Dartmouth will give 10.2 acres of land to Hanover following a Tuesday vote by town residents to accept the exchange, according to Town Manager Julia Griffin. The land transfer is part of a two-decade old agreement between the town and Dartmouth to allow for the College’s Grasse Road housing development. The land, located near Grasse Road, will be used for recreational fields or affordable housing, Griffin said. More »
Dartmouth has recruited seven students to begin testing the Xythos online file-storing system today. The system will allow students, faculty and staff to save documents in an online folder and share them over the internet. More »
Ty Moddelmog ‘08 was offered an $80,000 salary to work at an Atlanta-based consulting firm but decided he did not want to start at the bottom of the corporate ladder, he said. Instead, Moddelmog applied to Teach for America, an organization that recruits recent college graduates to teach in rural and urban schools, after a convincing conversation with a recruitment officer. More »
A nationwide campaign for state laws that would require colleges to track students’ illegal file sharing could cost the College millions of dollars if the laws are passed, Ellen Young, manager of consulting services at Dartmouth Computer Services, said in an e-mail message to The Dartmouth. The College does not currently have an opinion on the possible anti-piracy legislation, and no such bill has been introduced in the New Hampshire legislature, she added. More »
The federal government can take vast steps toward reversing climate change by offering economic incentives for companies to reduce emissions, but the government must act soon, speakers agreed at a panel discussion on Thursday. The panel, “The Politics of Climate Change,” was sponsored by The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. More »
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