Jennrich: Addressing the Gender Divide

This article is the answer to the annual question directed at the efforts of V-Week: Why is there no P-Week? First, a clarification: The "V" in V-Week actually stands for "Victory Over Violence," not "vagina" as many people believe.

Ex Libris 2012-02-17

EKT undergoes repairs after fire

The three students displaced by the Feb. 4 fire at Epsilon Kappa Theta sorority's physical plant are expected to move back by the weekend of Feb.

Big Green fencing club wins Northeast duels

Most students come to Dartmouth with the intention of trying new things and breaking out of their comfort zone, and club sports, such as the Dartmouth club fencing team, offer them the chance to do just that.

Thayer app. numbers increase by 35 percent

While application rates for incoming classes at Dartmouth Medical School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have been consistent with those of previous years, the Thayer School of Engineering has seen a notable increase in its application pool, which grew by approximately 35 percent for the class entering in Fall 2012. At Thayer, PhD and master's programs received a combined 391 applications, up from 290 in 2011, according to Director of Public Information Catharine Lamm.

Students named among top young innovators

Aspiring entrepreneurs from the Dartmouth Kairos Society attended the fourth annual Kairos Global Summit Feb.

Batchelor: Mind the Gap

Given that much of the Occupy movement has come in from the cold city streets around the world to organize indoors, many protestors have been asking: What now?

Daily Debriefing

Robert Champion's parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the owner of Fabulous Coach Lines and the driver of the charter bus on which Champion, a student and band member at Florida A&M University, was hazed before dying as a result of the November 2011 incident, The Associated Press reported.

Crepes a la Carte 2012-02-16

Werner: Marketing Democracy

Radical Islam and its adherents remain visible in the news, but the pattern of their message appears to be changing.

‘Sex Week' attracts controversy

Yale University's "Sex Week," an event held every other year in the week leading up to Valentine's Day and dedicated to sexual education and exploration, has inspired similar events at Brown University and Harvard University, but Dartmouth's sexual health peer advisors have no plans to bring comparable programming to the College, according to Sexpert Kate Taylor '13. Taylor said the Sexperts have mostly avoided heavy criticisms that Yale's Sex Week directors weathered this year from a group called Undergraduates for a Better Yale College, which opposes Sex Week's emphasis on the "unbridled pursuit of pleasure," according to UBYC co-founder Eduardo Andino.

Casler: Apple-nomics

Following Apple's announcement on Monday that it has begun an independent audit of working conditions at plants in China where the iPhone and iPad are built, the recent outcry over the business practices of the company with the largest market in the world is coming to a head.

Lacy research indicates surprising voter trends

In an ironic twist at a time when Congressional Republicans are insisting on federal spending cuts, those states receiving the most federal dollars relative to their tax revenues are more likely to vote Republican in presidential elections, according to research conducted by government professor Dean Lacy.

Rubin: Time to Apply R2P

As the violence in Syria intensifies and the world community takes steps to peacefully force President Bashar al-Assad to step down, we must stand back and reflect on what the United States' goal in Syria should be.

Kopalle studies future of advertising in media

As newspapers and magazines grapple with shrinking readership and revenues, Tuck School of Business marketing professor Praveen Kopalle has found that print media outlets struggling to survive in the new world of online media have overlooked a crucial element of their product: advertisements.