Thursday, March 30, 2006

Registrar Griffin leaves for Princeton

By Phil Salinger, The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth registrar Polly Griffin will be heading south after this academic year to take the same position at Princeton University. Princeton recently announced that she will succeed longtime registrar Joseph Greenberg who died in November 2005. Her appointment is effective Aug. 1. More »

PB books Guster to perform in Leede

By Alex Belser, The Dartmouth Staff

Guster, a band that grew out of college friendships, will return to Dartmouth this spring for the Programming Board's annual big concert. The alternative rock group is scheduled to perform on May 5 at 7 p.m. in Leede Arena. Tickets will go on sale April 15 at the Collis Information Desk at a cost of $10 for students and $20 for community members. More »

Goldstein '05 wins GLAAD award

By Tom Huzarsky

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation awarded Andrew Goldstein '05 with a Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism, News Segment this month for his role in the story "Andrew Goldstein," featured last May on ESPN's "SportsCenter". More »

DDS switches to eggs from cage-free chickens

By Zach Swiss, The Dartmouth Staff

Do happy chickens produce better tasting eggs? Dartmouth Dining Services thinks so. This term, Dartmouth joined roughly 80 other colleges nationwide that use eggs produced only by chickens raised outside of cages, making it the first Ivy League institution to change to what are known as "cage-free" eggs. Prior to DDS' switch, the College received its supply of hard-shelled eggs from factories which keep chickens in small, wire cages. Pete and Gerry's, a local organic farm, now supplies all of DDS' eggs. More »

Former College provost Prager to become president of Occidental College

By Lense Gebre-Mariam, The Dartmouth Staff

A search that began last summer with 80 potential candidates to fill the spot of president of Occidental College, a Southern California liberal arts college, recently ended in the appointment of former Dartmouth Provost Susan Prager. More »