SEBASTIAN RAMIREZ-BRUNNER / The Dartmouth Staff Current welfare efforts have not done enough to reduce poverty in the United States, speakers at the Rockefeller Center's Centennial Series panel said Monday.
The United States' large economic and military advantage over other states will secure its status as the world's most powerful nation, Dartmouth government professor Stephen Brooks said in his Thursday lecture, "America's Place in the World." Brooks' assertion contradicts popular scholarly theories that predict the decline of U.S.
Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Montgomery Endowment celebrated its 30th anniversary on Tuesday with a public conversation featuring premier American portraitist and 2008 Montgomery Fellow Everett Raymond Kinstler.
During the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in a letter from his Birmingham County jail cell, "One day the South will recognize its real heroes," Randall Kennedy, author and Harvard Law professor said in a lecture Thursday evening.
Elisabeth Ericson / The Dartmouth Staff Simon Wilson, the Middle East bureau chief for the British Broadcasting Company, hoped that he would never have to open the file on his computer desktop labeled, "Worst Case Scenario." But on March 12, 2007, with the abduction of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston in the Gaza strip, Wilson's "worst case scenario" became a reality. Wilson said the rescue effort was the "biggest challenge of my career." He described this and other experiences he has had while reporting in Israel, Iraq and Lebanon during a lecture, titled "Reflections in the Middle East," given before a large audience of students, faculty and community members in the Rockefeller Center on Thursday night. The talk marked the first time Wilson has spoken publicly about the details of his involvement in Johnston's rescue. "Despite my British reserve, I might get a little emotional," Wilson told the crowd. Wilson presented actual messages that he exchanged with Johnston's captors, members of the militant Army of Islam group, describing the tactics he employed, like consistently using Johnston's name to personalize the situation. The accurate use of language was a theme that pervaded Wilson's discussion. "In the Middle East, the use of language needs to be very, very precise," Wilson said. Particularly sensitive word choice includes the term "terrorist" and the distinction between wall, fence and barrier in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian border, Wilson said. During a question and answer period following the lecture, Jordana Beeber '08 challenged Wilson on some of the word choices the BBC has made in its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Erin Jaeger / The Dartmouth Staff Francisco de Goya's legacy as an artist and as intellectual was the focus of the symposium "Goya and the Foundation of Modernity," which the College hosted on Thursday.
Student Assembly passed legislation to fund a Cutter Shabazz Alternative Space Party and renew funding for the Profiles in Excellence Award and the Course Guide Incentive Program at its meeting on Tuesday.
Marina Agapakis / The Dartmouth Staff Drenched in her own urine, eight-year-old Noella sat shamed and alone.
As part of the College's ongoing relationship with the American University of Kuwait, two members of Dartmouth's information technology team, Technical Services Director David Bucciero and Voice Network Engineer Peter Ejmont, traveled to Kuwait this December to share their technological expertise. Dartmouth and AUK, which began accepting students in 2004, negotiated a memorandum of understanding in 2003.
Literary critics James Sitar and William Logan have both scrutinized the first published edition of poet Robert Frost's personal journals, "The Notebooks of Robert Frost," according to The New York Times.