Police Blotter
Mar. 26, 8:30 p.m. School Street and Allen Street While surveying Allen Street for suspected prohibited sales, Hanover Police observed a 21-year-old male exit a store and give a paper bag to a 20-year-old male.
Mar. 26, 8:30 p.m. School Street and Allen Street While surveying Allen Street for suspected prohibited sales, Hanover Police observed a 21-year-old male exit a store and give a paper bag to a 20-year-old male.
Editor's Note: This is the second in a three-part series examining the experience of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students in Dartmouth's Greek community. As many female Dartmouth students use the sorority system as a way to enhance their social life at the College, women in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community have also turned to Greek organizations as a forum to express themselves in a way they may not be able to elsewhere on campus. According to students interviewed by The Dartmouth, sororities have made a number of efforts to remain sensitive to their GLBT members. "In this day and age you have to recognize that in your sorority you're going to have girls who are members of the GLBT community," Abby Reed '08, former president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, said.
Forty-six companies lost a total of $16 billion in market value after joining the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders, a government-industry partnership that advocates the reduction of greenhouse gases, according to a recent collaborative study between the College and the Tuck School of Business. The study, authored by Tuck professor Karin Thorburn and Dartmouth environmental studies professor Karen Fisher-Vanden, revealed that companies' stocks dropped in value immediately after they voluntarily reduced greenhouse gas emissions. "We expected the opposite," Thorburn said.
Advocating a curriculum that focuses more extensively on classical knowledge, Dartmouth government professor James Murphy recently founded the Daniel Webster Program, in an effort to shed light on the current social relevance of classical learning by bringing classical scholars to speak on campus and by offering an optional core curriculum at the College based on the "great books" of the liberal arts. The Daniel Webster Program calls for two major changes to Dartmouth's curriculum on its web site this week.
Admission rates across the Ivy League have dropped to record levels, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, including Dartmouth, which accepted 13 percent of its applicant pool.
Despite strong student support during the Winter term, only 20 people attended the newly created Social Life Committee's first panel event on social dynamics and spaces on Tuesday night in Collis Common Ground. The committee was created last term after a petition signed by 800 students demanding the formation of a group to investigate the social dynamics at Dartmouth was brought to College President James Wright.
Sarah Laeuchli / The Dartmouth Staff Sara Ludin '08 was two weeks into the Fall term of her sophomore year when she decided to start wearing a hijab, the traditional Muslim head scarf. "There was no family pressure -- I just felt like I had to start wearing it," she said.
As heterosexual men and their dates looked on, Cody Lavender '10 and a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students took over the platform in the center of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity's dance floor at a recent dance party. "We purposefully create our own space," said Lavender, co-chair of Gender, Sexuality, XYZ, formerly known as the Gay Straight Alliance.
After three years of planning and two failed attempts, the Upper Valley Haven, a Vermont-based homeless shelter, may finally begin building a new shelter for homeless adults.
Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff Candidates for Student Assembly president and vice president discussed how they would best improve the Assembly's reputation on campus and increase student representation Tuesday night in Carson L01.
A Hanover area resident is suing an online sex site powered by Friendfinder Network Inc., and Various Inc., an affiliated company, for allegedly posting a feigned profile that used her personal information next to a nude photo of another female, according to the Nashua Telegraph.
Gay marriage violates the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, David Blankenhorn announced in the face of general audience disapproval in a lecture and discussion sponsored by the Vermont Marriage Advisory Council on Sunday evening.
The Tuck School of Business was ranked the seventh-best business school in America in the U.S. News and World Report's Best Graduate Schools 2009 issue, released Friday.
Elisabeth Ericson / The Dartmouth Sonny Kung '11 used to travel to Dartmouth with three days' worth of Chinese food from New York to sustain his cravings for Asian food, but the opening of Yiping's Asian Market in downtown Hanover may put an end to this ritual. "I'm excited to be able to cook with stuff I know how to cook with, instead of just boiling pasta," Kung said. The lack of local Asian food supplies was also an inconvenience to the store's owners, Russ and Yiping Weed, who had to procure Asian ingredients from a market in Manchester. "There is an Asian market in Lebanon, but it's more of an Indian grocery," Russ said. Yiping's Asian Market stocks Chinese dry and frozen goods, in addition to a smattering of Japanese sweets and some Korean and Indian items.
Admissions to the Class of 2012 were the most selective in Dartmouth's history -- the College accepted just 13.2 percent of applicants, down from last year's record 15.3 percent, the Admissions Office announced Monday.
ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Staff Residents of Hanover and the surrounding area can expect a Grafton Superior Court decision in the next two months regarding their appeal of two Hanover rulings that approved construction of the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center.
Yale is being sued for $50 million by Dongguk University, one of Korea's top institutions, according to an article in the Yale Daily News.
Although the Jewish legal tradition has a 2,000-year tradition of condemning homosexuality, Rabbi Gordon Tucker called for the acceptance of homosexuals based on the fundamental Jewish principals of companionship and love in a speech on Sunday.
Within the aged brownstone walls of Bartlett Hall, the upper two floors -- which have languished for nearly 40 years without improvements -- has undergone extensive construction during the past eight months. Bartlett houses the department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures and the Arts and Humanities Resource Center, which offers language resources to students and assists faculty with research and media presentations. The construction has modernized and redesigned the upper floors of the building. "It needed a complete overhaul of the electrical, air conditioning, wireless and Ethernet infrastructures," said Otmar Foelsche, director of the resource center.