Panelists speak about homelessness

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff Long-haired and rugged-looking, Cornelius spent nearly 30 years living in abandoned buses, cars and homeless shelters, digging for cans in dumpsters.

Rauh discusses ancient prostitution

Akikazu Onda / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Modern prejudices and poor data interpretation limit our understanding of prostitution in ancient societies, Nicholas Rauh, a classics professor at Purdue University, said in a lecture at the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday.

Barber discusses food production

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff The current international food system is "totally broken," leaving one-sixth of the global population hungry, one-sixth malnourished and one-sixth over-nourished, Montgomery Fellow Dan Barber said in a lecture in Filene Auditorium on Tuesday. Although he is a chef, Barber who also co-owns the New York-based Blue Hill restaurants emphasized the importance of how food is produced rather than focusing on how it is cooked, citing the health and environmental benefits of food produced through sustainable agricultural systems, as well as improvements in the quality of the ultimate product. Barber used the example of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture which serves as the source for many of Blue Hill's ingredients as a farm that focuses on data collection, ecologically sustainable methods of production and new farming methods, he said. Sheep are a prime example of the failings of mass agriculture, according to Barber.

Lynch proposes cuts to state health budget

Professor discusses political activism

Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth In an effort to gain the right to sit on juries, women "in coats and high heels" disrupted legislatures across the country between 1920 when the federal government granted women the right to vote and the early 1970s, Holly McCammon, sociology professor at Vanderbilt University, said in a lecture about political activism in Silsby Hall on Monday. "Most people think that once women won the right to vote, they won the right to sit on juries too," McCammon said.

Gov't must limit aid, speaker says

Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Long-term solutions to the federal budget crisis will only be found in politically unpopular reforms of Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, Keith Hennessey, research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said in a lecture in the Rockefeller Center on Thursday. The massive growth in government spending stems from the three programs that comprise 47 percent of spending Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security according to Hennessey. "The big three entitlements are growing so fast that they are completely overwhelming everything else government does," he said. Drastic reforms to entitlement programs are inevitable if the country is to stay fiscally functional, Hennessey said. "The numbers are going to force us," he said.

Pillar analyzes trends in Middle Eastern tensions

Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth The recent political turmoil in the Middle East may be a "wonderful blow to the future of international terrorism," Paul Pillar '69, director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, said in a lecture on Monday in the Haldeman Center. The current lack of political and economic freedom for Middle Eastern citizens contributes to a strong association with international terrorism, according to Pillar.