By Turia Lahlou, The Dartmouth Staff
College President James Wright has announced plans to cut the College's budget by 5 percent this year, with the goal of reducing the budget by 10 percent -- approximately $40 million -- within the next two years. The plans include a hiring freeze, reducing all College discretionary spending this fiscal year by 5 percent, deferring several construction plans and reviewing new programs. The statement came after the College announced first quarter endowment losses of $220 million, as reported by The Dartmouth on Monday.
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By Rebecca Cress, The Dartmouth Staff
Breaking a week of silence, Carol Elliott, the former Grafton County Treasurer, called Treasurer-elect Vanessa Sievers '10 a "teenybopper" who won her seat solely based on support from "brainwashed" college students, in an interview with the Valley News. Elliott also said that the "real people" in Grafton County voted for herself, not Sievers.
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By Nathan Swire, The Dartmouth Staff
The rise of China, and its likely desire to dominate East Asia, will pose a powerful threat to the United States in the near future, John Mearsheimer, prominent international relations theorist and political science at the University of Chicago, said in a lecture Thursday. Mearsheimer predicted there will be a nuclear stand-off between the United States and China analogous to the Cold War in the future.
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By Madeline Sims
Every 37 seconds, a lender in the developed world makes a new microfinance loan to a poor entrepreneur in a developing country using the world's first microlending web site, Kiva.org, J.D. Bergeron, a Kiva representative, said in Collis Common Ground Thursday. Bergeron spoke at the Kiva Bazaar, an event hosted by the Social Enterprise & Economic Development Society, which also featured a microfinance exhibit and a crafts sale, offering bracelets made by microfinance loan recipients in India.
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By Ann Baum, The Dartmouth Staff
- Dartmouth College tested DartAlert, a new campus-wide emergency notification system, on Tuesday, shutting down all campus landlines for the afternoon. More »
- Nicholas Rule '04 gave a presentation on "gaydar," a slang term short for "gay radar," that denotes one's ability to determine homosexuality in individuals, to a women's and gender studies class on Thursday. More »
- The United States ranked 27th out of 130 countries for gender equality, according to the Global Gender Gap 2008 report, released Wednesday. More »
