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Grafton County Attorney Lara Saffo first became interested in the justice system as a child. Saffo a member of the College-Town Task Force on Alcohol attended a school that many other students were forced to attend by court-orders, she said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
After a two-year trial period, the Inter-Fraternity Council has recommended that the College re-recognize Beta Alpha Omega fraternity, formerly Beta Theta Pi fraternity, according to IFC President Tyler Brace '11.
In announcing the Dean of the College's "update" on the issues of alcohol and sexual assault, acting Dean Sylvia Spears said the presentation would include "new campus initiatives" and "specific programmatic initiatives" intended to combat these serious problems facing students at the College. Instead, the meager audience saw little more than recycled, vague proposals built on faint evidence of work and a significant helping of meaningless jargon.
Furlong is one of seven students completing their final projects for an introductory animation class taught by recently-appointed film professor Jodie Mack. The half-production, half-theory course which introduces students to different animation techniques will hold a screening of the students' final work on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Loew Theater. The students began by learning hand-draw animation and completing a project in abstraction and motion, Mack said. They also experimented with rotoscoping a technique in which animators trace over live-action footage and animation with various materials, such as cut-out shapes, clay, sand and paint on glass.
As the holidays approach, it's time for students across the country to catch up on relaxation, sleep and drum roll, please pleasure reading. There's nothing more satisfying than curling up by the fireplace with hot cocoa, a plush blanket and a book. The question is, which book?
Watching my portfolio-clutching peers rush to interviews in suits and heels, I can't help but think of going through sorority rush two years ago (replace the portfolios with nametags decorated with stickers from CVS).
This year, 55 sailors from around the country were named to the team, which was formed to train athletes identified as future Olympic prospects. Sailors are each trained using specific U.S. Olympic Game boats. Roesler and Williams will team up to man a 470 a two-person dinghy.
The women came out on top in a match-up that was exhilarating for the team, according to swimmer Galen Barry '12.
A recent study released by the University of Colorado at Boulder found that the "gender gap" between male and female physics students indicated by higher rates of participation and success in introductory physics courses among male students can be reduced by a short writing exercise that focuses on "affirming" female students' values, Inside Higher Ed reported. The study found that the gender gap originates from differences in preparation before college and psychological factors stemming from the stereotype that men are expected to do better in physics than do women, according to AScribe newswire. Research showed that the writing tasks, which ask participants to write about values most important to them, "buffer [women] from other threats," because women who believed in the gender stereotype obtained higher grades after completing the writing exercise.
The statement, which was written by the search committee approved by the Board of Trustees in September 2008 as part of the presidential search process, called for a College president that would foster "cross collaboration across [graduate] schools and with the Arts and Sciences faculty."
New Hampshire's Executive Council held hearings Monday for Governor John Lynch's selections for vacancies in the state Supreme Court. Among the nominees are Supreme Court Justice Linda Dalianis who is poised to replace Chief Justice John Broderick and become the state's first female chief justice and Superior Court Chief Justice Robert Lynn.
In response to student feedback and administrators' observations, the College plans to implement a new student advising structure in Fall term 2011 that will centralize undergraduate advising services in one location, according to College officials. The offices may be located in Baker-Berry Library once the area currently housing the computer store is restructured, College President Jim Yong Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth Editorial Board.
Dartmouth administrators and faculty met on Monday to discuss proposed changes to the academic calendar which would schedule Fall term to end before Thanksgiving and address preliminary concerns about the College's strategic planning process at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences general meeting.
Showrunner David Benioff has called called the show "The Sopranos' in Middle Earth." But even though the series takes place in a fantasy world with its own geography, nations and languages much like J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth don't expect any magic, elves or orcs. Assuming "Game of Thrones" stays true to its source, it will be a series about humanity at its worst more "Braveheart" than "Lord of the Rings."
