Who is Interim Dartmouth Athletic Director Peter Roby? This video released after he was selected to the Northeastern University Hall of Fame in November offers insights into the man who will run Big Green athletics through the next school year:
• Served as the Northeastern athletic director from 2007 to 2018, during which he completed a five-year term as a member of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee.• Led the Huskies to NCAA championship appearances in 15 programs during his directorship, including berths in men's basketball (2015), men's ice hockey (2016, 2018) and women's ice hockey (2016, 2018).• Oversaw Northeastern's consistent academic achievement from 2007 on as the Huskies' student-athletes combined to attain a 3.0 GPA or better for more than 20 consecutive semesters.• Named one of the 100 Most Influential Sports Educators in America by the Institute for International Sport (October 2007).
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In a Sunday morning email, Dean of the College Kathryn Lively advised students living locally off campus to adhere to the same quarantine guidelines as those living on campus.Additionally, the Winter Activities Center and ice rinks on the Green have been closed, and student-led Dartmouth Outing Club trips have been paused indefinitely.
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“Given this rapid and significantly increased risk of transmission within our community, we have made the difficult, but necessary, decision to return to arrival quarantine phase two, effective immediately and until further notice,” Dean of the College Kathryn Lively wrote in a Saturday email to students living on campus.
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Students are also asked to avoid downtown Hanover and local restaurants. All common spaces and kitchens, as well as campus facilities including Baker-Berry Library, remain closed. Novack Cafe will be closed on Sunday and reopen on Monday without student employees, who will not return to work until further notice.
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EXTRA POINT
Regular visitors to this electronic precinct know that I'm a cell phone holdout. Don't have one. Don't want one.
Today was one of the very, very rare days when it would have been helpful.
I had a dentist appointment scheduled for 7:30. (I like to get these things over early in the day ;-). Our dentist is back in Hanover, handy when we lived there, not as handy now that we live a half hour north.
I showed up at the dental office at 7:25 and was greeted at the door by the receptionist, who informed me the hygienist was out sick and that she had been trying to let me know my appointment had been canceled. She'd left two messages on our home phone, emailed me and called Mrs. BGA's phone, all to no avail. She could not have been more apologetic, even though it wasn't her fault.
But here's the thing. Although it meant a wasted hour in the car I wasn't unhappy about it and you can thank the pandemic for that. This was the first time I had been in Hanover since – could it be? – last summer. I actually drove past Baker Library and around the Green. Sure, it was a waste of time, but gosh it felt good to actually leave the four-mile radius around our house that I seldom escape.
The canceled appointment also was an object lesson in the theory of relativity. Stick with me here.
Our dentist and the people who work with her could not be any nicer and gentler. But for as wonderful as they are, I really, really don't like sitting in that chair and opening my mouth.
As I said, my appointment today was for 7:30. At about 8:25 I looked at my watch (which I wore for the first time since summer) and found myself thinking, "Wow, I'd already be done with my appointment. Time flies."
That's absolutely true when you are driving around. But when you are in that chair, as you well know, that hour can seem like an absolute eternity. The theory of relativity indeed.
