In an amendment to its constitution, the Alumni Council removed language requiring the Council to submit three candidates for trustee elections at its biannual meeting Saturday. This amendment will ensure that the Council complies with any possible changes to the structure of trustee elections made by either the Board of Trustees or the Association of Alumni. More »
Dartmouth Medical School faculty gave feedback about the qualities they would like to see in Dartmouth's next president at an open forum held by Trustee Al Mulley '70, chair of the presidential search committee, and DMS Dean Bill Green on Friday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Mulley and Dartmouth Board of Trustees Chairman Ed Haldeman '70 have held similar forums for students, alumni and faculty this spring and decided to hold a forum for clinicians who might not have been able to leave DHMC to attend the faculty meeting on May 9, Mulley said. More »
The House of Representatives passed a GI bill partially designed by College President James Wright that would provide tuition, room and board for veterans attending college Thursday. The bill passed in a vote of 256 to 166 as one of three measures within a larger war spending bill. More »
A blackout Saturday night may have delayed many students' plans to head to Webster Avenue, but it did not deter almost 80 students from meeting at the Bema for a Green Key celebration. When Safety and Security arrived on the scene, though, the entire party "split and ran, leaving behind an awful lot of '30-racks,'" said Harry Kinne, director of Safety and Security and College proctor. More »
After 20 years with only minor changes, BlitzMail will receive a complete facelift. The upgrade, expected to be completed by fall 2009, could include a built-in calendar, threading capabilities, increased search options and a new design for the interface. More »
Daniel Becker '09's prize-winning essay on the benefits of the Indian Child Welfare Act has won him $5,000, a trip to a conference in Tucson, Ariz., and access to a network of environmental and Native American tribal policy professionals as one of 80 national Udall Scholarship recipients selected by the Morris K. Udall Foundation. Becker's essay lauded the effects of the act, which gave tribes jurisdiction over child custody proceedings and ended "the theft of Native babies" that had taken place across the U.S. More »
International law recognizes the right of countries to intervene in other states for humanitarian purposes, but many members of the international community have criticized the doctrine in practice, said British diplomat Sir Emyr Jones Parry and Edward Luck '70, special adviser to the United Nations secretary-general, at a Friday lecture in Kemeny Hall. More »
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