Diverse language programs foster community, proficiency

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Residents of La Casa Spanish language house gathered to decorate chocolate and funfetti cupcakes Wednesday night, chatting in Spanish about midterms and racquet sports while Latin pop music played softly in the background.

Friedman advocates for foreign policy change

Rebecca Schantz / The Dartmouth The United States should adopt a national isolationist ideology to correct the negative effects of its current foreign policy, Cato Institute research fellow Benjamin Friedman said in a lecture on Thursday. Friedman argued that the U.S.

Kim urges nations to face climate change

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Senior Staff It has been six months since former College President Jim Yong Kim traded one presidential title for another at the World Bank.

LeVines link mothers' literacy to family health

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Senior Staff There is a correlation between mothers' childhood education and their ability to interact with health care professionals, husband and wife team Robert and Sarah Levine said in a lecture on Wednesday.

Former Gov. Lynch talks bipartisanship

18 students join coed fraternities

Yomalis Rosario / The Dartmouth Phi Tau fraternity, Alpha Theta fraternity and the Tabard fraternity accepted 18 new members as Winter term rush wrapped up on Tuesday night, according to Coed Council president Blaine Ponto '14. The coed houses offered fewer bids this term, a decrease from 25 students in the Fall. "You always get fewer people than in the Fall," Ponto said.

Judd Gregg promotes entitlement reform deal

Four Greek houses on probation

Tracy Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Three fraternities and one sorority are currently on probation for various social and hazing infractions, and at least one fraternity is awaiting action from the Organizational Adjudication Committee, according to representatives from the Greek system. The number of Greek houses facing disciplinary action from the College has caused some student leaders to question the effectiveness of the administration's top-down approach to working with the Greek system, according to Greek Leadership Council moderator Duncan Hall '13. Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson said that administrators and Greek Letter Organizations and Societies representatives have reached out to the GLC to work together toward a "constructive movement forward." Despite the number of Greek organizations confronting sanctions, Johnson said that the College has not changed its policies in handling violations of the College's standards of conduct. "If there are a cluster of cases involving Greek organizations now, it's more happenstance or coincidence and certainly not because we have changed our stance toward Greek organizations in any way," she said.