House refuses state control over charter
The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to reject legislation that would have allowed the state control over changes Dartmouth makes to its charter on Wednesday. More »
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Long waits for counseling irk students
Suffering from a recent anxiety attack and plagued by suicidal thoughts, a Dartmouth student sought help at Dick’s House about two weeks ago, hoping to speak with a counselor and receive anti-depressant medication. More »
Citizens support police action in cheating cases
A vote by citizens of Hanover and Norwich, Vt., affirmed on Tuesday that Hanover High School was correct in allowing the police to investigate and criminally prosecute students involved in the cheating scandal last June. More »
Hong examines Chinese artifacts
In 1959, a poor farmer in the Shanxi Province of northern China stumbled upon an incredibly elaborate tomb containing the remains of a husband and wife from the early 12th century, intricate bas-relief sculpturing and five mysterious wooden figurines whose brightly painted colors offset the dull gray of the tomb’s walls. Jeehee Hong, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, made these strange carvings the central theme of her lecture “Theatricalizing Death and Life in Mid-imperial China” Wednesday afternoon in Carpenter Hall. More »
Daily Debriefing
- Oliver Grau, an image science professor at Danube University in Austria, discussed the importance of the digital humanities, a discipline devoted to the study of digital art like computer graphics, animation and nanotechnology, in a lecture held in Kreindler auditorium Tuesday. More »
- Many colleges and universities are looking to make technological changes to their campuses, including switching of all computers to Macs and offering iPhones or laptops to incoming students. More »
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