ends her seven-year tenure at the College to become Princeton's registrar

Former College provost Prager to become president of Occidental College

A search that began last summer with 80 potential candidates to fill the spot of president of Occidental College, a Southern California liberal arts college, recently ended in the appointment of former Dartmouth Provost Susan Prager. This summer Occidental College will welcome Prager, its first female president, to campus.

Professor appointed to Bank of England

The English Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, appointed David Blanchflower, the Bruce V.

Career Services amps support for alt. jobs

Any Dartmouth student knows that many of his or her classmates will be unreachable during corporate recruiting and lose sleep over marathon interviews at investment banks, but Dartmouth Career Services is beginning an initiative to open doors for students interested in unconventional vocations. The development of the All Dreams Welcome Here Fund began winter term when Career Services seized an opportunity to apply unused money that Citibank donated several years ago to allow student organizations to raise awareness about careers not covered in corporate recruiting. Director of Career Services Skip Sturman said the program's overall mission is to raise awareness within the College about occupations which, despite student interest, have not received the attention that popular choices such as law, medicine, education and banking elicit. "In my mind, All Dreams Are Welcome Here is what our office should be and is all about," Sturman said.

Magazine ranks Dartmouth 10th for Latinos

Hispanic Magazine named Dartmouth tenth on its list of the top 25 colleges for Latinos in its March 2006 issue.

Police Blotter

March 1, East Wheelock Street, 05:51 a.m. After pulling over a 45-year-old woman based on information that she had been driving after her license was suspended, an officer searched her car and found that she was in possession of marijuana.

Bass '74, Hodes '72 face off in next N.H. election

Two Dartmouth alumni will likely square off in the New Hampshire second congressional district's next election. With Bret Clemons' withdrawal from the Democratic primary race last Wednesday, leaving Democrat Paul Hode's '72 as the only major Democratic party candidate, Hodes will almost certainly be competing against Republican Charlie Bass '74 for the congressional seat that Bass has held for six consecutive terms. Clemons' withdrawal could translate into more campaign funding for Hodes.

Epsilen.com helps connect academics

New website supports professional networking, online resumes

Freedman's legacy visible today

Shortly before his first academic year as Dartmouth president, James Oliver Freedman told the New York Times, "What I hope we are able to do at Dartmouth is to emphasize that the life of the mind is the central thing that this place is about." Throughout his tenure at Dartmouth, Freedman marked the presidency with a dedication to intellectualism, diversity and to making Dartmouth welcoming to the introspective as well as the outgoing, a legacy which has profoundly influenced the current state of the College and its image. Freedman pursued his commitment to academics and diversity during his presidency both with actions and words.

Freedman, College president emeritus, dies at 70

James Oliver Freedman, Dartmouth's 15th president, died last Tuesday after a more than 12-year battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Alumnus, mogul broadcast journalist Beutel '53 dies

Distinguished journalist William Beutel '53 died in his home last Saturday in Pinehurst, N.C., following his long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Beutel, who was 75 when he died, was a broadcast journalist for ABC News in New York City for over three decades.

Freedman well received among faculty, students later follow

When President Emeritus James Freedman came to Dartmouth in 1987, he entered an institution that was still male-dominated, largely conservative and mired at the bottom of Ivy League academics.