Dartmouth's student Honor Education Committee has begun publicizing students' ability to submit anonymous violations of the College's academic honor code online, as evidenced by a Nov. 9 recipient-list-suppressed e-mail that encouraged students to learn about the feature. More »
The Asian American community is seeing a growing trend mental health issues relating to depression and academic pressures -- an exacerbated by a cultural adversity to seeking treatment, according to Josephine Kim, a lecturer at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and the featured guest of Thursday's Pan Asian Community Dinner. The event, "Breaking the Silence: Asian Americans and Mental Health," was hosted by the Pan Asian Council in Collis Common Ground. More »
Most women in the military do not carry traditional feminist viewpoints, but are, at the same time, acting as feminists, according to Jane Cowan '08, who presented her thesis, titled "Women in the Military," in the Haldeman Center Thursday. Cowan, a member of the Air Force Reserve, spent two terms deployed in Iraq last year. More »
Between learning how to make mosaics in Italy, protecting prairie dogs in Utah and constructing a genocide memorial in Rwanda, Terry Tempest Williams said her journey to "Find Beauty in a Broken World" -- the title of her most recent book -- has led her to discover that even when the world seems to be in pieces, there is always hope to combine the fragments into a complete "mosaic," at her speech Thursday to a full audience in Cook Auditorium. More »
By Rembert Browne This could be the end of the road for me. I'm a free agent in a month or so, and who knows if the '10s who start running The Dartmouth, America's Oldest College Newspaper, in January will renew my contract. I unfortunately happen to come with my fair share of Michael Vick/Priya Venkatesan-sized baggage, and I'm not sure if the '10s will think the benefits outweigh the costs. In all honesty, they don't. So, assuming that these are my last words written in The Dartmouth, I thought it would be a nice gesture to actually follow the theme of The Mirror for once, that theme being flair. More »
The market-based adoption system in the United States is unfair to parents and children because it places monetary value on a child's race and class, according to Michele Goodwin, a professor at the University of Minnesota who spoke to a room of over 50 people in the Rockefeller Center Thursday. Goodwin, a professor at the university's law, public health and medical schools, is an expert on ethical and legal issues involving the human body. More »
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