SPCSA organizes first symposium

Alumni and student orgs. honored for justice work

YOMALIS ROSARIO / The Dartmouth Staff Four alumni, whose undertakings have ranged from providing legal aid for overseas refugees to addressing poverty in the Dominican Republic, received this year's Social Justice Awards, given by the College's Social Justice Committee, at a Friday ceremony in Collis Common Ground.

Davidson pushes for greater school reform

Emily Brigstocke / The Dartmouth Current educational methods need to be updated in order to remain useful to the students who will be graduating in the next few years, author and humanitarian scholar Cathy Davidson said in a lecture to a crowd of mostly faculty members and strategic planning committee members in Filene Auditorium on Thursday.

Sculpting proceeds despite weather

Hunter Van Adelsberg / The Dartmouth Staff Though recent temperatures have hovered above freezing, student construction crew members continue to work multiple hours a day to complete the construction of this year's snow sculpture a model of a cupcake before Winter Carnival. The cupcake design complements the carnival theme, "Carnival in Candyland The Sweetest Carnival Ever," according to Eric Ramsey, director of the Collis Center and advisor to the Winter Carnival Council. The plan for the sculpture begins long before the first snowfall, and theme ideas were discussed early in the Fall term, Ramsey said. Although students started building the sculpture this week, Ramsey said they have held "many student meetings and weekly council meetings" in preparation. The crew will work on finishing touches until moments before the opening ceremony starts, according to Ramsey.

$300 House Project targets Haiti

DENNIS NG / The Dartmouth Staff DENNIS NG / The Dartmouth Staff Facing a packed lecture hall in the Tuck School of Business, international business professor Vijay Govindarajan, the pioneer of the $300 House Project, welcomed the 40 participants of the four-day design workshop, as well as Dartmouth students and members of the public.

Cabin and Trail plans for ‘Winter Weekend'

HUNTER VAN ADELSBERG / The Dartmouth Staff As Winter term enters full swing, Cabin and Trail a Dartmouth Outing Club sub-group that boasts the highest membership rate of any DOC program is gearing up for a variety of outdoor activities, including the annual DOC winter weekend, according to co-leader Charlie Governali '12. "There's more to Cabin and Trail than cabins and trails," member Krystyna Oszkinis '14 said at the group's meeting on Monday night. Aside from hiking and camping trips, Cabin and Trail offers its members a variety of outlets through which to engage with the outdoors, including "hiking trips, eating trips, basically any sort of trip," co-leader Billy Zou '12 said. At their most recent weekly meeting, members presented various events that they would be leading throughout the week.

Doctors want focus on social justice

PATTON LOWENSTEIN / The Dartmouth Staff Influenced by the contrast between dissecting cadavers at an elite medical school and keeping armed vigil over a fire-bombed church in Mississippi during his summer as a civil rights worker, Fitzhugh Mullan a professor of medicine and health policy at George Washington University began to explore the link between medicine and social justice.

Student accuses frat of hazing violations

Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth Staff Administrators failed to adequately respond to November 2010 allegations of "dehumanizing" hazing at a campus fraternity, Andrew Lohse '12, the student who made the allegations, said in a statement to The Dartmouth.

Students seek to reapply King legacy

Katie Tai / The Dartmouth Strong connections can be made between the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s and today's Occupy movement, according to a panel in Collis Common Ground on Tuesday night.