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(05/31/11 2:00am)
Six student orators addressed issues ranging from alcohol to privacy rights while demonstrating their skills at the Benjamin F. Barge and Class of 1866 Prizes for Oratory speech contest. The competition was organized by Josh Compton, senior lecturer in speech at the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, and took place on May 19. Laura Kier '12 and Christopher Rhoades '13 received the Class of 1866 Prizes for Oratory, which is presented to one junior and one sophomore, while Michelle Luo '11 won the Benjamin F. Barge Prize for Oratory, awarded to a member of the graduating class who best delivers an English oration, Luo said. The other three finalists were Eliana Fishman '11, Zoe Friedland '12 and Ben Schifberg '13.
(05/24/11 2:00am)
Four candidates for the Center for Women and Gender director position recently traveled to the College to present their ideas on "best practices" for a variety of issues important to the Center for Women and Gender, according to an email sent from Mentors Against Violence co-director Leah Scrivener '11 and obtained by The Dartmouth. The search, which began in January, is focused on finding someone who can strengthen the relationship between the Center for Women and Gender and the women's and gender studies department, according to acting director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership Pam Misener.
(05/23/11 2:00am)
A joint study of an "anonymous elite American university" by researchers from Cornell University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem found substantial differences in grading between Democratic and Republican professors, according to Inside Higher Ed. The study concludes that Democratic professors were more likely to award more grades in the middle of the grade spectrum, while Republicans tended to award either very high or very low grades, Inside Higher Ed reported. The study concluded that the disparity between grades awarded to white students and black students was larger in classes taught by Republican professors. The researchers used party registrations to identify political leanings and SAT scores to measure the preparedness of students and rule out patterns in which certain professors had better students overall, according to Inside Higher Ed.
(05/20/11 2:00am)
While students embrace Green Key for its various parties and social activities, Hanover businesses look forward to the weekend with equal anticipation as their demand and revenue skyrocket, according to business managers interviewed by The Dartmouth.
(05/18/11 10:18pm)
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(05/06/11 2:00am)
"I find that the different LGBTQ communities here on campus tend to be isolated, but PRIDE is a time when people come together," Pulito said.
(05/03/11 9:31pm)
Decades after the end of the World War II and thousands of miles from its infamous concentration camps, one Dartmouth student has worked tirelessly to make sure the Jewish victims of the Holocaust are never forgotten.
For the past three years, Andrey Dolinko '11 has brought the international day of remembrance for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust to the College. Armed with a computer and a microphone, Dolinko and a group of volunteers spent seven hours on the Collis porch reading the names of 6,400 Jewish Holocaust victims, Dolinko said. The names represented "one-tenth of one percent of the number of Jews who were killed," Dolinko said. "This started because my grandfather was a survivor and I decided to organize his family's names," he said.
Celebrated on the anniversary of the day of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in the Jewish calendar, Yom HaShoah — as the Holocaust Remembrance Day is known in Hebrew — invokes the memory of the millions of Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis, according to Dolinko. A list of the names of victims is complied by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, and distributed around the world to be read in memoriam, Dolinko said. Dolinko said he has organized the event annually since his sophomore year at Dartmouth. He began this year by reaching out to students across campus for names and biographical
information of any of their relatives who perished in the Holocaust, he said.
Thirteen students submitted the names of 161 victims, which were listed on a poster hung up during the memorial, Dolinko said. After the name reading, a short memorial service organized by Saul Zebovitz '11 was held on the Green. Attendees received programs that included the stories of several victims and a series of prayers, according to Zebovitz. Zebovitz said he included "the prayer that is said by mourners when they are mourning loved ones." Zebovitz also included another version of that prayer typically heard only at funerals because the vast majority of Holocaust victims never received a proper burial. "In a sense this is their funeral," he said.
(04/28/11 2:00am)
The state of New Hampshire will receive $61,541, the state of Vermont will receive $80,396 and federal health programs will receive $1.5 million, according to the Department of Justice press release.
(04/21/11 2:00am)
Although the College will continue to offer assistance to pregnant undergraduate and graduate students, budget cuts proposed by state officials and federal legislators may affect the "convenience" of care for some pregnant students, Dick's House family nurse practitioner Elizabeth Morse said in an interview with The Dartmouth. While Dick's House treated five full-term undergraduate pregnancies last year, that number may not represent all the undergraduate pregnancies, since some women choose not to visit Dick's House when pregnant, according to Morse.
(04/14/11 2:00am)
Yale University senior Michele Dufault died Tuesday night in an accident in the machine shop of Yale's Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, according to the Yale Daily News. Dufault was killed when her hair was caught in a lathe, a machine that uses a rotating mechanism to mold wood or metal, according to an anonymous police official familiar with the investigation, the News reported. The New Haven Police Department received a 911 call at about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday morning requesting help at the laboratory, but the investigation will be handled by the Yale Police Department, according to the News. The university's Occupational Health and Safety Administration has also opened an investigation into the accident, which could last anywhere from a few weeks to six months, the News reported.
(04/05/11 2:00am)
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center implemented a new electronic health records system on April 2, according to Director of Media Relations Rick Adams. Called eD-H, the new system replaces the 15-year-old Clinical Information System that the hospital, and its affiliates in Manchester and Nashua, previously used, and allows patients and referring physicians to access medical information through online portals, Adams said in an email to The Dartmouth.
(04/01/11 2:00am)
Various black populations around the world cope with violence and poverty through inventive song and dance in a manner outside of conventional notions of humanity, Jayna Brown, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside, said during an intimate gathering of students and faculty in the Haldeman Center on Thursday.
(03/28/11 2:00am)
The Thayer School of Engineering was ranked the 50th best engineering school out of 194 considered institutions. Dartmouth Medical School received rankings of 32nd and 67th for best research institution and best primary care, respectively.
(03/08/11 4:00am)
A new study vice-chaired by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center pediatrician Paul Palumbo may cause changes to standard AIDS treatment strategies around the world.
(02/28/11 7:15pm)
Believe it or not, you can help out a good cause from the comfort of a frat couch.
(02/25/11 4:00am)
New plans to renovate Dartmouth's property along the Connecticut River aim to reopen the swim docks which were closed last summer due to safety concerns in time for the upcoming Summer term, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College. Representatives from Milone and MacBroom an engineering, environmental and landscape architecture consulting firm presented renderings of three potential designs for the site to a group of Dartmouth students and staff on Thursday afternoon.
(02/23/11 4:00am)
The nonprofit group Complete College America introduced a new program on Tuesday that will aim to increase graduation rates at colleges across the country, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. The $10 million nationwide grant program, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will provide states with the opportunity to compete for awards of $1 million to be administered over 18 months by submitting grant proposals to the organization. Complete College America's founded in 2009 aims to improve remedial education, to shorten degree completion times and to shift the focus of higher education from enrollment to student performance, The Chronicle reported.
(02/18/11 7:01pm)
In a move towards modernization, Dartmouth Dining Services has redesigned its
website.
(02/16/11 4:00am)
Dartmouth's annual United Way campaign raised a total of $255,663, exceeding its initial goal of $225,000, according to Diana Lawrence, Dartmouth United Way steering committee co-chair and director of communications for Alumni Relations. The 2010 fundraising efforts which began in October and concluded on Feb. 14 will support regional programs that address three major fields, including health and wellness, education and housing and economic self-sufficiency, according to Granite United Way's website.
(02/15/11 6:55pm)
This Winter Carnival, the Green wasn’t the only place on campus to feature student-sculpted snow.
