Yale University President Richard Levin announced on Monday that the cost of undergraduate education at the university would now be reduced by an average of 50 percent for each student currently receiving financial aid. Families earning less than $120,000 per year will now pay less than half of the university’s tuition, while families with annual incomes that fall between $120,000 and $200,000 will see tuition cuts of a third or more, Levin said in a press release on Monday.
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As part of a grassroots approach to his campaign for Senate, Dartmouth Medical School professor Jay Buckey joined the Dartmouth College Democrats for a dinner discussion on Monday. Buckey, who is also a doctor at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, an astronaut and former a U.S. Airforce Reserve Major, declared that he is trying to gain political recognition by meeting with as many New Hampshire voters as possible in the months leading up to the Nov. 4 election.
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Attendees at Robert Jensen’s lecture, “Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Intimacy” responded enthusiastically to his request for the crowd to complete the sentence, “Pornography is blank.” Jenson was met with cries of “awesome,” “degrading,” “complicated” and “prostitution,” as audience members shouted in reply. Jensen, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, responded by stating that “pornography is what the end of the world looks like” to the packed crowd in Filene Auditorium on Monday night.
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Safety and Security are able to track students’ movement through the use of their Dartmouth identification cards, according to Harry Kinne, College proctor and director of Safety and Security. A database, which stores information regarding when students enter College residence halls, has, in some cases, aided the police in a few cases concerning campus safety.
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Most mainstream video games do not involve shooting memories with “coping mechanisms” such as beer bottles and romance novels. But Mary Flanagan, an associate professor of film and media studies at Hunter College, discussed this game and others she has created in her lecture, “The Video Game as an Expressive Medium,” on Monday in the Haldeman Center.
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