Free tuition for students whose familes earn $75,000 or less per year and a universal shift from student loans to scholarships headlined a series of sweeping changes to Dartmouth’s financial aid policy announced by College President James Wright Tuesday. Dartmouth will also move to a need-blind admissions process for international students and eliminate leave term earnings expectations. The changes will take effect beginning in the 2008-2009 academic year.
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The chances that the national organization of Beta Theta Pi national fraternity will re-recognize a Dartmouth Beta chapter are “slim to none,” a representative from the national organization said in an interview with The Dartmouth on Friday.
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The Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience reached the $1 billion mark this past December, the College announced on Jan. 17. The campaign, which aims to raise $1.3 billion by the end of 2009, is the largest fundraising initiative in the history of the College.
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Award-winning journalist Juan Williams, one of this year’s Montgomery fellows, spoke about the state of modern society in light of the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, pointing to the disappointment King would have felt upon seeing the current inequality in educational opportunities for minorities. Williams delivered his lecture, “The Changing Face of America: Money, Race and Age in the New Century,” in Moore Theater on Tuesday afternoon.
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Student Assembly passed three pieces of legislation and heard from several campus organizations, including the new Committee on Standards review committee, at its third meeting of the Winter term on Tuesday.
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Mixing humor with science, Dr. Stephen Schneider, professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, cited unexpectedly high melting rates of glacial formations in Greenland as irrefutable evidence for global warning at Tuesday’s lecture, “Global Warming: Do We Know Enough to Manage the Risks?” in Filene Auditorium.
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