The Student Assembly Task Force has just released the following report: Minority Professor Recruitment and Retention. Read the report in PDF format here.

The Ivy Council has just released a report about their Nov. 10-12 conference.  Read the report in PDF format here.

Statement of Concern Regarding Journalistic Integrity in The Dartmouth

Sponsored by Tim Andreadis ‘07, Yuki Kondo-Shah ‘07, Michelle Davis ‘07, Soralee Ayvar ‘07, Raina Hammel ‘07 and The Diversity and Community Committee

WHEREAS The Dartmouth exists as the main daily news source for students, alumni, parents, and the larger community;

WHEREAS The Dartmouth is an independent organization;

WHEREAS The Dartmouth leases office space from the College in Robinson Hall and is permitted to establish distribution centers around campus and also has a College representative on its Board of Visitors;

WHEREAS The Dartmouth exists as a community newspaper that has a large impact on student opinion and is often the only means by which students learn about issues on campus;

WHEREAS The Dartmouth has received a number of complaints specifically regarding their poor fact checking, biased selection of Op-Eds, misquoting or misrepresenting Dartmouth community members, editorializing their news articles, misleading and/or factually inaccurate article titles—all relating to a serious lack of journalistic integrity and accountability on behalf of The Dartmouth under the guise of ‘free speech’;

WHEREAS several students feel that The Dartmouth has not made any substantial movement toward amending or remedying the aforementioned problems with the publication;

WHEREAS The Dartmouth has consistently refused to print retractions to address these and other issues;

Let it be resolved that Student Assembly issue the following statement of concern regarding The Dartmouth:

The Student Assembly and members of the student body are concerned that The Dartmouth, as an independent organization with a large impact on campus, has generated a number of concerns among members of the Dartmouth community regarding their poor fact checking, biased selection of Op-Eds, misquoting or misrepresenting Dartmouth community members, editorializing their news articles, misleading and/or factually inaccurate article titles—all relating to a serious lack of journalistic integrity and accountability on behalf of The Dartmouth under the guise of ‘free speech’;

The Student Assembly and members of the student body request that The Dartmouth ascertain a greater degree of transparency and integrity in its editorial decisions for selecting Op-Eds and printing retractions.

The Student Assembly and members of the student body request that The Dartmouth works toward a greater degree of objectivity in its criterion for selecting Op-Eds.

The Student Assembly and members of the student body request that The Dartmouth create an online message board on its website homepage or an alternative forum for students to address inaccuracies or issues that arise with the reporting / journalism of the publication;

Let it be finally resolved that the Student Assembly share the aforementioned statement and recommendations with The Dartmouth editorial board, The Dartmouth’s Board of Visitors, and College administrators in an effort to encourage a dialogue and work with the paper to make improvements.

Student Assembly's Guidelines for Cosponsorship

While Student Assembly was not created as a cosponsoring body and does not receive funds for this purpose, we realize that sometimes our funds and time can best be used to help other organizations achieve their goals. We are excited to have this opportunity and encourage those organizations that need assistance, whether it be financial or logistical, to let us know of your needs.

Student Assembly may choose to help financially, logistically, or both. If we choose to help financially, we will most likely require that we play a significant part in the logistics and implementation of the program or event as well.

The following guidelines apply only to those requests which do not come from within Student Assembly. Student Assembly reserves the right to determine whether or not a program or event fulfills the requirements and whether or not to cosponsor, and to make this determination in any way the Assembly sees fit.

Programs and events must adhere to the following conditions to be considered:

1. The program or event is consistent with, and enriches, the Assembly's and current executive board's goals.

2. The program or event benefits the whole or a large portion of the student body and student community. For the most part, programs or events must have lasting impact (usually educational), to be granted support.

3. Alternative methods of funding are being pursued, including applying to COSO, Programming Board, and Collis Governing Board. For those organizations, programs, or events that fulfill Programming Board and/or COSO's and/or Collis Governing Board's funding guidelines, the alternative methods of funding must be exhausted before Student Assembly will consider the proposal.

4. The program or event has a clear purpose, full logistical planning, and all other required forms of support.

Thank you for looking to Student Assembly for assistance. We are always here to help you enrich Dartmouth and the Dartmouth community.

The new Committee on Standards report is now online. Get it here. For all questions about the report, please contact costaskforce@dartmouth.edu.

