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?
Despite growing concerns about the fairness of early decision, its use continues to proliferate throughout the Ivy League, with some schools filling half of their incoming freshman slots with early applicants. The most dramatic increase came at the University of Pennsylvania, where 50 percent of its freshman class will be admitted early this year, up from 43 percent last year. Columbia, accepting 490 students, admitted 49 percent of its incoming class early.
According to Joseph Persico, author and former chief speech writer for Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Franklin Delano Roosevelt may have had -- but was unable to act upon -- intelligence of an impending Japanese attack upon America prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Dec.
The Mellon Foundation recently awarded Dartmouth's Public Key Infrastructure team a $1.5 million grant to for research that looks to revolutionize Internet security at academic institutions across the country. Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI, refers to a digital technology that utilizes an infrastructure of private and public keys to encrypt and decrypt information in order to send it securely over the Internet. The purpose of the Mellon grant and the goal of the PKI team at Dartmouth will be to create and deploy such an infrastructure on a large scale to be used across America. "Within a year we should have some good prototypes running.
"The decade after the Cold War was a time of trivial pursuits," Pulitzer prize-winning journalist David Halberstam told a packed crowd in Filene Auditorium last night. The renowned author of "The Best and the Brightest," which chronicled the debacle of American foreign policy during the Vietnam era, Halberstam spoke on the dramatic changes in U.S.
DURHAM, N.H. -- In his first visit back to New Hampshire since the contested presidential election, President Bush celebrated the major legislative victory of his education bill amidst the turmoil of war. In front of an ecstatic standing-room-only crowd and before a huge banner reading "No Child Left Behind," the president spoke on both education and the war on terror. "The hope of the future for this country is not only to make sure that we're secure and we're safe, but the true hope for the country is to make sure everybody gets a good education," the president said. The speech was interrupted when a spectator yelled out, "What about the Afghani children?" -- referring to civilian casualties in the war with Afghanistan. For a moment, the president paused with a sad expression upon his face and the crowd hushed. The heckler was silenced by neighboring spectators who grabbed him and held him down for a time. Then another spectator, a girl, yelled, "We love you, President Bush." Immediately, the audience broke out into a roaring applause. The president then continued his speech. Afterwards, Secret Service agents escorted the young man out. When asked why he had interrupted the president's speech, the student would not comment and refused to give his name, saying he feared for his life. One spectator, 16-year-old Natalie Delisle, spoke on her reaction to the protester afterwards.
Yes, Bobby Redford is at it again. In his new film, "The Last Castle," he is once more attacking the American prison system only this time, from the other side of the bars. In 1980's "Brubaker," his first philippic against the penal system, Redford played a young warden dead-set on reforming a corrupt Southern prison.
For over a century, the people of Hanover have marked a particular brisk mid-October night to celebrate the unique New England traditions of Dartmouth College.
How should America respond to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11? This pressing question has been perplexing millions during the past four weeks and last night the Dickey Center's third faculty panel in a series addressing the attacks sought to shed some light upon it. On one side was Daryl Press, an Assistant Professor of Government specializing in military affairs. He advocated the aggressive view that the attacks were calculated acts of war on America and deserved to be treated as such. "The events of Sept.
At 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, Jim Margolin '78, spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York office, was sitting at his desk on the 28th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, eight blocks north of the World Trade Center. "At 8:48 we heard a very loud but deep rumbling noise." Outside of his north-facing office windows, clear blue sky and glistening sun shone upon the reflecting glass skyscrapers.