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Graduate students get degrees
By Stella Lee | June 12, 2000Private Class Day and Investiture ceremonies held for students
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Class of 2000 is a true millenium class
By Stella Lee | June 12, 2000Members of the Class of 2000 will be the last graduating class of the twentieth century. For most, this means little, but for others, this landmark year carries with it some important privileges and responsibilities. "I think it is definitely cool to be the graduating class of 2000, but I don't really see the big image behind it.
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Recent fires prompt safety preparations
By Stella Lee | April 10, 2000On Tuesday, April 4, a 20-year-old sophomore at St. Joseph's College in Maine was arrested for arson in an early morning fire that left more than 100 students homeless.
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Five students win Reynolds awards
By Stella Lee | April 4, 2000The Committee on Graduate Fellowships has awarded five students $14,000 as recipients of the James B.
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Symposium to show how to e-start a career
By Stella Lee | February 18, 2000McKinsey & Company is sponsoring the first annual Tuck-Dartmouth College "StartUposium" today -- a one day symposium and career fair that will offer students the unique opportunity to interact with various startup companies that seek young talent to help boost them into success. The StartUposium will feature a guest speaker, Aaron Cohen, CEO of Concrete Media, a panel discussion with the participating startup companies, a presentation by McKinsey & Company, and a career fair. The career fair will be open for business, engineering and both graduate and undergraduate students to meet and interact with representatives of startup companies including Screaming Media, Be Free, Doublespace, HireEngine.com, Strong Numbers, LaunchCenter 39, and numerous other technology oriented firms or dot-coms, -- 18 companies in total. The purpose of the StartUposium is to break the barrier that exists between students searching for career opportunities and newly emerging companies seeking to draw interest from bright, young, college graduates, according to graduate student Scott Simpson, a member of the Tuck Entrepreneurship Club, which is helping to organize this event. Recent Tuck efforts such as eForums in San Francisco and Boston have in the past proven successful in informing students of what startups are available and looking for young talent, and helping startup companies in efficiently recruiting students. Simpson said he encourages both undergraduates as well as graduate students to participate in the StartUposium. Students will be able to learn about what types of people the companies are looking for, as well as have the chance to get the companies interested in them as potential interns or analysts by discussing the skills that they have that can make these companies successful, Simpson said. Simpson said although it is impossible to define what kind of people companies are looking for, he said that generally the companies seek talented, intelligent, and motivated problem solvers to make the company grow.
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Students take professors to lunch
By Stella Lee | February 7, 2000Earlier this term, one posting on the Activities for Students bulletin caught the interest of both students and faculty -- a free meal from Hanover Inn.
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ILEAD helps older community learn
By Stella Lee | February 1, 2000Amidst a throng of young collegians on campus, a few ambitious faces of the middle-aged and elderly can be found browsing through Howe Library, the Collis Center, Dartmouth Hall and the Rockefeller Center. Clutching volumes of books and casually entering and exiting the academic building within the ivy walls of this typically youth-dominated college, these few older faces are the students of ILEAD -- the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth. Roger Smith, the public relations head of the program and adjunct professor of environmental studies, describes ILEAD as a non-profit, volunteer organization that runs under the sponsorship of the College as a self-supporting member of the Elderhostel Institute Network, a federation of 262 institutes for learning in retirement. Smith said that the program currently enjoys the participation of nearly 1,000 members, many with past or present Dartmouth connections.
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Phonathon earns $274,996
By Stella Lee | January 26, 2000Although student volunteer participation in this year's 24th annual Dartmouth Alumni Fund Student Phonation has been lower than in previous years, donations do not seem to have been affected. After five days, the Phonation has raised $274,996 from 1,233 donors with four days left to call, Assistant Director of the Alumni Fund Christopher Buffoli said. One of the principle reasons for the lack of volunteers is that the Office of Residential Life has forbidden the event's organizers to send direct BlitzMail messages to Undergraduate Advisors and Area Coordinators to request help as a group, Buffoli said. Direct contact with the UGAs has proven to be successful in the past, with UGAs and ACs holding competitions among their groups on who can make the most phone calls. Buffoli said that due to the complaints of some UGAs regarding the direct blitzes urging them to volunteer, ORL made a ruling two years ago to ban this mode of publicizing. The success of the volunteer turnout can be drastically different every year, with timing being a key factor. In some years a lot of active, enthusiastic people on campus come out and participate in the event, Buffoli said.
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Etu '01 leads CFSC response
By Stella Lee | January 17, 2000He's an easy-going, approachable guy. He's a math major, a Dartmouth Dining Services full-time administrative intern and a brother and house chaplain at Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
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Festival celebrates Latino culture
By Stella Lee | October 12, 1999The second annual La Alianza Latina Fall Festival will bring issues faced by Latinos in America to the forefront at Dartmouth. The week-long festival, which began last Friday, is in celebration of the National Hispanic Heritage Month that extends from Sept.