March 12, Rip Road, 10:39 p.m. A man reported to police that he had received a prank phone call from a woman whose voice he did not recognize.
Strong cross-examinations and convincing testimony qualified three Dartmouth mock trial teams for the American Mock Trial Association national championship this month. After placing second out of 30 teams at the New England Mock Trial Tournament in February, Dartmouth's top team led by senior attorneys David Rhinesmith, Victoria Corder and Sean Miller will qualify for the country's most prestigious national competition to be held in Des Moines, Iowa, in April. A second Dartmouth team that placed fourth at a different regional tournament held at Manchester Community College attended a national competition in St.
Panda House, the downtown Hanover Chinese restaurant, will soon close its doors for good after multiple allegations of credit card fraud against restaurant employees have greatly diminished its business. In the most recent scandal, more than 20 Panda House customers, some of who are Dartmouth students, lost well over $10,000 to a type of credit card fraud called "skimming." Skimming is a process by which the skimmer, in this case an unknown Panda House employee, runs customer credit cards through a handheld device that electronically captures data stored on the magnetic strip of the card.
Rockefeller Center student activities coordinator Karen Liot Hill '00 won a seat on the Lebanon City Council, following a campaign enlisting the help of two other Dartmouth women -- Sarah Ayres '06 and Tucker Foundation staffer Becky Windt. Hill, 26, ousted 59-year-old incumbent Dominic Balestra earlier this month with 64 percent of the 363 votes, winning her a 2-year term on the council. "I was very surprised, especially by the margin," Hill said.
While snow and ice slowed travel around Hanover this past winter, the weather did not slow down the rest of life on campus. Theta Delta Chi fraternity and Delta Delta Delta sorority continued to deal with serious hazing allegations that originated in the fall. Theta Delta Chi was placed on probation for 12 weeks, while Delta Delta Delta received a four week term.
Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business chose last week not to follow Harvard Business School's lead in automatically denying admission to applicants accused of hacking into an admissions processing website to learn the decision on their applications early, Tuck Dean Paul Danos said in a press release. "The involvement in this incident was deemed a very important, negative factor, but only one of many factors in our admissions decisions," Danos said. Dartmouth is one of over ten business schools that used an online application system built by ApplyYourself.com.
Ten Big Green student-athletes on winter sports teams received All-Ivy academic honors on March 22. The 80 men and women chosen for the award were selected from a pool of student-athletes that consisted of starters or key reserves on any officially recognized varsity team with 3.0 or better cumulative grade point averages. A trio of past and current roommates -- Cam Fortin '05 (squash), Mike Liddy '05 (basketball) and Sean Robinson '05 (swimming and diving) -- were among the honorees. Liddy said that living with Fortin and Robinson, all three members of Psi Upsilon fraternity, was a positive influence that helped steer him toward the academic All-Ivy distinction. "It's nice having roommates that are also athletes because they understand the demands of balancing academics and athletics too," Liddy said.
WEB UPDATE, March 21, 10:06 a.m. Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business will not follow Harvard Business School's lead in automatically denying admission to applicants accused of hacking into an admissions processing website to learn the decision on their applications early, Tuck Dean Paul Danos said in a press release. "The involvement in this incident was deemed a very important, negative factor, but only one of many factors in our admissions decisions," Danos said. Dartmouth is one of over ten business schools that used an online application system build by ApplyYourself.com.
WEB UPDATE, March 21, 9:01 p.m. Dartmouth women's basketball missed the March Madness train. On Sunday evening, only a day after 14th-seeded Bucknell and 13th-seeded Vermont upset their respective No.
The College's aggressive fund-raising "Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience" may be long overdue.
Two freshman females, who had planned to live together next year, are scrambling to avoid the dreaded housing waitlist after receiving priority numbers within the last 50 assigned. One option they are considering is to pay a student with a better number to get them a room and drop out before the start of next year. "We are thinking about doing something with a person who is not planning on using their number and paying the fee," one girl said.
March 1, Tuck Mall, 12:04 p.m. A Tuck student reported that his gold 1997 Saab had been victim to a hit-and-run accident while parked and unattended in the River parking lot.
