Class Council candidates prepare for Monday's vote
Candidates for Council offices explain platforms, debate issues at forum in Collis Commonground
Candidates for Council offices explain platforms, debate issues at forum in Collis Commonground
After two hours of heated debate, new-look Assembly says CFSC should decide Greek future
Drew Pluhar '00 announces write-in candidacy for SA president
Dean of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration Paul Danos accepted his reappointment at the College for another four years yesterday. "Dean Danos has been an outstanding leader who has, while strengthening Tuck's ongoing programs, also pursued an exceptional array of important initiatives," College President James Wright said in a statement. Danos became the ninth dean of the Tuck School, where he is also a full professor, in 1995. He said he is excited for his next four years as dean and called Dartmouth "a great place to live and a great place to work." "I do really like the concept of having focus and real high quality in everything that we do," he said. Danos has worked in three major areas during his time at Tuck: globalization, leadership in technology and the use of information technology. "We've created several programs around the world," he said.
The activist atmosphere on campus created by the Trustees' controversial social life initiative has had several far reaching effects -- including the cancellation of all Winter Carnival parties and the delay of a decision on door locks -- but one area which has yet to see that influence is Student Assembly elections. Many campus leaders had once thought the Greek issue would be the trigger to reverse the tide of dwindling interest and involvement in the Assembly and its races.
Another case of an anonymous offensive mailing was discovered yesterday afternoon in the Hinman Box of the Students for a Free Tibet organization.
Candidate speaks on campaign finance, Kosovo
In the second lecture of the Senior Symposium series, Karen Narasaki, Director of an Asian Pacific Americans legal lobbying group, addressed the social impacts that Asian Americans have on the United States Saturday in Rockefeller Center. Narasaki said because Asian population in the U.S.
George Gilder -- celebrated author, economist, technology prognosticator and former Presidential speech writer -- kicked off the Senior Symposium's lectures series with a speech titled, "Why Technology Is Green and Ecology Isn't" Friday night in the Rockefeller Center. Gilder started by throwing a question to the audience, "What do the war in Kosovo, global warming conference in Kyoto and social security crisis have in common?" He explained that all three are based on a "zero-sum" game theory, in which a gain for someone is a loss for others. "It used to be thought that the only way you can improve your own position is to reduce the position of someone else," Gilder said. But Gilder challenged the popular conception by illustrating the three examples.
The Dartmouth and WDCR to sponsor discussion with presidential hopeful
After six years as the Dean of First Year Students at Dartmouth, Peter Goldsmith will step down at the end of the school year to accept a position as Dean of the College at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Goldsmith formally accepted Oberlin's offer on Wednesday to replace its Acting Dean of the College, Deb McNish. "I was nominated for this position, and it is a wonderful position at an extraordinary institution," Goldsmith said.
Yale, Princeton, Penn break records; Acceptances drop all-around
Angry rallies from the Psi Upsilon fraternity porch, bitter protests during Winter Carnival and biting posters hanging from fraternity windows characterized the immediate aftermath of the Trustees' surprising social and residential life initiative announcement last term. But so far this term opposition seems to be much more subdued -- and out of the public eye.
Congressmen shapes bill after lear jet that disappeared near Lebanon, N. H.
Construction of a new building in the East Wheelock Cluster, scheduled to add another 80 beds by fall of 2000, will begin next Monday and add a fourth building to the College's youngest set of dormitories. Initially designed to replace beds lost to building code upgrades of other residence halls, the new dorm, or "pod," was designed to include features that enhance the design used for the first three East Wheelock buildings. The new residence hall will be part of the East Wheelock residential program which is designed to give students more access to faculty and foster a sense of community. The new building will be built between Zimmerman and Morton residence halls and faculty apartments on East Wheelock and North Park streets, Director of Residential Operations Woody Eckels said. Efforts have been made to design a building that is architecturally consistent with the current East Wheelock residence halls without repeating the same mistakes made when constructing those dorms in 1987, Eckels said. Although actual construction of the building structure will not begin until summer, work on the site will be ongoing throughout the spring, including excavation, tree removal and relocation of the cluster's central cooling unit. Construction is scheduled for 7:30 a.m.
Recent graduate last seen in Manhattan apartment on March 19
Safety and Security has made little headway towards determining the source of last weeks' hate mailings, Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson said yesterday. The focus of the investigation thus far has been the misuse of Hinman Mail, since the mailings contained the return address -- "Crusade for Christ HB 5072" -- but the Campus Crusade for Christ has denied having any involvement with the mailings. Nelson said at this point it is unclear whether the anonymous mailer was a Dartmouth student, or whether the pamphlets were sent by a member of the faculty or the outside community. Right now the College is considering this an "internal issue," he said.
Responding to the administration's recent ban on alcohol at undergraduate parties, a task force composed of 20 administrators and student leaders at the University of Pennsylvania is in the midst of analyzing the university's current alcohol policy and creating a new one. According to Undergraduate Assembly Vice Chair Michael Bassik, the administration did not intend to ban alcohol permanently from parties, but wanted to prompt discussion about the university's current alcohol policy and make clear the need to alter it.
Montgomery Fellow David Grubin, an Emmy Award-winning producer, writer and cinematographer who has won numerous prestigious awards for his documentaries, gave a speech "Presidents on Film" to an audience of approximately 30 people yesterday afternoon in Cooke Auditorium. After an introduction by College Provost Susan Prager, Grubin, who started his career as a cameraman and has since made over 100 documentaries, spoke about the significance of making films and showed clips from several of his documentaries on American Presidents. As a filmmaker, he said he sees his role as that of a storyteller as most people only care about historical facts when they are embodied in stories.
At a meeting marked by the presence of more than 30 non-Student Assembly members, the Assembly voted overwhelmingly last night to pass an unusual resolution endorsing a set of its own Five Principles for enhancing student voice at the College, closely mimicking the set of residential and social life principles put forth by the Board of Trustees in February. The Assembly's resolution of student involvement -- passed 43 to five -- rings a familiar tone to students by reflecting the language and the format that the Board of Trustees used to announce its controversial Five Principles to overhaul social and residential life at the College. "I realized student involvement is the issue I care about most, and it affects all aspects of Dartmouth life.