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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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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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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Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment in a 10-part series profiling various members of the Upper Valley Community.
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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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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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