Dartmouth College

Dartmouth will implement a series of budget cuts over the next two fiscal years totaling $100 million, the Board of Trustees announced on Saturday. The College announced earlier this fall that the endowment had dropped 23 percent.

Dartmouth field hockey standout Kelly Hood ’12 has broken the Ivy League record for goals in a game and both the Ivy and Dartmouth records for goals and points in a season this year. Just a sophomore, Hood is well on her way to becoming an Ivy League field hockey legend.

Many Hanover residents, accustomed to the town’s colorful storefronts and busy streets, likely would not wax nostalgic for the town as it was just 20 years ago, when the downtown area was populated with “tired, broken-down houses,” Sonya Campbell, owner of Hanover True Value hardware...

field hockey team extended its winning streak to three with a 5-3 win over Harvard (5-10, 2-4 Ivy) Saturday, a game that saw Kelly Hood ’12 break the College record for most points in a season.

In what event organizers said was an effort to show alumni that support for the LGBT community at the College has increased in the past 25 years, the Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alumni/ae Association held its 25th anniversary all-class reunion this past weekend.

By Joseph Asch '79 If you haven't been to an NHL game recently, let me give you one more reason to enjoy hockey at Thompson Arena. For motives that are quite beyond me, the powers in the NHL think that the fans of their sport have short little spans of attention. The son et lumière avalanche that awaits you at a big l...

By Phil Aubart How is it that Dartmouth spends millions of extra dollars to make its buildings LEED certified, but hasn't spent the time it takes (about 5 minutes using this website and the chat feature) to find out if a product it supplies in the dining halls -- plastic cutlery -- is recyclable? You would...

By Joseph Asch '79 I wonder if Hanover Chief of Police Nicholas Giaccone is listening? If recent history is an accurate measuring stick, Hanover police will arrest no fewer than a half dozen Dartmouth students this weekend for underage drinking. After all, it's Homecoming.

By Lora Johns(noreply@blogger.com) But saying that this wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am routine is the extent of "dating" at Dartmouth is patently false. The hackneyed lamentation that there's no dating at Dartmouth overlooks the fact that an eerie number of Dartmouth alums marry each other, after dating during their underg...

While the role of Dartmouth’s Greek system has been the subject of perennial debate at the College, leaders in the College’s Greek system told The Dartmouth this week that, in recent months, they have sought to step up efforts to address the public image of Greek organizations, attempti...

By Nathan Bruschi(noreply@blogger.com) Dear Dartmouth Students, As you all know, this weekend marks the annual celebration of Dartmouth Night and Homecoming, and the lighting of the bonfire. This is a wonderful Dartmouth tradition that brings students, alums, and community members together.

By Phil Aubart The next year saw the creation of Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association, a group dedicated to veterans issues on campus and made up of veterans from several countries. The following year was marked by heavy publicity for the group and a raised awareness around campus about veter...

men’s golf team earned a split against Harvard and Cornell at the first annual Ivy League Match Play event on Cape Cod on Saturday. The Dartmouth women’s golf team, meanwhile, shot 700 at the Kelly Gutshall Invitational to finish ninth out of 10.

By Joseph Asch '79 How about adopting the following goal? Dartmouth College should have the very best benefits program among large employers in New Hampshire, but no better than the next best big company. We cannot afford to continue the wasteful indulgence that ate up almost $129 million in 2008.

By Nathan Bruschi(noreply@blogger.com) The Dartmouth College Fund raised $38.1 million in fiscal year 2009, down programs, athletics, the arts, and service opportunities for students around the world. Dartmouth College Fund. The Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience is now raising the final $60

Brophy Field played host to its first ever Ivy League match on Saturday, as host Dartmouth men’s rugby trounced Yale, 62-8. Dartmouth (3-0, 3-0 Ivy) jumped out to an early 21-0 lead on tries by Tommy Brothers ’11, Derek Fish ’12 and Will Lehmann ’12.

At the Big Green’s traditionally lopsided matchup against the University of New Hampshire this weekend, Dartmouth managed to stay competitive throughout the first half this weekend, but succumbed to major errors in the third quarter, allowing the Wildcats to pounce on a 44-14 win.

women’s volleyball team finished with one win and two losses at last weekend’s Dartmouth Invitational in Hanover, coming off of a decisive defeat of Providence College in straight sets last Tuesday.

