Monday, October 09, 2006

Columbus marked by nighttime ceremony

By Sarah Badami

Native American students met in the middle of the Green at 12 a.m. Monday to remember Columbus Day with drums and music from the Occom Pond Singers, a campus musical group associated with the Native American community. More »

Dorms incomplete, but students praise luxury

By WILL ROTH and JR SANTO

Though unforeseen construction delays have inconvenienced many of the students in the new McLaughlin and Tuck Mall residence clusters, many students say new luxuries more than outweigh any annoyance caused by the ongoing construction. More »

Dartmouth students win award for GyroBike

By Ashley Zuzek, The Dartmouth Staff

Thanks to the GyroBike, which recently won a Popular Mechanics Magazine Breakthrough Award, the days of training wheels may be numbered. The bicycle, which four Dartmouth students invented, is a training bike that does not use the traditional four-wheel system. More »

Women in Business convene over weekend at Tuck

By Zach Swiss, The Dartmouth Staff

Prospective students, current students and former students gathered at Tuck Business School this weekend for the second annual Women in Business convention, which aimed at fostering connections between aspiring businesswomen and the school’s alumni. The program featured two keynote speakers, several panels and a “Tuck ‘Tails” event in Cohen Great Hall. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by JR Santo
  • Students played in Dartmouth’s first barefoot charity soccer tournament on the Green Saturday afternoon. More »
  • More than one supernova contributed to the evolution of our solar system, according to a study by two Dartmouth researchers. More »
  • “Supernovae are dying stars that burst with tremendous energy, creating new isotopes and throwing a huge amount of material into interstellar space,” Sharma said. More »
  • These isotopes contributed to the makeup of the solar nebula, the large gaseous cloud thought to be the origins of the solar system. More »
  • Former European island colonies overwhelmingly have successful economic systems today, according to a study by economics professors Bruce Sacerdote and James Feyrer. More »
  • “Colonial governments were obsessed with introducing and expanding the production of export commodities … making the colony profitable,” the study said. More »
  • Investigating economies such as the Falklands and Mauritius, the researchers claimed that the duration of an island’s colonization and its modern economic outcomes are positively correlated. More »