New events aim to help sophomores pick majors

LAURA DIEZ Anxious sophomore students nearing the deadline to choose a major are getting an extra hand from the College this year.

Local students compete in Lego League tournament

Jared Bookman Robots made from Lego building blocks attempted to stop global warming at the Thayer School of Engineering last Saturday when 120 elementary and middle-school students competed in the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Lego League tournament.

Kiva Bazaar highlights impact of microfinance

Mearsheimer explores threat of China

Andy Foust / The Dartmouth Staff The rise of China, and its likely desire to dominate East Asia, will pose a powerful threat to the United States in the near future, John Mearsheimer, prominent international relations theorist and political science at the University of Chicago, said in a lecture Thursday.

Holbrooke explores U.N. decline

Students participate in TB test clinic

Lecturers visit for U.N. MDG week at Dartmouth

Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Attempting to draw awareness to global poverty, disease and environmental degradation, the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding paired up this week to organize events and lectures devoted to the discussion of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. At the Millennium Summit in 2000, the U.N.

Campuses tie in voter competition

Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Neither Darmouth nor the University of Pennsylvania claimed a decisive victory in last week's voting competition, which sought to determine which swing-state school had the highest student turnout for the 2008 election.

Assembly meeting focuses on AMP, DartAlert system

Grey Cusack / The Dartmouth Staff Student Assembly revisited the College's Alcohol Management Program in its Tuesday meeting, as Assembly President Molly Bode '09 read a letter she drafted addressing students' concerns with the policy proposal.

Goodall visits College for MDG

JON ERDMAN / The Dartmouth Despite widespread suffering in both the animal kingdom and the civilized world, the ice in the human heart is beginning to melt and the indomitable human spirit provides a reason for hope, Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist and United Nations Messenger of Peace said to an overflowing audience in Alumni Hall Tuesday. Goodall's speech, part of the Dickey Center for International Understanding's Great Issues lecture series and the College's Millennium Development Goals Week, was projected to audiences in four overflow rooms across campus. Goodall -- who has seen the population of wild chimpanzees decrease from over one million in 1960, when she first went to work in Africa, to approximately 300,000 now -- told the story of a man who jumped over a barrier to save a drowning chimpanzee at the Detroit Zoo despite the risk of attack by the other chimps.