ExtraCurricular.

Editor's Note: Professor Campbell's column is the second installment of ExtraCurricular, an occasional series of commentary by Dartmouth professors.

Is AlcoholEdu Necessary?

Did you know that mental blackouts result from trauma to the hippocampus in the brain? Following in the footsteps of their upperclass predecessors, members of the Class of 2011 learned this fun fact, along with countless others, as they fulfilled their summer-before-college rite of passage and began AlcoholEdu, the three-hour online course that teaches freshmen about drinking and personal safety.

The Still North 2007-10-17

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Daily Debriefing

Two Dartmouth students, along with three University of California-Irvine students, won first place in IBM's Cell Broadband Engine Professor University Challenge for using three Playstation 3 video-game systems to replicate human brain functions, according to a university press release.

Police Blotter

October 3, 2:41 p.m., River Road A Hanover Police officer behind a school bus observed a red pickup truck pass the bus, ignoring the flashing lights and the extended swing arm indicating that the bus was dropping off children.

In the name of synergy, women's groups join forces

On a campus with over two dozen women-related organizations, gathering the members of these groups in one location is no easy task.

Reverend calls for new political movement

Evangelical Reverend Jim Wallis spoke of the nation's need for activism and called for a spiritual and faith-based movement concerning global poverty, climate change and the Iraq war in Rollins Chapel on Monday night. "Kicked out" of his church at age 14 because of his rejection of racial divides within the faith, Wallis preached the importance both of questioning and of spirituality in approaching the world's most significant challenges. "The great revivals and great movements throughout history have been rooted in people of faith and spirituality," he said.

I Feel Like... 2007-10-16

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Blackwater in Deep Water

On Sept. 16 private military contactors hired by the U.S. government opened fire on a crowd of innocent civilians in a congested Baghdad square.

Parental Control

I recently saw a silly article in the New York Times about a New Jersey high school English teacher who has begun requiring parents to do homework.

Daily Debriefing

Five Hanover High School students lost their sports captaincies last month after allegedly stealing exams in June, according to the Valley News.