Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees will begin to solicit input from all members of the Dartmouth community regarding criteria for the selection of the College’s next president on Friday, Board Chairman Ed Haldeman ‘70 announced in a letter that was sent to the community early this morning. This announcement fulfills Haldeman’s pledge to include input from “all Dartmouth constituencies” in the search process, which he made following the Board’s March meeting.
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Student Assembly presidential candidates Molly Bode ‘09 and Lee Cooper ‘09 debated issues surrounding Dartmouth’s Greek community on campus at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in the second of three debates leading up to the Assemby elections on April 8 and 9. The dialogue centered on how to improve gender and minority relations within the Greek community, and the candidates discussed ways to create alternative social spaces on campus.
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The U.S. government must change its course, Jeanne Shaheen, former New Hampshire Governor and current Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, told approximately 15 members of the Dartmouth College Democrats assembled in Haldeman 125 on Thursday afternoon.
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Editor’s Note: This is the final story in a three-part series that examines the experience of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students in Dartmouth’s Greek community.
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Simon Wilson, the Middle East bureau chief for the British Broadcasting Company, hoped that he would never have to open the file on his computer desktop labeled, “Worst Case Scenario.” But on March 12, 2007, with the abduction of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston in the Gaza strip, Wilson’s “worst case scenario” became a reality.
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Two tenured philosophy professors at Dartmouth will leave the College for Washington University in St. Louis at the end of this year, citing higher salaries and the ability to work with graduate students as the primary reasons for their departure.
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As a young boy, Jonathan Lethem, like many other children his age, was a fan of comic books. But while hordes of boys flocked to series like Spiderman or the Fantastic Four, Lethem — who would later become a New York Times best-selling author — was more intrigued by dark graphic novels, particularly the 1975 comic book “Omega The Unknown.” The comic book dealt with themes like murder and the muteness of Omega, the hero, which Lethem said was unprecedented at the time.
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Students learned how to “green their rooms,” conserve energy and “prove the skeptics wrong” about global warming at Sustainable Dartmouth’s first Sustainable Summit of the term held in Tindle Lounge on Thursday. The summit brought together Dartmouth’s environmental advocacy groups to promote sustainability.
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