Schools

In this 1983 family photo released by Constance Clery, Jeanne Clery is shown. In the nearly 20 years since their daughter Jeanne was raped and killed in her dorm room at Lehigh University, Howard and Constance Clery have fought to make sure that colleges report campus crimes. (AP Photo/Clery Family)

Dartmouth Students To File Complaint

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Hanover — A group of Dartmouth College students say they plan to file a federal complaint against the college alleging that administrators underreport and downplay sexual assault, racism and homophobia on campus. Six Dartmouth students joined others from Swarthmore College, University of California at Berkeley, University of Southern California and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill yesterday in New York City for a news conference. “I want the college to realize that there are students that from now on are committed to taking direct action to exert pressure on the college to make changes,” said Dartmouth senior Dani Valdes, who traveled to New …

Young Writers Project: Writing About Being Right, and a Letter to a Bully

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

This week, Young Writers Project publishes responses to the prompts, Being right: Describe a time when you were sure that you were right, but someone else had a different view; and General writing. Young Writers Project is an independent nonprofit that engages students to write, helps them improve and connects them with audiences through the Newspaper Series (and youngwritersproject.org) and the Schools Project …

A screen grab shows a scene from the winning entry in the Math-O-Vision contest at Dartmouth College.

Math = Film Project

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Hanover — Some kids see math as a maze of pointless numbers, a subject banished to chalkboards and ivory towers. Austin Eng, 17, of Freehold, N.J., sees it differently — and as a result, he and his film partner, Katherine Lin, also of Freehold, have $4,000 in prize money to show for it. …