Student group fights hunger, the status quo
A Dartmouth student-run gleaning program that prepared 1350 meals for local needy families is trying to change the way local non-profits and Dartmouth volunteer programs fight hunger in the Upper Valley.
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A Dartmouth student-run gleaning program that prepared 1350 meals for local needy families is trying to change the way local non-profits and Dartmouth volunteer programs fight hunger in the Upper Valley.
"Ask questions quickly," said Alston Ramsay '04 to a group of freshmen at his table at Sunday's Media Organizations Fair in Collis Commonground. "We're going to be kicked out soon."
This term, some members of Environmental Systems 39 -- "Natural Resources, Development and the Environment" -- tried something a little different: instead of just studying the problems of food security and distribution, they elected to do something about them.
For only the second time this summer, beef strips will flow like water as unimitatable campus dining option Homeplate opens for a one-night-only showing tomorrow.
In the world of serious high school and college debate, Ken Strange is a distinguished figure.
From Steven Kung's description, the world of high school debate, currently manifesting itself in the Choates Cluster in the form of the highly prestigious summer Dartmouth Debate Institute, seems pretty surreal.
Harvard's daily, student-run paper, The Crimson, sued Harvard and its police department last Tuesday for access to police records that Harvard University Police Department have always kept secret.
In the last week and half, a massive reshuffling of student office space in Robinson Hall has affected nearly all of the student organizations housed there. The reshuffle in Robinson, which houses more undergraduate student organization space than any other place on campus, is the biggest in years. It has provided some organizations with much-needed space -- but also left many of them grumbling.
Becca Heller '05 is not one to talk up her own accomplishments. Although in her time so far at Dartmouth, Heller has started more community initiatives than many college graduates will contribute to in their entire lives, talking with her one gets the impression that all her work was so simple, or so obvious, that the only remarkable thing is that it was never done before.
The New Hampshire Pediatric Society recently named Dr. Bill Boyle '59, Dartmouth Medical School's professor of pediatrics, Pediatrician of the Year.
After decades of neglect, over 15,000 Spanish plays that formerly lay on the balcony of Baker Library's Tower Room have finally been fully catalogued and integrated into the library's collections.
When the human biology program winks out of existence in June, it will leave two College Courses, one unemployed administrator and a host of faculty still dedicated to the program's ideals. At a campus that has been dealing with budget cuts for more than a year, the decision has been met with student outcry, but not much student action.
The Dartmouth students of 2013 will likely live on a campus that is more comfortable, functional and green than the campus of today. But the path to a better campus is not guaranteed, and history has demonstrated that the College has the potential for missteps along the way.
America may be entering a new era of racial and class segregation, according to David Dahl, a journalist and Harvard Nieman fellow who spoke at the College yesterday.
When Peter Kulbacki walks in to meetings with the board of directors of Hanover Water Works Company, everyone is drinking bottled water.
Green Key is not the biggest of the big weekends, but for over 100 years it has given students an opportunity to take time off their academic work and relax in warm weather after a long New Hampshire winter.
If you believed the BlitzMail messages circulating through campus this past weekend implying the Student Assembly had shut down the Big Green Bean, you were right. Almost.
The College recently decided not to provide further funding to the Human Biology Program, an initiative designed to integrate hard sciences and the humanities that featured a small but popular group of classes that met the College's interdisciplinary course requirement.
"The Holocaust was only possible because of the demonization of the Jews," said David Kertzer, a Brown professor who spoke yesterday about the ways the Catholic Church endorsed and encouraged modern anti-Semitism.
The Student Assembly presidential debate last night turned to bitter accusations and counter-accusations between supporters of incumbent Janos Marton '04 and supporters of his challenger, Brett Theisen '05.