Admissions yields 51 percent matriculation
Following the most competitive admissions year in the College’s history, 1,120 students plan to matriculate in the Class of 2012, according to Maria Laskaris, dean of admissions and financial aid. More »
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Schickel ‘09 wins with Obama ad
A cartoon depicting Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., finding simple solutions to problems too complicated for President George W. Bush won Reggie Schickel ‘09 the “Most Original Ad” award in MoveOn.org’s “Obama in 30 Seconds” video competition on Monday. His submission, “What We Can Draw from Obama,” was selected from a pool of 1,100 entries submitted by students and semi-professional and professional filmmakers and advertisers. More »
Billing transferred to internet system
Eighty four percent of students have enrolled in D-Pay, Dartmouth’s new electronic billing system, according to Ronald Hiser, director of Student Financial Services. About 1,000 students have yet to register for the new system, which is designed for students at the College, the Thayer School of Engineering, the Tuck School of Business and Dartmouth Medical School. More »
Police discovery debunks rumors of stolen cannon
After speculation and an inconclusive search attempt by a Dartmouth earth sciences class, Hanover Police officer Rick Paulsen has laid speculation surrounding a missing World War I cannon to rest. Last week, he told earth sciences professor Leslie Sonder that the cannon had been found, not under Memorial Field, as rumored, but in the backyard of a professor’s son. More »
Parry promotes multilateral action
Multinational organizations such as the United Nations, the European Union, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are crucial to international politics and must be used to address the many issues today that transcend national borders, Sir Emyr Jones Parry, this year’s 1950 Dickey Lecture Senior Foreign Affairs Fellow, said Thursday. Parry spoke about his experience as the United Kingdom’s former permanent ambassador to NATO, the U.K.’s former permanent ambassador to the UN and the current president of Aberystwyth University in Wales. More »
Uchitelle criticizes apathy towards high U.S. layoff rates
Citing the 34 million layoffs in the U.S. workforce since the 1980s, New York Times reporter Louis Uchitelle criticized American companies for failing to cut costs without firing employees in his speech, “The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences,” in the Haldeman Center Monday. More »
Daily Debriefing
- Samuel B. Roberts, master mason for the College, is currently dismantling and rebuilding the stone structure outside of McNutt Hall. More »
- The driver implicated in the shooting of Meleia Willis-Starbuck ‘07 was sentenced to five years of probation on Friday, according to The Daily Californian. More »
- Manhattan Media hopes to develop a magazine that features a companion social-networking web site and event-planning company for each Ivy League institution over the course of the next few years, The New York Times reported Monday. More »
