Following a fall season marked by nationwide controversy over early admissions programs, Dartmouth admitted approximately 30 percent of its early decision applicants, filling one-third of the Class of 2011. Application numbers decreased by approximately 2 percent from 1,317 to 1,287 early applicants, a normal rate of fluctuation according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Karl Furstenberg. The number of students admitted decreased by less than one percent.
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A lack of snow in the northeast caused the directors of the Dartmouth Skiway to postpone the celebration of its 50th anniversary until Jan. 13. Only five of the Skiway’s 30 trails and two of the mountain’s three chair lifts are open following one of the warmest holiday seasons on record. The celebration originally scheduled for Dec. 29, 2006, was pushed back.
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Students and administrators reacted to a series of racially-charged incidents Fall term, a fervor that took place while key leadership positions in the College’s two primary diversity groups — the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity — remained vacant. Controversies, such as a Dartmouth Review cover depicting an Indian holding a scalp, attracted national media attention and elicited strong responses from administrators and campus leaders.
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By Katy O’Donnell
The Dartmouth Staff
The Alumni Council ratified its slate of three candidates who will vie in the spring for the Board of Trustees seat vacated Dec. 1, 2006, by resigning Trustee Nancy Jeton ‘76. The three candidates, Richard “Sandy” Alderson ‘69, Sherri Oberg ‘82, Tu ‘86 and John S. Wolf ‘70, were chosen from more than 300 alumni nominated by their peers.
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Margaret Otto, who served as Dartmouth’s librarian for 21 years, died of cancer on Dec. 10, in Hanover. She was 69.
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Speaking from a witness stand rather than a Silsby Hall lecturn, government professor Michael Herron testified on Dec. 20 in defense of an electronic voting company being sued by Florida congressional candidate Christine Jennings. Jennings, the Democratic candidate for Florida’s 13th-District House of Representatives seat, sued Election Systems & Software for access to the programming codes from the touch-screen voting machines that were used in November’s election — codes she believes could prove machine errors deleted votes.
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Mascoma Corporation, a company started by Dartmouth engineering professors that develops low-cost, renewable fuels, recently received a $14.8 million grant from the state of New York to build a new processing plant near Rochester. Mascoma, founded in 2005 by Thayer School of Engineering professors Lee Lynd and Charles Wyman, will use the grant to demonstrate its ability to convert cellulose-based plant materials into ethanol.
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Dr. Donald Kreider, a professor emeritus in the mathematics and computer science departments and a former chairman of the mathematics department, died of a heart attack on Dec. 7, 2006, at the age of 75.
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Students saddened by the departure of former Food Court Manager Larry “Food Court Larry” James will soon experience his signature service once again when he returns to work in Novack Cafe this term.
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