John Donahoe ‘82, a member of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, will assume the position of chief executive officer of eBay, Inc., when current C.E.O. Meg Whitman steps down from the post on March 31, the company announced yesterday. Donahoe, who began working for eBay in 2004, currently serves as the president of the company’s marketplaces division, which brings in nearly 70 percent of eBay’s total revenues. More »
Mari Matsuda, the first tenured Asian-American law professor in the country, used personal anecdotes to illustrate the unfavorable conditions of America’s poor, citing numerous problematic experiences with the public school system, in a speech given in Dartmouth 105 on Wednesday afternoon. More »
With world markets plunging, eminent economists anticipating an economic recession and 2 million people predicted to lose their homes, the current housing crisis has made subprime loans the object of national scrutiny. In the Upper Valley, however, homeowners’ reliance on local banks to secure loans has allowed the area to weather the crisis relatively unscathed thus far. More »
In a demonstration of how damaging language and images can be, William Martin ‘08 presented sound clips of Def Jam Poetry and radio personality Don Imus, as well as images of the Indian head mascot of the University of North Dakota in a discussion in Kemeny Hall Wednesday night. The event, titled “Imagery and Word Usage,” was held by Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity. More »
Minority physicians treat a disproportionately large number of patients from minority racial and ethnic groups, according to Scott A. Shipman, a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and Somnath Saha of the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Shipman and Saha claim that minority health professionals are more likely than other healthcare providers to serve Medicaid recipients, people without health insurance and people living in federally-designated underserved areas. More »
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