Friday, March 30, 2007

Acceptance rate hits all-time low

By Victoria Boggiano, The Dartmouth Staff

With over 14,000 applicants to the class of 2011, Dartmouth posted a record low acceptance rate of 15 percent, accepting only 2,165 applicants. More »

Kaufman ‘08 awarded Truman Scholarship

By JR Santo, The Dartmouth Staff

One third of the patients who walked into the Nicaraguan health clinic where Zak Kaufman ‘08 worked during his sophomore winter break had illnesses caused by contaminated water. This problem motivated Kaufman to address public health problems in South America, efforts which earned him a 2007 Truman Scholarship. More »

ORL sends preemptive e-mail to upset juniors

By Nick Swanson, The Dartmouth Staff

When housing assignments for Spring term were announced March 1, the Office of Residential Life sent an e-mail to all students receiving new housing assignments in an effort to preempt the flurry of complaints the office typically receives every spring from returning juniors unsatisfied with their spring housing. The e-mail, however, proved to have little impact: Approximately the same number of juniors complained to ORL as in previous years. More »

After year of colony status, Alpha Phi gains recognition

By Amita Kulkarni, The Dartmouth Staff

After six months away from campus, Vanessa Cruz ‘07 was not ready to jump into Winter rush as a sophomore. So, like a number of Dartmouth women, she decided she would remain unaffiliated. When Cruz was offered the opportunity to be one of the first members of brand-new sorority Alpha Phi, however, she jumped on the idea. A year later, she said she cannot see herself anywhere else. More »

German diplomat: U.S., Europe must cooperate

By Xiaolin Zhao

Arguing for cooperation between the United States and Europe over foreign policy in the Middle East, Joschka Fischer, the former foreign minister and vice chancellor of Germany, delivered the 14th Annual Walter Picard lecture to a packed audience in Filene Auditorium last night. Fischer said that the war in Iraq has led to a dangerous destabilization of the balance of power in the Middle East. The solution to this crisis, he proposed, is a strategic combination of diplomacy and confrontation. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by JR Santo and Elise Waxenberg, The Dartmouth Staff
  • The national sorority Delta Zeta, accused of evicting 23 members of its DePauw University chapter on the basis of appearance and popularity, sued the university on March 28, after the school kicked the group off campus. More »
  • Columbia University censured and issued disciplinary warnings on March 27 to eight students who had disrupted speakers at a public Minuteman Project event last October. More »
  • Arthur Maerlender, an adolescent and behavioral psychiatrist at Dartmouth Medical School, testified to the value of having a middle school in a busy community environment before the Portsmouth, N. More »
  • Petition Board of Trustees candidate Stephen Smith ‘88 omitted the issue of free speech on campus in a March 24 mass mailing to alumni, marking a shift away from his platform of “ensuring genuine freedom of speech” at Dartmouth, which is still listed on his campaign website. More »