Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Dem debate set for first day of class

By Allie Lowe, The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth will host all eight candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination in a debate to be held on Sept. 26. The event, which will take place in Spaulding Auditorium at 9 p.m., will constitute the third of six debates officially sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee. More »

Mixed sex housing gets rolling across campus

By Amita Kulkarni, The Dartmouth Staff

Each fall, the move-in frenzy looks much the same at Dartmouth: overstuffed cars idling in front of residence halls, door alarms beeping incessantly while propped open for hours, men and women trucking their belongings into their new dorm rooms. Except this year, for the first time, those Dartmouth men and women might be moving into the same rooms. More »

Dirty, soaked, freshmen return happy

By Allyson Bennett, The Dartmouth Staff

After a long first day of hiking, Elena Falloon '11 and the other members of First-Year Trip -- F55, moderate hiking -- huddled under a tarp that soon proved too small to protect them from the pouring rain. As she crowded beside her fellow trippees, Falloon worried that she would not even survive the trip, let alone enjoy it. More »

Battle for Board leaves boardroom

By William Schpero, The Dartmouth Staff

The debate over the governance of Dartmouth is out of the boardroom and now in the hands of lawyers and pundits on both sides of the issue. Just over one week ago, the College's Board of Trustees announced reforms that have ended the century-old practice by which half of the Board was elected by alumni. It did so by increasing the size of the Board to 26, adding eight trustees that will be selected by the Board itself. It also moved to change the way alumni are nominated to the Board and called for further efforts to reduce the alleged "politicization" of the process. More »

Dartmouth performs better than last year, according to Trojan Condoms

By Andrew Wells

The grades are in. This time, however, schools are on the receiving end. Trojan Condoms released its second annual Sexual Health Report Card comparing the sexual health resources and programs of 139 colleges and universities across the country on Sept. 10. The survey, which graded campuses on 11 different aspects of sex awareness, ranked Dartmouth 25th, with a grade point average of 3.18. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Amanda Cohen and Kate Farley
  • The Tuck School of Business was ranked the top business school in the country by The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive Business School survey, released Monday. More »
  • Dartmouth's endowment has reached $3.76 billion, reflecting a 23.7 percent increase for the 2007 fiscal year, the College recently reported. More »
  • Director of Harvard's Institute of Politics Jeanne Shaheen resigned from her post Friday, preparing to run for the U.S. More »