Dartmouth students between the ages of 18 and 21 might soon be able to legally buy 30-packs of Keystone Light in Vermont and smuggle them across the Connecticut River if the Vermont legislature passes a new bill to lower the state's drinking age.
The College's Hood Museum of Art, which will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this year, is welcoming a new director to lead the museum into the next decade. Brian P.
Theta Delta Chi fraternity will forego an arraignment, originally scheduled for Wednesday morning at 9 a.m., by pleading not guilty to five felony counts of serving alcohol to minors in a formal waiver recently submitted to the Grafton County Superior Court, according to George Ostler '77, Theta Delt's attorney. The indictments stem from events that occurred Wednesday, Jan.
Intense debate raged over the Big Green Bike program Tuesday night at the Student Assembly's last meeting of Winter term, which garnered attendance by over 85 percent of the Assembly's membership. The proposal earmarking $2,000 of Assembly funds for BGB passed by seven votes after extended debate that frequently reached a fevered pitch. Last night's move allows BGB sponsors, including Student Body Vice President Todd Rabkin Golden '06, to implement the program, which aims to provide between 50 and 100 communal bicycles to students, who would rent keys opening all the bicycle locks for $10 per year. Earlier on Tuesday, Student Body President Julia Hildreth '05 admonished Rabkin Golden for setting up a table in the Collis Center to solicit student support for BGB and sign up students for the program. "I have already told [Rabkin Golden] that I consider this to be disrespectful to SA and dishonest to campus," Hildreth wrote to the Assembly executives yesterday in a BlitzMail message obtained by The Dartmouth. Hildreth described Rabkin Golden's actions as an "error in judgment," but noted the problem had been solved. "If there's a program that Student Assembly hasn't officially endorsed, you can't be taking money in that program's name," Hildreth said at the Assembly meeting. Rabkin Golden said his efforts were aimed at engaging student interest and talking about the program with students.
Winter term saw the Student Assembly absorb two previously independent student organizations, make significant moves to assume responsibility for alumni-student relations and set up over 30 new BlitzMail computers on campus. The Assembly, however, struggled throughout the term with bureaucratic and procedural woes, including the dramatic removal of an Assembly executive for allegedly leaking word of the secret Blitz-terminal rollout. Centralization has been a key theme this term for the Assembly, which adopted the Dartmouth Chapter of the Ivy Council, the organization that attends and coordinates conferences with student-government leaders from the other schools in the Ancient Eight, and the Election Planning and Advisory Committee, which regulates and oversees spring elections for various campus-wide student offices. While Ivy Council returned to the Assembly after only a short stint as an independent group recognized by the Committee on Student Organizations, EPAC was created four years ago and administered by members of the Palaeopitus senior society.
With the renovation of Karl Michael Pool scheduled for Spring term, some seniors are scrambling to fulfil the swimming requirement before graduation in June. The College requires all students to pass a 50-yard swim test to be eligible for graduation, but seniors who have put off the test until their final year may face difficulties as the swimming facility is remodelled throughout Spring term. The renovation of the pool will involve the installation of a dehumidifier system, which is necessary to prevent structural damage to Alumni Gym, according to Roger Demment, associate director of athletics for physical education and recreational sports. "The humidity is beginning to eat away at the infrastructure," Demment said. The renovation, which was "needed to maintain the integrity of the building," is part of a wider plan to improve the College's athletic facilities, Demment said. Plans include refurbishing the upper level of the gym, creating two new multipurpose rooms and improving the current fitness center.
The Hanover Police formally charged Michael Volodarsky '08 with misdemeanor reckless conduct last week for a Feb.
Dartmouth smokers will soon be forced to stop lighting up in their dorm rooms as the College's last smoking residence halls -- Lord, Richardson, Wheeler and South Massachusetts -- will all become smoke-free by fall 2006, according to Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman. The decision was primarily the result of public-health concerns and Dartmouth's small population of smokers relative to the large percentage of students who want smoke-free housing, Redman said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Less than 10 students in the Class of 2008 claimed they were smokers in an ORL poll, Redman said.