Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Third Eye Blind sales start slow

By Ben Nunnery, The Dartmouth Staff

Since going on sale last week, students and community members had purchased fewer Third Eye Blind as of Monday afternoon than were purchased on the first day of ticket sales for the fall concert featuring The Roots, according to Amy Newcomb, assistant director of the Collis Center and Student Activities. More »

Committee to appoint chair of new media dept.

By Astrid Bradley, The Dartmouth Staff

A committee chaired by German professor Gerd Gemunden will review several applicants to fill the newly created position of digital humanities chair. The committee will complete the search this term, with a senior hire expected in May. More »

Airline may offer $12 flights to Europe

Manchester Boston Regional Airport may offer $12 trans-Atlantic flights by 2009 if Michael O’Leary, chief executive of low-budget Irish airline Ryanair, succeeds in launching a new airline. However, the airport’s assistant manager Brian O’Neill said he remains skeptical, partially because Ryanair has yet to contact the airport. More »

Economics students attend int’l conference

By William Schpero, The Dartmouth Staff

For the fourth consecutive year, Dartmouth students attended the Carroll Round, an annual conference on international economics hosted by Georgetown University, this past weekend. Participants represented 13 universities and colleges and were selected from an international pool of applicants. With five students selected, Dartmouth had the second largest delegation at the conference. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Allyson Bennett and Jesse Silberberg, The Dartmouth Staff
  • A federal judge sentenced Thomas Newton, a resident of Mount Prospect, Ill., to six months of house arrest and five years of probation for verbally threatening a Dartmouth employee via telephone, according to an April 23 article in the Concord Monitor. More »
  • The Daily Pennsylvanian fired freshman Jamie France for plagiarizing her Friday column about student caffeine use from a Yahoo. More »
  • The Department of Education is advocating for changes to the accreditation process, which would require colleges to assess their students’ progress and publish the results, according to the Boston Globe. More »