Peer Academic Link has a new website:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~pal

What is PAL?

It’s your one-stop access to all academic advising resources on campus. Peer Academic Link was created by students, for students, because we understand how confusing planning your academic career can be. We hope our site helps you to alleviate that confusion by connecting you to other knowledgeable people on campus. Enjoy!

Two new reports just released by the Student Assembly:

1. The Student Budgetary Advisory Committee, Winter 2006 Quarterly Report. (view pdf version)

2. Club Sports at Dartmouth: A report by the Club Sports Commission of the Student Assembly, Spring 2006. (view pdf version)

Full Results can be found at:
http://sa.dartmouth.edu/elections/Results-2006-4-26.pdf

Voter Turnout: 2435

Student Body President
Timothy A. Andreadis

Student Body Vice President
Jacqueline B. Loeb

Class of 2007 President
Jacob Crumbine

Class of 2007 Vice President
Christopher M. Fiore

Class of 2009 President
Ann C. E. Rittgers

Class of 2009 Vice President
Rembert M. Browne II

Committee on Standards Representative
Jacob Crumbine
Brittany N. Henry
Courtney D. Henry
Leslie E. Shribman
Alexandra V. Garrison
Julie N. Chang

Organizational Adjudication Committee Representative
Sarah R. Overton
Karan D. Danthi
Jon D. Groetzinger
Michael T. Heslin (4-way tie for 3 remaining positions)
Peter C. Volanakis (4-way tie for 3 remaining positions)
Benjamin J. Plesser (4-way tie for 3 remaining positions)
Russell P. D'Souza (4-way tie for 3 remaining positions)

Green Key Society Member
Brian T. DeGrazia
Jacqueline B. Loeb
Nova E. Robinson
Tyler E. Frisbee
Emi J. Ito
Travis H. Green
Alexander S. Howe
Ian F. Tapu
Leslie E. Shribman
Hannah L. Plotkin
Andrea B. Palmer
Anne B. Greengard
Zainep H. Mahmoud
Yasmin Z. Mandviwala
Wesley L. Clark
Zachary B. Chestnut
Michael T. Heslin
JeanCarlos Bonilla
Elizabeth Kolleeny
Erica O. Bamgbopa

2007 Student Assembly Class Representative
David S. Zubricki
Karan D. Danthi
Christopher F. Bertrand
Christina F. Chick
Colleen E. Lamarre(Timothy A. Andreadis)
Johannes C. Thum
Esther L. Perman
Sherry S. Zhau
Jacob Crumbine
Justin L. Zalkin

2008 Student Assembly Class Representative
Jacqueline B. Loeb
Jeffrey K. Coleman
Travis H. Green
Meredith J. Druss
Leslie E. Shribman
Elizabeth G. Silvey
Lindsay R. Greenberg
Erin A. Johnson
Jaromy R. Siporen
David N. Glovsky

2009 Student Assembly Class Rep
Ruslan Tovbulatov
Raymond E. Rodriguez
Elias K. Tapley
Lee D. Cooper
Molly R. Bode
Zachary J. Moore
Joshua M. Jacobson
Harshil K. Shah
Allen K. Buansi
Timothy C. Leung

Don't forget to vote in today's elections:

https://sa.dartmouth.edu/elections

Student Organizations will be able to purchase advertising space on the blitz backgrounds for $10/day. To ensure that all student organizations wishing to advertise an event are able to do so, we will allow the ads for a given day to rotate through, just like the two backgrounds currently on the blitz terminals. The money raised through the sale of advertising space will go directly towards the maintenance of the blitz terminals and the expansion of the program to locations currently without blitz terminals!

Continue reading "Blitz Background Advertising"

Tuesday @ 7PM in L02 Carson

Welcome to the new Student Assembly website. We have been working on this website over the winter break and are very excited to announce its official opening! Our goal was to make the website as clean and user-friendly as possible. We hope you will enjoy the experience! Please let us know if you have any questions.

Your one-stop shop for Room Draw, including comments from fellow students and links to floor plans.


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Click the link above to see the full results of the State of the College Poll!
Continue reading "State of the College Poll Results"

Course Guide [Reviewing courses automatically enters you into a raffle for an iPod!

Continue reading "Online Course Guide"