Dan Susman '10, the director of this year's Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips, announced the Trips directorate on Wednesday. Maisie Breit '10 is serving as assistant director; Forrest Rice '11, Emily Unger '11 and Martha Gillon '11 as Trip Leader Trainers; and Cody Curran '12 as safety master. The croo chiefs for H-Croo are Andrew Purpura '11 and Elena Falloon '11; for Lodj Croo, Hamish Tildesley '11 and Willa Johann '10; for Vox Croo, Emily Mason-Osann '11 and Alex Taylor '11; for Climbing Croo, Brannon Cavalier '12; and for Grant Croo, Max Van Pelt '11.
Calvin College is the first institution to have its job listings with the American Philosophical Association flagged for violating the association's policy against anti-homosexual bias, Inside Higher Ed reported Wednesday. The association's new procedure states that colleges who do not hire gay professors must have their listings for academic positions flagged. Proponents hope that the policy will encourage institutions like Calvin College to change their hiring practices and employ gay professors. The association is currently petitioning against Calvin College, stating "that Calvin College would engage in a most egregious form of discrimination under these circumstances strikes us as not only deplorable but indeed as displaying a lack of basic human concern," according to Inside Higher Ed.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Indian Health Service are partnering to launch a campaign to educate Native American and Alaskan Native parents and caregivers about the importance of vaccinations and physical examinations for their preteen children, Indian Country Today reported Wednesday. The campaign recommends that all preteens receive annual flu shots and the 2009 H1N1 vaccine during regular check-ups, also aiming to spread awareness of the CDC's recommended vaccines for children who are 11 and 12 years old. These vaccines are recommended to protect children from such dangerous infections as whooping cough, meningitis and the human papilloma virus, some strains of which have been shown to cause cervical cancer in women.
