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(04/22/11 2:00am)
Rosario's novel takes place in her native country, the Dominican Republic, a place she said is defined by its reliance on trade and commerce. Rosario said the most disturbing part of her research for the book was the discovery that the country was created to engage in commerce and to produce commodities for Europe.
(02/22/11 4:00am)
"Most people think that once women won the right to vote, they won the right to sit on juries too," McCammon said. "In a few states that did happen, but in most states it did not."
(02/22/11 4:00am)
In an effort to gain the right to sit on juries, women "in coats and high heels" disrupted legislatures across the country between 1920 when the federal government granted women the right to vote and the early 1970s, Holly McCammon, sociology professor at Vanderbilt University, said in a lecture about political activism in Silsby Hall on Monday.
(02/02/11 4:00am)
The 2011 Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips directorate will focus on building ongoing relationships with members of the Class of 2015 by maintaining the "welcoming spirit" of Trips once trippees return to campus, according to Trips director Emily Unger '11. Unger, who announced the members of the 2011 Trips directorate in a campus-wide e-mail Tuesday afternoon, said she and Trips assistant director Andrew Purpura '11 searched for applicants who demonstrated leadership qualities and dedication to the Trips program in the past.
(01/21/11 4:00am)
The renovations will likely be completed by the end of August, Whitmore said.
(01/13/11 4:00am)
Although William Kamkwamba '14 has had many experiences that his fellow class members will not share including growing up in an African village without electricity and coauthoring a bestselling book Kamkwambe spent his first term at the College engaging in activities common to any Dartmouth student, including studying at Novack late into the night, walking into a fraternity basement for the first time and getting hit by a snowball during Saturday's snowball fight.
(10/26/10 2:00am)
Dartmouth Medical School psychiatry professor William Weeks who was acquitted of conflict-of-interest charges brought against him by the federal government in April was awarded $800,000 in a settlement with the federal government this week as compensation for "violations of human rights and privacy," he said.
(10/01/10 2:00am)
Pelton, who served as dean of the College from 1991 to 1998, accepted the position in part because Emerson is currently undergoing a significant transition, he said in an interview. The arts and communication college recently relocated from Boston's Back Bay to the edge of Boston Common to expand facilities and create a more urban campus, according to Campus Heritage Network.
(09/23/10 2:00am)
Black patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer commonly known as colon cancer face a greater risk of mortality than white patients affected by the same disease, according to a study published in August by a team of researchers led by Samir Soneji, an assistant professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. The team also found that this disparity has widened over time.
(06/11/10 2:00am)
"I was thrilled to have been selected," Lewis said. "I haven't spoken to graduates in the United States. Dartmouth is an exceptional and leading institution and I feel quite privileged."
(05/25/10 2:00am)
O'Connell later discovered that the man, who was schizophrenic, had been the youngest professor ever to teach at Columbia University. O'Connell, president of the BHCHP, used the professor as an example of the extraordinary and unexpected experiences of many homeless people in the United States in his Monday talk, "Dispatches from the Streets: Lessons Learned During 25 Years of Caring for Boston's Rough Sleepers."
(05/14/10 2:00am)
Alumni returning to Hanover this weekend will slip easily into the familiar Green Key traditions of their own Dartmouth years outdoor parties, music and pong all of which can be enjoyed in the newly warm weather. The weekend, which many described as a celebration of the end of winter and a break from schoolwork, fosters a sense of community across the entire campus, several alumni told The Dartmouth.
(05/12/10 2:00am)
After being rejected by voters in March, the Hanover and Dresden school budgets were approved on Tuesday, according to Hanover Town Manager Julia Griffin. The revised budgets include lower tax increases for residents than the original proposals.
(05/07/10 2:00am)
One of the debates about the nature of space focuses on the question of whether space has any mass. Recent observations have found that 70 percent of the mass of the universe is made up only of the density of space itself, Wilczek said.
(05/06/10 2:00am)
Twenty students at the University of California, Berkeley began a hunger strike Monday, demanding that UC President Mark Yudof and that UC chancellors denounce a recent Arizona immigration law which orders police to question anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant that students deemed racist, The San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday. Students are also demanding that the University drop charges filed against protestors from earlier in the year, rehire 27 janitors that were laid off because of budget cuts and make the University campus a place where undocumented immigrants can feel comfortable and receive the same services as any other students. The Chronicle reported that the hunger strikers had as many as 75 supporters and that the group would be camping outside day and night until their demands are met.
(04/22/10 2:00am)
In hopes of filling a "necessary" role on campus, students have formed a new peer mentoring program aimed at offering resources to current and incoming LGBTQ students, and at unifying Dartmouth's diverse gay community, according to co-founder Rob Avruch '11. The organization, started by Avruch and Chris Fletcher '11 this past Winter, boasts 20 trained mentors.
(04/19/10 2:00am)
The panel was part of a weekend seminar that combined talks and discussions on Buddhism with opportunities for meditation led by Tibetan physician and Buddhist monk Kunchok Gyaltsen.
(04/07/10 2:00am)
Bradley drew from personal experience working with two Asian communities to explain how linguists should use documentation, interaction between isolated communities and advocacy on behalf of minority groups to help such communities.
(03/11/10 1:00am)
The candidates were asked two formal questions, followed by a series of informal questions from attendees, during the discussion, Replogle said.
(03/03/10 4:00am)
Ruth Simmons, the president of Brown University, will soon step down from her position on Goldman Sachs' board because of the position's large time commitment, The New York Times reported Monday. Critics of Simmons claim she should not have taken the position on Goldman's board, criticizing the $323,539 salary and $4.3 million in stock options that she has received for her work, according to The Times. Her position came to light at Brown after information that she had been one of 10 people to decide the size of bonuses paid to Goldman executives became known, The Times reported. Thomas Tisch, Brown's chancellor, said he did not see any problem with Simmons holding her position on the board, according to The Times.