Four days after announcing that she would likely name students in a potential civil lawsuit against the College, Priya Venkatesan '90, a former Writing 5 lecturer and research associate at Dartmouth Medical School, told The Dartmouth Tuesday in a statement that she would likely not pursue legal action at this time. Venkatesan later retracted the statement in a phone call to The Dartmouth. More »
On a cross-country flight, Ibrahim Warde, course director at Euromoney Institutional PLC and an expert in Islamic finance, was trying to edit his manuscript but found himself seated next to a talkative passenger. The man in the adjoining seat proclaimed to know nothing about either Islam or finance but proceeded to spend the following six hours lecturing Warde on his personal interpretation of Islamic finance. More »
Feeling marginalized after last fall's debates surrounding the College's use of a Native American mascot, Agatha Erickson '09 created First Voices, a publication for members of Dartmouth's indigenous communities to express themselves and educate others. More »
Members of Dartmouth's Ivy Council, a Student Assembly committee that works with counterparts at other Ivy League schools, attended the Spring Symposium at Cornell University, expecting to discuss the issues of gender in Greek organizations that are so prominent at the College. But the students learned that other Ivy League students did not have the same concerns. More »
The names of chemotherapy drugs often contain sounds that could make patients think the drugs are less harsh than they are, Dartmouth linguistics professor Lewis Glinert, announced in his research paper "Chemotherapy as language: Sound symbolism in cancer medication names." More »
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