By Allyson Bennett, The Dartmouth Staff
Priya Venkatesan '90, a former Writing 5 lecturer and research associate at Dartmouth Medical School, is threatening to name seven of her former students in a potential civil rights lawsuit against the College, DMS and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Venkatesan announced Friday. Venkatesan also plans to write an autobiographical book that will include details of her experience at Dartmouth and name the seven students in question, all of whom were members of her Winter term Writing 5 class in 2008, she said.
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By William Schpero, The Dartmouth Staff
Voting begins today for the executive committee of the Association of Alumni, and the Dartmouth community looks to June when the election results will be announced, and the future of the Association's suit against the College will be decided. A new committee majority, though, will not necessarily mean the end of the suit.
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By Drew Joseph, The Dartmouth Staff
All members of the Class of 2009 are now eligible for on-campus housing next year, reversing a February announcement that 100 additional members of the Class of 2009 may have to live off campus their senior year, Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman said in an e-mail sent to all undergraduate students Friday evening.
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By Marielle Battistoni, The Dartmouth Staff
Editor's note: This is the fifth installment in a 10-part series profiling various members of the Upper Valley Community.
The relative success or failure of many a Dartmouth fraternity party rests on the shoulders--and kegs--of Jack Stinson, owner of Stinson's Village Store on Allen Street -- the self-defined "guy who gives them the beer." Interactions with regular student customers, such as the social chairs and officers of fraternities, makes Stinson's job enjoyable, he said.
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By Josh Roselman, The Dartmouth Staff
The fate of an animated polar bear is in the hands of the residents of the McLaughlin cluster. If a student saves energy, the bear frolics with butterflies and seals across the televisions placed on the participating floors of the cluster, but one student's long steamy shower might cause the ice to melt and send him to his doom.
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By Erin Jaeger, The Dartmouth Staff
Correction appended.
Nelson Rockefeller '30 may have graduated from Dartmouth and gone on to serve as governor of New York and vice president of the United States, but he privately struggled with dyslexia all his life, acclaimed biographer Richard Norton Smith, who is completing Rockefeller's biography, said Friday during a lecture in Loew Auditorium.
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By Fan Zhang and Kat Richardson
- DartMUN, the College's Model United Nations, hosted the third annual model UN conference at Dartmouth this weekend. More »
- John Modlin, chair of pediatrics at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, was appointed senior associate dean for clinical affairs at Dartmouth Medical School, DMS announced earlier this month. More »
- David M. Rockefeller, a 1936 graduate of Harvard University, pledged $100 million to his alma mater, the largest gift by an alumnus in the university's history. More »
