A New Way to Remember Dartmouth
I could use this space to write a reflective and sentimental commentary about the end of my Dartmouth career, but I'm sure emotions will be running high enough on campus today without my contribution.
I could use this space to write a reflective and sentimental commentary about the end of my Dartmouth career, but I'm sure emotions will be running high enough on campus today without my contribution.
To the surprise of many members of the Class of 2003, the world at large has continued as usual while they have lived, worked and played in Hanover.
With a 3.99 grade point average Latchezar Benatov '03, a math and physics double major from Sofia, Bulgaria, will be the valedictorian for the class of 2003.
Much has transpired at the College during the four years the Class of 2003 spent on campus. From triumph to tragedy, the class now preparing for "the real world" has seen a lot at Dartmouth. The story that stands out above all others was the murders of two well-respected professors on the evening of Jan.
Critically acclaimed author and historian returns to Hanover after teaching as a Montgomery Fellow
Fellow members of the Dartmouth College community: As president of the Class of 1953, the 50th reunion Class, I am delighted by the opportunity to discuss two issues with you in this op-ed piece. As we, the Class of 1953, reflect back on our undergraduate years there can be no doubt that one of our most memorable, most influential and most stimulating experiences was the "Great Issues" course taken by all seniors.
Important figures, issues mark Commencement lore
Before the big ceremony Sunday on the Green signifying the lifting of "undergrad" status from the shoulders of graduating seniors, the graduate schools will send some of its students out into the professional world Saturday with the Tuck and Thayer School's Investiture ceremonies and Dartmouth Medical School's Class Day. 224 students at the Tuck School of Business Administration will get their M.B.As.
Dartmouth's 2003 commencement ceremonies will see seven outstanding individuals receive honorary College degrees.
As the last days of their senior year come to an end, many '03s are finding that their futures are not altogether clear, as some head to graduate school, others to good jobs and others to uncertainty.
Class of 2003, is there anything that we can tell you in this short space that you don't already know? You're graduating seniors, at least two years older than any of us.
Empty seats at Berry Library's normally sedate Novack Caf become prime real estate as reading period descends on the College and finals approach.
Weinberg: Research on mice limited in applicability to humans
When the human biology program winks out of existence in June, it will leave two College Courses, one unemployed administrator and a host of faculty still dedicated to the program's ideals.
After decades of neglect, over 15,000 Spanish plays that formerly lay on the balcony of Baker Library's Tower Room have finally been fully catalogued and integrated into the library's collections. Originally purchased between 1929 and 1936 from an Spanish dealer, the plays were rediscovered three and a half years ago by Miguel Valladares, the library reference bibliographer, according to professor Marsha Swislocki, chair of the department of Spanish and Portuguese. In the intervening time, College librarians Valladares and Santiago Sanchez-Barbas went ahead with plans to catalogue the thousands of individual volumes, which cover a wide range of topics and which are written largely in Spanish and Catalonian. With the help of a dedicated group of students, Swislocki said, Valladares and Sanchez-Barbas entered each play into an online catalogue in a three-year effort that concluded last March. Over the past weekend, scholars, bibliographers and curators from Spain and the United States convened for a campus symposium to discuss the collection, exchange papers and hear a student performance of one of the plays. Few other colleges have such large collections of Spanish plays, and even fewer have them catalogued, Swislocki said.
The Appalachian Trail stretches 2,168 miles up the East Coast, from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine, even passing through the center of Hanover along the way. "The trail is the longest national park we own," said Dartmouth Outing Club member Beth Rabbitt '04.
"How does a 70-year-old man stay young?" asked history professor Jere Daniell '55 at a fireside chat yesterday evening at Phi Delta Alpha Fraternity.
Carl Gieringer '03 was hospitalized early Saturday morning after he fell while attempting to steal a flag from the front of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Gieringer -- who is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity -- injured both legs, shattering one ankle and breaking his heel when he jumped from a slipping ladder at around 3:30 a.m.
Dartmouth recently received a ranking as one of the top schools for athletics and academics in the country by the National Collegiate Scouting Association.
America's colleges and universities are guilty of an "outrageous betrayal" of the principle of free speech through their establishment of restrictive and intellectually stifling speech codes, Emmett Hogan '01 said yesterday. Hogan argued that students of the '60s and '70s who had enjoyed power in guiding college policies across the nation are now, as administrators, loathe to heed the voices of today's students in what he called "a generational swindle of epic proportions." Instead, Hogan said, institutions enforce official doctrines of diversity and group identity in what amounts to an "assault on the sanctity of the individual." Hogan, who is currently the Program Coordinator for the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education, conceded that private institutions have the right to set their own policies in any way they choose, but said colleges risk destroying their essential role as forums for the free exchange of ideas when they set limits on what can and cannot be said. Among the worst offenders, Hogan said, are Harvard University and UCLA, which have established codes banning not only harassing and derogatory language, but in some instances "demeaning" or "abusive" speech, and even remarks that challenge statements made by certain campus groups.