Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Neighborhood group protests new building

By Nick Swanson, The Dartmouth Staff

As a result of a recent court challenge by the Occom Pond Neighborhood Association, construction on the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center will be on hold until March. More »

Nelson to step down Winter term

By Allyson Bennett, The Dartmouth Staff

After a tenure marked by debates about campus discrimination and student efforts to reform the undergraduate judicial system, acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson ‘75 will step down as scheduled during the first week of January. Thomas Crady, who has served as vice president of student services at Grinnell College in Iowa, will assume the position as dean, and Nelson will return to his previous position of senior associate dean of the College. More »

MAV program spreads to sororities

By Amita Kulkarni, The Dartmouth Staff

The Panhellenic Council voted unanimously to institute a mandatory sexual assault awareness program for all sorority pledge classes come winter at its last Fall term meeting. The program will mirror the one already in place for fraternities and organized by the Interfraternity Council, Mentors Against Violence and Sexual Assault Peer Advisors. More »

Fall term sees SA try to demonstrate cohesion

By Anya Perret

Attempting to address perceived issues of socioeconomic class on campus while focusing on initiatives related to students’ day-to-day needs, Student Assembly sought to establish itself this fall as a “cohesive, tenable group,” according to its spokesperson. This follows several years during which the Assembly was plagued by controversy. More »

Students weigh their options for season ski-slope passes

By Mat Grudzien

The first snow of the season has fallen, and as the merry snowball-fighting sons and daughters of Dartmouth start their winter-long shuffles across the frozen campus, at least one cohort of students may be able to preserve their high spirits as the temperatures plunge: Those who take to the mountains on skis and snowboards. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by Allyson Bennett and Kathryn Arffa
  • Mohammad Usman ‘10 was recently featured in the Boston Globe for currently being the only male enrolled at Wellesley College, an all female institution in Massachusetts. More »
  • The University of New Hampshire has received 37 reports of hate-related incidents between July and October, 18 concerning sex and 11 concerning sexual orientation, according to the Union Leader. More »
  • The members for the new Committee on Standards Review Committee, which will review the structure and operation of the College’s disciplinary system, were announced by Associate Dean of the College Katherine Burke on Monday. More »