$12 billion in student loans to be eliminated

A currently pending Congressional bill aimed to cut government spending in many areas will eliminate $12.7 billion in federal student loan programs if it passes.

Discussion covers poor mothers and welfare aid

History professor and chair of the Jewish Studies program Annelise Orleck discussed the struggle that poor black mothers faced after large welfare cuts were enacted in late-1960s Las Vegas. Wednesday night's lecture, titled "What if poor mothers ran the world?

Daily newspaper delivery re-established after hiatus

Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Many students dedicated to staying in touch with the world outside of Hanover felt a vacancy in their lives at the start of Winter term when their free copies of The New York Times were nowhere to be found. The Collegiate Readership program, funded by the Student Assembly, provides issues of The New York Times along with The Boston Globe, USA Today and the Financial Times at no charge to the student body. The program, now in its third year at the College, supplies newspaper pickup stations in the Hopkins Center, the Collis Center and Novack Cafe, and typically costs the Assembly approximately $25,000 of its $90,000 annual budget. Students were relieved when the cornerstone of the Assembly's biggest program returned to shelves Tuesday. "It's so easy to fall out of touch with what's going on in the world when you are on campus," Deb Origel '09 said.

Dartmouth students assaulted in Calif.

Two Dartmouth sophomores were assaulted and injured early Saturday morning by three unidentified men in Santa Barbara County, Calif. Dan Siegfried '08 underwent treatment for a severe concussion, a broken right orbital bone and a laceration under his eye.

Police Blotter

Jan. 10, Lyme Road, 1:35 p.m. A private citizen complained to Hanover Police that a man in a Subaru Legacy was driving recklessly.

Playwright discusses biracialism

Assembly reworks UFC membership guidelines

Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff Student Assembly passed a resolution to support an increase in the number of at-large members of the Undergraduate Finance Committee Tuesday night.

Tuck to enter Minority Business Hall of Fame

Nat Smith / The Dartmouth Staff This Thursday at the Harvard Club in New York City, the Tuck School of Business will become the first academic institution to be inducted into the Minority Business Hall of Fame. The award recognizes Tuck's Minority Business Executive Program, which is aimed at African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans who own businesses, but do not have access to the type of training that is necessary to reach the executive level.

Speaker celebrates MLK legacy

Juniors scramble to meet recruiting crunch

Larkin Elderon / The Dartmouth Students nervously completed cover letters and resumes, promoted their skills and qualifications to corporate America, just in time for Monday's midnight corporate-recruiting deadline.

Preysman '04 wins Mitchell scholar.

Courtesy of Daniel Preysman Selected from a pool of 236 applicants, Daniel Preysman '04 was recently announced as one of the twelve national recipients of the 2006-2007 George J.

Med. school study links movies to alcohol use

Young adolescents who are exposed to movies that depict high levels of alcohol use are more likely to experiment with alcohol at an early age, according to a recent study by Dr. James Sargent, a pediatrics professor at Dartmouth Medical School.

Heating bill expected to top $1.59 million

Yesterday Dartmouth experienced some of the coldest temperatures of the year, forcing many students to take refuge in their dorms.

DHMC receives strong rating on bonds, debt

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Obligated Group, which comprises the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, received an A+ rating on its newest $53.125 million bond issue earlier this month from Fitch Ratings, a New York financial ratings firm.

Arrests made in murder of alumnus journalist

Associated Press Washington, D.C., police apprehended two suspects in last week's beating death of The New York Times reporter David Rosenbaum '63. The first suspect, Michael Cleveland Hamlin, 23, of Washington, turned himself into police on Thursday night after seeing his face on television throughout the evening.

Thomas '79 to lead Oregon Health & Science University

Courtesy of the University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center The Oregon Health and Science University named Dr. Charles R.

Liquor commission disrupts KDE party

/ The Dartmouth Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority shut down their party early Saturday morning after a covert New Hampshire Liquor Commission officer, monitoring the party while camped on Webster Avenue, arrested at least one underage partygoer outside the house. Dressed in street clothes, a Liquor Commission officer told KDE president Edy Wilson '06 that he had been looking for underage people leaving the party intoxicated, she said. According to Wilson, KDE's first contact with the officer came after the sorority made a Good Samaritan call to Dartmouth Safety and Security for help with an intoxicated student.

Six sororities extend 43 rush bids

The winter sorority rush period ended Thursday evening when campus sororities extended bids to 43 rushees after a condensed six-day process. When the rush process began last Friday, 52 women planned to rush but three dropped out before round one, according to Panhellenic Council Vice President of Recruitment Zobie Torres '06.

Sharpton rails at Bush in pre-MLK speech

Global health lecture series introduces course, minor

Former Ambassdor Kenneth Yalowitz, director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, solicited student support Thursday night for the creation of a new global health minor and international studies certificate program.