During the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in a letter from his Birmingham County jail cell, “One day the South will recognize its real heroes,” Randall Kennedy, author and Harvard Law professor said in a lecture Thursday evening. Kennedy identified these “real heroes” as “good white people,” or “white anti-racist folk” like Dartmouth alumnus Thaddeus Stevens, Class of 1814, who fought for racial equality throughout the course of American history.
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Global climate change should be approached as an economic problem that can be managed using market incentives, Henry Jacoby, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a lecture Thursday night in Filene Auditorium. A free market system can be engineered to encourage greenhouse gas emitters to self-regulate.
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In an attempt to foster student relationships with alumni and honor Dartmouth graduates for their contributions to the College, the Hill Winds Society, in conjunction with the Office of Alumni Relations, is celebrating the second annual Alumni Appreciation Week from April 7-13. Alumni Appreciation Week offers a variety of events for students and alumni to enjoy, including free lunches, a wine tasting and a tailgate party to be held before Saturday’s women’s lacrosse game.
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Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a 10-part series profiling various members of the Upper Valley Community.
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Daniel Itzkovitz learned of his parents’ trip to Israel through a recording on their answering machine: “We’re off to the old country, call back in a couple of weeks,” it said. His parents’ reference to Israel as a homeland, Itzkovitz told a small audience in the Rockefeller Center Thursday evening, stood in stark contrast to his family’s actual Lithuanian heritage.
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April 3, 9:31 p.m.
Lyme Road
Following up on a Jan. 31 car accident, Hanover Police charged a 21-year-old male with reckless driving, falsely reporting a stolen vehicle, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol and improper conduct after an accident. At the original scene, Hanover Police found an unoccupied vehicle that had crashed near Ledyard Bridge. After entering the vehicle’s license plate into the state registry, Hanover Police identified the owner. When questioned, the owner denied involvement in the accident and claimed his vehicle had been stolen. Police have since learned that the owner was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the crash. He had left the scene because he was intoxicated. He is scheduled to appear in court on May 13.
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