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(12/04/07 1:34pm)
Mohammad Usman '10 was recently featured in the Boston Globe for currently being the only male enrolled at Wellesley College, an all female institution in Massachusetts. Usman applied to spend the semester at Wellesley with another male friend. His term away from Dartmouth is allowed as a result of an agreement among 11 universities, including Dartmouth, for student exchanges. Usman and his friend were both accepted for this fall, but only Usman decided to attend. There have been male exchange students in the past at Wellesley, but Usman is the first in years, making him well-known throughout the campus. "Being at an all women's institution has raised my awareness on the barriers gender sometimes places on women within an academic setting," Usman said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth. "Specifically, I have noticed -- relative to my Dartmouth courses -- that women at Wellesley exhibit a greater degree of freedom and feel more comfortable expressing their opinions within the classroom, in my opinion." Usman is living on campus and holds a Wellelsey school ID that he is frequently asked to produce in order to prove his enrollment and legitimacy on campus. He applied to Wellesley without the knowledge of his parents, the Globe reported.
(04/11/07 9:00am)
Dartmouth attorneys filed a motion Friday to dismiss the negligence and wrongful death lawsuit brought by Christina Porter's parents regarding Porter's death from a skiing accident at the Dartmouth Skiway in 2004. Porter's parents argue that their daughter's ski instructors allowed her to ski down a slope that was too difficult for her and to do so without a helmet. The College's motion asserts that the case should be dismissed on the grounds that the suit was filed after the statute of limitations had elapsed. The College further alleges that Porter's ski instructors exercised a reasonable standard of care on the day of Porter's death, maintaining that the instructors' belief that Porter was adequately prepared to ski that particular run was reasonable. The standards at the time of the accident did not require adult skiers to wear helmets.
(03/27/07 9:00am)
Dartmouth French Professor Vivian Kogan pled not guilty to the misdemeanor charge of shoplifting in her arraignment on March 13 in the Lebanon District Court. Kogan, who was represented by counsel in the arraignment, has been accused of stealing a reported $60 worth of dietary supplements from the Lebanon Co-op in early February. In an interview with The Dartmouth following the incident, Roland Adams, director of media relations for the College, said, "We treat confidentially all individual personnel matters, just as we do individual disciplinary cases involving students." Kogan has a hearing scheduled for June 4.
(02/19/07 11:00am)
Yale University announced that this fall, it will begin taping seven undergraduate lecture classes and posting them online, available to the general public. Yale's decision is part of a larger trend of top institutions offering free courses and course materials online. The number of people accessing these sites ranges from thousands to millions each month. Many universities said that they hoped that posting lectures online would help make education available to people who would not otherwise have access to it, as well as raise interest among potential applicants and garner alumni donations. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was the first school to begin posting class materials online free of charge with its "OpenCourseWare" program.
(02/12/07 11:00am)
A Feb. 7 satirical opinion piece titled "Rape Only Hurts If You Fight it" in the Central Connecticut State University newspaper, The Recorder, has drawn campus-wide ire. The author, John Petroski, suggested that rape has benefitted western civilization, and that it helps "ugly women." About 100 students gathered in protest of the article, and many of them called for Petroski's and the editor's resignations from the newspaper. CCSU President Jack Miller released a letter acknowledging The Recorder's right to freedom of speech but condemning the article's message. The newspaper later issued an apology, stating, "We didn't know the campus community as well as we thought we knew." A group of students and faculty will gather to discuss the issue and how to prevent such occurrences.
(01/10/07 11:00am)
Computer science professor Hany Farid has developed a method for analyzing video data to detect potential tampering. Farid's creation has immediate implications as video surveillance and the use of video evidence in courts rise. Most courts refuse to admit such evidence without accompanying expert testimony authenticating it, a step Farid's program may eliminate. As the head of the Image Science Group -- which researches image analysis, human vision and medical imaging -- Farid created an algorithm to detect whether a digital image has been corrupted without having to rely on digital signatures or watermarks. Farid, who is currently on sabbatical and could not be contacted, expects his program to be completed by the end of the summer.
(01/05/07 11:00am)
Clark C. Griffith '66 was appointed commissioner of the Northern League of Professional Baseball, an independent league based in Chicago, on Jan. 2. Griffith was unanimously elected by a vote of Northern League owners to replace former commissioner Jim Weigel. Rich Ehrenreich, president and managing partner of the Schaumberg Flyers and a member of the Northern League's Board of Directors, highlighted Griffith's past experience with the league as a motivating factor in Griffith's selection. Griffith previously served as the league's general council. Currently, Griffith is an adjunct professor of sports law at two Minnesota law schools and is chairman of the National Law Institute at Marquette University.
(11/03/06 11:00am)
RateMyProfessors.com recently added a new feature that allows students to post photographs of faculty on the website along with anonymous ratings. Although the website will not ask faculty's permission to post photographs taken of them, company President Patrick Nagles maintains the company has instituted other mechanisms which will control the quality of posted photographs. Over 1,200 photographs have been posted since the site announced the new service. "Camera phones in the classroom have new meaning," Nagle said.
(09/27/06 9:00am)
Rutgers-Newark University recently appointed Annette Gordon-Reed, class of '81, to its faculty. Gordon-Reed will begin teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in the American History and American Studies departments in the spring of 2007. Her research interests focus on the role of race in American history. After graduating from Dartmouth, Gordon-Reed earned a law degree from Harvard in 1984. She has been a professor at New York Law School since 1992, a position which she will retain during her time at Rutgers-Newark. Gordon-Reed first gained recognition for research she conducted about the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings, one of Jefferson's female slaves. She is the author of "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy" and is currently working on a new book titled "The Hemings Family of Monticello: A Story of American Slavery" to be published by W.W. Norton next year.