10 profs. receive College awards

College issues citations to late-night swimmers

Emily Fletcher / The Dartmouth Staff Although the opening of the new swim dock in June has provided students with an escape from the summer heat during the day, students caught swimming off of College property after hours run the risk of facing disciplinary action by the College. Approximately a dozen students have been caught swimming in the Connecticut River after hours and served with judicial action by the College so far this summer, according to College Proctor Safety and Security Director Harry Kinne. Even before the new swim docks were constructed, Safety and Security monitored the river front for several years, keeping an eye out for people swimming after dark, which Dartmouth prohibits due to safety concerns, according to Kinne. After 7 p.m., there is no longer a lifeguard on duty and students are prohibited from accessing the river from College property. One male member of the Class of 2013 who wished to remain anonymous due to an ongoing Committee on Standards proceeding was caught swimming after hours approximately two weeks ago and later faced a judicial affairs proceeding.

Carell disappoints in ‘Crazy, Stupid'

Courtesy of TheAquarian.com Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's "Crazy, Stupid, Love" (2011), released on Friday, had the potential to be a witty portrayal of a dysfunctional family.

DMS team publishes SIDS research

Using research on mice with temporarily deactivated serotonin neurons, a team of researchers at Dartmouth Medical School, Harvard Medical School and the University of Iowa hope to develop tests and treatments for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, according to DMS physiology professor Eugene Nattie. The group's study, "Impaired Respiratory and Body Temperature Control Upon Acute Serotonergic Neuron Inhibition," was published in the latest issue of "Science" magazine on July 29.

Lohse: A Corporate Stranglehold

Correction appended At a party last week, a friend told me that Bridgewater Associates paid her $100 to explain why she didn't participate in sophomore Summer corporate recruiting.

Dan Keat '10 makes Galaxy debut

Kim: Whither the Liberal Arts?

Dartmouth distinguishes itself from its Ivy League peers through its adherence to liberal arts education, touting on its website that its course load is "structured to maximize your understanding of the world in ways that enable you to be a leader in your future work." During President Kim's inauguration, the College added another adage to its publicity arsenal by challenging its students to "aspire to change the world." It's time for the College to own up to its words.

Health group releases series of case studies

Harvard Business Publishing and the Global Health Delivery Project a collaboration between Harvard Business School, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital released 21 case studies assessing the standards of health care delivery in under-resourced communities from 13 countries on Thursday.

‘Garden' exhibit discusses Burnett's life, legacy

Courtesy of Gutenberg.org To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the novel "The Secret Garden" by Francis Hodgson Burnett, the College's Leslie Center for the Humanities co-sponsored a conference this past weekend organized by English professor Gretchen Gerzina author of "Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of the Secret Garden" and English department librarian Laura Braunstein. The children's book, published in 1911, remains one of Burnett's most popular works, according to Gerzina, who presented the keynote address on Friday. "We are so familiar with this book and its impact on boys and girls around the world that it's hard to imagine that it was appreciated, but not celebrated, in its own time that it took decades for it to achieve the kind of fame that we associate with it today," Gerzina said in the address. The centennial conference included an exhibit in Rauner Special Collections Library, a screening of the 1949 film adaptation starring Margaret O'Brien on Friday and a series of panels with biographers, children's literature editors and relatives of Burnett on Saturday to discuss topics from biography writing to editing and collecting. Burnett wrote 53 novels, wrote numerous stories and magazine articles and produced 13 plays on both London's West End and Broadway, according to Gerzina. Burnett "see-sawed" across the Atlantic between her original home in England and America, her adopted home, 33 times, according to Gerzina. "Americans thought of her as American, and the English though of her as English," Gerzina said. Gerzina's keynote opened the conference after an introduction by Dean of the Libraries Jeffrey Horrel, which focused on the themes of illness and disability in the context of Victorian society. Friday's reception was held in Rauner for a viewing of the exhibition, entitled "Cultivating Secret Gardens: Frances Hodgson Burnett and Children's Fiction," curated by Braunstein and special collections librarian Jay Satterfield. The collection consists of materials ranging from first editions of the novel to film and play adaptations. "The exhibition is really important to put materials in context and to understand any individual item by seeing things around it and having the curator give some sort of narrative to it," Braunstein said. Burnett was instrumental in advocating for authors' rights to retain control of adaptations of their novels and characters, according to Braunstein.

You're so cliche: Dartmouth Goal archetypes

Despite the tone of this piece, I truly believe that all of the following are noble career paths, but it's just too easy (genders are mostly arbitrary). Without any further ado, let me introduce you to every Dartmouth student ever. The pre-med student This student is the child of two doctors.

It ain't about the money

During her 2008 Harvard Commencement address, J.K. Rowling told the graduating seniors, "Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received give you unique status and unique responsibilities that is your privilege and your burden." Because this woman single-handedly rose from poverty to create literature that has changed the way most of us think about books, life and imagination, I think we should give her words a second thought. Privilege.

DP2 program receives praise

/ The Dartmouth Staff Athletic Director Harry Sheehy announced the new program Dartmouth Peak Performance to integrate academic, athletic and personal resources for Big Green athletes on July 21.

Garrod to direct theater production in Mostar

In the heavily segregated city of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Dartmouth education professor Andrew Garrod, who retired from the College in 2008, is challenging the country's ethnic tensions this summer by directing a theatrical production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Garrod is the founder and director of the Dartmouth Volunteer Teaching Program, which sends recent Dartmouth graduates to the Marshall Islands for a year to teach adolescents and undergraduates over Winter term, Andrew Rayner '10 said in an email to the Dartmouth. Rayner, who volunteered this past year in the Marshall Islands, is currently in Mostar for the summer. "We are using theater to bring together youth from the different ethnic groups in Mostar, which is a city that is still very distinctly segregated between the Bosniaks [Muslims] and Croats [Croatians] and Christians, using something as timeless as Shakespeare to bring these kids together and explore the themes of vengeance and forgiveness," Rayner said. Garrod and David Yorio GR'04 co-founded the international non-profit organization Youth Bridge Global, which facilitates youth theater productions in domestic and international developing companies, according to its website.

Blair: The Personal is Political

The second major congressional sex scandal of the summer broke this Tuesday, when Rep. David Wu, D-Or., joined Rep.

1-on-1 with Sasha Nanji '13

This week, I chatted with hockey player and Canada native Sasha Nanji '13, honorable mention All-Ivy and third team All-ECAC, who was fourth in the nation in points per game by a defenseman last season.

Goals you should have but don't

Many Dartmouth students have figured out what they want to do with their lives. Many haven't. Either way, you shouldn't limit yourself to only one particular life goal.

Klein urges public school reform

Former New York City public schools chancellor and current News Corporation executive vice president Joel Klein described the "crisis" facing the American school system in an increasingly globalized economy and explained how competition and innovation can improve the quality of schools in a lecture in Moore Theater on Thursday.

Delayed gratification: Working hard now for Later

Last June, New York Times writer David Brooks opined, "Most [college graduates] will spend a decade wandering from job to job and clique to clique, searching for a role." He paints recent graduates as restless vagabonds, unwilling to settle down and to fixate on a single niche.