$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.

Lunar New Year festivities begin

Richard Yu / The Dartmouth Staff Monday marked the first day of the New Year for nearly one-fifth of the world's population, as well as for many Dartmouth students.

King commemorations begin for second week

PAAR sees successful first year

Steven Chen / The Dartmouth The Philanthropic All American Rush fundraising competition that took place between Greek organizations on campus from Oct.

Hundreds volunteer at local Special Olympics

Aditi Kirtikar / The Dartmouth Staff Nearly 100 athletes and over 300 volunteers congregated at the Dartmouth Skiway in Lyme on Saturday for the 10th annual Special Olympics Upper Valley Regional Winter Games, at which athletes from New Hampshire and Vermont competed in over 20 different snowshoeing, snowboarding and alpine and Nordic skiing events. Olympic gold medal skier Hannah Kearney '15 welcomed the athletes and encouraged them to try their best. "Competition is great because it pushes you beyond what you thought your limits were," she said. "Greatness isn't about winning or losing," Gendo Allyn Field, founder of The Upper Valley Zen Center, said in his introductory speech at the opening ceremony. To initiate the Games, Jennifer Mayfield of the Upper Valley Hawks, a team that has competed in the Special Olympics for 15 years, lit the Olympic flame and her teammate Michael Stoodley led the athletes in the athlete oath "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." The Dartmouth Aires also led the crowd in the national anthem. Julie Tantillo, an alpine skier and Upper Valley Hawks member, had a minor fall during one of her races but recovered immediately.