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.

Alumni consider new constitution

About 80 Dartmouth alumni met last night in Boston while others listened in by webcast in a "town hall-style meeting" to discuss the newly proposed alumni constitution, which among other changes, would bring the elite Alumni Council and the much larger, but less active, Association of Alumni under one umbrella as the Alumni Association. Currently, the Association of Alumni "could do many things but it's not set up to and in fact it hasn't," JB Daukas '84 said at the beginning of last night's meeting.

Diversity chief Harris unexpectedly resigns

Ozzie Harris II '81, the Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity, and Director of the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, clarified the reasons for his resignation after serving the College for 14 years with a statement released last Wednesday, citing "philosophic differences" with the College. Harris offered his resignation in the fall and agreed to leave at the end of the Winter term. "Philosophic differences led me to conclude that I couldn't be an effective senior leader, so I resigned as a result of that," Harris said. Harris said that he was not comfortable expanding on his statement. "I'm trying not to be negative," Harris said. The statement differed from the previous statement released by the College which attributed his resignation to his father's ill health.

JAMES FREEDMAN, PRESIDENT EMERITUS, DIES AT 70

Diversity administrator Harris resigns

WEB UPDATE, March 22, 7:24 p.m. After 14 years of service in the College administration, Ozzie Harris II '81, Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity and Director of the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, resigned Wednesday. Harris cited the need to spend more time with his seriously ill father, who resides in Oregon, as the reason for his resignation.

Mogul broadcast journalist, Beutel '53, dies

WEB UPDATE, March 22, 7:35 p.m. Distinguished journalist Bill Beutel '53 died in his home on Saturday in Pinehurst, N.C., following his long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Beutel, who was 75 years old when he died, was a broadcast journalist for ABC News in New York City for over three decades.

Police Blotter

March 1, South Main Street, 9:15 a.m. A woman followed her son's ex-girlfriend to the ex-girlfriend's mother's workplace because she was upset that the ex-girlfriend, who is in her mid-30s, had broken up with her son, also in his mid-30s.

Swicker '77 commands USS Vicksburg

Assembly hindered by poor attendance

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Writing class explores music and madness

The Bipolar Ensemble, a group of first-year students in the Writing 5 course "Manic-Depression and the Creative Process," will perform at 7 p.m.