Thayer students start hybrid race
"We want to show that you can have fast cars and they can be fuel-efficient," Formula Hybrid co-captain Abigail Davidson '05 said. "Performance does not have to come at the expense of the environment."
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"We want to show that you can have fast cars and they can be fuel-efficient," Formula Hybrid co-captain Abigail Davidson '05 said. "Performance does not have to come at the expense of the environment."
The scene at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity Wednesday night did not appear out of the ordinary at first. Partygoers mingled over punch; the games of pong went on as usual. The only thing peculiar was the one girl who moved furiously about the basement, stamping attendees' hands with the phrase "blitzberry.com."
When housing assignments for Spring term were announced March 1, the Office of Residential Life sent an e-mail to all students receiving new housing assignments in an effort to preempt the flurry of complaints the office typically receives every spring from returning juniors unsatisfied with their spring housing. The e-mail, however, proved to have little impact: Approximately the same number of juniors complained to ORL as in previous years.
Growing up, Jeffrey Koh '09 had public speaking problems. As a child he was "the shy kid" who listened more than he talked. Dragged into the debate team in middle school, he was repeatedly outmanoeuvered in debates. But once students from a local girls' school started teasing him about his performance in a debate, Koh decided his speech skills needed improvement and he worked to become a better public speaker.
Professor Ronald Green, the director of the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth, criticized the influence of the religious right on the U.S. government's policies concerning bioethics in a Wednesday evening lecture in Filene Auditorium.
A nation's happiness is inversely correlated with its citizens' blood pressure problems, suggests a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Warwick and Dartmouth economics professor David Blanchflower. The findings will be published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, based in Massachusetts. "Perhaps blood-pressure readings will one day replace or augment GDP as a measure of the success of a country," University of Warwick Professor Andrew Oswald said. "Maybe economists and doctors are going to have to work together in the design of future economic policies." The research was based on a random sample of 15,000 people across Europe, who were then interviewed with regard to their health and contentment. The study ranks Sweden as Europe's happiest and healthiest country, while Portugal is found to be the least happy and healthy.
Participants twisted, boogied and gyrated in the name of public health during the first annual Dartmouth Medical School Dance for a Dream, held Saturday in Alumni Hall to benefit the Kigutu Community Health Clinic in Burundi. The clinic is a project of Village Health Works, a public charity set up by native Burundian Deo Niyizokiza DMS'08.
Georgetown University law professor Neal Katyal '91 discussed his role as lead counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld Wednesday in a lecture in Filene Auditorium sponsored by the Rockefeller Center. In the case, which Katyal's client won by a 5-3 margin, Katyal represented Osama Bin Laden's Yemeni driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, and, in the face of much legal maneuvering on the government's side, challenged the legality of military trials at Guantanamo Bay.
The Dartmouth Civil Liberties Union and College Democrats co-sponsored a discussion on free speech yesterday evening, an event that featured speeches from Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson '75 and Andrew Seal '07, editor of the Dartmouth Free Press.
American freshmen this year discuss politics more than any other class in the past 41 years, according to the results of an annual UCLA study released Jan. 19. The study, led in part by John Pryor '84, also found that students are more opinionated in their political inclinations than they have been in previous years.
Beginning in the fall of 2007, Columbia College will
Investing $300,000 is usually an activity reserved for the comfortably wealthy. But beginning in February, a dozen Dartmouth students who join the newly formed Investment and Philanthropy Program can exercise control over that much money, without spending a dime of their own funds.
Vincent DiFiglia '63 was publicly admonished by the Commission on Judicial Performance Tuesday. According to the Commission, DiFiglia violated judicial ethics when he presided over a case without revealing his personal relationship with the plaintiff's attorney. The case, Border Business Park v. San Diego, began in 1999 and questioned whether the government had provided just compensation when taking private property for public use. DiFiglia, the now-retired judge of the San Diego Supreme Court, decided in 2001 in favor of the plaintiff, who was later awarded $94.5 million. DiFiglia's attorney responded to the allegations by stating that during the case all involved parties had knowledge "of Judge DiFiglia's relationship with both sides of the case."
Dartmouth's chess team placed 21st out of 24 in college chess's World Series over winter interim -- a feat that seems impressive only after considering the team competed against national chess powerhouses, had never competed officially before, won the highest award in its division, and was manned by only three sophomores.
Students donned orange jumpsuits, black mesh veils and handcuffs this week as a social experiment in professor Jennifer Fluri's Gender, Space and Islam class. For the experiment, which began last Wednesday and will continue until Thursday, students go out to four different public places and act as they normally would, but while wear the orange outfits.
Martha Minow delved into the rights of different religious groups during a speech Monday that described the ways in which religious groups have faced discrimination and have discriminated against others. The Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Minow said that despite the divisions in society regarding religious organizations' autonomy, the controversy is not irreconcilable.
John Koch was arrested in the lower level of Baker Library for criminal trespassing on Oct. 2, Hanover Police Chief Giaccone said. The arrest was a result of Koch's violation of a "Dartmouth owned" trespass letter issue in October 2004 after he reportedly propositioned men in a library bathroom. This letter forbade Koch, 78, from trespassing on any property owned by Dartmouth, College Proctor Harry Kinne said, noting that this is the College's most serious trespass letter.
Renowned journalist Geeta Anand '89 read excerpts from her new book detailing a father's fight against Pompe's disease to an audience of about 20 at the Dartmouth Bookstore on Saturday afternoon.
Dartmouth researchers received a grant from the National Science Foundation for research on the genomes of economically important crops on Monday. They are currently investigating how gene networks in the Brassica genus, which includes broccoli, cauliflower and mustard, help to detect light cues and trigger floral development. This research could potentially broaden the geographic growing range of crops.