Wednesday, November 01, 2006

PB kicks off Nugget discount initiative

Dartmouth students will receive a half-price discount on movie tickets at Hanover’s Nugget Theatre starting today as part of a new initiative by the Programming Board. The initiative, which will allow students to see movies for $4 after presenting their student IDs at the ticket window, will take the place of Dartmouth Television’s movie program that operated for the last two years. More »

College honors work of K-12 teachers with prize

This year’s graduating seniors will now have the chance to honor a kindergarten through 12th-grade teacher during their final year at the College as part of the Dartmouth Prize for Exceptional Teaching. More »

COS installs peer resource program to aid accused students

By Amanda Cohen, The Dartmouth Staff

Testing the delicate balance between student privacy and the opportunity to help out students in need, the Committee on Standards enacted the Judicial Resource Network, a peer resource program that allows students brought before COS to contact students who have gone through the process as a defendant or who have served on the COS board. The program was initiated based on Student Assembly suggestions to the COS last winter. More »

Web game sparks student pol. interest

By Marina Agapakis, The Dartmouth Staff

Several Dartmouth students, along with approximately 600 political aficionados across the country, have found a new alternative to the fantasy sports culture in the recently launched political-strategy game Fantasy Congress. More »

Major Enlightenment event informs students about varied departments

Azuka Anunkor ‘09 knows she wants to be a Spanish major and is thinking about double majoring in economics. But before committing to the economics major, she wanted to learn more about the department. More »

Daily Debriefing

  • College campuses are becoming hot spots for the spread of mumps, whooping cough and tuberculosis, said an article in yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed online magazine. More »
  • Cow manure is the newest source of energy on the campus of Green Mountain College in Vermont. More »
  • The Tuck School of Business honored AT&T Inc. for its leadership in supplier diversity this past weekend at the 2006 National Minority Supplier Development Council Conference in San Diego, Calif. More »