Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Support independent student journalism. Support independent student journalism. Support independent student journalism.
The Dartmouth
April 4, 2026
The Dartmouth
News
News

Cornell's Assembly votes 'no' to Iraq war

February 6, 2003

While Cornell's Student Assembly unanimously passed an anti-war resolution last week, Dartmouth's own Student Assembly could only take a similar political stance if the resolution spoke for the majority of the student body, according to Student Body President Janos Marton '04. Cornell's assembly decided to ratify the resolution against a possible war in Iraq after the Anti-War Coalition, a campus organization over 200 members strong, brought the proposal to the assembly. The assembly engaged in active discussion over the idea at a meeting at which "there was standing room only," Cornell Assembly President Noah Doyle said. Cornell's resolution followed the lead of 54 cities and 13 universities that have recently passed similar anti-war statements.

News

SEVIS monitors int'l students' activities

By Maggie Shnayerson | February 5, 2003

For most students at the College, moving off-campus or taking a leave term does not present the possibility of deportation from the United States. For international students like Tanya Ghani '03 and Nicholas Bwana '06, however, failure to report details like these to a new Immigration and Naturalization Services program called SEVIS could earn them one-way tickets back to their respective countries of Pakistan and Kenya. SEVIS, or the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, is a real-time Internet-based government program on which U.S.

News

Wilson: America's cities to stay 'divided'

By Devin Foxall | February 5, 2003

William Julius Wilson, a professor at Harvard University, warned yesterday that American cities "will remain divided racially and culturally for the foreseeable future." This division will lead to greater, and possibly violent, ethnic conflict, unless groups begin to develop a sense of interdependence. Wilson, who for the last three decades has written prominent books on race and the urban poor, told an overflowing crowd in the Rockefeller Center that the potential for ethnic unrest occurs when groups are "more likely to focus on their differences than their commonalties." Because tension increases when people believe they must compete with members of another race for jobs and services, races -- particularly those living in the same neighborhood or city -- must realize they are dependent on one another and focus on their common goals, he said. As an example, Wilson said that in one neighborhood, white and Hispanic parents joined together to fight an autocratic school council. "They shared a common concern: the education of their children," he said. There will have to be more examples like this to prevent continued racial tension, which threatens American cities, according to Wilson. This is the first time in the nation's history, he said, that whites are the minority in the 100 largest cities.

News

Bikers travel, build for Habitat chapter

By Sarah Betts | February 5, 2003

Dartmouth students can frequently be seen biking around Hanover, but a few will widen their horizons this summer and pedal all the way to Vancouver as part of Bike and Build, a group that organizes cross-country biking trips to benefit Habitat for Humanity projects. So far, eight Dartmouth students have signed up to make the trek, and Bike and Build founder Marc Bush expects up to 30 people to participate.

News

Profs face off over potential war in Iraq

By Elise Dunphe | February 4, 2003

Students trekked to Dartmouth Hall in droves yesterday to hear Professors Ronald Edsforth of the history department and Allan Stam of the government department take on opposing sides of the debate over a potential war in Iraq. While Stam supported the war for moral reasons, Edsforth stressed his opposition to any military involvement in Iraq. "We are party responsible for his being there in the first place," Stam said of Saddam Hussein.

News

Groups up meningitis awareness

By Matt Lewis | February 4, 2003

The Dartmouth College Health Services and the Nathan Smith Society have spearheaded a campaign to spread the word on the dangers of meningitis, a potentially fatal disease known for striking college campuses, in the hope that more students will volunteer for vaccines and be able to detect its early symptoms. A video on meningitis from the Nova public television series entitled "Killer on Campus" will be presented on Feb.

News

DAO rings in Chinese New Year

By Alison Schmauch | February 3, 2003

This weekend saw the celebration of the Chinese New Year both across the world and locally, including a traditional celebration hosted by the Dartmouth Asian Organization for local children who participate in DAO's pals program, a recently-founded mentoring service. Each of the 12 years in the Chinese calendar is named after an animal.

News

Speech dept. still struggles for support

By Samantha Lane | February 3, 2003

For the past eight years, Professor Jim Kuypers has been running a one-man show. As the sole director and professor of Dartmouth's College Office of Speech, Professor Kuypers receives very limited financial support from the College and is only able to offer students four speech courses. According to Kuypers, the current status of the speech department is not what was originally envisioned by the Dartmouth Board of Trustees. Dartmouth College has always offered the study of rhetoric.

News

DMS student injured in Wilder, VT assault

By Colin Barry | February 3, 2003

A female Dartmouth Medical School student was assaulted outside her home in Wilder, Vt. by an unknown assailant last Thursday evening. The victim, whose name has yet to be released, left her condominium at approximately 9 p.m.

News

Dept. funding policies vary

By Colin Barry | January 31, 2003

In a move that has caused some outcry on campus, the Spanish and Portuguese and sociology departments two weeks ago contributed department funds to send a group of students to an anti-war protest. On Jan.

News

Wright affirms vision despite budget woes

By Kaitlin Bell | January 31, 2003

Even as Dartmouth has announced increasingly detailed plans to scale back its financial expenditures in a host of areas, College President James Wright has continually affirmed that the College's academic integrity and commitment to fostering a diversity of views and experiences -- core Dartmouth values he has emphasized over the course of his presidency -- will remain unchanged. And looking out at the Green from his office in Parkhurst Hall, with its polished wood conference table and studded green leather chairs, there is a sense that the long gaze of Dartmouth's President goes beyond the small details of the present to a more overarching vision for Dartmouth's future, and that the current budget woes, though serious, are just blips on the radar screen. "I think the economic difficulties that we're facing now are difficulties that are being faced by everyone in higher education," Wright said.

News

N.H. plans to tighten environmental laws

By Mark Herman | January 31, 2003

Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of five articles about Dartmouth and the environment.New Hampshire's environmental regulations are not as stringent as those of neighboring states.

Trending
The Dartmouth