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(08/17/12 2:00am)
Democratic candidate for governor of New Hampshire Maggie Hassan held an ice cream social on Thursday at the newly-constructed Black Family Visual Arts Center, according to a press release from Hassan's Communications and Political Director Will Craig. Hassan's visit to Hanover on Thursday is part of a larger campaign of "grassroots outreach to voters and ice cream lovers across New Hampshire" that includes stops in nine towns and cities across the state, the press release reported. Campaign events have already occurred in Nashua, Portsmouth, Manchester and Derry, with stops to come in Keene, Concord, Dover and Berlin.
(08/03/12 2:00am)
Stevens' emergence as a world-class cyclist is notable because she did not begin to train for the sport until after graduating from the College. A four-year women's varsity tennis player, she gained national renown in the summer of 2009 after The Wall Street Journal profiled her decision to relinquish her position at the now-defunct Lehman Brothers to pursue a career as a professional road cyclist. Leading up to the games, several prominent media outlets, including Outside Magazine and ESPN, have charted her unusual rise to the top echelon of international cycling.
(06/26/12 2:00am)
Brown University President Ruth Simmons, who is stepping down from the Brown presidency on June 30, will join Princeton University's Board of Trustees in July, according to The Brown Daily Herald. Simmons is one of seven new trustees named to Princeton's 40-person Board, which already includes numerous prominent individuals in the fields of finance, academia, politics and journalism. Simmons served in a number of administrative positions at Princeton before acting as the university's vice provost from 1992 to 1995 and earning an honorary degree from Princeton in 2006, The Daily Herald reported. Simmons' four-year term on the Princeton Board of Trustees will begin in July following the end of her 11-year tenure at Brown. Christina Paxson, the dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will begin her tenure at Brown as Simmons' successor on July 1, according to The Daily Herald.
(01/30/12 4:00am)
The 2012 Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips directorate, announced in a campus-wide email on Friday, will aim to extend a "sustainable welcome" to the Class of 2016, according to Trips director Emily Mason-Osann '11 Th '12.
(10/28/11 2:00am)
Former Dartmouth math Professor John McCarthy, a pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence who organized the first Dartmouth conference on the subject, died in his home on Monday in Stanford, Calif., at the age of 84, The New York Times reported. Complications from heart disease caused his death, his daughter Sarah McCarthy said in an interview with The Times.
(09/28/11 2:00am)
Princeton University plans to rewrite its policy on sexual harassment and sexual assault, Provost Chris Eisgruber announced Monday, according to The Daily Princetonian. The changes, announced at the first meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community, were prompted by a letter from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights that asked colleges and universities to evaluate their institutional stance toward sexual misconduct on their campuses. Princeton decided to take action in an attempt to ensure that the university both complies with federal law and improves its internal procedures. The revised text of Princeton's "Rights, Rules, Responsibilities" includes more specific language than the 2010 version and distinguishes assault, exploitation and harassment as three distinct levels of sexual misconduct, The Princetonian reported.
(09/21/11 2:00am)
Brown University President Ruth Simmons will step down from her position which she has held since 2001 at the conclusion of the 2011-2012 academic year, Simmons wrote in a letter to the Brown community on Sept. 15. Simmons, the first and only black Ivy League president in the history of the League, said in an interview with The Brown Daily Herald that she initially planned to vacate the post after 10 years but remained for an additional year after a request by Brown's governing body. During her presidency, Simmons began a Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, set up an endowment for public school students in Providence, R.I., increased the number of Brown faculty members by 20 percent and established tuition-free fellowships for students completing master's degrees in urban education and urban-education policy. Simmons will continue to serve as a comparative literature and Africana studies at the university, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
(05/18/11 2:00am)
The peace effort between Israel and Palestine had been moving "slowly and torturously, but unmistakably" toward a resolution over the past 40 years, with the help of U.S. officials, Spyer said. The increase in Iranian influence in the Middle East is undermining American hegemony in the Middle East and affecting its role in negotiations between Israel and Palestine. The United States' power in the region is being continuously diminshed, especially after the "Arab Spring," a series of uprisings and protests in the region, according to Spyer.
(05/06/11 2:00am)
Results from the National Assessment of Education Progress exam a civic examination administered by the U.S. Department of Education that tests students' knowledge of how laws are passed, what rights are constitutionally protected and other related issues reveal a crisis in civics education, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said in an interview with the The New York Times. Approximately 75 percent of high school seniors were unable to assess the global impact of American foreign policy or enumerate congressional powers granted by the Constitution, while less than half of eighth graders were able to identify the significance of the Bill of Rights. The results confirm that educational policy continues to concentrate on "developing the worker at the expense of developing the citizen," Charles Quigley, executive director of the Center for Civic Education, said in an interview with The Times. The civics exam, administered to approximately 27,000 students, reaffirmed a pre-existing achievement gap between white and black students, although the divide between the performance of Hispanic and non-Hispanic students narrowed, The Times reported.
(04/20/11 2:00am)
The 9.1 magnitude "super quake" was the fourth largest earthquake in recorded history, according to Tamura. Two thousand homes were either destroyed or partially destroyed in the disaster, and Japan will need at least 30 trillion yen to rebuild damaged areas, he said.
(04/11/11 2:00am)
Five experts on Middle Eastern politics discussed a range of topics from the conflict in Libya to the rise of democratic government in Egypt to reform prospects in Islamic Gulf states in Friday's roundtable discussion in honor of history professor Gene Garthwaite, who will retire at the end of Spring term. The event was part of a conference this weekend focusing on current social, cultural and political issues in the Middle East to celebrate Garthwaite's career and accomplishments.