Students 'speak out' on sexual assault
SAM RAUCH / The Dartmouth Staff A rapt audience of approximately 50 students gathered in Collis Common Ground on Tuesday night to listen to anonymous accounts of students' experiences with sexual assault.
SAM RAUCH / The Dartmouth Staff A rapt audience of approximately 50 students gathered in Collis Common Ground on Tuesday night to listen to anonymous accounts of students' experiences with sexual assault.
Eric Tanner / The Dartmouth Staff Plans to construct a hotel in downtown Hanover have been delayed after the project switched hands from one developer to another earlier this year, according to individuals involved.
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New findings by The Chronicle of Higher Education suggest that university specialists and top-level administrators often make more than the presidents of their universities, The New York Times reported Sunday.
ANDREW FOUST / The Dartmouth Staff New advances in digital technology have made it difficult to protect the rights of laborers and producers in the film and television industry, panelists said Monday evening during a forum in Filene Auditorium.
BEN GETTINGER / The Dartmouth Staff Claims about the allegedly dire effects of global warming may be exaggerated, Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, said during a Thursday lecture at the Rockefeller Center.
Despite recent setbacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States remains the world's sole superpower and must reshape international institutions to address the challenges of the 21st century, Dartmouth government professors Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth argue in an article to be published in the March/April 2009 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine.
The Vermont House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly last Thursday to strengthen laws against sex offenders in response to the rape and murder of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett, a Vermont resident, this past summer.
The Ford Foundation awarded $300,000 to environmental studies professor Michael Dorsey to begin the Climate Justice Research Project, according to a Feb.
The U.S. government must collaborate with public and private institutions to spearhead national cyber security research and development efforts, according to a report released by Dartmouth's Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, or I3P, on Feb.
Students described the effect of media stereotypes and social stigmas as they shared their experiences with eating disorders as part of "Speak Up," a panel discussion on Sunday in Tindle Lounge that began Eating Disorders Awareness Week at the College. Panelists focused on the labels and loneliness associated with eating disorders, particularly the assumption that people choose to improve their appearance or look more like celebrities. "Eating disorders are incredibly diverse," Marissa Knodel '09, one of the panelists, said.
Members of the Committee on Standards believe changes to the COS process implemented this fall have been largely successful in increasing transparency and the campus' understanding of the College's judicial system, according to April Thompson, director of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs.
DOUG GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth The renovation of New Hampshire residence hall is on schedule and the building will be open to students for the Spring term, according to Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton officially named Stephen Bosworth '61 special envoy to North Korea, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
Zeke Turner / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Reducing fertility rates in developing countries is the only way to avoid the degradation of the global environment, University of Maryland physics professor Robert Park said in a public lecture on Thursday in Wilder Hall. The lecture, "The Last Endangered Species: Population Dynamics on a Finite Planet," discussed the Malthusian theory, first proposed by Thomas Malthus in 1798, which argues that starvation is inevitable because population grows exponentially, but resources grow linearly. While the global population is currently increasing, it will eventually plateau, Park said, because the earth can only support a limited number of people.
Developed nations are partially responsible for the economic inequality and political instability that causes many immigrants, asylum-seekers and refugees to leave their home countries, New York University English and comparative literature professor Robert Young said in a Thursday lecture at the Haldeman Center.
Dartmouth's isolated location can make it more difficult for professors to bring their research to market, but several startups have been successful because of Dartmouth's strong alumni network and support from the College itself, according to Jake Reder, director of the Office of New Ventures at Dartmouth Medical School, which provides consulting services to DMS professors interested in starting their own companies. Professors may choose to start private companies to develop their inventions into marketable products, Alla Kan, director of Dartmouth's Technology Transfer Office, said. The College, however, legally owns many of the inventions that result from research conducted at Dartmouth because the TTO files the patents for these inventions, Kan said.
ANDREW FOUST / The Dartmouth Staff Rather than working to change other country's policies, the United States must examine its own policies in order to confront the perceived economic, political and military crises currently facing the nation, Boston University political scientist and historian Andrew Bacevich said in a lecture at the Rockefeller Center on Wednesday afternoon. "We have reached a true turning point in U.S.
As the dust settles following New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg's commerce secretary nomination, and his subsequent withdrawal as a nominee, leading contenders in the 2010 race for his Senate seat are already maneuvering, though primaries are more than a year away. Gregg, a Republican who was President Barack Obama's nominee for commerce secretary, withdrew his name from consideration last Thursday, citing "irresolvable differences" with the new administration, and announced that he would not seek re-election to his Senate seat.
Dean of First-Year Students Gail Zimmerman is among six employees to be laid off from the First-Year and Upperclass Dean's Offices as part of a new restructuring plan, according to College officials.