Turco says flu 'very likely' to spread to College
New Hampshire health officials have identified two "probable" cases of swine flu in the state, Gov.
It is "quite possible" that cases of swine flu will arise in Hanover or elsewhere in New Hampshire, Director of Health Services John Turco wrote in an e-mail to campus on Wednesday.
April 22, 11:09 a.m. College Street Members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity complained to Hanover Police last Wednesday about a dog from West Wheelock Street that had entered their yard.
Ricky Melgares / The Dartmouth Understanding China's strategic approach to cyber warfare is essential to defending the United States from hackers, Timothy Thomas, an analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, said in a lecture on Tuesday in the Haldeman Center.
JAMIE MCCOY / The Dartmouth Correction appended Laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are being inappropriately used to enforce cultural norms regarding sexual conduct, several professors and scholars said during a panel discussion held in Dartmouth Hall on Wednesday.
The New Hampshire state Senate voted 13-11 to legalize same-sex marriage on Wednesday. The legislation will go into effect on Jan.
Despite the "political gloom and human rights problems" Tibet faces as an autonomous region within the People's Republic of China, rural Tibetans are confident about their economic future and continue to preserve their cultural traditions, Tibet scholar Melvyn Goldstein said in a lecture in Kemeny Hall on Tuesday.
Correction appended BlitzMail will be replaced by the end of 2010, the College's Task Force on E-mail and Collaboration Technologies announced at an information session on Tuesday.
ANDREW FOUST / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended The campaign to legalize same-sex marriage overemphasizes the word "marriage" and fails to address the need for more comprehensive legal equality and family law reform, American University Washington College of Law professor Nancy Polikoff said in a lecture in Rockefeller Center on Tuesday.
As President Barack Obama begins his 100th day in office on Wednesday, Dartmouth is poised to benefit from several of his early initiatives, most significantly funding for scientific research and construction through grants offered as part of the $787 billion federal stimulus package passed in February.
President Barack Obama announced Monday that he will nominate Paul Stockton '76 to be the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and Americas security affairs.
Dartmouth will evacuate students participating in the College's Language Study Abroad program in Cholula, Mexico, amid concern over the swine flu outbreak that is believed to have originated in the country, College spokesman Roland Adams said on Tuesday.
Dartmouth will evacuate students participating in the College's Language Study Abroad program in Cholula, Mexico, amid concern over the swine flu outbreak that is believed to have originated in the country, College spokesman Roland Adams said on Tuesday.
Gabrielle Ramaiah '10, a native of Houston, Texas, was one of 21 college juniors to win the a Beinecke Scholarship, according to a Dartmouth press release.
The Inter-Community Council will launch an initiative to assist students in their transition from high school to the College in fall 2009.
When a friend of Doug George-Kanentiio, a Native American author and historian, said he was taking him to visit the grave of an influential Native American leader, George-Kanentiio said he was surprised to be led around barbed wire fences and into the woods before coming upon faded stone graves with illegible inscriptions.
Courtesy of The New York Times Annette Gordon-Reed '81 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history on April 20 for her 2008 book "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family." The book traces the personal history of Hemings family members, many of whom were slaves for Thomas Jefferson, from 1725 to 1836. Gordon-Reed, who was traveling in Australia at the time of the announcement, said in an interview with The Dartmouth that she was shocked to learn that she had won. "It was a total surprise," Gordon-Reed said.