By Allyson Bennett, The Dartmouth Staff
In a move that may pave the way for construction to begin on the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, the Grafton County Superior Court denied on July 2 the Occom Pond Neighborhood Association's appeal of two town of Hanover decisions that had initially approved the building. The now-defeated appeal, which was filed last November, asserted that the construction was approved without full consideration of the construction's effects on the neighborhood, and that the building had been wrongfully classified as an educational building by the Hanover Zoning Board in October 2007.
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By Victoria Boggiano, The Dartmouth Staff
Student Assembly has asked a working group that reviewed the College's Committee on Standards' policies regarding sexual assault this Spring to reconsider several of its recommendations, the Assembly announced on July 3. The Assembly will conduct its own review of COS policy in cases of sexual assault this Fall as part of a broader review of the issue at the College, and may recommend that COS form a separate sub-system for sexual assault cases.
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By Andrew Wells, The Dartmouth Staff
In the West African seventh grade classroom of Meg Fuchs '01 -- which held about 35 desks for her 55 students -- Fuchs sought creative means to teach her students about safe sex and preventing the spread of AIDS.
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By Michael Coburn, The Dartmouth Staff
Corporations that go "green" may find themselves "in the black," as environmentally friendly policies are also helping profits, Hunter Lovins, CEO of Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc. and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, said to a packed crowd of over 500 in Spaulding Auditorium on Tuesday. Lovin's speech was sponsored by the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth, the nation's fifth-largest adult learning program, which was founded at the College in 1990.
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By Amita Kulkarni, The Dartmouth Staff
Although the image of French and Italian professor John Rassias punctuating a lecture with sudden sprints around his classroom may be a familiar one, the audience watching Rassias' antics this week will be slightly different. In lieu of Dartmouth students, Rassias will be speaking to 40 educators who have come to the College from throughout Mexico as part of the 10-day Inter-American Partnership for Education program, an intensive series of teaching workshops designed to introduce visiting educators to the Rassias Method for language instruction.
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By Compiled by William Schpero, The Dartmouth Staff
- Photos of an Iranian missile test distributed to journalists on Wednesday by officials with the country's Revolutionary Guard were altered to show four missiles launching instead of three, according to a Scientific American interview with Dartmouth computer science professor Hany Farid published on Thursday. More »
- The writing section of the SAT is a better estimate of academic success in college than the critical reading or mathematics sections, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Georgia and reported on by The Chronicle of Higher Education on Tuesday. More »
- Land owned by colleges and universities may provide the institutions with affordable sources of renewable energy, according to The Chronicle for Higher Education. More »
