A memorial service to celebrate the life and work of former Dartmouth provost, dean and professor John W. Strohbehn was held on Wednesday afternoon in Rollins Chapel. After the service, family, friends, and colleagues attended a reception at the Top of the Hopkins Center. Strohbehn, who died at the age of 70 on Feb. 22, began his Dartmouth career in 1963 and spent 31 years with the College. He then served as professor and provost at Duke University. In 2003, he retired from Duke as a professor emeritus.
At noon on Wednesday, the Dartmouth Progressives, the Dartmouth Civil Liberties Union, the Dartmouth College Democrats and the Dartmouth chapter of Amnesty International teamed up to protest the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The protest was held on the Green, and group members sent a photograph of the student participants to the Center for Constitutional Rights to help garner media attention. The event was part of a nationwide college effort to contribute to the lobbying campaign to convince Congress to restore the right of Habeas Corpus, which protects against arbitrary imprisonment. "It was good to have our pictures to add to the collective effort," said Dartmouth Progressives member Alex DiBranco '09. "We got the photos to show that we're another dot on the map of rallies."
The members of the Class of 2010 in the joint Brown-Dartmouth medical program will be the program's last graduating class. The program, which began in 1981, allows 15 to 20 students who graduate with an M.D. degree from Brown to spend their first two years at Dartmouth Medical School. The two schools were a perfect match -- while Brown had more clinical facilities, Dartmouth had more basic sciences facilities. However, the medical school experience has recently become more of a "four-year package," Joseph O'Donnell, senior advising dean at Dartmouth Medical School, told the Brown Daily Herald. Medical school "became illogical to do in two different places," he said. Dartmouth has now integrated the basic science and clinical phases of its medical education. Representatives from both Brown and Dartmouth medical schools agreed that ending the program was a wise decision, according to the Brown Daily Herald.
