The International Student Association hosted an AIDS benefit dinner in Collis Commonground Sunday night. At the event, professors, students and doctors discussed global health and fighting AIDS in Africa. Mary Turco, head of Dartmouth's Global Health Initiative, economics professor Pascaline Dupas and Asian and Middle Eastern language professor Justin Rudelson attended the event. Grassroots Soccer, an organization founded by Tommy Clark '92 to help youth in Africa avoid HIV by playing soccer, presented a film about the organization. The DarDar project, a group of Dartmouth Medical School students fighting AIDS in Africa, presented a film as well. Students for Africa performed at the event. The dinner was catered by Taste of Africa, and all donations went to the Grassroots Soccer organization.
The international Arctic Science Summit Week will take place March 14 through March 20 at the College. More than 200 scientists, engineers, policy makers and representatives of native peoples will discuss protecting the arctic in the face of climate change. Ross Virginia, director of the Institute of Arctic Studies within the Dickey Center for International Understanding, organized the event. Discussions will focus on strategies to deal with the environmental, political, economic, security, health and social aspects of climate change in the North. The summit will release a summary of findings and conclusions after the event.
The eight members of the Student Government Review Task Force were selected by Student Assembly's Membership and Internal Affairs Committee late Thursday night. The task force, whose membership was chosen from a pool of 20 total applicants -- up from the 12 originally reported last week -- is charged with examining student governance in response to a term-long reform movement led by Adam Shpeen '07. The students on the task force are Kapil Kale '07, Laura Little '08, Andrew McCauley '09, Joe Kardon '09, Sebastian Restrepo '07, Natalya Shulga '07, Aditya Sivaraman '10 and Shaun Stewart '10. Kale and Stewart are current Assembly members, while several others on the task force have previously participated in the Assembly or are involved with different student governance groups. Stewart is a member of The Dartmouth staff. The task force will meet this week to select a non-voting chair.
