SA budget increases $10K for next year
Student Assembly President Julia Hildreth '05 announced an Assembly budget of $90,000 for next year at the organization's weekly meeting on Tuesday. "It's a significant increase from last year," Hildreth said.
Student Assembly President Julia Hildreth '05 announced an Assembly budget of $90,000 for next year at the organization's weekly meeting on Tuesday. "It's a significant increase from last year," Hildreth said.
David French, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, said yesterday that the organization would improve Dartmouth's free speech rating from a poor "red light" to the highest rating, a "green light." FIRE, a self-declared watchdog group that rates and advocates for free speech on campus, accords its highest ranking to 25 to 30 percent of colleges and universities nationwide, according to French.
The Dartmouth College Committee of Chairs met Monday to discuss a report from the Committee on Organization and Policy that seeks to change the role of the Dean of the Faculty.
With this season's intense student body presidential elections two weeks behind them, election officials sat down Friday to come up with recommendations for next year's student-run Elections Planning and Advisory Committee.
Trading statistics and one-liners, economics professor Andrew Samwick and government professor Jeff Smith faced off in an insightful and nonconfrontational debate over Social Security Monday evening in the Rockefeller Center.
For the past 13 days, Princeton University has become the center of national political controversy, as a group of students have staged a filibuster of sorts outside the university's Frist student center. The students, faculty and other supporters are protesting against the proposal of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., to invoke the so-called nuclear option, which would prevent members of the Senate from using the filibuster to block the President's judicial nominees.
Law students around the world will be able to bolster their arguments by citing Dartmouth students many years their junior after an online law review website decided to include the Dartmouth College Undergraduate Journal of Law in its database.
Dartmouth undergraduates applying to business or medical school will face a more forgiving admissions landscape next year, according to Justin Serrano, vice president at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions. Part of the reason for higher admissions rates is that fewer undergraduates are applying to business school. Seventy-five percent of business schools saw their applicants drop this year from the 2003-2004 admissions cycle.
Despite a much larger and more competitive applicant pool for the Class of 2009 and a record-low acceptance rate, the College received good news when student decision letters arrived last week.
Students frustrated by the three- to four-week wait for counseling services at Dick's House may soon find relief.
Students taking Portuguese courses this year claim the faculty and administration misled them about the prospects of a Language Study Abroad or a Foreign Study Program in Fall 2005.
Scores of families will flock to Hanover this weekend as the campus prepares for both First-Year Family Weekend and Mother's Day. Many members of the Class of 2008 will have the opportunity to show their parents around campus and attend a plethora of events planned by the First-Year Class Council. "We are hoping that now that the Class of 2008 is adjusted to life at Dartmouth, we can show the families the enthusiasm and excitement that we experience on campus every day," First-Year Family Weekend co-chair Ashley Mas '08 said. Registration for parents will begin at noon on Friday in the Collis Center, with events planned from Friday to Sunday. "Some of the highlights [of the weekend] include the President's Welcome at the Top of the Hop on Friday afternoon, a Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream social on Friday night, a cookout and Dartmouth football scrimmage on Saturday afternoon and a Mother's Day brunch in Collis Sunday morning," First-Year Family Weekend co-chair Edward Kalletta '08 said. Kalletta is a member of The Dartmouth's business staff. Other plans for the parents include campus and building tours, hikes sponsored by the Dartmouth Outing Club, information sessions and lectures. In addition, a number of cultural events have been planned, including a performance titled "Native Voices" in Spaulding Auditorium by Native American flutist R.
This Saturday marks the 33rd annual Pow-Wow organized by Native Americans at Dartmouth. The event will last two days and will feature an array of Native American dances and vendors selling traditional food, arts and crafts. According to Michael Hanitchak '73, director of the Native American Program, the event has grown considerably since its conception in 1971, and over a thousand people are expected to attend during the celebrations. The Pow-Wow was part of former president John Kemeny's attempts to reaffirm Dartmouth's commitment to Native American culture.
The gap in average pay between male and female full professors at Dartmouth increased to 22 percent from 18 percent in the past year, according to a study released last week by the American Association of University Professors. Dartmouth has the largest pay gap in the Ivy League, with gaps at other schools ranging from five to 12 percent.
Voting for this year's trustee election wraps up midnight on Friday after one of the most controversial and heated races in recent memory.
The appearance of trailers and mornings marked by loud hammering signals the beginning of much desired renovations to Alumni Gym.
Aliza Dichter, this year's Visionary in Residence, delivered the keynote address Wednesday night in Collis Commonground at a dinner about problems in the media and actions that needs to be taken to ensure balanced news.
College looks to expand VOIP phone service to allow comp. calls
Students at the Amos Tuck School of Business were lucky to find a seat in Cook Auditorium on Wednesday evening to hear Jack and Suzy Welch speak as part of the Tuck Leadership Forum's CEO Speaker Series.
As Columbia University considers allowing the Reserve Officer Training Corps to finally return to campus after being banned during the Vietnam War, Dartmouth's Army ROTC program continues to struggle for scholarship funds, resources and support.