Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Alumni interests hurt by Madoff

By Emma Fidel, The Dartmouth Staff

The organizations of two prominent Dartmouth alumni are facing multi-million dollar losses as a result of their financial ties to Bernard Madoff, whose alleged $50 billion investment fraud shook the foundations of financial firms and non-profits worldwide upon its discovery in December. More »

Geithner '83 criticized for Fed bailout choices

By Anya Perret, The Dartmouth Staff

President-elect Barack Obama's nomination of Timothy Geithner '83 for Treasury secretary was initially met with a stock market rally and media acclaim, but in recent weeks, confidence in Geithner's abilities has diminished as political analysts have criticized his reaction to the ongoing economic downturn. More »

Alum calls for teacher merit pay

By Jennifer Liu

Educational inequity is the result of an outdated education system that pays teachers based on seniority rather than merit, Delano Brissett '05, a Teach for America alumnus, told students gathered in Cutter-Shabaz Hall on Monday night for a speech and discussion about education. During the event, titled "Race and the Achievement Gap," Brissett argued that students from low-income neighborhoods are less likely than their higher-income peers to have access to quality education. More »

Graduate students discuss cultural tolerance in open forum

By John Alzate, The Dartmouth Staff

Cultural tolerance is often most prevalent in societies that have a diverse array of ethnicities and religions, according to two Dartmouth graduate students who presented their ongoing ethnographic study in Collis Center on Monday. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Shaun Akhtar and John Alzate
  • Dartmouth Trustee Diana Taylor '77, chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion, was named as one of nine new directors of the troubled mortgage giant Fannie Mae, according to a Dec. More »
  • Dartmouth was among eight American colleges and universities to receive a "Green Light" rating in the 2009 "Spotlight on Speech Codes" report, a publication of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization. More »
  • Approximately 20 Dartmouth students and alumni hiked Mt. More »