CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL
PROMOTED
Matthew Slaughter, associate dean for faculty at Tuck, has been named the school’s 10th dean. “I hope to do a good job to help Tuck succeed as part of Dartmouth and the broader business world,” says Slaughter.
HONORED
English professor and acclaimed author Jeff Sharlet won a 2015 National Magazine Award for his GQ story, “Inside the Iron Closet.” The piece, which examined the lives of gays in Russia, took top honors in the reporting category.
DEPARTED
Art history professor Adrian Randolph is leaving Dartmouth to become Northwestern University’s dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Currently an associ- ate dean of arts and humanities at the Col- lege, he starts his new job July 1.
IS IT SPRING YET?
11.6 Average temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit, in Hanover during February. It was the second- coldest February in the town’s known history.
LOOSE LIPS A student member of the Moving Dartmouth Forward steering committee appears to have broken a confidentiality agreement by offering details about the committee’s work in an interview with The Dartmouth Review.
HAVE A CIGAR The College has finalized plans to offer a new exchange program with Cuba’s University of Havana.
RETURN VISIT Andrew Lohse ’12, Dartmouth’s hazing whistleblower and subject of that 2012 Rolling Stone article, visited professor Jed Dobson’s “Writing 5” class in February to answer questions and read from his book, Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy.
CANINE HERO Daisy, the dog that found fame after discovering a python that had gone missing from a Greek house on campus in 2013, died after being hit by a car in White River Junction, Vermont.
FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED President Hanlon started offering open office hours for faculty in February.
HOT WATER Swim team members reportedly cheered “Wah-hoo-wah” prior to a January meet and subsequently were asked to never do so again.
PUCK-TASTIC! Hanover was named the second-best “hockey town” in America by SmartAsset, a financial analysis firm. Grand Forks, North Dakota, took the top spot.
CHEAP SHOT A student started selling novelty shot glasses adorned with an image of President Phil Hanlon ’77 and the words, “PHIL IT UP!”
SNOW DAY Low temperatures and snowy conditions led to the postponement of the February 25 women’s lacrosse season opener.
HELP WANTED Bloomberg Business reports that Tuck students spend more than an average of $10,000 on expenses during job searches.
