Dartmouth computer science professor Richard Granger has resigned as director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science following the arrest of his wife last month for allegedly stealing over $300,000 from a church in California, the Grangers’ prior residence. More »
Private businesses and organizations should have the legal and moral right to discriminate in some circumstances, Deroy Murdock, a social and political commentator, told an audience on Thursday in the Rockefeller Center. Murdock’s argument, derived from a specific interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, touched upon racial profiling, affirmative action, hate crimes and other civil rights controversies. More »
Dartmouth economics professor Meir Kohn railed against government economic intervention in a lecture sponsored by the College Libertarians on Thursday, arguing that the historical record indicates that such policies have been damaging for the United States and other nations. More »
Jolin Kish ‘88 Th’91, a Stanford Ph.D recipient, never thought she would spend her days bringing other people’s trash to the curb and cleaning toilets. More »
In 2000, the U.S. Census gave Americans the chance to identify themselves by more than one race for the first time. Almost seven million people — over 80 percent of whom were under 25 — checked more than one box, Stanford University professors Harry and Michele Elam told a crowded auditorium in Haldeman Hall on Thursday. A new global “mixed-race movement” has begun, they said in their lecture, titled “The High Stakes of Mixed Race: Post-Race, Post-Apartheid Performances in the U.S. and South Africa.” More »
Science cannot be used to disprove the supernatural, Massimo Pigliucci, a professor at Stony Brook University, said in a lecture on scientists “misspeaking” about religion given in Filene Auditorium on Thursday evening. More »
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