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(10/03/12 2:00am)
In Dante's "Inferno," the great Roman poet Virgil guides the protagonist through the nine circles of hell. As Virgil leads the way past great-tailed, scabrous monsters and disfigured sinners, through torrential rain and fire and, ultimately, up to the incarnate of Satan himself, he elucidates the grand moral architecture of God's torture chamber. There is a strict logic informing the arrangement of the damned. Perpetrators of similar sins are grouped and tortured together at different levels, which are subsumed within a moral hierarchy spanning from inoffensive pagans who reside in castles and recline on rolling pastures to traitors like Judas, who reside between Satan's perpetually gnashing teeth. One of the driving forces in the epic poem is the concept of contrapasso: that each man be punished in a way that correlates directly to the quality and magnitude of his sin.
(09/28/12 2:00am)
The 2013 U.S. News and World Report graduate school rankings released in March showed the plan's initial success, according to Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education Richard Simons. Geisel jumped to 38th place from 67th place in the primary care category, the largest improvement of any school. The school also rose to 31st place in the research category, a small increase from last year's 32nd-place ranking.
(09/27/12 2:00am)
Parents concerned about the welfare of their children have been forbidding sex, drugs and rock n' roll in one form or another for as long as modern society has existed. For the Puritans, it was bans on touching the opposite sex, all mind-altering substances, dancing and singing. For a lot of my friends back home in Tennessee with religiously conservative parents, it was forbidding premarital sex, alcohol, drugs and vulgar songs (though I'm sure "scream-o" wouldn't have gone over well, either). Parents are attempting to protect their children from the very real dangers that come with such things and the loss of morality that they view as the root of such deviant behavior. However, parents who demonize acts such as drinking, smoking, sex and cursing instill a sense of guilt and a tendency of repression in their children that can be much more detrimental to their mental health than the acts themselves. I've seen many of my former classmates and friends develop depression and other emotional problems due to these values forced upon them by their strict, religious parents.
(09/20/12 2:00am)
New programs for delivering health care can improve quality while reducing costs, especially for some of the nation's most vulnerable patients, according to a new study conducted by The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
(08/17/12 2:00am)
It has been a bloody couple of weeks: a barrage of bullets at a midnight movie screening, a hate-fueled massacre at a Sikh temple, a shootout on the outskirts of a Texas university and now, most recently, a close call when a security guard thwarted a gunman's attempt to open fire at a "pro-family" organization in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
(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.
(08/17/12 2:00am)
Dartmouth has recently added two medical personnel and two athletic trainers to its sports medicine staff in accordance with the recommendations of last year's external review of the College's health services.
(07/06/12 2:00am)
Columbia University announced on Tuesday that Feniosky Pena-Mora, dean of Columbia's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, has stepped down from his position, according to The New York Times. Born in the Dominican Republic, Pena-Mora was a noted addition to Columbia's administration, and his resignation marks the third high-level minority administrator recruited by Columbia President Lee Bollinger to resign. While some criticized Pena-Mora, who joined the university in 2009, for expanding the engineering school too quickly, Pena-Mora said he believed his status as a minority contributed to the majority of the negative assessment of his leadership. Executive Vice Dean of SEAS Donald Goldfarb will serve as interim dean of SEAS, and Pena-Mora will remain on staff as a Columbia faculty member, The Times reported.
(07/06/12 2:00am)
From the basketball court to the boardroom, Dartmouth's two newest charter trustees, Laurel Richie '81 and David Hodgson '78, both come from a wealth of experience in the corporate world and beyond. The Board of Trustees elected Richie, president of the Women's National Basketball Association, and Hodgson, the managing director of global growth equity investment firm General Atlantic, at its spring meeting on June 8.
(05/31/12 11:39pm)
The box was used to collect cards for Active Minds’ PostSecret U event. Active Minds is an organization on campus that is dedicated to promoting positive mental health. They host student panels and dinner discussions with mental health professionals, and they aim to reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness.
