Floch '11 presents winning paper

Intellect and faith can be reconciled and individuals can fill their minds with ideas that lead to a stronger faith, according to Brandon Floch '11, who presented his winning theological research at the third annual Sinai Scholars Society Academic Symposium hosted on Sunday at the University of Pennsylvania. The Symposium is an annual conference that showcases students' research on the application of the Ten Commandments to modern life and modern issues, according to Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literatures professors Lewis Glinert, who worked with Floch on his independent study.

Rosenbaum: Reality Check

What many of us '11s wouldn't give to be wide-eyed freshmen again to believe, as Louis Wheatley suggests, that the euphoria we felt during Dimensions and Dartmouth Outing Club Trips would last throughout our college careers ("The Flair Effect," Apr.

Sankar confirms intent to run for SA president

Following the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee's Wednesday deadline for petitions, Amrita Sankar '12 confirmed her intention to run for student body president in an interview with The Dartmouth, joining the race against Will Hix '12 and Max Yoeli '12, who announced their candidacies last week.

GOP presidential candidates will debate in Hanover this fall

The College will host a Republican presidential primary debate on Oct. 11, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College.

Le Facepalm 2011-04-06

Alan Sondheim reimagines digital space

By Jessica Womack The portrayal of humanness in a virtual world has more potential than in the portrayal of humanness in reality, according to Alan Sondheim, a multi-talented artist and cyber theorist who specializes in the creation and manipulation of digital content.

Woods: Voting With Our Feet

Anybody who has been following the news recently is aware that Yale University, that enclave of hipsters and liberalism, is being investigated by the U.S.

Daily Debriefing

Women earn 6.9 percent less than men in equivalent positions in higher education, according to a study published by Laura Meyers, a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, Inside Higher Ed reported.

Chemplavil: Dartmouth Kindergarten

My cousin is a bit of a freak. And by that, I mean she's a genius. At the age of three she was performing on local stages, singing five-minute songs in a language she didn't understand.

Standard Deviation 2011-04-06

Activist speaks about violence against women

Award-wining documentary filmmaker, writer and anti-sexism activist Byron Hurt never envisioned himself as the face of a program that would educate men about violence against women.

Garthwaite to retire at end of term

Throughout his 41 years at the College, but particularly in the 1970s when "the Middle East was not on everyone's mind," history professor Gene Garthwaite influenced many of his students' decisions to pursue graduate studies of the region, history department chair Margaret Darrow said.

In Stanford's scandal's wake, athletes' academics questioned

While Stanford University's athletic department was recently implicated for encouraging athletes to take easy classes through a "Courses of Interest" list, Dartmouth's athletic department does not maintain a list of easy class offerings for in-season Big Green athletes, Athletic Director Harry Sheehy said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The athletic department will never compile such a list, Sheehy said, adding that it would be very unlikely for a list to be distributed from any athletic department in the Ivy League. An anonymous member of the football team confirmed that a physical list does not exist in an interview with The Dartmouth, but went on to say that the team works together to determine which courses to take during the season. "It's more of people talking to each other and telling each other what's easy," he said.

VOX CLAMANTIS

To the Editor: In Friday's Verbum Ultimum ("The Parkhursted President," April 1), The Dartmouth Editorial Board "urge[d] EPAC to reconsider its decision" to prohibit previously suspended students from running for student body president and vice president.