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April 19, 2024 | Latest Issue
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Richard Lobban, a professor at Rhode Island College and an expert on Sudan, speaks about the difficulties of addressing the crisis in Darfur in a speech on Tuesday.
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Speaker analyzes the crisis in Darfur

Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff While economic and cultural conflicts have made the situation in Sudan difficult to address, the humanitarian crisis in Darfur is of immense proportions, Rhode Island College anthropology professor Richard Lobban said Tuesday at the Rockefeller Center.

Native Americans from across the continent dance on the Green this weekend to celebrate their history at the College's 36th annual Powwow.
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Powwow celebrates Native culture

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The sound of Mystic River drums, neon costumes, jingle dancing and the smell of frybread attracted crowds to the Green this weekend in celebration of Dartmouth's 36th annual powwow The powwow is the "Native American people's way of meeting together to join in dancing, singing, visiting, renewing of old friendships and creation of new ones," according to materials distributed by Native Americans at Dartmouth. This year's powwow, hosted by NAD, began with a "Grand Entry" on Saturday.

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Versions of Hippocratic Oath debated at panel

The Hippocratic Oath is commonly misinterpreted due to mistranslations of the original Greek text, Ronald Green, a professor of religion and director of the Ethics Institute, said at a panel discussion at Dartmouth Medical School Monday evening. New doctors traditionally recite the Hippocratic Oath, commonly believed to have been written by Hippocrates in 400 BC, to pledge dedication to the patients' well-being and the sanctity of the physician-patient relationship, Green said. "Every translation is a betrayal," Green said.

Jed Rakoff, a U.S. District Judge for New York, speaks on the confluence of law and science on Thursday.
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N.Y. judge challenges science's place in law

Science and the law are "uncomfortable" but inevitable "bedfellows," Jed Rakoff, a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, said in a lecture Wednesday in the Rockefeller Center. The talk addressed the long-term love-hate relationship between the two fields. "The law is very messy, ...

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