Tuesday, April 10, 2007

1972 Society hosts 30-year retrospective

By Amanda Cohen, The Dartmouth Staff

Four alumnae, who collectively experienced 30 years of Dartmouth coeducation, recounted anecdotes about their experiences as undergraduates at a discussion titled “Lest the Old Traditions Fail: 30 Years of Dartmouth Women,” hosted by the 1972 Society Monday evening. The panelists concluded that Dartmouth has become more hospitable to female students, although certain gender disparities apparent at the onset of coeducation have not faded. More »

Experts debate microchip privacy

By Michael Coburn, The Dartmouth Staff

A law professor, a mechanical engineer, an IBM researcher and a State Department official gathered to discuss privacy and security issues surrounding a microchip the size of a quarter — Radio Frequency Identification tags. The event, whose audience was composed mostly of community members and professors, was held in Haldeman Hall and sponsored by the Dartmouth Centers Forum. More »

‘Beppe’ says ‘ciao’ to Italian department

By Victoria Boggiano, The Dartmouth Staff

When Christina Luccio ‘07 signed up for the Italian Language Study Abroad to Rome her sophomore year, she was expecting to meet a few Italians and go to a discotequa or two. Instead, she played weekly soccer games with her fellow Dartmouth students, ate at eclectic Italian restaurants and even listened to old Italian songs from the ’60s in her literature class, all thanks to one Guinness T-shirt-clad, cigarette smoking professor, Giuseppe Cavatorta — or “Beppe,” as he prefers to be called. More »

Dartmouth women look at expectations for females

By Sarah Badami, The Dartmouth Staff

A group composed mostly of Dartmouth women gathered at Casque and Gauntlet senior society Monday night to discuss an article that appeared last Sunday in The New York Times, focusing on the pressures of college admissions and high school women. More »

Campus women meet to boost network

By Astrid Bradley, The Dartmouth Staff

When Inter-Community Council representative Danielle Strollo ‘07 realized that the community she was expected to represent — women on campus — was 10 times the size of the communities that other representatives were responsible for, she realized she couldn’t do it on her own. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Compiled by JR Santo, The Dartmouth Staff
  • Dr. Gary Randolph Davis Sr. DMS’77, who researched a new way to fight AIDS, died on April 3. More »
  • Economics professor David Blanchflower unveiled the results of a three-year study on Monday that researched Chicago city government discrimination against Asian Americans, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. More »
  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center plans to relocate its crowded Norris Cotton Cancer Center to the Catholic Medical Center, which is slated to have construction completed of a new building later this year, the Associated Press reported on Monday. More »