CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL

CAMPUS

MVP Angela Zhu ’17 of Dartmouth’s national champion Princess Layout ultimate Frisbee team was named the top player in the country.

POLICE BLOTTER Ten students were arrested during Green Key Weekend in May, down from 22 last year.

PACKED HOUSE The Hopkins Center offered a sneak preview of Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War in mid-July at Spaulding Auditorium. The 10-part documentary airs on PBS starting September 17.

WANNABE BUSTED President Trump’s nominee to be the comptroller of the currency, Joseph Otting, claimed to be a grad of “the School of Credit and Financial Management at Dartmouth.” There is no such school.

DUNKED The women’s swimming and diving team is banned from three intercollegiate meets this fall, following a finding that the team violated the College’s hazing policy during its winter break training trip last December.

AND THEN THERE WERE TWO Thai Orchid, one of three Thai restaurants in Flanover, has moved to Lebanon, New Flampshire.

HIGH NOTE Pioneering jazz improviser Taylor Ho Bynum has been named director of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, the College’s student jazz group.

FRESH AIR After President Trump decided to withdraw the country from the Paris climate accord, President Phil Hanlon ’77 and several other college and university presidents reaffirmed their pledge to move to low-carbon energy and enhance on-campus sustainability practices.

MAJOR LEAGUE The Pittsburgh Pirates drafted pitcher Beau Sulser ’16 in June. The right-hander went in the 10th round. His brother, Cole ’12, Th’13, was drafted in 2013 by the Cleveland Indians.

STROKE OF EXCELLENCE Lightweight rower Daniel Perez ’19 was named to the U.S. rowing squad for the World Under-23 championships in Bulgaria.

NET GAINS Forward Isalys Quinones ’19 of the women’s basketball squad earned a spot on the Puerto Rican women’s national team.

SPACE CRUNCH Grad students were disappointed to learn that North Park graduate housing will not be available to them this fall. The cluster instead will help accommodate the record number of undergraduates on campus.

BEST IN THE BUSINESS Student-run Dartmouth EMS won the Striving for Excellence and HEARTSafe Campus awards from the National Collegiate EMS Foundation.

SOPHOMORE BUMMER A student diagnosed with the mumps in July was placed in isolation and later recovered.

VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS The Sing Dynasty was named by New Hampshire magazine as the state’s best a cappella group.

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“For such a small school to have a place on this list shows that our faculty engage with pressing problems, they are coming up with attractive solutions and they are committed to moving those solutions into the real world.”

—Vice provost for research Dean Madden on Dartmouth being ranked 97th on the National Academy of Inventors’ top 100 list of universities worldwide granted U.S. patents last year