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July 25, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Brian E.J. Martin
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Panelists support affirmative action

Four speakers drew on their personal experiences to discuss the topic of affirmative action during a panel discussion last night. Alpha Phi member Reginald Martin '03 introduced the panel and then initiated the evening with a brief presentation on the history of affirmative action, first emphasizing the role of the federal government during the Kennedy through Nixon administrations then examining the recent court history of affirmative action since the landmark 1978 Supreme Court case Regents of the University of California v.

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Vt. Senator 'grew up' in Silsby

The Rockefeller Center is home to Hanover native son and current Vermont State Senator Matt Dunne, who is helping to facilitate the College's Public Impact Initiative. Dunne is a graduate of Hanover High School and an honored member of the Brown University class of 1992.

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DHMC employees to get smallpox vaccine

This week, the federal government began to release preliminary batches of the smallpox vaccine to medical personnel -- including several Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center employees -- in an effort to immunize healthcare workers in the event of a terrorist attack. According to representatives at the Center for Disease Control, the "attacks of September and October, 2001 have heightened concern that terrorists may have access to the virus and attempt to use it against the American public." Initiated by a Dec.

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Prof. discusses subplots in 'Merchant of Venice'

Professor James Shapiro of the Columbia University English Department addressed an audience of about 50 students and faculty gathered in Rocky 2 during his lecture on "The Merchant of Venice" and Jewish-English literary history, entitled "Jessica: The Jew's Daughter." A central subplot to Shakespeare's romantic comedy "The Merchant of Venice" concerns Jessica, who betrays her father, the antagonist Jewish character Shylock, to run away and marry the Christian Lorenzo. Introduced by Dartmouth Professor Susannah Heschel, chair of the religion department, the lecture began by the claim that he intended this as a sort of addendum to his previous literary effort on "The Merchant of Venice," as an effort to appease the critics of "Shakespeare and the Jews." "What happens to Jessica," Shapiro asked, "amidst the joy at the end of 'The Merchant of Venice,' one of Shakespeare's most complicated comedies?" Shapiro proceeded to elaborate on the history of the name Jessica and the role of Jews in Shakespearean English literature. In one anecdote, Shapiro demonstrated the similarities between the Jessica character and a "long-standing English literary tradition of a beautiful Jewish daughter ... and [her] hidden threat." He recounted a folktale found in James Joyce's "Ulysses" and in several English sources which describes a seductive young Jewish woman who lures an unsuspecting Christian boy to her chambers where she murders him.

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Dhand, Herring win int'l Rhodes

Two recent College graduates, Amar Dhand '01 of Canada and Fiona Herring '02 of Bermuda, were recently honored as Rhodes Scholars by their respective nations. The Rhodes Scholarships were created 100 years ago and enable students from 18 nations to study for two or three years at Oxford University in Cambridge, England.

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