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Early Saturday morning, a residence hall at Williams College was vandalized with racial slurs. The next day, Williams' Campus Safety and Security sent a report out to the whole campus. On Sunday, Williams' College President Adam Falk released a statement with the full details of the event and cancelled classes for Monday. "After consulting with the Faculty Steering Committee, we have decided to cancel all classes and athletic practices tomorrow (Monday)," he said in the letter to campus. "We understand how this disrupts important college functions, but in the wake of a shock such as this, the campus community needs to take a pause." Williams also held an event on Monday and expected all students to attend. Students who attended the event had lunch and small groups. To facilitate this, they suspended meal swipes for Monday lunch. A similar act of vandalism occurred at Dartmouth on Sunday, November 6th. The College did not notify students a hate crime had taken place until five days later and this notification came only after The Dartmouth broke the story. Dean Charlotte Johnson sent a letter to the community, but it did not include specific details of the event. The College has yet to hold any mandatory or optional events to address the crime.
Ex-admissions officer argues against boosted admissions Former Dartmouth admissions officer Michele Hernandez argues against taking athletic skill and legacy into account during the admissions process in this week's NY Times Room for Debate. She has a particular problem with "top recruited athletes who can get into Harvard with C grades and 500 SAT scores if they throw a football or are good with a hockey puck." While you may have heard this all before, it's interesting to see it coming from one of Dartmouth's past gatekeepers.
Last week, Kevin Francfort '15 argued that although it is "important to remember" the environmental concerns posed by hydraulic fracturing, a controversial mining practice used to extract natural gas, our nation should support the technique even if that support comes at the cost of pursuing renewable and clean energy technologies ("In Favor of Fracking," Nov. 10). While the idea of fracking is indeed tempting it offers low costs, job creation, energy independence further investigation reveals this latest fossil fuel craze as just another empty promise, a quick profit-maker that distracts from our need of a clean, sustainable energy policy.
The recent homophobic and misogynistic vandalism of the gender neutral floor has left me, as well as many people on this campus, very troubled. At a school that recently received a five-star rating from Campus Pride, things like this shouldn't be happening. And though the gender neutral floor is not an LGBTQ-oriented program, these words were clearly targeting gay people at Dartmouth, on and off the gender neutral floor. I believe, however, that this event is a symptom of a greater problem that LGBTQ students at Dartmouth face we have no coherent community, and even worse, no desire to foster one.
The Dartmouth Ethics Bowl team placed first in the Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl on Nov. 12 at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., confirming its bid to the 16th Intercollegiate National Ethics Bowl Competition in Cincinnati on March 1, Ethics Bowl president Matt Jorgensen '12 said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Jorgensen, Shengzhi Li '12, Erich Hartfelder '12, Annie Lape '13 and Amanda Young '15 debated a total of 15 ethics cases ranging on topics from Qur'an burning to attractiveness discrimination in hiring. The team received the case topics early in Fall term and met weekly to discuss the cases, thinking of all possible arguments for each side and attempting to create guiding principles to apply to each case, Jorgensen said. At competitions, each team member usually takes three cases and prepares a 10-minute opening argument, he said. At the national level, the Dartmouth team will face 32 other debate squads from across the country.
If a witty bun pun doesn't grab the attention of Pacific Coast Highway travelers, the aroma of fresh ingredients in an "Urbun" burger certainly will. In May 2012, David Mainiero '11 will replace the KFC currently located along the Pacific Coast Highway with a hip, modern twist on the classic American roadside burger joint: Urbun Natural Burger.
Wolff, a celebrated composer of experimental music and a former music, classics and comparative literature professor at Dartmouth, received the Walter Cerf Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts. Lea, a poet and former English professor at the College, was named the poet laureate of Vermont, the seventh in the state's history.
Iran's development of nuclear weapons is a "very unsettling and worrisome issue, not just for the United States, but all countries in the region," Yalowitz said. The United States' approach to Iran which has consisted of a combination of dialogue and sanctions has not been effective, according to Yalowitz.
Every night when Daniel Kairys '90 DMS'97 gets home, he sits down with his two daughters and son and conducts a science experiment with them or reads them a book. But before they embark on the night's activity, Kairys asks them in English, Haitian Creole or Spanish where they are going to college. Every night, the answer is the same: Dartmouth.
The College does not necessarily need a monumental shift in values, but does need to stay on the cutting edge of higher education trends, according to Kim. "Strategic planning doesn't mean we have to do something new, but we have to make it better," Kim said. "We need big ideas."
The ACC performances provided an impressive finish to a particularly successful season. The Big Green most recently placed first out of 18 teams in the co-ed and women's New England conference championship regattas in late October.