Friday, November 09, 2007

Two trustees RSVP for student interrogation

Amidst recent controversies surrounding Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees, students will have the opportunity to ask trustees any questions they choose at an unprecedented, uncensored forum, to be held Friday in Filene Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. As of press time, only two trustees — both of them petition candidates who ran on platforms critical of current College policies — have agreed to attend. More »

Rauner to digitize some collections

Over lunch in 2001, Google co-founder Larry Page and Stanford University librarian Michael Keller marveled how much information was still locked inside books in libraries’ stacks worldwide and how wonderful it would be if all that information was digital and searchable. Today, more than a million books from over 10,000 publishers and 27 libraries, both in the United States and abroad, are available on Google’s Book Search, one of many similar services available online to the general public. More »

After Wenda Gu, Hood looks forward

Mixed public reaction to Wenda Gu’s installation at Baker-Berry has not affected choices for future exhibitions, Hood Museum of Art director Brian Kennedy said in an interview with The Dartmouth. More »

Women grads return to Hanover for symposium

Thirty-five years after the first female Dartmouth students arrived on campus, 375 alumnae will return to the College from Nov. 8-11 to participate in two events: Women in Medicine and Woman at Dartmouth. Women in Medicine will focus on women in medicine, politics and other professional fields while Women at Dartmouth will celebrate women’s progress at the College. More »

Use of ‘smartphones’ on the rise as anti-cell norm disintegrates

By Jennifer Gaudette, The Dartmouth Staff

Whether it’s used for making dinner plans or asking someone out, BlitzMail is one of the defining features of the Dartmouth experience. Yet as new technology allows students to send and receive e-mail from their smartphones — mobile phones equipped with personal computer-like functions — some students see the BlitzMail culture changing. More »

Daily Debriefing

  • Google Video has suppressed a recording of Robert Spencer’s “Islamofascism” talk at Dartmouth, according to Spencer’s blog jihadwatch. More »
  • Three Columbia students and two Barnard students went on a hunger strike yesterday to demand more support for the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia and a stronger response by the administration to racial bias incidents on campus. More »
  • A new study found that young Vermonters are smoking pot and binge drinking less, according to the Associated Press. More »