By Nathan Bruschi(noreply@blogger.com) Take a recent example. I happened upon a Dartmouth ID belonging to-- let's call her Kelly-- and immediately went about trying to get it back to her. I found your Dartmouth ID and have it with me now in Rocky 02. Please come and find me if you'd like it back. I should be here for the next couple hours.

By Joseph Asch '79 So why is the Inn failing? Why is the Daniel Webster Room -- which should be the Upper Valley's best restaurant -- no longer open for dinner? Why do the amenity baskets in the rooms contain Goldfish cracker packets that are past their sell-by date, as President Kim himself perspicaciously...

By Christine S. Tian(noreply@blogger.com) I know that the decision to leave Dartmouth has been a difficult one for Tom and his family. Tom started at Dartmouth in January 2008, after serving 10 years as Vice President of Student Services at Grinnell College in Iowa, where he had worked for more than 25 years. Tom has decided to return t...

 NH How do you look back at your decision to leave Tufts for Dartmouth? As much as anything, I was happy to come back to New Hampshire. It was easily the best decision I've ever made. Just the quality of education I've had at Dartmouth, the very location ...

Dartmouth College is one of the oldest colleges in the country, among the top Ivy League institutions, and a landmark in New Hampshire's Connecticut River Valley. The college celebrates its 239th anniversary this year, graduating a class of over a ...

No essay this week, I confess, as I've happily spent the last seven days entertaining my friend Walter, down from Boston for a springtime visit, our first since we saw each other at the opening of Dreaming Their Way in Dartmouth two and a half years ago. So instead, I'll take this opportunity...

By Zak Moore The importance of this principle has become particularly obvious in light of the recent budget cutbacks, but has been and will remain essential. When the campus--Student Assembly, student opinion columnists in The Dartmouth and Dartmouth Review, panelists on various budget discuss...

The University of Pennsylvania saw a decrease in the total number of applications for the Class of 2013, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian. Penn received a total of 22,845 applications, 90 fewer than last year. While the university saw a slight increase in regular decision applicatio...

By Nisanth A. Reddy(noreply@blogger.com) Dick Ramsden, former CFO and Trustee of Brown University, wrote a piece in the Valley News following the 2001 budget cuts at Dartmouth. Joseph Asch '79 has kindly sent us the article which can be found after the jump. It's especially absurd that the astronomic spending increases were so myo...

By Nisanth A. Reddy(noreply@blogger.com) The e-mail to the students: gt;From: "President James Wright" gt;Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:10:47 EST gt;Subject: A message to the Dartmouth Community gt;To: All Students:; James Wright President, Dartmouth College Dear Members of the Dartmouth Community: James Wright

Like the Board of Trustees, Dartmouth students of all demographics ranked financial aid a top priority; they agree that “financial aid should not be changed or sacrificed in any way.” Also highly rated by students were student-faculty initiatives, ...

By Jennifer Bandy Our research suggested that a version of the Dartmouth plan could increase net revenue at medium-sized private universities like George Washington by more than $10 million a year, after figuring in the cost of additional faculty to teach the additional students. Other institutions mi...

Editor’s Note: As Dartmouth’s Presidential Search Committee interviews potential candidates for the job, The Dartmouth Review presents our own list of possibilities below. As always, there are the good, the bad, and the ugly—we’ll let you determine which is which. More depth of covera...

But an ill advised tripping call on Matt Angers-Goulet with only six seconds left in the period opened the door for Dartmouth, and the Big Green never trailed after Stejskal's quick goal in the second. DARTMOUTH 5, RPI 2 Shots on goal?Dartmouth 11-16-9?36. RPI 12-6-10?28.

Dartmouth coach Bob Gaudet said he wasn't upset with Stejskal's night of penalties. He was whistled for slashing, cross checking, holding and tripping. The second one came on a Dartmouth power play. Fleming broke in alone on Milan and beat him to give the Big Green a 3-0 lead.

Hanover, NH —Dartmouth medical students fanned out to Upper Valley agencies for the fourth annual Common Good Day Oct. 21. Under the aegis of Dartmouth Medical School's Community Service Committee and the DMS 2008-09 Schweitzer Fellows, ...

