Chamseddine: Retooling Sophomore Summer
(05/03/15 6:43pm)
Sophomore summer should be redesigned or made voluntary.
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Sophomore summer should be redesigned or made voluntary.
Roughly 20 demonstrators protested outside of Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity’s annual Pigstick party, chanting “There are two Dartmouths, and they’re right here,” and “Single-sex organizations like your fraternity are part of the problem, Alpha Chi Alpha is part of the problem.”
Carrying posters bearing the phrases “Black lives matter” and “We can’t breathe,” as well as the Dartmouth-specific “Where are our black profs,” roughly 150 students participated in a protest on Friday afternoon in response to recent events in Baltimore.
Pressure from students and two recent sustainability data projects have prompted Dartmouth Dining Services to increase their focus on and pursuit of local and sustainable food sources.
Following restructuring in the chemistry department that has led to the apparent dissolution of Sibohan Milde’s position as a senior lecturer, support for Milde has spread among members of the student body, resulting in a petition created by chemistry major Josie Coury ’15. As of press time the petition has accrued 756 signatures from both undergraduate and graduate students alike, Coury said.
First-year women should not be afraid to discuss sorority affiliation.
Lower medians and earlier class times are not proxies for intellectual stimulation.
Ten proposals of the 51 submitted were awarded seed funding from the Office of the Provost, the College announced last week. Funding for the 10 projects will go toward purchasing necessary equipment, financially supporting team members and running experiments to see if the project could potentially work.
And while our time here may be full of friendships, formals and seemingly endless midterm weeks, the true prize of the College is the strength it can give you to go out into the world and have confidence in your ability to make a difference.
It would have been impossible to imagine what this place would be like, what it would mean to call Hanover home. The opportunity to attend a school like Dartmouth, as many will undoubtedly remind you, is an incredible thing. Yet, it seems students often fall into one of two traps — that of either relentless complaints aimed at the College or the unquestioned glorification of College tradition with no critique.
Fear not, student body. Yak away about your professors’ in-class jokes and the long list of things you’d rather do than sit through one more lab.
So a priest, a rabbi and a monk walk into a Unitarian Universalist church.
The dance floor is crowded — it’s a Friday night after all. I wind my way around raised arms, shaking booties and that one person trying to twerk on the wall in the corner.
At some point this weekend, I overheard Mikayla Delores-Burt — one of my associates — stumble over the last word of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s most famous line with hilarious results: “I like big butts, and I cannot die.”
Just as I was assigned to write a piece on riding Advance Transit for three hours, I ran out of ramen noodles and had to send some important documents back to Seoul for my internship in the summer. How handy — I could work on my story and run the errands at the same time! I decided to go to the FedEx shipping center in Lebanon and then drop by Walmart in West Lebanon.
What a week. Writing this column in the midst of crises in Baltimore and Nepal, this all feels silly. And yet here we are.
If last week Charlie and Maddie were just entering the delicate phase of a partnership, this week saw a gargantuan struggle for the reins of power in the back corner of Robinson Hall.
What’s the next dancing sensation now that twerking is out?
19 — The age of Alia Sabur, the world’s youngest college professor
For the first time in College history, the women’s tennis team has received an at-large bid for the NCAA tournament.