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(11/18/11 4:00am)
Despite heavy rains on Wednesday evening, the candlelight vigil on the Green held strong. Even with technical difficulties candles + rain = :/ many students sported white tees to show support for the cause. #impromptuwetTshirtcontest? #ulteriormotives
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The juxtaposition was flawless. He sported a pristine, snowflake-inspired Patagonia over a vintage piece a shredded 2005 Trips shirt by DOC along with a pair of effortlessly form-fitting women's volleyball sweatpants and just-scuffed forest green Sperries. Schwartz seemed utterly at ease, tossing his L.L. Bean canvas bag monogrammed with the name "Rachel" his paternal grandmother, I can only assume over his right shoulder.
(11/17/11 7:48pm)
Professors Vijay Govindarajan and Richard D'Aveni from the Tuck School of Business have been named two of the most influential business thinkers in the world, with Govindarajan coming in at 3rd and D’Aveni placing 21st in just-released rankings by business communications consulting team Crainer Dearlove.
Prof. Govindarajan was awarded the 2011 Breakthrough Idea award for his concept of reverse innovation developed during his recent time as GE’s Chief Innovation Consultant. Additionally, Prof. D’Aveni was shortlisted for the 2011 Thinkers50 Strategy Award for his theories about hyper-competition.
According to the listings, the most influential business thinker is Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School known for his expertise on innovation and growth as well as his ability to apply business concepts to societal issues.
The rankings, which are released every two years, are based on voting at the Thinkers50 website as well as recommendations made by a team of high-level advisors, led by Crainer Dearlove, who evaluated candidates based on “originality of ideas; practicality of ideas; presentation style; written communication; loyalty of followers; business sense; international outlook; rigor of research; impact of ideas and the elusive guru factor.” Notably, seven of the top thinkers were born in India, and eleven of them are women.
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Why Occupy Dartmouth? Occupy Dartmouth participants explained their reasons for joining and future plans at Occupy America: An Open Forum, held at 3 Rockefeller yesterday afternoon. The organizer stressed that the students were not there “to recruit or to justify,” but rather to use “their own body to respond to a massive crisis that many of their peer do not even acknowledge.” He also asked the audiences to “ask yourself what do you want and what kind of society you want to see before asking [the occupiers] what do they want.”
Professor Annelise Orleck from the History Department started off the forum by showing a video of what she called the first occupy movement in America in 1932, during which the US army set fire to the camps that occupiers built in Washington, and used tear gas to disperse the crowd. Orleck cited other incidents in history such as the civil rights movement and the Columbia University protest of 1968 to prove that “the first response to these movement is violence” and that “violence will always level across [occupiers].”
In response to Dartmouth occupiers’ concern that they were not making an impact on the campus, which Orleck came to understand from conversations with the occupiers, she pointed out that “every movement reaches this moment.” Orleck answered the question about how an occupier can continue the movement by quoting from activist Grace Paley who said of her own activism, “I don’t do it to win, I do it because it is a good way to spend my life.”
Following Orleck, four of the seventeen occupiers at the Forum spoke of their reasons for joining the movement. Allison Puglisi ’15 felt that the “American dream is not accessible for everybody” and that “the movement is too diverse for us to have one answer, it is not about a list of demand, but making people to realize there is a problem,” she said. Deanna Portero ’12 said she has two main beliefs that guide her participation - that she does not believe we live in a democracy and that “we are not equal before our justice system.” Nathan Gusdorf ’12 realized through his studies of European social and political philosophy that, “You don’t have politics if you neglect the economics side, because that is what defines power in our society,” he said.
Stewart Towle ’12 said the occupiers have “moved through our despair to hope in the last 24 hours. We are dedicated to maintaining Occupy Dartmouth until the end of the term and we are in intense dialogue right now about whether to attempt to maintain [the effort] in winter term.”
At 7a.m. today, the International Day of Solitary, the occupiers joined other groups at Ledyard marching to Hanover with puppets and sign.
Students spoke about their reasons for joining the movement.
(11/17/11 7:46pm)
“Do not let the rain deter you,” read the blitz from Palaeopitus to campus, and students apparently listened – there was quite a turnout for the 6 p.m. vigil held last night in protest of slurs written on the windows of a Fahey-McClane common room. Despite the downpour of rain, dozens of students and faculty lit their candles at Collis and made their way across the Green to show solidarity against the discriminatory remarks.
My candle, which initially wouldn’t light, bravely held out through the rain, the moment of silence and the five minutes of discussion of community. Two Palaeopitus members thanked the students, staff, President Kim and Dean Johnson for attending the vigil, and asked those present to persist in the task of being their better selves in the face of intolerance.
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Men's soccer co-captain Lucky Mkosana '12 was named Ivy League Player of the Year on Wednesday, capping an exceptional regular-season performance that may rank as the best in his record-breaking collegiate career. Mkosana was also unanimously selected to the All-Ivy First Team and has now been named to four consecutive All-Ivy First Teams, although this is his first Player of the Year award.
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As the old adage goes, a tied game is like kissing your sister. Although I don't have any sisters, I can empathize with what that sentiment means.
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An armed student was fatally shot by University of California, Berkeley campus police on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles Times. A staff member initially spotted the student later identified as undergraduate transfer student Christopher Travis, 32 on an elevator with what looked like a firearm in his backpack and reported the situation to the police. When confronted by three police officers in a computer lab two minutes later, Travis pulled out the weapon and "displayed it in a threatening manner," Berkeley Police Chief Mitch Celaya said in a press conference. The police officers shot Travis in response, and he died aftergoing surgery at Highland Hospital on Tuesday. No other individuals were harmed in the incident, the LA Times reported.
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"Martin Luther King Jr. said that law might not change the heart but it can restrain the heartless," she said to an audience of approximately 50 community members. "There is a need to restrain the heartless and change the heart."
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Five senior men shared their stories of self-discovery and personal struggles before a packed audience gathered in Collis Common Ground for the annual Men of Dartmouth panel Wednesday evening. The event aimed to challenge the "Dartmouth norm" regarding perceptions of masculinity, according to the event's moderator Dennis Zeveloff '12.
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U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin called for continued improvements in preventative care and women's health during the keynote address of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's annual Great Issues in Medicine and Global Health Symposium on Wednesday. The 2011 symposium, titled "Investing in Women and Girls," will run through Nov. 18 and aims to engage the community in meaningful discussion about issues in health care, according to the symposium's co-director Mary Turco, who serves as director of DHMC's Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences.
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The College will announce the creation of Dartmouth Health Connect, a new health center in downtown Hanover, on Thursday following recent efforts to improve preventative health care practices on campus and across the country, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College. The center which will aim to reduce health care costs while improving care will open its doors in February to all current and retired Dartmouth employees and their families, Anderson said.
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If I had it my way, Holly Flax (Amy Ryan) would have instead stolen away Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) of "How I Met Your Mother" to Colorado, leaving Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) to continue flourishing in "The Office." Both shows are approaching their demise, although "The Office" could have carried on had Carrell not ditched his Dunder Mifflin employees in search of some comedic Zion that he clearly hasn't found yet.
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"The goal of the evening is to celebrate and honor people's creativity and courage," Landis said. "It's an opportunity to share their reflections and words with other people."