CNN's Tapper '91 to give talk on Tuesday

Courtesy of Dartmouth Alumni In October 2009, in a low-lying valley of northeast Afghanistan, 53 American troops stationed at Combat Outpost Keating were ambushed by 350 Taliban insurgents descending from higher mountainous terrain. Over the next 12 hours, the troops fought off insurgents armed with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and other high-powered weaponry. CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper '91 remembers hearing the news of the battle while at the hospital for the birth of his first son.

Deans hold first xTalks in Biscoh

Case competition proposes solutions to health and development challenges in the Mala Valley

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Seven teams of undergraduate and graduate students from various disciplines sought to identify innovative solutions to health and developmental problems in Peru's Mala Valley during the Dartmouth Global Health and Development case competition on Saturday. The winning team Fed Ghali Med'16, master's in public health student at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice Faseeha Altaf GR'13, Thayer School of Engineering PhD student Jennifer Tate GR'13, Hatty Pearson '14, Victoria Trump Redd '14, Brenna Liponis '14 and Emily Fletcher '13 highlighted the importance of establishing baseline and ongoing health and environmental measures in the region. The runner-up team, which included Rachel LaRocca Med'16, Liqiong He Tu'13, Michael Seitz '14, Kate Bradshaw '14, Garrett Wymore '13 and Troy Dildine '13, advocated promoting public health principles and taking better advantage of the region's existing water distribution system. The winning team earned an $1000 prize while the runner-up team won $500.

Film FSP in Los Angeles to begin in 2014

Cirrus Foroughi / The Dartmouth Starting next winter, students will have the chance to live and learn in the center of the American media industry.

Women connect through stories

Rebecca Burten / The Dartmouth Staff Emphasizing the power of storytelling to forge connections among women, French and Italian professor Tania Convertini led the female students, faculty and staff gathered in Alumni Hall for the 10th Proud to be a Woman dinner through one story after another. One moment, Convertini affectionately recalled the many stories that her mother used to share during her childhood. The next, she spoke to about how her mother gave her three first names. Convertini encouraged the attendees at the Link Up event to take advantage of the facilitated table discussions to speak openly and empathize with one another about various personal experiences through storytelling. "Stories really empower us and allow us to create a connection," she said.

Lecture discusses world language preservation

Dennis Ng / The Dartmouth Staff At least half of the world's nearly 6,000 languages are losing speakers and dominant languages may replace 90 percent of languages by the end of the 21st century, Mark Turin, director of the Digital Himalaya project and the World Oral Literature project, said in a lecture Wednesday night. Drawing on decades of his fieldwork in Nepal and the Himalayan mountain range, Turin outlined the challenges faced by small-scale communities whose languages are at risk of disappearing and the potential that digital media has to preserve them. Turin stressed the importance of language diversity in his lecture.

Hanover considers parking changes

Rebecca Schantz / The Dartmouth Staff On a good day, Courtyard Cafe employee Donna Britch only fills the meter next to a parking spot on School Street once every 10 hours.

AP credit policy change attracts media attention

Jin Lee / The Dartmouth Staff Since announcing that it would no longer award students credit for high scores on Advanced Placement, A-level and International Baccalaureate exams, Dartmouth has found itself in the middle of a national media frenzy, with the new policy covered in outlets including The New York Times, The Huffington Post and The Washington Post. Some of the initial news reports incorrectly characterized the College as having discredited the AP exams' value, which may explain why the policy change garnered media attention, media relations director Justin Anderson said. "This is a Dartmouth policy for Dartmouth, not intended to be looked at by the rest of the Ivy League or other colleges as something that is in their best interest as well," Anderson said. The faculty voted to change the College's policy in November after 10 years of deliberation, Anderson said.