Friday, October 12, 2007

Nobel winner explains his novels

By Grace D'Arcy

Exactly one year after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Turkish author Orhan Pamuk gave a lecture in Rollins Chapel Thursday about the melancholic and self-reflective portrayal of Istanbul that made him famous. More »

Three-night frat rush kicks off Saturday night

By Allyson Bennett, The Dartmouth Staff

While gaggles of female sophomores will continue to rush sororities in a process that began Tuesday, this year’s relatively quick fraternity rush season will begin Saturday and run a total of six hours. Events will be three nights, with two-hour sessions during each. More »

Wright: U.S. needs new GI bill for vets

By Turia Lahlou

“[I]n the midst of the debate over troop levels, exit strategies, and assessment of the war’s progress, we have lost sight of the men and women who are fighting this war,” College President James Wright wrote in an op-ed column published in the Boston Globe Saturday. In the op-ed, he focused on the need for a reincarnation of the 1944 GI Bill that funded college education of World War II veterans. More »

AD teams up with Home Depot to build local park

By Katie Paxton

For children in West Lebanon, playtime just moved a whole lot closer to home. On Thursday, Alpha Delta fraternity teamed up with Home Depot and a national nonprofit to build a playground at the Riverside Community Park in West Lebanon. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Kate Farley, The Dartmouth Staff
  • Tagg Romney, the eldest son of Republican presidential candidate Mitt, visited the College Thursday to stump for his father. More »
  • The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s July announcement that it would no longer allow access to its major journal Science through the non-profit JSTOR has prompted many library consortia to pass unanimous resolutions denouncing the decision, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. More »
  • Members of the House of Representatives recently introduced a proposal intended to curb illegal downloading of music and movies on campus computer networks, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Wednesday. More »
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