Atty.: High Court both stressful and intimate
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles that will examine the affirmative action debate from an insider's perspective. In front of her sit nine intimidating robed figures.
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles that will examine the affirmative action debate from an insider's perspective. In front of her sit nine intimidating robed figures.
Far from dying a natural death, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was murdered by his colleagues for his anti-American and anti-Jewish stances, Jonathan Brent, the executive editor of Yale University Press, asserted Friday afternoon during a speech. Brent cited a medical report written in July 1953 after Stalin's death indicating that he likely died of warfarin poisoning. Warfarin is an anticoagulant, commonly used as a blood thinner to treat the victims of heart attacks.
Marton '04, Wolkoff '05 favored in poll
The upcoming 2003 Student Assembly elections are inspiring a mix of enthusiasm and apathy in the student community.
After an unprecedented 25 percent increase in early applications this year, Harvard recently announced that it will re-institute its previous early action policy disallowing students to apply early to other schools in addition to Harvard. The one-school early action program had been characteristic of Harvard until it was changed last year to bring the school into accordance with this year's guidelines set forth by the National Association for College Admissions Counseling, which required schools to allow applicants the right to file multiple early applications. "It puts us against them at the moment," Harvard Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis said, referring to the NACAC.
"Wright is getting old" and finding an eventual successor should be the highest priority of the Board of Trustees, at least according to a member of the Class of 1997. He and all of the other 60,000 Dartmouth alumni have the opportunity to voice their opinions about the future of the College by voting for a new Trustee to join the board this spring.
"The Holocaust was only possible because of the demonization of the Jews," said David Kertzer, a Brown professor who spoke yesterday about the ways the Catholic Church endorsed and encouraged modern anti-Semitism. Kertzer's scholarly exploration of Vatican documents turned up a wealth of anti-Semitic documents leading up to and during the holocaust, Kertzer said. The Church did not directly endorse the mass killing of Jews, but did create an environment of hatred over its centuries of rhetoric against the Jews and endorsed groups like the Christian Socialist Party in Austria that Adolf Hitler later called his inspiration for his anti-Semitic beliefs. The Church also supported the rise of laws that limited the rights of Jewish people and forced them to live in ghettos. Kertzer's speech, called "The Church's role in modern anti-Semitism: why the continuing denials?" also focused on answering his critics within the Catholic church. These critics tended to focus on what Kertzer called the artificial distinction between anti-Semitism, which believes the Jewish race should be destroyed, and anti-Judaism, which believes that Jews should be converted to Christianity. Kertzer pointed out that these critics continue to believe Jewish people were responsible for the rise of Soviet communism, an accusation rooted in Nazi propaganda and not historic fact. The speech was based on Kertzer's book "The Popes Against the Jews: the Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism" and was given in Filene Auditorium to an audience of just under 100 for the second-annual William Barnett Jewish Studies lecture.
The words "Hanover" and "bustling" are not usually found in the same sentence, but this weekend, as nearly 1,500 visitors descend upon the New England hamlet that Dartmouth calls home, the Green will be swarming. Not only will nearly 1,100 parents, family and friends make their way to Dartmouth beginning today for the First Year Family weekend, but yesterday prospective members of the Class of 2007 began arriving on campus for the annual Dimensions weekend. The Dimensions program has become a fixture of the Admissions Office's annual recruiting program, inviting all students accepted in the regular-decision process to visit the campus for one April weekend each year.
Marton, Theisen face off as elections near
Nine years ago this month, almost 300,000 people were massacred in an organized, government-sponsored genocide aimed at the minority Tutsi population of Rwanda. A panel of experts gathered in Carson hall yesterday and unanimously condemned the international community for its inability to react properly to the tragedy. When the killing stopped, close to one million people lay dead.
Dr. Roderick Cave, printing and book expert, recounted the history of author Somerset Struben de Chair, his publisher Christopher Sandford, and his printing company to an audience of community members and faculty yesterday in a speech entitled "The Politician and the Printer." The Golden Cockerel Press, de Chair's printing company, was a small but respected private publishing firm that printed limited-edition and ornate books.
Over 200 emails clutter student inboxes
College joins Yale in suspending most travel to region
Editor's Note: This is the second in a three part series profiling the platforms of candidates for the College's Board of Trustees. As opposed to having the Trustees hand down decisions without any consultation with the student body, trustee candidate Elyse Benson Allen '79, Tu '84 wants to emphasize the importance of student voice in directing the path of the College. "I think with any decisions that the College makes, they need to make sure they have been consulting with students and looking at general trends at what people are doing and where they are going," Allen said. Allen said she feels that the College needs to pay more attention to the needs of students, particularly the major national trends, so that Dartmouth can provide the programs and services students will most utilize. "We don't build for today's students, we build for tomorrow's students," said Allen of potential changes to the College's.
Survey ranks business school fourth for inclusiveness
Dean of the College James Larimore announced "fine-tuning" to the College's alcohol policy yesterday.
Candidates for Student Assembly President and Vice President went head to head yesterday at an election forum during the evening Assembly meeting.
Suicide ranks as the second leading cause of death for 15 to 19 year olds. Within the next 24 hours, 1439 teenagers will attempt to kill themselves. Dr. Steven Atkins, a psychiatrist at Dartmouth Medical School, used these statistics near the beginning of a talk at Sigma Nu fraternity last night to emphasize just how common suicides are among college-age students. The talk was held in memory of Sigma Nu member Daryl Richmond '04, who committed suicide at home in Reno, Nev., on Feb.
Did Nikita Khrushchev really bang his shoe on a table at the United Nations? Eyewitnesses each have their own recollections of the event, including accounts that the Soviet Premier did indeed exhibit a moment of unbridled temper, that he only brandished the shoe and that although he was holding his footwear, it was his fist that hit the table. "I'm here to tell you that history is complex and even eyewitnesses disagree.
Editor's Note: This is the first in a three part series that will profile the platforms of candidates for the College's Board of Trustees. The future of the Greek system as we know it, the spending priorities that can determine the fate of our athletic teams and countless other decisions regarding the long-term direction of the College all rest in the hands of an elusive and notoriously tight-lipped group known as the Board of Trustees. This year, Dartmouth alumni all across the globe have a chance to affect this mysterious group by electing an alumnus to the Board of Trustees to serve for at least the next five years.