Where can a young 'shmen go to explore spirituality and ponder abstract religious questions? Becoming a philosophy or a religion major is one option.
Club provides fun in the sun for beginners and experts alike
The members of the senior class will walk across the platform to receive their diplomas only once.
Panelists describe College's rocky transition into coeducation
Biology Professor George Langford will appear in a Public Broadcasting Station program about minority scientists, titled "BreakThrough: The Changing Face of Science In America." The three-part program will air today and on April 15 and April 22, from 9 to 11 p.m. Langford and two other minority cell biologists, University of California at San Francisco Professor Wilfred Denetclaw, Jr.
Sung Noh '96, who was arrested last week by the Hanover Police Department on four counts of criminal threatening, entered "no plea" at his Feb.
Physics Professor Delo Mook spoke last night about his experience as a sexist in a speech titled "Hi.
Elizabeth Jelin, a professor of sociology at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, said women in Central and South America need to work to gain true equality with men in a speech on Friday. Jelin gave her speech, titled "Democracy and Citizenship in Latin America: A Gender Perspective," to about 20 people in the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Jelin first examined the history of citizenship in Latin America, particularly noting how the definition of "citizenship" has changed over time with respect to human rights and changing forms of government. Jelin said the break-up of totalitarian governments in South and Central America has meant that citizenship in these countries has evolved to include human rights. Jelin said "democratic practices had to be learned after authoritarianism" and there is a distinct difference between "a legal definition of human rights and practices." In particular, Jelin stressed that citizenship is "always in construction and transformation" and "to have full citizenship implies a process of empowerment in the political and social scenario of society." She noted the difference in the meaning of "citizenship" for men and women in Latin America. In order to achieve this "empowerment," Jelin said women in Latin America have had to battle against "domestic and sexual violence, [for] reproductive rights, and [against] the reluctance of society to allow women to enter the public domain." Jelin said often in Central and South American countries women do not receive the same treatment as men.
Government Professor Roger Masters and conservative scholar Dinesh D'Souza '83 squared off in a debate last night on whether or not racism was still a big problem in America. Speaking before a standing-room only crowd in 105 Dartmouth Hall, Masters argued that racism was still a big problem in this country, especially what he called "covert racism." Defining racism as "anything which will harm members of a specific out-group on the grounds of their supposed innate or natural inferiority," Masters said, "racism is a recurring problem in human affairs, it will never end." D'Souza -- a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington, D.C., and the author of the recently released book "The End of Racism" -- contended that racism, although still a problem in America, was not the main reason behind unequal achievements of black Americans. Instead, D'Souza said "black culture" was the main reason for the inequality in American society and, even if racism was ended today, this inequality would still exist. In his 20-minute opening statement, Masters said, "We have to understand the problem of racism as a potential problem as more or less ubiquitous particularly in any complex society such as our own." He outlined three types of racism that exist in American society today-- overt, covert, and intellectual racism. Masters defined overt racism as conscious, explicit and emotionally committed hostility to "them." Masters said although the problem of overt racism has evolved, it still exists and D'Souza does not understand its new dynamics. Masters gave the example of the reaction to the O.J.
Nationally renowned alumnus Dinesh D'Souza '83 and Government Professor Roger Masters will face off in their much-anticipated debate Sunday at 7 p.m.