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April 30, 2024 | Latest Issue
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Allison Brugg
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Students hold leadership conference

Student leaders from the eight Ivy League schools will flock to Hanover this weekend to participate in the first-ever Ivy League symposium on leadership, examining the "Bestiality of Leadership." The symposium, which was organized by Theresa Ellis '97 and Sarah Lenczner '97, will look at the "unspoken difficult things that go along with being a leader," like stress and personal costs, Ellis said. The idea for the symposium came from a conversation the two women had with Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia about the resignation of Student Assembly President Danielle Moore '95 last fall and a leave of absence Harvard University President Neil Rudenstine took last year because of fatigue. The conversation concerned issues from the "other side" of leadership. "People didn't feel there was enough support for student leadership," Sateia said.

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Mankiller named Montgomery Fellow

Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of a major Native American tribe, will be at the College this winter as a Montgomery Fellow. A respected Native American leader who was chief of her Cherokee Nation tribe from 1985 to this past August, Mankiller will spend the entire term at the College, participating in classes and hosting smaller, informal discussions. "I anticipate a lot of activity," Executive Director of the Montgomery Endowment Barbara Gerstner said.

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Furstenberg discusses the admission process

Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Karl Furstenberg talked candidly about the College's admissions process, calling himself Dartmouth's "vice president of sales," in an informal discussion last night in Sanborn Hall Furstenberg did not need a moment to think about the reasons he loves his job. "I get a chance to meet an incredibly rich and interesting group of people.

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