On January 22, Dartmouth President James Wright announced a major new financial aid initiative, designed to keep Dartmouth accessible to academically talented students regardless of their financial situation and which will extend the College's need-blind admissions program to all international students as well. In this "Views from the Green" podcast, Dartmouth's Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris and Director of Financial Aid Virginia Hazen talk about the initiative.

New Hampshire is the perfect place for Professor of Government Dean Lacy to study elections, voting behavior, and political strategy. In this podcast, Lacy discusses the results of New Hampshire Primary and offers suggestions for what to look for during the rest of the primaries and in the coming months of general election campaigning.

Gregory Boguslavsky '09 and Michael Heslin '08 are two of Dartmouth's - and New Hampshire's - leading student political organizers. Boguslavsky, a Republican, and Heslin, a Democrat, talk about the student perspective on the primary and their own hopes and expectations for their parties' eventual nominees.

On Oct. 3, 2007 the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth filed a lawsuit against the College in an attempt to prevent Dartmouth from moving forward with the expansion of the College's Board of Trustees. In this podcast, Dartmouth General Counsel Robert Donin explains the legal processes and describes the different documents that have been filed in Grafton County Superior Court.

Annelise Orleck, Professor of History, is the author of several books including Common Sense and a Little Fire: Working Class Women's Politics in the United States and Storming Caesar's Palace which explores the story of a group of Las Vegas hotel maids and welfare mothers who challenged the system that kept them trapped in poverty. Much of Orleck's focuses on class and poverty, and in this installment of Views from the Green, she talks to Genevieve Haas about the 43-year-old legislation known as the War on Poverty and its present day implications.

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