"Do we own our body parts, or do they belong to somebody who needs them?" asked U.S. Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi yesterday of a crowd of 65 at the Rockefeller Center. The Judge spoke on the topic of "Do We Own Our Bodies?
The Senior Executive Committee for the Class of 2000, which acts as the alumni relations liason between the class and the College for the next five years, has finalized the specific positions for its members. While the 20 member committee has been in place since February, it is only recently that the members received their appointments to explicit tasks. The executive board consists of President Kelly Bodio, Vice President Shannon Danzy, Treasurer Emily Anadu, Secretary Kelly Heaps, Alumni Council representative Olivia Carpenter, Head Agent Janelle Ruley, newsletter editor Eric Buchman and mini-reunion Head Chair Julie Kachniasz. Twelve of the committee members were elected by their classmates, the remaining eight were appointed by a College selection committee composed of Director of Student Activities Linda Kennedy, Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia, 2000 Class Dean Teoby Gomez and assistant director of Alumni Relations Stacy Wooley. "The importance of the head agent in the first five years after graduation is that the position will lay the groundwork for class participation.
Former Unites States Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop, resident Senior Scholar of the Dartmouth institute bearing his name, was disappointed in the recent ruling by the Supreme Court that the Food and Drug Administration does not have the authority to regulate the tobacco industry. "I was disappointed in the ruling, but it did not surprise me.
Anxious high school seniors can start watching their mailboxes for fat envelopes tomorrow -- that's when Dartmouth will send out 1,782 acceptances to the future Class of 2004, with the number of admissions holding steady from last year. "This group is one of the strongest around, with incredible quality and depth," Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg said. Thirty-two percent of the admitted students are ranked number one in their high school class.
In a stand against same-sex marriages, University of Notre Dame Professor of Law Gerald Bradley defined marriage as "the communion of persons consummated by actions reproductive in type, whether it results in children" in a talk yesterday at the Rockefeller Center. The talk, entitled "How People Come To Be: The Case of Same Sex Marriage," is the second part of a series on same-sex marriages.
In an age where e-commerce is rapidly replacing many traditional methods of conducting business, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration has incorporated this trend into their curriculum through the introduction of classes, projects and examples that revolve around the relatively new field. These changes, which began approximately seven years ago, are only the beginning, according to Dean of the Tuck School Paul Danos.
As chair of the reaccreditation committee that visited the College two weeks ago, Hugo Sonnenschein -- president of the University of Chicago -- praised Dartmouth's intimate college community as well as its increasingly-respected role as a national research university. In an interview with The Dartmouth this week, Sonnenschein said he was impressed with the faculty's commitment to its students as well as the strength of the physical layout of the campus. Sonnenschein was at the College from October 24 to 27 as part of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges' reaccreditation process, which takes place every ten years in order to determine whether or not an institution is fit for academic education. Dartmouth has never failed to be reaccredited. While on campus, Sonnenschein -- who was a renowned economist before becoming the president of the U.
The New England Association of Schools and Colleges is evaluating Dartmouth College this week as part of a mandatory reaccreditation process conducted every 10 years. Accreditation involves a week-long examination of Dartmouth by a visiting committee of eight representatives of U.S.
Every Homecoming, in addition to facing their opponents, Dartmouth's fall athletic teams have to compete for attention against Big Green football, which traditionally attracts the greatest number of spectators and the most fanfare. This weekend, in addition to football, Big Green volleyball, rugby, field hockey, women's and men's soccer will all have home games. In recent years, an effort has been made to decrease the number of teams competing at the same time as football, so more people can attend more games. "Within the league there was an attitude to move soccer and field hockey so that they were not competing with football," women's varsity soccer coach Kelly B.
Educational experts and college admissions officers are sharply criticizing an experimental project that the Educational Testing Service, the group that administers the SATs, is conducting to label test-takers as "strivers" or "underachievers" based on their score and socioeconomic background. The project uses 14 different criteria, including socioeconomic background, race, ethnicity and the parent's employment status, to identify students who have overcome difficulties to score exceptionally well on the test.