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Thirteen people were charged on Wednesday in the death of Robert Champion, a Florida A&M University student who was brutally beaten to death in a marching band hazing ritual last fall, The New York Times reported.
Thirteen people were charged on Wednesday in the death of Robert Champion, a Florida A&M University student who was brutally beaten to death in a marching band hazing ritual last fall, The New York Times reported.
The North American Free Trade Agreement's liberalization of trade policies has allowed the United States to export obesity to Mexico, according to an April 5 study co-authored by David Wallinga '83.
Brown University will pay $31.5 million to Providence, R.I. to offset the city's budget deficit and prevent a bankruptcy filing, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
Three Dartmouth alumni, including the founder of The Basement an online platform designed to aggregate various Dartmouth student resources, including the now outdated "Web Blitz" have launched a startup San Francisco bagel company in conjunction with a former transfer student, using online technology and social media to market their New York-style bagels to Bay Area customers. Schmendricks, which translates to "stupid person" in Yiddish, has already sold out its May 10 launch party, despite lacking a physical store and having collected all orders and consumer data via online platforms, according to co-founder and psychologist David Kover '00. "We have all known that you can't get a quality bagel in the Bay Area, and we took it upon ourselves to make one," Kover, who dubbed himself "chief authenticity officer" due to his Brooklyn roots, said. The founders all live in the same San Francisco apartment building and comprise two married couples Kover and Dagny Dingman '02, and Dan Scholnick '00 and Deepa Subramanian, who spent two terms at the College as a transfer student from Smith College. The four began experimenting with bagel recipes in their homes two years ago.
Government professor and prominent Libya expert Dirk Vandewalle is serving as an advisor to the country's first national election in over 50 years in the wake of the death of longstanding dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
The first event of its kind, Dartmouth's Israel and Palestine Week, sponsored by the Dartmouth Avi Schaefer Delegation, seeks to promote dialogue and understanding between both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by showcasing the human element of the issue through films, comedy, poetry and cultural events, according to delegation members.
ERIN BECKS / The Dartmouth The creation of new residential colleges, expansion of the freshman seminar program and broadening of international opportunities were among the accomplishments highlighted by former Princeton University Dean Nancy Malkiel, who presented her work in developing undergraduate education during Tuesday night's installment of the "Leading Voices in Higher Education" strategic planning lecture series in Carson L01. In the first year of her 24-year tenure as the university's dean of the college, a position from which she stepped down last year, Malkiel implemented a new seminar program for first-year students intended to enhance interaction between undergraduates and faculty.
The Upper Valley celebrated spring and social activism with May Day festivities held on the Lebanon Green and hosted by Occupy Upper Valley on Tuesday, according to the organization's website.
Correction appended Tuesday's six-hour lockout from access to Microsoft Online Services, which lasted from roughly 8 a.m.
The Dartmouth Outing Club selected 286 students to be First-Year Trips leaders this year out of a pool of 630 applicants, according to Trips director Emily Mason-Osann '11 Th '12.
Trustees of 10 New Hampshire hospitals, including the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health care system, claim that the state violated Medicare law by reallocating $130 million in federal Medicaid reimbursement funding to balance the state budget without analyzing the new plan's impact on access to care for Medicaid patients.
Bringing together leaders in the field of child studies, the Leslie Center for the Humanities in conjunction with the women and gender studies program hosted a conference Tuesday to discuss the growing discipline through a humanities-based lens.
In recent weeks, Palaeopitus Senior Society returned to the spotlight with the creation of a Google Moderator forum allowing increased communication between Dartmouth students and the Office of the Dean of the College.
The stigma against science in modern politics threatens the American democratic process, and it is necessary to reform public perception of scientific issues such as climate change, author and filmmaker Shawn Lawrence Otto said in a Monday lecture at the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center. Once viewed as a source of national pride, science has become a "discomforting" topic in current politics, he said in his lecture titled "Scientists, the Media and Politicians in the Climate Change Debate," which drew ideas from his newest book "Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America." During the 2007 Hollywood writers' strike, Otto, who is also a screenwriter, co-founded "Science Debate 2008," an initiative aimed at organizing a presidential debate to discuss science-related policies before the 2008 election, he said. "Virtually none of the presidential candidates were talking about science, and even though over 30,000 scientists signed onto our campaign, we couldn't get much media coverage or response from candidates," he said.
Bruce McAllister '54 Tu '58 pleaded guilty on April 25 to a charge of fraud by wire, radio or television at the U.S.
In an effort to gain support from college students and their parents, both Democrats and Republicans have begun to focus on rising interest rates on subsidized college loans, The New York Times reported.
In an effort to simultaneously foster conversations about the interaction between faith and vocation and connect students to alumni mentors, The Dartmouth Apologia the College's journal for Christian thought and the Eleazar Wheelock Society co-sponsored the third annual Wheelock Conference at the Tuck School of Business on April 28. The conference brought together 350 alumni, students, faculty and community members for a full day of panel discussions and presentations by prominent alumni that allowed students to explore Christian perspectives through intellectual inquiry, civility and authenticity, conference director Andrew Schuman '10 said. "Faith and reason are fundamental to what we each bring to the table, so discovering the way to do this well and with respect is essential to the life of our campus," Provost Carol Folt said in her opening address at the conference. Peter Blair '12, who moderated a conference panel on faith and the law, spoke about the importance of reconciling faith, reason and vocation in today's world. "The Wheelock Conference brings back alums who have brought the intellectual resources of the Christian tradition to bear on the their vocations," Blair said.