Thursday, May 24, 2007

Financial aid to require pupils find own loans

By Allyson Bennett, The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth’s financial aid office will require students to find their own student loans beginning the next school year in response to ongoing national controversy about the use of “preferred lender lists” in the student lending industry. Dartmouth’s practices have not been implicated in the scandal. More »

Lab makes anti-WMD training program

By Carolyn Kylstra, The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth’s Interactive Media Laboratory has created a computer program to teach fire, police, and emergency medical services trainees how to respond to domestic terrorist attacks. The program is called “Ops-Plus for WMD Hazmat,” and is the first course for IML’s Virtual Terrorism Response Academy, an anti-terrorism training academy for first responders funded by the Department of Homeland Security through Dartmouth’s Institute for Security Technology Studies. More »

Lord looks to revive Diversity Council

By Astrid Bradley, The Dartmouth Staff

As one of his major goals as interim vice president of Institutional Diversity and Equity, Stuart Lord is attempting to reinvigorate the College’s six-year-old Diversity Council through a series of Campus Climate lunches. More »

Alum chef switches from comps to cuisine

By Brook Jackling, The Dartmouth Staff

When Bruce MacLeod ‘84 was in the seventh grade, he knew that he wanted to graduate from Dartmouth College with a degree in computer science. His life plan was inspired by the teletype in his middle school classroom in Portland, Maine that relayed news from a computer at the College, but after taking a year off from Dartmouth to work in the computer business, MacLeod realized that his passion lay not in computers but in cuisine. More »

Daily Debriefing

  • College President James Wright was featured in an article in Wednesday’s New York Times highlighting his efforts to encourage wounded war veterans to obtain a college education. More »
  • Google will no longer display advertisements for term paper and essay-writing websites, according to an article in Wednesday’s Chronicle of Higher Education. More »
  • Eleven Stanford University students were arrested after conducting a five-hour sit-in held in University President John Hennessy’s office Tuesday afternoon, according to an article in Wednesday’s San Mateo County Times. More »
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