Thursday, March 01, 2007

Dartmouth weathers stock drop

By JR Santo, The Dartmouth Staff

Starting in Shanghai, ripping through the United States and then touching down in Europe, Tuesday’s stock market plummet made only a ripple in Hanover. The drop impacted the College’s investments only mildly and will not adversely affect long-run profits this year, according to Associate Vice President for Fiscal Affairs Julie Dolan, who also sits on the Board of Proprietors of The Dartmouth. More »

UGA’s dean shoots for College job

By Allie Lowe, The Dartmouth Staff

Michelle Garfield, the current Associate Dean of the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, visited Dartmouth last week to interview as one of four finalists for the Dean of the College position vacated by James Larimore last May. More »

Race, sexuality, class discussed at panel

Mentors Against Violence held a discussion in McLane Commons last night as part of Sexual Assault Awareness week, a series of events sponsored by Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and Student Assembly. More »

DMS professor may run to replace Sununu in Senate

After spending 16 days in space orbiting the Earth 256 times and over 10 years overseeing the use of high-pressure oxygen at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, former astronaut and current Dartmouth Medical School professor Jay Buckey announced Monday that he is considering a Democratic bid to replace Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., in the 2008 Congressional elections. More »

Alpha Phi Alpha holds ‘Alpha Week’

In response to Kiri Davis’s “A Girl Like Me,” a documentary experiment that found that black children are culturally inclined to choose light skinned dolls over those with dark skin, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity plans to host a discussion titled “Black Image and Self-Worth” on Thursday evening. More »

Daily Debriefing

  • Sandy Alderson ‘69, one of the four individuals running in the upcoming Board of Trustees election, spoke at a dinner at Alpha Delta fraternity on Wednesday evening. More »
  • Firearms were the topic of discussion at Hanover High School on Wednesday evening. The Hanover police department held a second three-hour Safety, Awareness and Firearms Education course for members of the local community. More »
  • The Dartmouth Outing Club held elections for next year’s president and vice president of its student directorate on Wednesday evening in Collis Common Ground. More »