Matthew Slaughter named Tuck dean
Associate dean for faculty at the Tuck School of Business Matthew Slaughter has been appointed the school’s 10th dean, the College announced Thursday afternoon.
Top Stories
Students, faculty anticipate MDF policy changes
Hanover to add more affordable housing
When Graduation Brings Uncertainty
Peer advising program expanded
Sororities extend bids to 92 women
Opinion
Verbum Ultimum: No Simple Solutions
Woodward: The Specter of Zionism
Yang: In Defense of Dignity
Schroer: The Cost of Knowledge
Vox Clamantis: Strides in Research
Sports
Track teams continue early season success
The Dartmouth men’s and women’s track and field teams continued their stellar winter seasons with strong team victories against the University of Maine, the University of Vermont and Colgate University on Saturday, Jan. 17, at the Leverone Field House. This marked the second victory in two weeks for both teams. ?
Nordic and alpine ski teams runner-ups at Bates Carnival
Kicking off the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Carnival Season, the men and women’s ski teams placed second out of 16 teams at the Bates Carnival competition held at Sunday River Resort and Black Mountain for alpine and nordic, respectively. Maine from Jan. 16 to Jan. 17. The Big Green finished with 854 points and trailed the University of Vermont’s team, who earned 914 points after winning both slalom races.
The Big Green Weekend Primer
As Dartmouth teams turn to the heart of league play, 14 Big Green teams will head into the weekend looking to position themselves for post-season opportunities.
Any Given Thursday
Last Sunday, many of us witnessed one of the greatest comebacks to ever occur in a playoff football game. The game perfectly illustrated why football can be such a thrilling ride, and how it can leave many of us craving more. Unfortunately, the only football this Sunday will be the annual Pro Bowl, which epitomizes the fact that All-Star games in professional sports never live up to their potential.
Arts
Rotunda exhibition explores gender roles in Turkey
Concrete slabs reminiscent of ancient Middle Eastern tablets stand alone in the Barrows Rotunda, the circular glass gallery space that students pass by as they enter the Hopkins Center. These imposing slabs are a part of studio art intern Sera Boeno’s ’14 politically and personally charged piece “Kelimeler Kiyafetsiz (:Words Naked/Are Not Enough.)”
“This Dartmouth Life” brings radio journalism to campus
rogram “This Dartmouth Life” officially began in the Shakespeare Room in Sanborn Library last September, founder Laura Sim ’16 said that the idea for the program started with an interview she heard where Chicago Public Media’s “This American Life” host Ira Glass talked about achieving dreams.
Exhibit in Baker Library honors Eisenman’s ’43 work
Alvin Eisenman ’43, a world-famous graphic designer who died in September 2013, saw each letter on a page as an art form — he believed that a letter should be as “pleasing” and “dynamic” as an independent mark, exhibit curator, instructor at the College’s Letterpress Studio and former Eisenman student Won Chung ’73 said.
Beyond the Bubble: Figuring Out Fashion
I find myself glancing over fashion week highlights each year and thinking, who would wear that? Why would someone design that? I wouldn’t be able to fit through a doorway if I tried wearing that dress. I’m always left wondering — why does runway fashion seem so…impractical?
The Mirror
Mirror Exclusive Photo Essay: The Guts of Campus Buildings
Staff photographer Katelyn Jones ’17 investigated the spaces deep inside campus buildings that help these spaces run.
More Than Just Any Space
Students across campus describe the places that matter to them.
The Student As Critic
We could all be flâneurs — the ambling, idling scholars of 19th century Paris. We could all soak in the rich, historic landscape of our frigid hamlet. Balzac called the activity the “gastronomy of the eye.” Baudelaire deemed them “botanists of the sidewalk.” They feasted upon the urban sweep as if it were a museum — the citizens its patrons and the architecture its pieces, curated and juxtaposed to maximize experience.
