Daily Debriefing
Prosecutors in the murder trial of Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 showed a video confession yesterday given by her killer, Christopher Hollis, according to CBS 5 News, based in Northern California.
Prosecutors in the murder trial of Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 showed a video confession yesterday given by her killer, Christopher Hollis, according to CBS 5 News, based in Northern California.
Science cannot be used to disprove the supernatural, Massimo Pigliucci, a professor at Stony Brook University, said in a lecture on scientists "misspeaking" about religion given in Filene Auditorium on Thursday evening. Pigliucci, a professor of ecology, evolution and philosophy, said that the conflict between science and religion is controversial because it deals with differing definitions of life.
SOPHIE NOVAK / The Dartmouth Staff In 2000, the U.S.
Courtesy of Jolin Kish Jolin Kish '88 Th'91, a Stanford Ph.D recipient, never thought she would spend her days bringing other people's trash to the curb and cleaning toilets. Kish, however, is the landlord for 300 of Dartmouth students, renting properties in Hanover and the surrounding area. "If you want to work for yourself, you gotta roll up your sleeves and do the un-glamorous things," Kish said.
Dartmouth economics professor Meir Kohn railed against government economic intervention in a lecture sponsored by the College Libertarians on Thursday, arguing that the historical record indicates that such policies have been damaging for the United States and other nations. "Congress wants to do something before the election," Kohn said, referring to speculation of further federal intervention in the current financial crisis.
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Private businesses and organizations should have the legal and moral right to discriminate in some circumstances, Deroy Murdock, a social and political commentator, told an audience on Thursday in the Rockefeller Center.
Dartmouth's Student Assembly will request a moment of silence today at 11:00 A.M. to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre.
Enrico Riley, a professor in Dartmouth's studio art department, was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship this month out of a pool of 2,600 applicants.
BEN GETTINGER Dartmouth admitted approximately 29.7 percent of legacy applicants to the Class of 2012, as compared to approximately 12.7 percent of non-legacies, calculations based on raw statistics provided by the Admissions Office.
Dimensions weekend for admitted students will begin today, a scheduling decision met with much contention, as events are scheduled to end just hours before the Jewish holiday of Passover begins on Saturday night.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff A group of more than fifty concerned students is speaking out against the Hood Museum of Art's recent hip hop party given to introduce its new Black Womanhood exhibit.
Opening statements in the murder trial of Christopher Hollis for the 2005 death of Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 began on Monday, The San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday.
ADRIAN MUNTEANU / The Dartmouth Staff Throughout its 32-year history, the Ilkhom Theatre, an Uzbekistani performance group which will perform on campus this weekend, has confronted state censorship and cultural conflict.
In Lesotho, an African nation with a population of approximately 2 million, more than 700,000 citizens are infected with HIV, Phuoc Le '98, M.D., a resident in Global Health Equity, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at Harvard Medical School, said in a speech on Tuesday.
Zachary Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Outgoing Student Body President Travis Green '08 and Vice President Ian Tapu '08 resigned their positions Tuesday so that newly elected President Molly Bode '09 and Vice President Nafeesa Remtilla '09 could take office over a month earlier than in previous years. Tapu resigned first, which allowed the Assembly to elect Bode as the new vice president, which they did unanimously.
Most musicians work with sound, but Larry Polansky, a professor of music at the College, will follow his interest in performance in exactly the opposite direction.
Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Montgomery Endowment celebrated its 30th anniversary on Tuesday with a public conversation featuring premier American portraitist and 2008 Montgomery Fellow Everett Raymond Kinstler.
Two universities were forced to suspend campus activities over the weekend after threatening graffiti was found at both campuses, The New York Times reported.
More than 45 widely respected and admired individuals -- ranging from anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu to former U.S.
A new inter-faith community residence option will allow 11 students to explore issues of faith and religion within their residence halls beginning next fall.