Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College stories: 4 news summaries

 Sorry, Recession Won't 
 Get You Into Harvard 

Top schools see no application shortage despite economy

Mar 30, 09 8:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sure, a lot of people are cash-strapped, but don’t get your hopes up that the recession will boost your shot at an Ivy League school. Harvard got a record number of applications this year—29,112, a 6% jump from last year. And pricey universities like Yale, Dartmouth, Brown,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
education • Columbia University • Yale University • Ivy League • college admissions • Stanford University • college • Harvard • Dartmouth College • colleges and universities • Middlebury College • Common Application

College Presidents Push
to Lower Drinking Age

Drinking at 18 will reduce binging at school, they argue

Aug 19, 08 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Presidents of 100 prominent colleges are behind an effort to have the drinking age lowered, from 21 to 18, claiming that earlier experience of drinking younger will reduce students' binge drinking in college. Presidents of Duke, Dartmouth, Ohio State, Syracuse, Tufts and Colgate are among the campaign's supporters, AP... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Duke University • binge drinking • alcohol abuse • Ohio State University • Dartmouth College • college student • Colgate University • drinking age • acoholism • Syracuse • Middlebury College

OPINION

Dartmouth Prof to Sue 'Fascist' Students

Furious that class questioned her 'ecofeminist' analysis

May 6, 08 5:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Dartmouth English professor enamored of trendy French literary theories recently got so incensed at students who “argue with your ideas” that she announced her intention to sue her class, charging that their “anti-intellectualism” violated her civil rights and caused her “intellectual distress.”  The Wall ... More »

MORE ABOUT:
lawsuit • Dartmouth College • patriarchy • Northwestern University

Dems Stonewall on
Pullout Deadline

Obama, Edwards, Clinton won't guarantee withdrawal by 2013

Sep 27, 07 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - None of the three leading Democratic White House contenders were willing last night to guarantee that they would get US troops out of Iraq by 2013. During a Democratic debate at Dartmouth College, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards—who all support a timetable for troop withdrawal—each declined... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Iraq • Iran • nuclear proliferation • health care • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Joe Biden • John Edwards • Bill Richardson • New Hampshire • Mike Gravel • Dennis Kucinich • troop withdrawal • counterterrorism • Chris Dodd • Democratic debate • Dartmouth College • Iraq war

4 Stories


from our news partners

Associated PressAssociated Press