A year-long Student Assembly-sponsored symposium called "Women, Leadership and Activism" will kick off with a keynote address tomorrow about the experiences of minority women in academia. Elaine Kim, an Asian American Studies professor at the University of California at Berkeley, will speak tomorrow at 7 p.m in 13 Carpenter.
Two hundred freshmen will debate the social issues addressed in four senior theses sold to incoming students this summer during a discusion program which kicks off this afternoon. The program, now in its second year, is part of a larger effort to make Freshmen Orientation more intellectual, said Mariya Rosberg '96, who has coordinated the program along the Freshmen Office. In late August, freshmen received a letter explaining the program and an order form that allowed them to purchase one or more of four theses selected for the program For $7, students received an entire thesis, complete with appendices and a study guide to prepare them for the group discussions which will be led by faculty members today, Sunday and Monday. By exposing students early on to the high academic quality to which they can aspire at Dartmouth, "freshmen get the idea of what they can accomplish here," Rosberg said.