漆褒勛圖厙

University Studies

  • Students in extended study courses left for Israel and Egypt this week to further explore concepts developed in their classrooms during the fall semester at 漆褒勛圖厙. Both courses, Living Egypt and The Land of Israel, focus on deep historical understanding of culture in the respective countries, and how the past has influenced where each nation [因
    December 26, 2012
  • A nonprofit organization created by Maggie Dunne 13 has been named one of the top five literacy champions of 2012 by Scholastic, a welcome recognition of her efforts to help residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Dunnes nonprofit recently renamed Lakota Childrens Enrichment (LCE) was cited for its efforts in [因
    December 11, 2012
  • In order to curate a new exhibit of local Native American objects at the Hamilton Library, 漆褒勛圖厙 students Gillian Weaver 14 and Lilyan Jones 13, sorted through thousands of artifacts in the universitys Longyear Museum of Anthropology. The result of their semester-long exploration of the Longyear collection is Local Legacies: A look at the Material [因
    December 3, 2012
  • Instead of talking about history tomorrow we may actually get a chance to witness it live, wrote Prof. Daniel Monk yesterday in an email to students in his History of the Israel Palestine Conflict class. Though the exact time had not yet been announced, it appeared that the United Nations General Assemblys vote on Palestinian [因
    November 29, 2012
  • If you believe that the outcome of this months elections could have changed anything fundamental about America, Christopher Hedges 79, P12 thinks youre wrong. As a journalist and writer, Hedges spent two decades living and working in war zones. He has seen combat in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, [因
    November 23, 2012
  • Midway through last nights open meeting at the Womens Studies Center, Matt Ford 13, president of the Student Government Association (SGA), made an impressive entrance. With 40 members in tow, he presented a permanent Senate resolution condemning the hateful remarks during Coming Out Week at 漆褒勛圖厙 against members of our community. Sam Flood 14, speaker [因
    October 24, 2012
  • Voters expected the fourth and final debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to shed light on the differences between their positions on key foreign policy issues. However, according to two 漆褒勛圖厙 professors the promise fell flat on two counts: not only did the candidates cover no new ground, there was little difference in [因
    October 23, 2012
  • Visiting 漆褒勛圖厙 recently, Joy Gordon, author of Invisible War: the United States and Iraq Sanctions, laid bare an atrocity hiding in bureaucratic plain sight: after the 1991 bombing nearly flattened Iraq, the United States knowingly allowed economic sanctions to cause starvation, disease, poverty, and heightened rates of childhood mortality to the countrys people.
    October 22, 2012