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Rate NEWS: Dartmouth to cut $100 million from budget over next two fiscal years

Original at The Dartmouth external link    22 hours ago

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.

Rate SPORTS: Field hockey’s Kelly Hood ’12 sets Ivy records, leads offense

Original at The Dartmouth external link    Thu, Nov 5

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.

Rate NEWS: College expands presence in town

Original at The Dartmouth external link    Wed, Nov 4

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...

Rate SPORTS: Field hockey defeats Harvard 5-3, Hood ’12 breaks record

Original at The Dartmouth external link    Tue, Nov 3

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.

Rate NEWS: Alumni reflect on LGBT history

Original at The Dartmouth external link    Sun, Nov 1

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.

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate In (Further) Praise of Thompson and Dartmouth Hockey

Original at Dartblog external link    Sun, Nov 1

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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...

Rate Dartmouth Somehow Manages to be More Sustainable than it Thinks

Original at Dartblog external link    Fri, Oct 30

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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...

Rate Valley News on Homecoming & Alcohol

Original at Dartblog external link    Fri, Oct 30

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.

Rate Granite in their hearts

Original at The Little Green external link    Tue, Oct 27

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...

Rate NEWS: Greek leaders work to improve public image

Original at The Dartmouth external link    Mon, Oct 26

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...

Past Month

 

Rate Safety First!

Original at The Little Green external link    Wed, Oct 21

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.

Rate A Soldier's Life: Part I

Original at Dartblog external link    Wed, Oct 21

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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...

Rate SPORTS: Men’s golf splits conference play, women place ninth of 10

Original at The Dartmouth external link    Tue, Oct 20

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.

Rate Dartmouth Can't Afford Solid-Platinum Benefits For Its Employees

Original at Dartblog external link    Mon, Oct 12

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.

Year 2009

 

Rate Mo' money, mo' problems

Original at The Little Green external link    Fri, Oct 9

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

Rate SPORTS WEEKLY: Rugby dominates Yale in first home Ivy League matchup

Original at The Dartmouth external link    Sun, Sep 27

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.

Rate SPORTS WEEKLY: Football falls to Wildcats 44-14

Original at The Dartmouth external link    Sun, Sep 27

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.

Rate SPORTS: After sweeping Friars, volleyball delivers mixed results

Original at The Dartmouth external link    Wed, Sep 23

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.

Rate Opinion: Better luck with your next Dartmouth Card.

Original at The Little Green external link    Mon, Sep 21

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.

Rate Hanover Inn R. I. P.

Original at Dartblog external link    Tue, Sep 15

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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...

Rate Dean Tom Crady to Resign

Original at Dartlog external link    Tue, Jul 28

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...

Rate 5 questions for Dartmouth valedictorian

Original at Concord Monitor external link    Wed, Jun 17

 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 ...

Rate Dartmouth Graduates Class of 2009

Original at WCAX external link    Mon, Jun 15

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 ...

Rate Podcast: Notes and Blogs

Original at homepage.mac.com external link    Sat, Mar 28

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...

Rate Opinion: A Template for College Governance

Original at Dartblog external link    Mon, Mar 2

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...

Rate Opinion: NEWS: Daily Debriefing

Original at The Dartmouth external link    Wed, Feb 18

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...

Rate Opinion: Not a Lesson Learned from the 2001 Budget Crisis

Original at Dartlog external link    Tue, Feb 17

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...

Rate President Wright Blitzes Out to Campus

Original at Dartlog external link    Tue, Feb 10

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

Rate Opinion: Forever Poor: Wright Reflects on Tenure

Original at Dartmouth Review external link    Mon, Jan 26

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, ...

Rate The D Plan- An Economic Advantage?

Original at Dartblog external link    Mon, Dec 15

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...

Rate Opinion: The Other College and Univ. Presidents: Snapshots of Academic “Glory”

Original at Dartmouth Review external link    Sun, Nov 16

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...

Rate RPI misfires on penalty killing

Original at Albany Times Union external link    Sat, Nov 8

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.

Rate Union drops its ECAC opener

Original at Albany Times Union external link    Fri, Nov 7

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.

Rate Dartmouth Medical School - Allergy Patch Tests: Children and ...

Original at at Dartmouth Medical School external link    Mon, Oct 27

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, ...

Rate Opinion: Michael Herman on C.O.S. Reform

Original at Dartblog external link    Mon, Sep 22

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...

Rate Opinion: Unwritten Speech Codes

Original at Dartblog external link    Tue, May 13

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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...

Rate Opinion: Board-packing Slate Candidate, John Mathias '69, Opines

Original at Dartblog external link    Tue, May 6

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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...

Rate Opinion: Interview: Priya Venkatesan Claims Title VII Discrimination

Original at Dartblog external link    Sun, Apr 27

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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...

Rate Lest the old traditions fail!

Original at Dartblog external link    Sat, Apr 26    1 related articles

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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...

Rate Gado in the Valley News

Original at Dartlog external link    Tue, Mar 4

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?

Rate White House Caught Plagiarizing from The Dartmouth Review

Original at Dartlog external link    Fri, Feb 29

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...

Rate Opinion: How Do the Ivies Stack Up on Alcohol Enforcement?

Original at Dartblog external link    Sun, Feb 17

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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.

Rate The "Wright" Replacement

Original at Dartblog external link    Wed, Feb 6

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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...

Year 2007

 

Rate Opinion: Zywicki Transcript

Original at Dartlog external link    Thu, Dec 20

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?

Rate Police Find Shoes Belonging To Missing Student - Turn to 10.com

Original at Turn to 10.com external link    Thu, Oct 18

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

Rate Punishing good deeds at Dartmouth, Part Two

Original at Power Line external link    Mon, Jun 4

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...

Rate Opinion: Punishing good deeds at Dartmouth

Original at Power Line external link    Fri, Jun 1

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...

Rate Dartmouth Hockey Wins

Original at WMUR external link    Tue, Jan 16

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...

Year 2006

 

Rate Opinion: Dartmouth's Indian wars -- President Wright speaks

Original at Power Line external link    Wed, Nov 29

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.

Rate Opinion: The Dartmouth fracas

Original at Power Line external link    Wed, Oct 18

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...

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