We look at how severe the binge drinking problem is in our area and the efforts being initiated by colleges to rein it in and we hear from the developer of the St. Albans Wal-Mart.
The Dartmouth Theater Department hopes to
spur conversation about the troubling issue of sexual assault with "Undue Influence,"
a dance-drama piece that opens at the Hopkins Center’s Moore Theater this week.
Friday
evening a group of percussionists from Brooklyn will break out their mallets, sticks and brushes at Dartmouth College. But earlier this week the quartet SÅ Percussion heard Dartmouth music students perform some of the band’s work.
Jim Yong Kim, an American who is president of
Dartmouth College, has been chosen to be the next president of the World Bank. His
selection Monday extends the U.S. hold on the top job at the 187-nation development
agency.
Dartmouth President
Jim Yong Kim was interviewed by directors of the World Bank this week. Kim is President Obama’s nominee to be the
next head of the global financial organization.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been talking points for over a decade now. But
it’s not all that often that you hear combat soldiers doing the talking. That’s
why the playwrights of "ReEntry" interviewed hundreds of military
personnel and relatives for the monologues and conversations that make up the performance
piece.