Thursday, February 28, 2008

Koop ‘37 dodges angry patron

By Susan Matthews, The Dartmouth Staff

A question from an angry audience member quickly escalated into a heated argument, as the patron interrupted a fireside chat with C. Everett Koop ‘37, a Dartmouth Medical School professor, and forced a document into Koop’s hands. More »

Business journal joins campus publications

Though over thirty undergraduate academic journals compete for student readership, experiencing intervals of success and spells of dormancy, the newly-formed Dartmouth Business Journal prepares to join the ranks of student publications by the end of the Winter term. More »

Lynge advocates Inuit voice in politics

The connection between the struggle for indigenous rights and for climate change awareness is more than correlational — it is equivocal, argued Aqqaluk Lynge, former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Greenland and visiting fellow at the Dickey Center for International Understanding in a speech on Wednesday afternoon. The lecture, titled “Arctic Warming and the Tipping Point: an Inuit Voice,” focused on the need to include the Inuit in forming policy on climate change. More »

College’s Big Brother Big Sister celebrates 40 years

By Kashay Sanders, The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth’s Big Brother Big Sister program celebrated its 40th birthday with ice skating, board games, tee-shirt design and raffles in a celebration that took place at Occom Pond and Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority last Saturday. About 12 sibling pairs attended the party. More »

LUL, Sig Ep garner national awards

The national organizations of Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc. and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity honored their respective Dartmouth chapters with various awards in ceremonies this month. Both organizations recognized individual Dartmouth members, and Sig Ep received four awards for the chapter as a whole. More »

Daily Debriefing

  • The Elections Planning and Advisory Committee, which oversees the 2008 elections for many key campus positions at Dartmouth, held its final information session for potential candidates in Morrison Commons on Wednesday. More »
  • Gail L. Warden ‘60 will be part of a commission charged with analyzing health care coverage in America, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation plans to announce Thursday. More »