AROUND THE GREEN
The football team scored a victory in late January when standout high school quarterback Dan Shula chose to attend Dartmouth over Harvard. Shula, who won last year's Florida state championship as the senior starter for St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, is the son of '81s Leslie and David Shula and grandson of NFL coaching great Don Shula. He's a 6-foot, 2-inch, 200 pound honor student with lots of promise. "The future looks bright," his dad says of the Big Green football program.
The Tucker Foundation offered some popular alternatives to lolling on the beach sipping a margarita during spring break. About 100 students opted to spend the break in March volunteering at one of six sites: a Florida homeless shelter; a housing and education project in Honduras; Habitat for Humanity efforts in Trinidad, South Carolina and West Virginia; a construction project in Costa Rica; and a youth project in New Mexico serving members of the Navajo Nation.
The Tuck School of Business placed ninth among U.S. schools and 11th worldwide in this year's annual ranking of 100 full-time M.B.A. programs around the world by the Financial Times of London. The ranking follows strong showings in two other recent studies: Tuck placed No. I in The Wall Street Journal ranking of corporate recruiters and No. 4 in a Forbes ranking of the 50 best business schools in America.
The men's rugby football club celebrates its 50th anniversary May 18. Festivities begin with games for alums and students at Sachem Field, followed by a barbecue and a dinner celebration. For more information contact Scott Gardner '92 at sgardner9988@yahoo.com.
The Zantop murders have generated at least three book deals so far. Due in April is The Dartmouth Murders by Eric Francis, a White River Junction, Vermont, writer who covered the case for People magazine. In addition, a psychologist and a pair of Boston Globe reporters plan to write books about the crimes and the trial, which is slated to begin in April.
Parking on campus may improve by the time summer 2004 rolls around. The trustees have authorized the administration to begin planning for a 700 space parking garage on the site of a parking lot next to the Thayer School of Engineering. Internet security research received a big boost when Dartmouth computing researchers received a $1.6 million Mellon Foundation grant. The team, led by computer science professor Sean Smith, will develop more secure and effective systems for university-based cyberencryption methods. The group hopes to run tests on a model system throughout 2002.
The American Institute of Architects lauded the Rauner Special Collections Library in Webster Hall (above) with a 2002 Institute Honor Award. The Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates received raves for transforming the former auditorium into a library that houses 30,000 linear feet of rare books and manuscripts within a climate controlled glass enclosure. The $7.5 million renovation was completed in 1998.
Hockey forward Dan Casella '02 has been honored as one of college hockey's "finest citizens" by the Hockey Humanitarian Award committee. Casella is a finalist for the national award, which is considered one of the top awards given to a college hockey player. Casella has helped coach area youth hockey programs, visited local schools, helped organize the hockey team's annual Christmas toy drive and worked with the Kids and Cops youth outreach program at Dartmouth. "There isn't a youngster in the community who doesn't know Dan Casella," says coach Bob Gaudet '81. "He is an excellent hockey player with the biggest heart."
The trustees approved a 4.5 percent increase in undergraduate tuition at their winter meeting. The $1,200 increase takes effect for the 2002-2003 school year and brings the total cost of room, board and mandatory fees to $35,988 for students in the Arts and Sciences. This is the highest increase in five years.
