Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Steering Committee hears council updates

By Drew Joseph, The Dartmouth Staff

The First Year Office received more complaints regarding BlitzMail than any other issue last year, according to a meeting of the Steering Committee of the General Faculty held at the Rockefeller Center on Monday. More »

Dean supports Obama at the Hop

By Anya Perret, The Dartmouth Staff

Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Howard Dean, the former presidential candidate and governor of Vermont, rallied support for 2008 Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama and senatorial candidate former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Monday, asking the more than 200 audience members in the top of the Hopkins Center for the Arts to get out and vote in this "generational election." More »

ROTC students dedicate time, effort to U.S. military

By Vera Bergengruen, The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth's Reserve Officers Training Corps is relatively invisible on campus now, but during the Vietnam War the program ignited such controversy that it was banned from campus by the administration. The current Dartmouth chapter of ROTC, reinstated in the early 1980s, consists of a small but dedicated group of students taking military ethics courses, doing regular physical training and planning to devote several years after college graduation to serve their country. More »

Beta plans fraternity 'renaissance'

By Julie Kim, The Dartmouth Staff

After reconstructing architectural columns outside the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house, Beta board member Dimitri Gerakaris '69 took a tour of the house, walking from the basement to the third floor wearing only socks on his feet. At the end of the tour, he said, he was surprised to notice that the bottoms of his socks remained spotless. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Katie Gonzalez
  • An Amherst College student was killed and three others were injured in a car crash on Interstate 91 Sunday, according to MassLive.com. More »
  • Several prominent colleges and universities have unveiled a plan to create a backup system for books scanned into Google Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Monday. More »
  • Former Columbia University psychology professor Madonna Constantine, whose discovery of a noose dangling from her door gained media attention last fall, has filed a lawsuit against Columbia, claiming that she was unjustly fired due to false allegations of plagiarism, the New York Daily News reported Oct. More »