Islamic fundamentalism is changing, expert says

Pres. house to undergo renovation

Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The 83-year-old President's House on Webster Avenue, which has served as the residence for the last six College presidents, including current President James Wright, will undergo a major renovation this summer to address long-standing maintenance concerns in preparation for the arrival of College President-elect Jim Yong Kim and his family. As the renovations will require the partial demolition of nearly all of the walls, the house will be uninhabitable during construction, according to associate Provost Mary Gorman, who is overseeing the project. "I enjoyed living here.

Prof. calls for opening of Palestinian borders

ZACH KUSTER / The Dartmouth Staff Stabilizing Palestine's economy and political system is the only way to halt the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and save the Palestinian people from poverty, Amaney Jamal, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University, said in her lecture "The Gaza Crisis: How we got here and where do we go next?" held in the Rockefeller Center on Wednesday. Because Palestine's economy is irreversibly linked to Isreal's, peace can only be achieved through the opening of Palestinian borders and subsequent growth of the country's economy, Jamal said. Jamal pointed to the precarious economic situation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as a prime source of instability in the region. "Any peace process needs to address the ability of the Palestinian entity to support itself economically," she said. There has been a rapid expansion of poverty in the region since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, Jamal said.

Journalist criticizes welfare policies

Chris Parker / The Dartmouth Staff States that make "emotional" decisions, such as legislating extensive welfare policies, are hurting their citizens, James Bartholomew, a writer for the Daily Telegraph, said in a speech in Dartmouth Hall on Wednesday.

Commencement to be unaffected by budget

Panelists discuss impact of Facebook

ASHLEY MITCHELL / The Dartmouth Staff Economics professor Andrew Samwick said he uses Facebook to keep in touch with other "roughly 40-year-old economists," while Rembert Browne '09 said he uses the web site only as a photo album, but both agree that Facebook is altering the social landscape.

Profs. give lecture about state of the liberal arts

ANDREW FOUST / The Dartmouth Staff Professors' ability to shape the curriculum at liberal arts institutions is decreasing, Colorado College professor Timothy Fuller said in the second annual Janus Lecture, sponsored by the Daniel Webster Project in Ancient and Modern Studies.

New site, rrrage.com, shares info. on parties

The Dartmouth Dartmouth students looking for information about upcoming events, parties or the line for a game of pong can now turn to rrrage.com, a web site launched last week by Andrew Wansley '10. The web site allows students to post information about events and other subjects online via text message.

DHMC to pay almost $1 million in malpractice suit

Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff A federal jury awarded almost $1 million to the family of Vermont resident Katherine Coffey on May 15 in a malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit against Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Former FDIC chair, alum. dies at 88