Two years ago, Dartmouth required Tracy Kidder's "Mountains Beyond Mountains" as required summer reading for the then-incoming Class of 2009.
The "Wild Things" have come to Dartmouth. An early autographed edition of popular children's writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak's bestseller, "Where the Wild Things Are," is part of the Maurice Sendak collection which was recently donated to Dartmouth's Rauner Special Collections Library by local resident and former book collector Mort Wise.
Two administrators at Rider University were charged Friday with aggravated hazing for the alcohol poisoning of two Phi Kappa Tau fraternity pledges, resulting in the death of freshman Gary DeVercelly on March 30.
Jarman Rogers / The Dartmouth Staff Eggs can come scrambled, sunny-side up, or in the case of Latif Nasser '08's one-act play "The Oologist's Egg," passionate -- as in Fritz the passionate egg.
Blackboard Inc., the company that provides and manages many of the online educational services used by the College, recently unveiled SafeAssign, a new plagiarism-detection device which will allow professors to automatically compare students' papers with a database containing millions of articles that will be updated weekly. Unlike similar services such as Turnitin and MyDropBox, SafeAssign does not automatically upload students' papers to the database. Students must first give permission for their work to be copied into the database, and professors will not be forced to utilize SafeAssign when reviewing student papers. Dartmouth has no imminent plans to implement the new feature, which was unveiled on July 2, according to Malcolm Brown, director of computing services. "We would first need to work with colleagues in administration and faculty to look at the tool, to see if it will be useful, what the results are and what the quality the service will be.
Ben Taylor '07 won in the final round of Jeopardy last Friday with a total of $25,599. Taylor first tried out for the game-show online then auditioned in Boston, but did not hear back from the officials until a year later.
This summer, five Dartmouth students embarked on the first collaborative program between Dartmouth and the Tuck School of Business as participants of the newly created Paganucci Fellowship Program.
As droves of sophomores flock to corporate recruiting events in anticipation of their leave terms, Tomi Jun '08 is preparing for a different type of off-campus experience.