Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Support independent student journalism. Support independent student journalism. Support independent student journalism.
SUPPORT THE DARTMOUTH
The Dartmouth
June 4, 2026
The Dartmouth
News
News

Vaughan '08 wins Dartmouth Idol

By Divya Gunasekaran | March 8, 2008

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Spaulding Auditorium hosted the finale of the unprecedented "Dartmouth Idol" tonight, and I have to say that the show left me sorely disappointed - in one regard.

News

Daily Debriefing

March 7, 2008

Mystery continues to surround the death of 22-year-old Eve Carlson, student body president of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

News

Lecture ties secondhand smoke to breast cancer

By Michael Coburn | March 7, 2008

Secondhand smoke increases the risk of breast cancer in young women, although many experts still refuse to accept the research, published by the California Environmental Protection Agency in 2006, because no study has conclusively linked direct smoke inhalation to breast cancer, Dr. Stan Glantz, director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, claimed in his Thursday lecture at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Glantz likened the breast cancer researchers who doggedly oppose the California EPA's findings to "religious fanatics," referring to their unwillingness to accept the findings. The link between smoke inhalation and breast cancer, which Glantz called "the most important scientific development in the last 10 years," follows logically, according to Glantz, because cigarettes contain many known mammary carcinogens, such as benzene. "If you're a breast cell minding your own business and some benzene from smoke goes floating by, it doesn't have a sign on it saying, 'I'm a cigarette, never mind,'" Glantz said.

News

GreenPrint malfunctions on Macs

By Kate Farley | March 7, 2008

Students rushing to print final papers are rolling the dice if they choose to print from a public Mac computer, as many terminals appear to be functional but cancel print jobs before they are sent to public printers. On affected machines, the pop-up window that allows users to log in to the GreenPrint system does not appear.

News

HealThy Self House to aid student addicts

By Amita Kulkarni | March 7, 2008

Editor's Note: This is the last in a three-part series examining mental health at the College. Today's article examines the creation of HealThy Self House, a new organization designed to provide a safe space for students suffering from substance abuse and other emotional challenges. For Bill Sjogren '67, Dartmouth is a bittersweet place.

When irritated by drunk friends some students have exploited the Good Sam policy by sending their friend to Dick's House when no emergency exists.
News

Good Sam abused to get rid of annoying friends

By Mat Grudzien | March 7, 2008

Phil Woram / The Dartmouth Staff Those who tend to wander through their hallways after a night of drinking, preventing other students from sleep, now risk confrontation with the latest method of resolving personal conflicts -- unwarranted Good Samaritan calls -- which seem to be on the rise among Dartmouth students. In one instance, an intoxicated student, who wishes to remain anonymous, decided to annoy his floormate to entertain himself and the floormate, angry and also intoxicated, called Safety and Security in response. "I was already sleeping in my room, and then I hear someone banging on my door," the student said.

News

ORL may purchase 5 new houses

By Allie Lowe | March 7, 2008

The Office of Residential Life is considering the purchase of five properties from the College's Real Estate Office, two of which could become new physical plants for Alpha Xi Delta and Alpha Phi sororities.

News

Daily Debriefing

By Maria Fillas and Susan Matthews | March 6, 2008

Oliver Grau, an image science professor at Danube University in Austria, discussed the importance of the digital humanities, a discipline devoted to the study of digital art like computer graphics, animation and nanotechnology, in a lecture held in Kreindler auditorium Tuesday.

News

Hong examines Chinese artifacts

By Josh Roselman | March 6, 2008

In 1959, a poor farmer in the Shanxi Province of northern China stumbled upon an incredibly elaborate tomb containing the remains of a husband and wife from the early 12th century, intricate bas-relief sculpturing and five mysterious wooden figurines whose brightly painted colors offset the dull gray of the tomb's walls.

News

Citizens support police action in cheating cases

By Nick Swanson | March 6, 2008

A vote by citizens of Hanover and Norwich, Vt., affirmed on Tuesday that Hanover High School was correct in allowing the police to investigate and criminally prosecute students involved in the cheating scandal last June. According to the Valley News, the vote was 1137 to 875 in favor of the article, with 19 percent of Dresden school district citizens voting. Norwich resident George Fraser filed this question as an advisory article in the Dresden warrant, part of the area's budget, last Thursday.

News

House refuses state control over charter

By William Schpero | March 6, 2008

The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to reject legislation that would have allowed the state control over changes Dartmouth makes to its charter on Wednesday. The bill came before the full House following its Feb.

News

Daily Debriefing

March 5, 2008

When citizens of Brattleboro, Vt., voted in their Democratic primary and school board elections Tuesday, they also voted on a measure calling for the indictment of President George W.

News

Epstein sheds new light on cause of HIV crisis in Africa

By Andrew Wells | March 5, 2008

While many scholars have pointed to a lack of condom use and impulsive promiscuity in examining the prevalence of HIV in southeast Africa, the practice of men and women having multiple long-term, concurrent sexual relationships may be more to blame, author Helen Epstein said in her lecture, "The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS," on Tuesday afternoon in Filene auditorium. Epstein is the author of a book by the same name. According to Epstein's theory, there are high rates of HIV in societies where individuals often have two or more continuous sexual partners.

News

ORL's new housing plan stirs SA debate

By Susan Matthews | March 5, 2008

In response to recent changes in the College's eligibility standards for on-campus housing, Student Assembly pledged to explore other housing options with the Office of Residential Life and possibly create a database of available off-campus housing at Tuesday's Assembly meeting. ORL announced last week that an additional 100 seniors will have to find off-campus housing beginning next fall.

A new campus organization, Q-Faith, hosts its first discussion forum to examine the implications of sexuality in faith Tuesday evening.
News

Students explore intersection of religion, sexuality

By Kashay Sanders | March 5, 2008

Andy Mai / The Dartmouth Staff Lamenting perceived religious intolerance to homosexuality and debat how to interpret the Bible in a sexual context, Q-Faith, a new student group, hosted its first discussion forum, "Rethinking Faithful Sexuality," on Tuesday night at the Tucker Foundation. Jonathan Coogan '10, a gay student who grew up in an accepting Catholic family, said he has never before been presented with an opportunity to discuss the roles of sexuality in religion with others.

News

Bone marrow registry recruits minorities

By Rebecca Cress | March 5, 2008

There are 6.6 million bone marrow donors registered with the National Marrow Donor Program, yet the odds of a minority patient finding a compatible donor is 20,000 to one, according to the Cammy Lee Leukemia Foundation web site.

News

Daily Debriefing

March 4, 2008

The Forum on Education Abroad released a new code of ethics for U.S. colleges and universities and overseas institutions that will coordinate foreign study programs, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Monday.

Trending
The Dartmouth