Friday, May 25, 2007

IFC requires sexual assault training

By Allie Lowe, The Dartmouth Staff

Fraternity pledge classes will now be required to participate in sexual assault awareness programming as a result of joint efforts by members of Mentors Against Violence, Sexual Assault Peer Advisors, the Interfraternity Council and Student Assembly. The programming, part of which will be facilitated by MAVs and SAPAs, will be instituted as a pilot program during Fall term. More »

Church rakes in $76,000 from cellular companies

By JR Santo, The Dartmouth Staff

At a rental cost of $25,200 per year, Cingular Wireless secured space for one of its antennae in the steeple of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, which is located next to Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and not affiliated with the College. More »

Relay for Life hosts weekend fundraiser

Organizers of Relay for Life, an annual fundraising event for the American Cancer Society, say they expect to raise $100,000 this weekend, an increase from last year’s $79,000. But organizers say the real focus of the overnight walk for cancer, which begins Friday at 7.p.m., is to bring together students, professors and community members. More »

SA debates proposed changes to constitution

By Allie Lowe, The Dartmouth Staff

Members of the 2007-2008 Student Assembly debated potential constitutional changes to elections, membership and funding at Thursday night’s meeting. The Assembly, which is creating a new constitution after last week’s release of the Student Governance Review Task Force report, aims to produce the document by next Tuesday’s meeting. More »

Police Blotter

May 18, 7:15 a.m., Webster Avenue A member of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity threw a piece of furniture out of one of the house’s windows early Friday morning. The item landed on a 1991 Chevy pick-up truck, which a Phi Delt alumnus had donated to the fraternity at the time of his graduation. Hanover Police said that the truck had been abandoned for a year and they do not expect to take further action in the matter. More »

Daily Debriefing

  • A survey directed by the Tuck School of Business, Executive Education at Dartmouth, Fortune 500 consultant Cali Yost and international market staffing firm Aquent, found that while employees often take time off from their jobs for personal or professional reasons, many businesses find it difficult to adapt to a temporary change in the employee roster. More »
  • The annual Phi Delta Alpha fraternity Block Party, held May 18, raised almost $7,000 for the humanitarian engineering group at Thayer School of Engineering, HELP Worldwide. More »
  • Noah Schneiderman ‘98 was appointed to the position of chief financial officer of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston earlier this month. More »