Jose
Clemente Orozco created a mural series called "The
Epic of American Civilization" at Dartmouth College in the 1930s when he was an artist in residence
there. The work has now been designated a national historic landmark by the
National Park Service.
Valentine’s Day,
traditionally, is a time to celebrate love. But this year, groups combating violence
against women are using the day to "rise up" against abuse. Throughout the
world, they are marking the date not just with political demonstrations, but by
dancing.
In
May of 1962, Martin Luther King spoke to an overflow audience at Dartmouth College. His progress report on the
American civil rights movement was
part of that year’s Great Issues Course, required for graduation.
Dartmouth College is officially welcoming President-Elect Philip Hanlon to campus this
week. As an alumnus of the college, Hanlon will find there are still some familiar faces around Hanover.
Dartmouth College has hired an
alumnus who built his career as a professor and provost at a major
university to succeed Jim Yong Kim as the school’s president. Philip Hanlon, a 1977 Dartmouth graduate and the
current provost at the University of Michigan, will take office on July
1 as the college’s 18th president, the college announced this
afternoon.
Town
clerks are gearing up for election day. But along the Connecticut River, the time it takes to vote may depend on where you
live. That’s because, unlike Vermont, New Hampshire is phasing in a new law that will require voters to show a photo ID.
A nineteenth-century German
tale of a soldier driven to violence has been taking new shape at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College. "Woyzeck
on the Highveld" combines puppetry, live acting, and animation in a play re-set
in apartheid South
Africa
in the 1950’s.
One student arriving at Dartmouth College this week
feels especially happy – and lucky – to be there. Daniela Pelaez is an undocumented
immigrant who came to this country with her parents from Colombia when she was four.