(05/28/12 10:39pm)
On Thursday, Programming Board will sponsor a “fast-food” snack break in Novack starting at 9 p.m., according to Zakia Lghzaoui ‘13, Programming Board's programming chair. The event is held every term during reading period, according to Lghzaoui. Programming Board usually holds two “recovery events” each term, one after a big weekend and one during reading period, in addition to the snack break, she said. The events involve free massages, smoothies and “relaxation amenities,” Lghzaoui said. Because this term’s Green Key recovery event was especially large, however, Programming Board decided not to hold an additional event for reading period.
(05/24/12 2:00am)
While exercise has long been linked to physical health, research conducted by psychology professor David Bucci and his team found that it may also benefit mental health. Routine exercise, even in low doses, can improve cognitive function and individuals' general mood, researchers found.
(05/18/12 2:00am)
Girls from local middle schools crowded into Alumni Hall on Thursday for Sister-to-Sister, an event sponsored by Link-Up that featured guest speakers, group discussions and interactive activities designed to foster discussion about the many challenges facing young women today.
(05/16/12 2:00am)
When I encounter a truly stunning sentence or thought-provoking phrase in a novel, I gently dog-ear whatever page I'm reading so I can later return to the passage and savor its syntax. When I closed the cover after finishing Toni Morrison's new novel "Home," I realized I had folded down almost every other page as I devoured the work in a single, one-hour sitting in Sanborn. As one might expect from a novel penned by the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Beloved," "Song of Solomon" and "A Mercy," Morrison's "Home" is a stirring story encased in vivid prose and tender narration.
(05/11/12 2:00am)
Video responses from Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson to 20 questions submitted by members of the student body via Google Moderator were uploaded on Thursday to the Dean's Office website. Beginning on April 24, an initiative pioneered by Palaeopitus Senior Society enabled students to submit questions online and to vote "yes" or "no" on other students' questions, either increasing or decreasing a question's popularity.
(05/11/12 2:00am)
A month ago, The Dartmouth Editorial Board criticized Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson for her seeming disengagement from the student body ("Verbum Ultimum: Open the Door and Listen," April 13), and we were not the only group on campus to express frustration with the apparent disconnect between students and administrators. Former Student Body President Max Yoeli '12 called for more direct communication from administrators, and various student organizations expressed concern that their voices were not being heard ("Administrators remain disconnected, some say," April 12).
(05/09/12 2:00am)
Following widespread student complaints of long wait times for counseling, Dick's House has selected two additional psychologists and a psychiatrist to join its Counseling and Human Development staff in August, according to CHD Director Mark Reed.
(05/04/12 2:00am)
Going off to college is nothing like how it is in the movies. No one's parents actually load up a minivan of furniture and clothes, plant their kid in a dorm and then say, "Hey, I'll see you at Thanksgiving."
(04/27/12 2:00am)
A couple weeks ago I discovered a new passion. Surprisingly, Hanover decided to give us one good week of weather, so I spent an entire Saturday afternoon enjoying the gorgeous sunshine. I was expecting a calm and relaxing day because the entire campus seemed entranced by the idyllic weather.
(04/24/12 2:00am)
Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson sent an email to undergraduate students yesterday detailing future initiatives to ground the College in "respect, inclusion and intellectual engagement." Johnson said she will work with Palaeopitus Senior Society to provide Google Moderator technology to increase "candid" communication, and termly Deans' Forums, which will include partnerships with student organizations, will begin May 9. Johnson highlighted a focus on mental health, seen in a recent Inter-Community Council survey and the hiring of two counselors and one psychiatrist in Counseling Services, who will join the College in fall 2012, the email said. The College will adopt the Committee on Standards' Sexual Assault Review recommendations and has hired an additional Sexual Assault Awareness Program coordinator, as well as an external expert to advise administrators on how to reduce sexual assault on campus. "Enhanced" dining, expanded social spaces in the Class of 1953 Commons and Collis Student Center and a new advising center are among initiatives that show progress in addressing other campus problems, Johnson said.
