Thursday, October 25, 2007

‘Islamo-fascism’ posters turn heads

By Allyson Bennett, The Dartmouth Staff

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, advertised by controversial posters depicting a terrorist holding a gun to a figure’s head as the person cowers on the ground, has aroused emotional responses among students concerned about the connotations of the event’s title. More »

College plans review of SEMP guidelines

A semi-annual review of the College’s Social Events Management Procedures, which sets guidelines for alcohol use by organizations, is expected to commence next week. The effort, spearheaded by Dean of Residential Life Marty Redman, will include four students and four administrators. More »

Tuck researcher plots Katrina’s damage

While students and alumni flooded the Dartmouth campus for Homecoming last Saturday, professor Quintus Jett assessed damage from a different type of flood — the one caused by Hurricane Katrina. Jett, a senior research fellow at the Tuck School of Business, led about 60 volunteers in a mapping project in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward this Saturday in an effort to assess the state of damage to the neighborhood more than two years after Katrina. More »

Details, but few answers, emerge in alum’s murder

Police in San Luis Obispo, Calif., now believe John Michael “Mike” Rivard was responsible for the murder of his wife, Dartmouth graduate Barbara Rivard ‘85 and their daughter Olivia Rivard in a double-murder suicide on Oct. 3, according to an Oct. 18 police-issued press release. More »

Students pick up Halo 3 game in hordes

College campuses are often bastions of procrastination. So it’s no surprise that Halo 3, arguably the most highly anticipated video game of the year, is making its way onto college campuses. While there are a number of committed fans, the game does not appear to have a massive following here at Dartmouth. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Michael Coburn, The Dartmouth Staff
  • Dartmouth squash coach Hansi Wiens’ fiancee, Valeria Vinnikova, was arrested last Friday for a minor visa infraction. More »
  • Dartmouth received an A- for its environmental practices from the Sustainable Endowments Institute, according to a report released Wednesday. More »
  • Hanover Consumer Co-op is planning to build a new store on Lyme Road, about one-and-a-half miles north of the Dartmouth Green, The Valley News reported. More »