Students played in Dartmouth's first barefoot charity soccer tournament on the Green Saturday afternoon. Aimed at raising money for the Grassroot Soccer organization's fight against AIDS in Africa, the event had raffles for students and prizes for the winning teams. "Winning" factors included tournament performance, fundraising success and overall team spirit. The Tucker Foundation encouraged each five-person team to obtain sponsorships from friends and relatives to contribute to the cause. Tommy Clark '92 and Methembe Ndlovu '97, who were both raised in Zimbabwe, founded the Grassroot Soccer organization, which educates children in Africa about HIV/AIDS.
More than one supernova contributed to the evolution of our solar system, according to a study by two Dartmouth researchers. Professor Mukul Sharma and graduate student Rasmus Andreasen found that multiple supernovae are necessary to form primitive meteorites, the building blocks of planets.
"Supernovae are dying stars that burst with tremendous energy, creating new isotopes and throwing a huge amount of material into interstellar space," Sharma said.
These isotopes contributed to the makeup of the solar nebula, the large gaseous cloud thought to be the origins of the solar system. However, as the study concluded, the isotopes found in primitive meteorites cannot mix without the occurrence of another supernova.
Former European island colonies overwhelmingly have successful economic systems today, according to a study by economics professors Bruce Sacerdote and James Feyrer. Contemporary economic benefits may have been outweighed by a destruction of the native population, but colonization provided far away lands with the gift of trading partners and a strong trade network, according to the study.
"Colonial governments were obsessed with introducing and expanding the production of export commodities ... making the colony profitable," the study said.
Investigating economies such as the Falklands and Mauritius, the researchers claimed that the duration of an island's colonization and its modern economic outcomes are positively correlated.
