Gillian Apps '06 and Cherie Piper '06 helped the Canadian women's hockey team win its third consecutive Olympic gold medal, beating Team USA 2-0 on Thursday. Canadian fans reveled in the victory over their arch rival, according to the Winnipeg Free Press. The U.S. women's hockey team won a bronze medal in 2006, a silver in 2002 and a gold in 1998. Canada and the United States have met in the final of every women's hockey world championship, where the Canadians have a 9-3 record. Piper arrived at Dartmouth after participating in the 2002 Olympics as a member of the Canadian team that captured the gold medal in Salt Lake City. In 1999, she helped the U-18 Canadian national team win a gold medal and in 2003, competed on the Canadian national team at the Four Nations Cup. Apps competed with Team Canada at the World Championships in March of her sophomore year and was named ECAC Hockey League Player of the Week twice. She was named the Most Valuable Player by the New England Hockey Writers, named the ECHACHL's Player of the year and was named the league's Player of the Week twice during the regular season, according to dartmouthsports.com.
Over 2,400 lecturers at the University of Montreal began an indefinite strike on Wednesday in a push for high salaries and pensions, smaller class sizes and a more balanced workload, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported. Lecturers had previously been holding one-day and half-day walkouts in response to a prolonged negotiation process, CBC News reported. The walk-out will primarily affect students in the arts and sciences and those enrolled in education classes and evening courses, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Lecturers teach 50 percent of undergraduate courses, not including medicine, according to the Chronicle. Francis Lagace, president of the lecturers union, told CBC News that the strike is intended to better student learning conditions, which will benefit students as well. The strike may disrupt the current academic session by expanding it into the summer, according to Luc Granger, associate vice-rector for faculty affairs.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz has ordered a review of the December 1993 investigation into the failed mail bombing of Harvard Medical School professor Paul Rosenburg by Amy Bishop, who was recently accused of killing three people in a Feb. 12 shooting spree at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, the Boston Globe reported. The Attorney General's office never charged anyone in the attempted bombing of Rosenburg, the Globe reported. Ortiz said in a statement Wednesday that the review will ensure that all appropriate steps were taken during the original investigation in the case, according to the Globe. Because the federal law banning the mailing of explosives has a five-year statue of limitations, no one can be charged through information revealed in the review, the Globe reported.
