Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Task Force discusses COS reforms

Debate over the recommendations of the Committee on Standards Student Task Force Report resumed Tuesday night during a question and answer session, during which the Task Force invited student feedback regarding changes to COS procedures. The meeting was open to the entire student body. More »

Funding change pinches affinity house budgets

By Astrid Bradley, The Dartmouth Staff

Additional funding from the Office of Residential Life to Affinity Housing Programs has been retracted, resulting in a depreciation of the quality of programs sponsored by smaller or needier departments in contrast to those with well-funded departments backing them. More »

Assembly sends ‘update’ to inaccurate campus blitz

Student Assembly issued an “update” early Wednesday morning to correct a campus-wide BlitzMail message it sent over 24 hours earlier, erroneously warning the Dartmouth community that two missing women were abducted in nearby areas and that one of them had also been “raped and murdered.” More »

Yale changes nondiscrimination policy

Yale University voted last month to alter its nondiscrimination policy, making it the final Ivy League institution to add “gender identity and expression” to the list of protected groups previously enumerated in the statement. In June, Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees approved similar language for inclusion in the College’s policy. More »

Police Blotter

Oct. 11, 6:37 p.m. Hanover Police was contacted on Oct. 6 after a female Dartmouth sophomore allegedly stole two credit cards and cash from a handbag in Collis Center. Shortly thereafter, the suspect made several charges on the stolen credit cards. A total of $593 was charged at Nefertiti’s Nails, Hanover Haircuts, CVS Pharmacy and Zimmermann’s NorthFace. Based on surveillance photographs, Hanover Police identified and arrested the suspect. She has a court date on Nov. 14. More »

Daily Debriefing

  • Researchers from the Dartmouth Medical School and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center published their findings about lumbar fusion in the Nov. More »
  • Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company announced the appointment of John W. Chandler Tu’86 as senior vice president and chief marketing officer of the U. More »
  • Doctor Carolyn Kerrigan, a professor of surgery at Dartmouth Medical School and the plastic surgery section chief and residency program director of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, was named president of the Plastic Surgery Education Foundation on October 10th. More »