Ivy students get the last word with course evals.
It is a problem that all students must face each term -- deciding which classes to take. What professor teaches this course, and how does he grade?
It is a problem that all students must face each term -- deciding which classes to take. What professor teaches this course, and how does he grade?
Low tuition may help encourage diversity
'His blood ran green,' say friends of dedicated community member
Dartmouth senior art majors and a wide range of administrators and faculty members met last night to try to understand how Friday's devastating vandalism of the art department's studio affected its targets -- as people, students and artists. The evening was marked by the students' widespread belief that the only person or people who could have committed the vandalism were those within the department, and, more than that, those with an understanding of art. The placement of clay pieces in the sculpture studio tool room, the fact that the vandal knew minute details of where studio art majors' work was kept, the way he or she appears to have entered the studio and the choice of using yellow paint -- the color that the sculpture department uses to mark its equipment -- to mark the work all contributed to this feeling. "It was the expression of someone close to us, by an artist," said studio art senior major Laura Tepper '02.
In yet another incident contributing to the recent spate of crime, between $8,000 and $12,000 dollars of disc jockey, stereo and karaoke equipment was stolen late last week from the Collis Center's Poison Ivy nightclub.
Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop '37 recently appeared before the New Hampshire state legislature to promote a new bill that would increase state funding for smoking prevention programs. New Hampshire currently receives $46 million every year from a national settlement against the tobacco companies, but only $1.3 million of that money is reserved for funding smoking-prevention programs or to treat addicts.
James Parker, Robert Tulloch's alleged accomplice in the murder of Professors Half and Susanne Zantop, will face no criminal charges related to previous attempts to break into homes in Rochester and Vershire, Vt.
As a nationwide economic recession continues, cutbacks and cancellations are affecting summer internship programs as well as permanent employment opportunities. Dartmouth students have expressed some concern over whether the faltering economy will impact their internship options, Director of Career Services Skip Sturman said.
Students, administrators, and members of Student Assembly convened in Collis Commonground last night for the Assembly's Illuminations dinner to discuss a wide range of topics, including how to facilitate communication between different campus groups. Participants grouped themselves at tables, each of which had a designated topic.
Police investigate early Sat. morning attack
Vandalism Friday night devastated the work of student artists in the sculpture, architecture and painting studios of Clement Hall, as well as the Hopkins Center's print-making shop and the new AREA gallery space at the Top of the Hop. The person or persons responsible appeared to systematically target studio art interns and senior majors, using yellow spray and oil paint to deface most works in sight. The graffiti on individual pieces was often slight, but care was taken to hit every piece.
A recent settlement between a University of New Hampshire student and a Durham store owner has armed New Hampshire alcohol purveyors with the power to file suit against underage patrons using false identification to purchase alcoholic beverages. The student, Jeremy Reny, was caught using his older brother's valid driver's license.
Secret societies at Dartmouth take a back seat to Greek life and remain a mystery to most. At nearby Norwich University in Northfield, Vt., however, where no fraternities or sororities exist, the recent discovery by administrators of an unauthorized secret society, Left Out Society, caused a stir on campus. While Norwich strongly condemns and prohibits secret societies, six of the organizations exist at Dartmouth and are acknowledged by the school.
"Chechnya is quickly becoming a nation of invalids and fresh graves," Chris Kline, the last Western journalist to leave the war-torn state, told an audience at the Rockefeller Center yesterday as he recounted his clandestine journey to the front lines of the conflict. The freelance war correspondent risked death, torture and imprisonment to enter the region just months after Grozny fell to the Russian military.
New details released Tuesday in a grand jury indictment of Robert Tulloch will shape arguments at the April trial, but the precise effect of these revelations remains unclear, according to legal experts contacted by The Dartmouth. Whether or not the latest information -- which states that Tulloch and James Parker visited four houses before targeting the Zantops -- will endanger Tulloch's insanity plea depends largely on the medical conditions that defense attorneys use to build their arguments, Boston University School of Law professor Wendy Kaplan said. Even Tulloch's defense team may not yet realize how large or small an impact the revelations will create because lawyers are likely still in the process of gathering and analyzing information from medical experts, Vermont Law School professor Michael Mello said.
Although the environment at Dartmouth has changed tremendously and boundaries have lessened between races, black students at Dartmouth still face difficult issues, according to associate history professor Judy Byfield '80 and three other panelists. Byfield spoke on a panel of four Dartmouth alumni during this Thursday's community hour, dubbed "Black at Dartmouth." Both Byfield and Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity Ozzie Harris '81 had some negative memories of events on campus. Byfield came to Dartmouth in 1976, the first year that women graduated from Dartmouth.
The Class of 2005 is the first class to arrive at Dartmouth since the wireless network became fully operational.
Though it was initially determined to be a viral outbreak, Dick's House doctors now consider the conjunctivitis epidemic, affecting nearly 250 students so far, to be bacterial in form, and therefore treatable with antibiotics. Dartmouth Health Services staff previously told those diagnosed with "pink eye" that they had a viral type of the ailment that is less severe.
A new cost-assessment methodology unveiled last week offers colleges across the country a uniform way to explain their costs in per-student terms. The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) unveiled the results of their "Cost of College" project after three years of development. The Cost of College project resulted from a call that the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education made in 1998 to increase the public accountability of colleges and universities. Damon Manetta, Assistant Manager of Public Relations at NACUBO, explained that the new methodology is not designed to create industry benchmarks. "The NACUBO methodology is a paradigm for schools to simply and clearly summarize their financial information.
Arguing that creationism should never be taught in schools in a science setting, law professor Kent Greenawalt said yesteday that the Supreme Court's got it right in previous decisions on religion in education. Greenawalt, a member of the faculty at Columbia Law School, spoke in the Rockefeller Center just hours after the Supreme Court debated the future of publicly-funded vouchers for students attending private or religious schools. Previous Supreme Court decisions -- including the landmark 1968 Eperson v.