Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Kinstler recalls work as an elite portraitist

By Maria Fillas, The Dartmouth Staff

The Montgomery Endowment celebrated its 30th anniversary on Tuesday with a public conversation featuring premier American portraitist and 2008 Montgomery Fellow Everett Raymond Kinstler. The event was held in Filene Auditorium. More »

Three '11s arrested in Lebanon

By Rebecca Cress, The Dartmouth Staff

Authorities are following up on last Tuesday's arrest of three Dartmouth students on charges of marijuana possession in Lebanon, NH. Evan Fulop '11, Kane Kunz '11 and Calvin Woodring '11 are scheduled to appear in Lebanon District Court on May 20. More »

Green '08 passes presidency to Bode '09

By Susan Matthews, The Dartmouth Staff

Outgoing Student Body President Travis Green '08 and Vice President Ian Tapu '08 resigned their positions Tuesday so that newly elected President Molly Bode '09 and Vice President Nafeesa Remtilla '09 could take office over a month earlier than in previous years. More »

Polansky receives Mellon fellowship

By Nathan Swire, The Dartmouth Staff

Most musicians work with sound, but Larry Polansky, a professor of music at the College, will follow his interest in performance in exactly the opposite direction. As a recipient of the New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, Polansky will immerse himself in the silent discourse of American Sign Language in order to eventually study and compose ASL poetry. More »

Le '98 speaks on global health care

By Aoife Duffy, The Dartmouth Staff

In Lesotho, an African nation with a population of approximately 2 million, more than 700,000 citizens are infected with HIV, Phuoc Le '98, M.D., a resident in Global Health Equity, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at Harvard Medical School, said in a speech on Tuesday. Yet the number of trained physicians in all of Lesotho is approximately equal to the number of emergency physicians at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, he said. More »

Ilkhom Theatre recounts artistic experiences in U.S.S.R.

By Mitch Davis, The Dartmouth Staff

Throughout its 32-year history, the Ilkhom Theatre, an Uzbekistani performance group which will perform on campus this weekend, has confronted state censorship and cultural conflict. In a panel discussion Tuesday, the group highlighted its efforts to maintain creativity under oppressive Soviet and Uzbekistani regimes and its struggles to produce art in a society still wrestling with its Soviet legacy. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Fan Zhang
  • Opening statements in the murder trial of Christopher Hollis for the 2005 death of Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 began on Monday, The San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday. More »
  • The nonprofit day care program, Toddler's Morning Out, will lose its lease with the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College according to Tuesday's Valley News. More »
  • Princeton University students continued their "Own What You Think" campaign, which began as a reaction to malicious posts on the website, juicycampus.com, the Daily Princetonian reported Tuesday. More »