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July 4, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Licyau Wong
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Carnivals common at other schools

While Dartmouth's celebration of Winter Carnival will take place this weekend, similar carnivals have already been held at other colleges and more will take place throughout the season. New England colleges in particular are known for hosting winter carnivals.

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Two profs win NEH research fellowships

Two Dartmouth professors were among 180 scholars who will receive research stipends from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which awarded its annual prestigious fellowships on Tuesday. Philosophy professor Julia Driver and Anthropology professor John Watanabe were the only recipients in New Hampshire. The NEH is an independent federal grant provider that funds programs supporting the Humanities in education, exhibitions, libraries and other public arenas. It received 1,289 applications this year and awarded 180 fellowships and $3.3 million in funds. Each professor will receive a stipend of $40,000 for a 9-12 month fellowship and will spend the year doing research rather than teaching, in accordance with the rules governing NEH fellowships. Driver and Watanabe are both using their fellowships to finish authoring books. Driver's book addresses the "greatest happiness" principle, while Watanabe's focuses on administering race, class, community and nation in 19th Century Guatemala. Both said they were pleased to have received the awards. "It's a real honor to get it," Driver said. Watanabe said he views the grant as an opportunity to round out his abilities as a professor. "This reaffirms my faith in the fact that to be a good teacher you have to do your research too," Watanabe said.

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'05s launch chapter of UNICEF

The organizers of Dartmouth's new chapter of the United Nations Children's Fund want to make their peers aware of the range of problems facing children around the world -- and to enlist them in helping these children get adequate medical care, food and other basic necessities. The group, which held its first meeting this past Wednesday, is the brainchild of Sheila Chithran '05, who began researching the possibility of starting a chapter last fall. "I thought that what was lacking [from Dartmouth] was something with a more global view.

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Senator Rudman speaks out on terror, prevention

Before a capacity crowd yesterday, former New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman highlighted three reasons the United States is a major target for terrorism. Rudman asserted that the United States remains highly vulnerable to such attacks, and he said that while there is no way to fully secure a country, stress needs to be placed on the need to consolidate intelligence and fund first-response workers in order to increase homeland security.

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For home-schoolers, admissions hurdles

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles examining unusual high school experiences among Dartmouth students. With statistics indicating that the home-schooling movement is on the rise -- the number of home-schoolers in the United States has tripled over the last decade, according to the U.S.

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Senator's daughter hits Collis

"I feel I have a whole entourage," Rebecca Lieberman laughed as she stopped to chat with students in Collis. Lieberman visited Dartmouth yesterday to campaign for her father, Senator Joseph Lieberman, one of the nine democratic candidates running for president. Assisting with her father's campaign was an amazing opportunity that she could not pass up, according to Lieberman.

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Shipler: Israeli strikes linked to Iraq war

New York Times writer and winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize David Shipler '64 talked about changing attitudes and the growing awareness of mutual responsibility on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict last night. As part of his lecture, Shipler gave a screening of his acclaimed "Arab & Jew: Return to the Promised Land." The documentary was a follow-up on his previous documentary titled "Arab and Jew," which won a 1990 Dupont-Columbia award for broadcast journalism. For the documentary, Shipler interviewed Palestinians and Israelis drawn from a broad spectrum of society. According to Shipler, the central issue behind the Middle Eastern problem is that both Palestinians and Israelis live by an "ideology of return." Israelis believe that God has designated the land for them and Palestinians see the injustice in being forced out of their homes.

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