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April 20, 2021 by Bill Platt Anthropology of medicine class explores historic epidemics under COVID restrictions. (Photo by Robert Gill) PreviousNext In a normal year, Associate Professor Sienna Craig s first-year seminar, The Values of Medicine, exploring the history of western medicine across centuries, through an anthropological lens, would have brought students to Dartmouth Library s Rauner Special Collections Library to research rare manuscripts and artifacts, such as a book written by a witness to the 1665 London plague; public health handbills and posters from the 1832 cholera epidemic; and popular magazine advertisements from the late 19th-century related to female hysteria. Under the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the winter-term class still did original research in the collection, except that the students were encountering the materials from across campus or around the globe, and their four culminating projects are now on display dig ....
Will the Queens special election be a 2013 replay? When supporters of ranked-choice voting make their case for why the new voting system is good for Black and Latino New Yorkers, they’ll often point to a specific race: the February 2013 special election in City Council District 31 in Queens. There, a white, Orthodox Jewish candidate named Pesach Osina came within 79 votes – less than 1 percentage point – of winning a Southeast Queens district that – as of the 2010 census – was 68% Black, 16% Hispanic and just 11% white. Besides Osina, the other seven candidates on the ballot, including the winner Donovan Richards, were Black. The numbers showed that the Black vote was split among several candidates, while the parts of the district with a large Orthodox Jewish population voted overwhelmingly for Osina. ....