Admissions rate hits record low

Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The College has admitted 11.5 percent of applicants to the Class of 2014, the lowest acceptance rate in College history.

Search committee calls for provost candidates

Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff A seven-person search committee which held its first meeting on March 30 has begun accepting nominations to permanently fill the position of College provost, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in an e-mail to members of the Dartmouth community on Thursday.

Moyo: international aid to Africa spurs corruption

Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Billions of dollars in international financial aid do more harm than good on the African continent, economist and best-selling author Dambisa Moyo said in a lecture to students on Thursday.

Speaker warns of nuclear danger

Curie Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Curie Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Helen Caldicott, co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, warned of the medical hazards posed by nuclear power and called on Vermont to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in a lecture in Filene Auditorium on Wednesday. Making frequent use of the blackboard to illustrate her points, Caldicott described the ways in which each stage of the production of nuclear power, from the mining of uranium to the storing of nuclear waste, can release dangerous, cancer-causing chemicals into the environment. Radiation exposure can lead to uncontrollable cancerous cell growth, Caldicott said. The radioactive isotope tritium, for example, is released into rivers and groundwater after it is used in nuclear reactors.

Coburn describes travels in Nepal

Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Researcher and author Broughton Coburn spent August 2008 leading a "rag-tag expedition" through the mountains of Nepal, a journey that was "reminiscent of the Indiana Jones series of movies," he said in a lecture to Hanover residents and Dartmouth students Wednesday evening in the Howe Library. In his lecture, "The Secrets of Shangri-La," Coburn described how he and his team discovered many ancient artifacts in man-made complexes in the Mustang region of Nepal, he said. Coburn described his research and film expedition as a "scientific, cultural, spiritual, artistic mission." Coburn and his team discovered pre-Buddhist illuminated manuscripts, ancient shrines and murals depicting mystical yogis, which Coburn showed in a slide show during his talk.

Hadley seeks to oust Georgia Senate incumbent

Health care reform law to affect DHMC, DMS

Zach Ingrebretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingrebretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The sweeping health care reform law enacted last week will allow Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Medical School to provide higher quality care and increase patient accessibility, according to Frank McDougall, DHMC vice president for governmental relations.