Weekend welcomes alumni to Hanover
Winter Carnival, like the College's other major weekends, draws large crowds of alumni back to campus to reunite with former classmates and partake in a traditional Dartmouth experience.
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Winter Carnival, like the College's other major weekends, draws large crowds of alumni back to campus to reunite with former classmates and partake in a traditional Dartmouth experience.
Internet protesters associated with hacktivist group Anonymous took responsibility for shutting down the websites of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Department of Justice on Sunday, according to the Huffington Post. The protestors disabled the websites in tribute to programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide on Jan. 11. Anonymous issued a statement on the Department of Justice's website, criticizing the U.S. government's persecution of Swartz, who founded a company that merged with Reddit, for allegedly downloading nearly four million scientific documents. The group also called for the reformation of computer crime laws and increased accessibility to information on the Internet. If Swartz were found guilty of the charges he faced, he would have faced several decades of imprisonment, according to the Washington Post.
Lee Chilcote '64, James Laughlin III '64 and Bud McGrath '64 shared their experiences serving in Vietnam as members of the United States military with members of history professor Edward Miller's 35-student class on the Vietnam War on Thursday evening.
In order to accommodate students and alumni with diverse interests, several campus clubs and groups are offering activities as an alternative to the weekend's Greek-sponsored events over Homecoming weekend. Friday night's parade and bonfire will set the stage for these less publicized events, which range in both genre and size.
The event, held in Filene Auditorium, marked the latest presentation in the Leading Voices in Higher Education strategic planning lecture series.
John Silber, president of Boston University from 1971 to 1996, died on Thursday morning in his Brookline, Mass., home at the age of 86, The New York Times reported. At Boston University, he survived strikes, lawsuits and several petitions for his removal. Silber was occasionally controversial, known for refusing to negotiate with a professors' union and calling the police to break up student demonstrations against military recruiters. He is also credited with reviving the university, increasing its endowment from $18 million to $422 million, financing $700 million in new construction, raising tuition and tightening admission standards. Silber made more than $800,000 a year, making him the highest paid university president in the country at the time, according to The Times.