Visiting fellow holds poetry reading
National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Lucille Clifton recited 16 of her poems to a packed audience Tuesday in Filene Auditorium as part of her Montgomery Fellowship.
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National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Lucille Clifton recited 16 of her poems to a packed audience Tuesday in Filene Auditorium as part of her Montgomery Fellowship.
Poet Lucille Clifton has arrived on campus as the College's Montgomery Fellow for the Winter term. Clifton has received numerous awards since the 1969 publication of her first book of poetry, "Good Times," including the National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prize nominations.
Maggie Shnayerson '03 was named Director of Public Relations for the Village Voice newspaper, according to a Jan. 2 press release. She will assume responsibility for promoting both the editorial content and individual staff members of the alt-weekly. Besides acting as a liason between the editorial and business departments, she will plan promotional events and partnerships in conjunction with the marketing department. Prior to joining the Village Voice, Shnayerson worked at Time Magazine, the New York Sun, the New York Post and and several other newspapers.
Professor James Weinstein, chairman of orthopedics at Dartmouth, co-authored a study examining the number of spine surgeries performed on Medicare patients. The topic of back surgery is a subject of debate among health care experts, with some arguing that the number of surgeries is unnecessarily high. The study found that in high-surgery regions of the United States almost five in 1,000 Medicare patients underwent surgery, while as low as 0.6 out of every 1,000 did in low-surgery areas. According to Weinstein, there are not a high number of back problems in high-surgery areas, but a lack of consensus among doctors on what cases require surgery. "I'm not against spine surgery, I'm a spine surgeon," Weinstein said. "But we need to find out what works and make sure people who have those problems get it. We don't do that well."
"India, Pakistan and China: Asia's Rising Powers," a presentation Thursday about American diplomatic perspectives on the changing relationships between the United States and the three Asian countries amidst emerging economic growth, featured lectures from Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of South and Central Asian Affairs Steve Mann and Cyrus R. Vance Fellow in Diplomatic Studies Evans Rever.
Dr. Samuel R.G. Finlayson from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical School published an editorial Wednesday to accompany a study that found that nonwhite, Medicaid-eligible and uninsured patients in California are more likely to undergo high-risk surgeries at less-experienced hospitals. In the editorial, Finlayson explored explanations for this trend, opining that "quality to a patient [means] a lot more than a lower surgical mortality rate, especially when the patient does not expect to die." Finlayson suggested that the ethnic and cultural makeup of a hospital's staff and a patient's familiarity with the hospital are often important factors. The researchers, from UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, the UCLA School of Public Health, the Rand. Corp. and the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, studied 719,608 Californian patients who had surgery between 2000-2004. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Women have been traditionally underrepresented in the percentage of science, math and engineering degrees awarded at colleges across the country. While this gender gap is shrinking, it is still a problem at Dartmouth. The Women in Science Project, which attempts to change this statistic and sponsors programs like the Peer Mentoring Program, held its kickoff orientation event Thursday.
Merritt Jenkins '10 carried two enormous wooden numbers on his way to the River residential cluster on Saturday, Oct. 7. He was upset, he explained, because he had wanted to make the 1 and 0 of the bonfire three-dimensional, with hollow tops, so he could fill the top of each number with chemicals that would combine to make green smoke. Sadly, he was forbidden, and had to settle for the one-dimensional kind instead.
A $19.5 million Dartmouth Varsity House is slated to be completed by fall 2007, made possible by a $10 million donation by Douglas C. Floren '63 and family, the Office of Public Affairs announced Thursday.
The panel was composed of Peter Coy, the economics editor of BusinessWeek; Gregory Ip, a senior special writer at The Wall Street Journal; Steve Liesman, a senior economics reporter at CNBC; Eduardo Porter, an economics reporter for The New York Times; and Andrew Serwer, the senior editor-at-large at Fortune. Economics professor Andrew Samwick moderated the event.