As part of the Rockefeller Center’s annual Law Day Celebration, Stephen Bright gave a public lecture entitled, “Rigged: When Race and Poverty Determine Outcomes in Death Penalty and Other Criminal Cases,” on Thursday, May 5, 2016....
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May 05, 2016
On Wednesday, May 4th 2016, Professor Douglas Irwin moderated a debate titled “Should Everything Be For Sale? Or Are There Moral Limits to Markets?” This debate, co-sponsored by Dartmouth’s Political Economy Project, brought together two leading philosophers with opposing views on these thought-provoking questions....
May 05, 2016
During week five of RGLP, students identify emotional reactions to experiencing a situation outside of their comfort zone, and the implications of working in a culture different from their own, through the Brazilian martial art, Capoeira.
May 05, 2016
"I think it has really impacted my work ethic and approach to class discussions at Dartmouth," says Devyn Greenberg '17 of her experience as a Dartmouth-Oxford Exchange student at Keble College during 16W....
May 03, 2016
Latrell Williams ’16 has been a co-facilitator of the Student Discussion Group VoxMasters now for two terms. A program he has been participating in since his freshman year. “This is a nice job for something I like to go to anyways,” says Latrell....
April 30, 2016
The First-Year Fellows program is a unique opportunity for first-year students to engage meaningfully in public policy early in their Dartmouth careers. Each year, around 20 students are selected and placed in fellowships with Dartmouth alumni in Washington, D.C., who are willing to take on a significant mentoring role.
April 29, 2016
The Rockefeller Center welcomed Governor Jack Markell (D-DE) on April 27, 2016 for a coffee hour with a bipartisan group of Dartmouth students.
April 28, 2016
"The culminating activity, during which we observed a simulated cultural practice of the fictional Albatros Island people, challenged us to consider the ways in which our own experiences and biases color our interpretation of other cultural behaviors," shares Allison Chou '17....
April 28, 2016
The Latin American Students Association hosted a brunch with the goal of strengthening the Latin American community at Dartmouth. The event, funded by a Rocky mini-grant, was attended by undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty, including Dean Biron and President Hanlon.
April 27, 2016
"The idea of being vulnerable is to acknowledge that in a lot of spaces I won’t be comfortable," shares Khet Motlana, "but it is about more than being present, it is about going and asking the questions that my assumptions want to answer."...