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Internat'l students seek need-blind admissions

By JR Santo | February 21, 2007

Lobbied by international students, Student Assembly expressed support Tuesday for a need-blind admissions policy for all students, calling the current policy discriminatory on the bases of birth country and wealth.

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Law prof explains indigenous law changes

By Brook Jackling | February 21, 2007

University of Victoria law professor and indigenous law expert John Borrows argued for harmonizing indigenous, common and civil law in Canada's legal system in a Tuesday afternoon lecture sponsored by the Rockefeller Center. During the talk -- "Living Law on a Living Earth: Aboriginal Religion, Law, and the Constitution" -- Borrows stressed the need for aboriginal and non-aboriginal people to learn about each other's belief systems in order for aboriginal legal tradition to be integrated into the Canadian judicial system. During his talk, Borrows stressed that the inclusion of indigenous traditions in Canadian judicial practices could benefit aboriginals and non-aboriginals alike. "There are other legal traditions that exist within the country that continue to guide people's answers to disputes," Borrows said.

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Panelists condemn U.S. torture policy

By Andrew Lebovich | February 21, 2007

"What are the consequences when a profession like medicine can go so far off the tracks?" Dickey Center Director Kenneth Yalowitz asked an audience of undergraduates, medical students and community members in a panel discussing medicine's role in torture held Tuesday in Filene Auditorium. Yalowitz posed that question while introducing a historian, a lawyer and a military doctor, participants in the panel "Military Torture and Medicine: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on the Occurrence and Ramifications of Torture." The panel brought together three experts from varied backgrounds to discuss the relationship between torture and medicine, especially in light of the opening of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the torture debate that has embroiled the United States government since 2002. Dirk Rupnow, a Holocaust expert and visiting professor of Jewish studies at the College, spoke first and acknowledged the difficulty of comparing the Holocaust to any current events, while still noting lessons that can be drawn from the Holocaust. "What is important to understand is that the Holocaust didn't begin with Auschwitz," Rupnow said.

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Hunter's campaign stresses nat'l defense

By Ben Nunnery | February 20, 2007

Pressing for tougher national defense and updated trade deals, presidential candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., spoke to students and community members in the basement of the Haldeman Center Monday night in an event sponsored by the Rockefeller Center and the College Republicans. "I stand for a strong national defense, enforced borders and bringing back high-paying manufacturing and engineering jobs to the United States through the revamping of international trade deals," he said. Hunter is the second of the 2008 Republican presidential candidates to speak at Dartmouth -- former Massachusetts Gov.

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Japanese internment stories recalled

By Zach Swiss | February 20, 2007

Drawing parallels between the 1940s and the post-9/11 world, three women whose families were directly affected by Japanese internment camps during World War II ran a panel discussion hosted by the Dartmouth Japan Society.

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Daily Debriefing

By Brook Jackling | February 20, 2007

Dartmouth's Figure Skating team took first place in the first of two national qualifying competitions held at Boston University on Feb.

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Balkcom awarded $400,000 NSF grant

By Carolyn Kylstra | February 20, 2007

The National Science Foundation recently awarded Dartmouth computer science professor Devin Balkcom with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, which is given to young scholar-teachers who show promise of becoming leaders in their fields of study.

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Black Panther defends group's history

By Carolyn Kylstra | February 19, 2007

Paul Park / The Dartmouth Staff Wearing a black beret evocative of his former position, Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale drew approximately 100 students to Filene Auditorium Friday, primarily arguing that his organization was more moderate than history considers. Seale discussed a wide range of topics, from the history of the Black Panther Party, to his family history, to his educational background, to his opinions on the current Bush administration and Hurricane Katrina.

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Heschel heads immigration conference

By Andrew Lebovich | February 19, 2007

A conference organized by religion professor Susannah Heschel examining movements of Jews and Muslims in the modern world, "Transnational Migrations of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and the Modernity Debate," was held Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Heschel said this conference was a chance to look at similarities between the struggles Jews and Muslims have endured in migrating to the west.

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Daily Debriefing

By Carolyn Kylstra | February 16, 2007

Boston College professor of political science Robert S. Ross gave a lecture titled "The Fading of Taiwan's Independence Movement and the Prospects for Cross-Strait Relations" on Thursday evening to a crowd of students, faculty and community members.

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Activists discuss humanitarian work

By Allie Lowe | February 16, 2007

Three speakers addressed the issue of balance in international humanitarian work during a panel discussion entitled "International Activism: Dartmouth in the World." The panel, held Thursday night in Filene Auditorium, was the third event in a series of programs held to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. The panelists included two Dartmouth alumni and one current Master of Arts and Liberal Studies student, all of whom have committed their professional lives to activist efforts throughout the world.

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