By Susan Matthews, The Dartmouth Staff
The Office of the Dean of the College has released its new Alcohol Management Program, a proposal to overhaul Dartmouth's alcohol policies that will eliminate distinctions between types of social events on campus and require organizations to submit a weekly schedule of all events at which alcohol will be served. If adopted, the AMP proposal, released today for review by the Dartmouth community, will replace the College's current Social Event Management Policy by Spring term at the earliest, according to Dean of the College Tom Crady.
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By Rebecca Cress, The Dartmouth Staff
Almost 50 years ago, Dartmouth leased 18 acres of land for $1 to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to establish a Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover. The lease, signed in 1961, is set to expire June 20, 2009, and the parties are currently negotiating the terms of a new agreement.
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By Fan Zhang, The Dartmouth Staff
A group of Dartmouth researchers plan to evaluate the effectiveness of psychological therapy and provide counseling for distressed victims of Hurricane Ike on a trip to Galveston, Texas next month. The Dartmouth team is part of the National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research, a consortium of five institutions formed last year to study various aspects of psychological health following a disaster.
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By Andrew Clay
Dori Molitor, CEO and co-founder of the consulting firm WomanWise, argued that consumer marketing needs to be re-evaluated to consider the emotions of women, in a presentation at a Women in Business meeting in the Collis Center, Monday evening.
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By Casey Hicks and Greg Berger
- Glen Elder, sociology and psychology professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, gave a lecture to members of the Dartmouth sociology department at the Rockefeller Center on Monday. More »
- Employees in the academic community have contributed eight times more money to the Obama campaign than to the McCain campaign during the 2008 presidential race, according to a report released by the Chronicle of Higher Education. More »
- Private universities spent, on average, more than $400,000 on anti-piracy efforts related to illegal peer-to-peer file sharing during the 2007-2008 academic year, according to a report released by the Campus Computing Project earlier this month. More »
