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(05/20/08 7:28am)
Panel speakers included Sandra Danziger, professor of social work and public policy at the University of Michigan, Matissa Hollister, a sociology professor at Dartmouth and Clarence Stone, professor of public policy and political science at George Washington University. Each participant was selected for his or her unique perspective on the issue of poverty, according to Peter Burns, a research associate at the Rockefeller Center and the panel's moderator.
(05/09/08 9:31am)
The United States' large economic and military advantage over other states will secure its status as the world's most powerful nation, Dartmouth government professor Stephen Brooks said in his Thursday lecture, "America's Place in the World."
(04/16/08 7:21am)
Kinstler, whose 1,300 works include the official White House portraits of Presidents Kennedy and Ford and portraits of celebrities such as John Wayne, Tony Bennett and Katharine Hepburn, began his career as a teenage cartoonist. He is the artist behind such Golden Age Cartoons as "The Shadow and Zorro."
(04/11/08 7:07am)
Akash Maharaj, a transfer student at Yale University, will face charges of larceny and forgery after the university discovered that much of the information on his application to Yale had been fabricated, according to The New York Times. Maharaj had falsely claimed that he had received straight A's from Columbia in his application to transfer to Yale. Maharaj had attended Columbia, but did not have a 4.0 grade point average. Maharaj attended New York University before Columbia and St. John's College before NYU. Yale had offered Maharaj a $32,000 scholarship in addition to $15,000 he received from federal loans and scholarships, according to an affidavit from Yale.
(04/11/08 7:02am)
During the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in a letter from his Birmingham County jail cell, "One day the South will recognize its real heroes," Randall Kennedy, author and Harvard Law professor said in a lecture Thursday evening. Kennedy identified these "real heroes" as "good white people," or "white anti-racist folk" like Dartmouth alumnus Thaddeus Stevens, Class of 1814, who fought for racial equality throughout the course of American history.
(04/09/08 6:22am)
Elections for the 2008-2009 Student Assembly president and vice president will end at today at 5:00 p.m. Voting, which can be done via the Assembly's web site, began on Tuesday morning. Many campaigns have increased the number of posters and chalk messages promoting their candidates in order to become more visible on campus.
(04/04/08 7:48am)
Wilson said the rescue effort was the "biggest challenge of my career."
(03/06/08 8:45am)
Oliver Grau, an image science professor at Danube University in Austria, discussed the importance of the digital humanities, a discipline devoted to the study of digital art like computer graphics, animation and nanotechnology, in a lecture held in Kreindler auditorium Tuesday. "Digital art has become the art of our time, yet it has not arrived in the cultural institutions of our societies," Grau said, explaining that the genre has yet to be accepted into the mainstream of art history. Like traditional painting and sculpture, digital art requires historical analysis to be fully understood, he said. Grau stressed that digital art is useful to many non-art disciplines like astronomy, which uses virtual observatories to compile centuries worth of celestial studies. Digital art's broad applicability is one reason why it must be documented and preserved, said Grau, who initiated the documentation process by creating the first digital art database. "The survival of virtual art depends entirely on digital storage methods. It is our responsibility to leave something for future generations," he said.
(02/29/08 12:05pm)
In "The Third of May 1808," Goya connected Spanish nationalism with its Christian heritage through his martyr-like portrayal of a Spanish nationalist, Andrew Schulz '86, an art history professor at the University of Oregon, said. According to Schulz, Goya integrated Spain's Islamic past with its national artistic identity in his depiction of Muslims in "The Second of May 1808."
(02/27/08 9:00am)
Student Assembly passed legislation to fund a Cutter Shabazz Alternative Space Party and renew funding for the Profiles in Excellence Award and the Course Guide Incentive Program at its meeting on Tuesday. The party at Cutter Shabazz is part of a series of Student Assembly sponsored events designed to inform students about affinity housing and celebrate existing social spaces on campus.
(02/12/08 9:06am)
Ensler kicked off her two-day campus visit as the Center for Women and Gender's 2008 Visionary in Residence on Monday. The playwright-performer-activist, who authored the highly acclaimed Vagina Monologues, gave a public address last night.
(01/29/08 8:06am)
As part of the College's ongoing relationship with the American University of Kuwait, two members of Dartmouth's information technology team, Technical Services Director David Bucciero and Voice Network Engineer Peter Ejmont, traveled to Kuwait this December to share their technological expertise.
(01/23/08 3:48pm)
Literary critics James Sitar and William Logan have both scrutinized the first published edition of poet Robert Frost's personal journals, "The Notebooks of Robert Frost," according to The New York Times. Frost is a member of the Class of 1896. The critics commented on typographical and contextual errors and omissions in the compilation, edited by Robert Faggen, chair of the English department at Claremont McKenna College. Logan, an English professor at the University of Florida, said he found significant errors in an investigation of Frost's original notebooks found in Dartmouth's archives. Sitar, the archive editor of poetryfoundation.org, said he found the published edition contained "roughly one thousand" mistakes after a similar investigation at Boston University. Faggen defended his compilation, telling the Times, "My practices are in harmony with those of most other editors of Frost's manuscripts: I let his misspellings stand. This is not an error."
(01/11/08 3:04pm)
When Kirk Spahn '99 co-created TY KU, a sake liqueur, for a graduate school project, he never expected the drink would develop a fan base that would include celebrity Nicky Hilton and Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx. An Asian-inspired liqueur, TY KU debuted in Las Vegas in May 2007.
(12/03/07 6:15am)
Yamato, whose name is derived from the Japanese city where the group is based, is comprised of young male and female musicians. The main instrument employed by the drummers is the taiko, a massive, double-faced drum whose origins can be traced to ancient Japanese battlefields.
(11/30/07 8:11am)
Kate Schaefer, a West Lebanon resident who lived in Hanover for 20 years, was one of many loyal fans to line up each week at the Norwich Farmer's Market in hopes of snagging just one of the Umpleby's Bakery meat pies that she describes as "incredible."
(11/27/07 8:41am)
Simbex LLC, a New Hampshire research and development company, was granted $3.6 million this September to partner with Dartmouth and Dartmouth Medical School, among four other hospitals and universities, to further develop its Head Impact Telemetry System by The National Institute of Health. According to the Associated Press, the HIT system is a high-tech device designed to detect and prevent head injuries. It is comprised of a helmet, data transmitter and control panel. The device has been tested on football players across the country since 2004. By recording and analyzing helmet impacts, the HIT system could potentially help football teams and the military by determining what types of impacts cause head injuries and with what frequency.
(11/12/07 8:57am)
The women's visit was part of a continuing initiative by Dartmouth Students for John Edwards 2008 to create a strong Edwards support base on campus. The initiative began with an appearance by Elizabeth Edwards in October.
(10/23/07 6:19am)
The gentle humming of sewing machines in the parish hall of Hanover's Our Savior Lutheran Church on Monday made the lively chatter of the female volunteers sitting behind them almost inaudible. The senior women, representing both members of the church and the Hanover community at large, congregated in the hall to participate in a 12-hour quilting marathon benefiting Lutheran World Relief Quilting.
(10/19/07 8:00am)
Friday night's bonfire and Saturday's game against Columbia will undoubtedly be the highlight of this year's Homecoming weekend. Yet, multiple other events are planned for the enjoyment of students, alumni and community members during the three-day fall celebration.