Monday, February 4, 2008

President Wright to step down in June of 2009

By Allie Lowe, The Dartmouth Staff

College President James Wright will step down in June 2009, the College announced on Monday morning. Wright, the 16th president of the College, has served as president since 1998. More »

Alpha Kappa Alpha returns to Dartmouth

By Brook Jackling, The Dartmouth Staff

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., an African American sorority, will return to Dartmouth in the Spring or Fall of 2008, according to an e-mail sent by Fouad Saleet, associate director of Coed, Fraternities and Sororities Administration, to various campus organizations on Feb. 1. The Xi Lambda Chapter, founded at Dartmouth in 1983, has been inactive since 2003. More »

Sculpture lags behind schedule

By Ahra Cho

As Dartmouth students prepare for this year's Winter Carnival "20,000 Leagues Under The Snow," the snow sculpture committee is scrambling to complete this year's sculpture in time for Thursday's opening ceremonies. The planned sculpture, a submarine being attacked by a giant squid, is two days behind schedule and may have to be scaled down, the committee announced in a campus-wide e-mail sent Sunday afternoon. More »

Women time HPV shots around D-plan

By Susan Matthews

Over a year after the 2006 release of Gardasil, the first vaccination for the four most dangerous types of human papillomavirus, many women at Dartmouth have received the shot cost-free since the College began administering it in the Fall of 2007. The virus is one of the leading causes of cervical cancer. More »

Study shows depression is common in middle-age

By Kashay Sanders

Depression is greatest amongst the middle-aged, according to a study conducted by Dartmouth economics professor David Blanchflower and his longtime friend Andrew Oswald, an economics professor at the University of Warwick. The study concludes that happiness is based more on age than on circumstance and does not remain consistent throughout one's lifetime, but instead follows a "U-shaped" pattern. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Kashay Sanders
  • Peter Zhao '10 placed 4th of 1,600 students nationwide in an investment competition held by Updown.com in which students attempted to make the most money by each investing $1,000,000 of simulation money. More »
  • Dartmouth awarded 14 professors with endowed professorships for outstanding performances in their fields, according to Dartmouth Life newspaper. More »
  • Judith S. Hodora, an admissions officer at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, has been running an undergraduate admissions consulting business, according to Inside Higher Ed. More »