Monday, January 30, 2006

Lambda 10 works to erase homophobia

By Jennifer Garfinkel, The Dartmouth Staff

On Saturday afternoon, 30 members of Dartmouth’s Greek community packed into a Rockefeller Center conference room for the pilot session of Lambda 10, a national project seeking to abate homophobia in Greek systems across the country. More »

Student recognized posthumously

By Astrid Bradley, The Dartmouth Staff

The Martin Luther King Celebration Committee honored the late Meleia Willis-Starbuck ‘07, who died this summer of a gunshot wound, with the Emerging Leadership Award Friday at the Fifth Annual Social Justice Awards in the Hopkins Center. More »

Syrian professor speaks on cross-cultural biases

By Gus Lûbin, The Dartmouth Staff

In his keynote address to a packed crowd this Friday, Syrian intellectual Sadik al-Azm stressed the importance of understanding the biases of Arab and Western scholarship. Al-Azm’s address marked the second day of the three-day “Orientalism and Fundamentalism” conference held in his honor. More »

COS hearings often mystify students

By Samantha Ackah, The Dartmouth Staff

“Parkhurst” is one of the scariest verbs in the Dartmouth lexicon. Named for the building in which undergraduate judicial hearings occur, getting “Parkhursted” is a slang term for being suspended or expelled by the College. Despite recent high-profile cases that dealt with issues ranging from cocaine trafficking to defenestrating, the most common cases are often the least publicized. Of the 666 cases brought by the Office of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs in 2004-05, most concerned either violations of the honor principle or misconduct charges, such as alcohol offenses; only a handful dealt with criminal offenses. More »