Monday, May 08, 2006

Fall Rome LSA plus canceled

By Mary Katherine Flanigan, The Dartmouth Staff

The Italian department announced last week that it would cancel its Fall term LSA+ forcing all seven participants to alter their Dartmouth Plans. The program was canceled due to understaffing in the department and an Office of Off-Campus Programs rule stipulating a minimum number of eight students to hold a program. More »

Hundreds participate in Relay, raise $85,000

By Haoxiang Cai

As a leukemia survivor, Emily Koepsell ‘09 walked with eight other cancer survivors at Leverone Field House to kick off last Friday’s Relay For Life — a night-long celebration that honors survivors and victims of cancer. More »

Big Green Bus to join Guster on tour

By Amanda Cohen, The Dartmouth Staff

At the request of Adam Gardner, lead singer of the band Guster, Dartmouth’s Big Green Bus will join the band on some of its summer tour dates. More »

Students likely to choose new dorms first

By Astrid Bradley, The Dartmouth Staff

As the Office of Residential Life prepares for the first round of room draw today, it expects students to jump at the chance to claim a spot in one of the campus’ newly constructed residence halls. More »

Conference promotes Asian American studies

By Lense Gebre-Mariam, The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth held a landmark Asian American Studies Conference this past weekend to explore issues related to the absence of an Asian American curriculum at the College. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Haoxiang Cai and Alex Belser, The Dartmouth Staff
  • Dartmouth’s new Web site is set to go live on July 7. Work on the new site started last November under an initiative from College President James Wright, and last week the self-dubbed “HomeTeam,” three staff members charged with coming up with the new look, met with about 20 staff and faculty members to discuss the design. More »
  • “Web sites get old very quick, and it has been at least four years since the previous redesign,” Rick Adams, Director of Publications and Editorial Services, said. More »
  • The team said it has completed the research phase of the project by conducting Web visitor surveys, meeting with student, faculty and staff focus groups and analyzing Web usage to determine what people are looking at when they use the Dartmouth website. More »
  • Is drinking a problem at Dartmouth? That is the question being asked by organizers of a lecture being held in 105 Dartmouth Hall tonight at 7 p. More »
  • The debate is one of five panels this week about alcohol at Dartmouth. This is the first time these lectures, sponsored by the College’s Center on Addiction, Recovery and Education, are geared toward the campus as opposed to medical professionals studying alcohol abuse, according to alcohol peer adviser Kelly Michaelsen ‘06. More »
  • Michaelsen said the goal is not to tell people to drink less, but to get them talking about alcohol. More »
  • “It’s basically to say, ‘This is what things are like,’” she said. More »
  • On Tuesday, there will be a panel on minority drinking at 6:30 p.m. More »
  • Catherine Tucker ‘93 has a new job helping fight fraud in New Hampshire. In a position newly created by the state because of a backlog of these often complex cases, the Concord Monitor reports Tucker will work with the state insurance and attorney general’s offices to try to stop people from cheating their insurance companies. More »
  • Tucker has also worked as an assistant district attorney in Boston and holds a law degree from Suffolk University. More »
  • “I just fell in love with the work,” she told the Monitor about her work in the law. More »