Much has transpired at the College during the four years the Class of 2003 spent on campus. From triumph to tragedy, the class now preparing for "the real world" has seen a lot at Dartmouth. The story that stands out above all others was the murders of two well-respected professors on the evening of Jan.
The Green Key Society is planning a triumphant return to this year's Green Key celebrations, in contrast to recent years when the society has played virtually no role in the weekend that shares its name. The GKS plans to increase its involvement this year by releasing a unified calendar of weekend events and founding the 'Great Green Key Feed,' to be held on Saturday.
Paul Kennedy gave a scathing assessment of U.S. foreign policy during a speech in last night as the Class of 1950 Senior Foreign Affairs Fellow. The speech, titled "The conundrum of American power in a fragmented world" highlighted the unprecedented dominance of American military and economic power today. Kennedy, the Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and the Director of International Security Studies at Yale University, contrasted this power with dramatic changes occurring in the developing world, including enormous population growth and increasing income gaps.
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.
Professor Lucas Swaine accepted his award with classic Canadian humility: "Thank you for the flattering comments, whether they're justified is another matter." At a dinner last night organized by the Student Assembly's academic affairs committee, Swaine was awarded this term's "Profiles in Excellence" award, part of a recent Assembly initiative aimed at giving students an opportunity to thank deserving professors. Swaine -- who teaches political theory -- went on to discuss various aspects of teaching, recounting several incidences of poor instruction that he had experienced, especially at the University of Manitoba, where he completed his undergraduate and masters degrees. "I had some awful, and I mean awful, professors at my undergraduate institution, which, I might add, is the second worst research institution in Canada," he said Swaine focused on his belief that the worst quality in a professor is arrogance.
Maurice Rapf, the emeritus film professor who founded the Dartmouth film department, passed away last night of natural causes at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Professor Leon Sheloff of Tel Aviv University advocated the abandonment of Israeli settlements and the division of Jerusalem as crucial steps in establishing peace between Israelis and Palestinians in a lecture yesterday. During his speech, entitled "Is There a Way?
N.H. Supreme Court hears two cases in Hopkins Center
Two teenagers have been charged following a shooting in Hartford, Vt. on March 22. Adam Perkins, 17, has pleaded innocent to attempted murder charges.
After a year-long national search, Dr. Stephen Spielberg, a renowned pediatrician and pharmacologist, has been appointed to the position of Dean of the Dartmouth Medical School.