By Joe Malchow The subject of fixing the Committee on Standards came about two years ago when Adam Shpeen and Michael Herman, both Class of 2007, proposed new rules that would institute time-honored procedural protections at Dartmouth. These were simple, viewpoint-neutral proposals: right to an at...

One Dartmouth student, class of 2010, commented to Dartblog on the recent OPA reversal of policy: Surprise, surprise, the Dartmouth Propaganda Machine will only alert you to the good things the Dartmouth Administration does. In what is essentially the largest self-call in the history...

Next, Mathias attempts to polarize the issue by contending that somehow The Dartmouth Review is linked with the lawsuit. This is a deliberate obfuscation of the issue, and not a very good one at that. Firstly the Review was hardly around in 1891 when the contract for Parity was made. More impo...

This morning news broke here and at The Dartmouth Review that Professor Priya Venkatesan may be pursuing a legal claim against members of the Dartmouth community under Title VII of the federal anti-discrimination statutes. Professor Venkatesan is currently a “lecturer” in what is now...

The issue faced during this Association of Alumni lawsuit is not the lawsuit. No Dartmouth alumnus/alumna wanted to see a situation where the Association of Alumni would have to take steps to prevent the Board of Trustees from limiting their influence. Alumni do, however, want parity. Zak...

By A. S. Erickson FOR DECADES, Dartmouth alumni have manifested such extraordinary devotion to their alma mater that, not altogether jokingly, the devotion has been likened to a cult. How remarkable, then, that an insurgency is raging among these same alumni. What accounts for it?

By A. S. Erickson Just last week <a href="http://dartlog.net/2008/02/many-of-you-are-probably-aware-of-big.php">Columbia announced</a> that they would be keeping on staff a professor caught red-handed, guilty of extensive plagiarism. And now comes news of this. Timothy Goeglein...

1. Dartmouth students drink radically more than the Ivy League average; or, 2. The Dartmouth administration is at war with its students and enforces the alcohol laws with incomparable harshness. UPDATE: The Dartmouth Review had even more on this topic in a recent issue.

In any case, for those who haven't yet heard, Dartmouth College President James Wright announced Monday that he will step down as president in June of 2009. His announcement came just on the heels of Friday's word from the Grafton County Superior Court that the College's motion to dismiss...

By A. S. Erickson 3. Comprehensive social engineering of student life and replacement of the Greek system for instance. Let me tell you a little bit about the Dartmouth board. Question: I’d just like to ask a question, Todd, could you explain what the speech code was at Dartmouth and why you objected to it?

Police Find Shoes Belonging To Missing Student  RI - DARTMOUTH, Mass. - Police found a pair of shoes Thursday belonging to a UMass-Dartmouth student who's been missing since Oct. 12. ... Police Search For Missing College Student Turn to 10.com all 2 news articles

I'll start with the relgion department, which is chaired by Susan Ackerman. Professor Ackerman is hardly an ideological ally of Joe Asch. In fact, she wrote a public and quite negative letter about independent trustees Peter Robinson and Todd Zywicki a few years ago. However, her endorsem...

Joe Asch is a Dartmouth alum (class of 1979) who lives near the college. In recent years, he has subsidized, at considerable personal expense, the Departmental Editing Program (DEP), which funds editors who assist students with writing assignments for classes in the art history, relig...

Sophomore Kevin Swallow (Stanwood, Mich.) scored one goal and assisted on two others, leading the Dartmouth men's hockey team to a 4-0 shutout of Holy Cross in a non-conference game Tuesday night. In the nets, Dartmouth's Mike Devine (Orchard Park, N.Y.) made 31 saves for his fourth career s...

My Dartmouth-our shared Dartmouth-celebrates the multiple cultures and backgrounds represented in this community. My Dartmouth-our Dartmouth-is a place that encourages students to be responsible members of a wider community.

In today's Wall Street Journal, Peter describes "The Dartmouth fracas." Here is Peter's take on Dartmouth's current constitutional struggle: Ho-hum about the clash of civilizations? Blasé about the struggle for Congress? Then turn your attention to Hanover, N.H., home of Dartmouth Co...