At the Hop, Clinton backs stem cell research
Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff Presidential hopeful Sen.
Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff Presidential hopeful Sen.
The Hanover Co-op Food Store was recently the site of an impromptu demonstration, protesting the arrest of Dartmouth French professor Vivian Kogan, who was charged with shoplifting last February.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., called on her fellow senators to fund stem cell research and said that as president she would make lifting the ban on the research "a very high priority as soon as taking office," during a town hall"style rally in Alumni Hall in the Hopkins Center Friday afternoon. At the event, which was billed as a conversation about stem cell research, Clinton both condemned the Bush administration's insistence on forbidding research it deems unethical and portrayed the issue as one that transcends partisan politics. She couched her criticism in an overall attack on what she termed Bush's misuse of science. "For the past six years, science has been under siege in Washington," she said.
Former Dartmouth Dining Services Food Court manager Larry James died Tuesday after battling cancer of his small intestine for several months.
Letter written by Bruce Nelson criticizes choice of Bush cabinet member
For the Class of 2007, sophomore summer was marred by the death of Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07, who was fatally shot near her apartment in Berkeley, Calif., in July 2005. Willis-Starbuck was known on campus for her activism and warm personality.
For Dartmouth seniors, Senior Week is a time both to reminisce over Dartmouth experiences and to try everything they haven't had the chance to in the past four years.
Courtesy of Dartmouth College Library While current graduates reach into their own pockets, or those of their Greek organizations, to pay for celebratory spirits, for students at Dartmouth's first Commencement, the alcohol was courtesy of the governor of New Hampshire. Dartmouth's first graduation in 1771 adorned only four graduates, all transfer students from Yale University who received unsigned diplomas because the Board of Trustees had not yet been established.
With members of the Class of 2007 wondering what their futures may hold after Sunday's Commencement ceremonies and their farewell to the College, they can find comfort in the tradition of success many of the College's alumni have had in a wide range of fields.
Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff The Thayer School of Engineering, the Tuck School of Business and Dartmouth Medical School held Commencement ceremonies for the students of their graduating classes on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. The Thayer School of Engineering graduated 124 students at its investiture ceremony Friday morning.
Ryan Yuk / The Dartmouth Staff With final grade calculations in, Nikolas Primack '07 of Claremont, Calif., has become valedictorian of the Class of 2007.
During reunion season, 2,500 alumni and 1,500 guests descend upon Hanover -- many staying in residence halls recently and hastily vacated by current undergraduates. This year's attendees will benefit from the introduction of continuing education activities, according to Corena Dungey from the Alumni Events office. The Office of Alumni Continuing Education organized a series of seminars and classes where alumni can learn from and interact with current Dartmouth professors. In one such seminar, French professor John Rassias discusses his internationally renowned language study method, and in another the nationally recognized Shakespeare professor Peter Saccio, who is retiring after this term, analyzes the intricacies of Shakespeare's writing. "They're definitely out of the ordinary," Dungey said.
Dartmouth seniors are not the only ones to say goodbye to Hanover after this year's Commencement, as four professors are retiring and others are moving to new settings. Karl Furstenberg is retiring after spending 17 years as the College's dean of admissions and financial aid.
Courtesy of the University of Pennsylavia When members of this year's graduating class look onto the Commencement stage, they will find a philanthropist, a Hall of Fame baseball star and a historic conductor, each of whom is among the seven receiving honorary degrees from the College. Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, will receive a Doctor of Science at the ceremony.
In a response to what a committee of Dartmouth trustees says has become "a highly politicized process for trustee selection," the Board of Trustees decided Friday to begin an exploration of "the size and composition of the Board and the method of Trustee selection." The decision, made at the Board's annual June meeting, coincided with the election of Charles Haldeman, Jr.
The 2007-2008 Student Assembly passed a resolution Tuesday night which will allow the body to operate under a modified structure throughout the Summer term, as a result of delays in the Assembly's new constitution.
May 22, 2:18 p.m., South Park Street Two male subjects, described as in their late teens or early twenties, acquired $35 worth of gas from the Coop Mobile station and drove away without paying.
The New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony on H.B. 184, a bill that would repeal the parental notification law regarding abortion Tuesday afternoon.
In its 2007-2008 report released this past weekend, the Undergraduate Finance Committee, which distributes $866,000 in student activities fees each year, created a new group to fund large campus events and for the first time allocated money to three other previously unfunded groups.