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(05/12/15 11:00am)
The Pitch, according to Neukom Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation Lab executive director Lorie Loeb, is an event that “provides a place where students, faculty and staff can pitch their big ideas” before a live audience and panel of judges. The participants, 20 groups in total, have just two minutes each to present their innovations before the panel selects three winners. The audience also chooses a fourth.
Loeb says she looks for ideas that “could make an impact.” She said she is impressed by the increasingly strong quality of the pitches, as well as the huge diversity in the types of ideas. The event will continue this term, with the final pitches heard on May 28 at 7 p.m. in Loew Auditorium.
(05/12/15 8:25am)
Full disclosure — we killed two solid hours in the neighborhood. Hayes Valley is nice! We first went to San Francisco’s flagship Warby Parker store, where we both enjoyed shopping for some sleek new frames. Then we went into an interior design store briefly — for my mom’s amusement. We passed a cute-looking macaroon shop, but I won’t devote this column to those macaroons as the small bites we tried left something to be desired. Thankfully our stomachs both had enough will power to stay the course. Onward to Smitten!
(05/11/15 6:14pm)
Green-capped Sriracha is back! After Becca Rodriguez's article covering the travesty that is "fauxracha," we can finally enjoy the full-bodied flavor of authentic Tuong Ot Sriracha.
(05/11/15 3:48pm)
In celebration of the Ledyard Canoe Club re-opening next week, I thought I’d explore the one area that every Dartmouth kayaker has seen but never thought to go inside — the Hanover runoff pipeline seen above. By exploring what is literally the deepest, darkest corner of Hanover, I came across a whole secret world of graffiti made by people for an audience of themselves — and stupid enterprising Dartbeat journalists. I expected to see a wall of penis graffiti with a detail and quantity that would rival that of a middle school boy’s textbook. Instead I found a secret world that displayed the full spectrum of human behavior. First, a warning — the second half of this article contains disturbing content.
I. RIVER ENTRANCE
(05/11/15 11:00am)
Among the recent questionable trends reputed to increase men’s attractiveness (read: Dadbod), there is one that stands alone in its undeniable, universal, feminine appeal: the man bun. Popularized by Jared Leto, the man-bun movement started gaining momentum this past fall. Although the style brings to mind celebrities like Bradley Cooper and Brad Pitt, we need not look beyond Hanover to find guys rocking the glory of the man bun.
If you’ve missed the on-campus man buns somehow, have no fear! The new Instagram account @manbuns_of_dartmouth documents some of the most marvelous of Dartmouth man buns.
Arielle Gordon-Rowe ’18, one of the account’s creators, said she made the page as a platform for the growing trend in the man bun’s popularity. When she approaches man bun connoisseurs for photographs, most are eager to show off their hair, but a few are more reluctant. Still, most seem to come around eventually.
(05/11/15 7:49am)
This week I found myself experiencing quite the dearth of new music inspiration, which has proven to be a bit of a pain in a few areas of my life — for example, the fact that the people taking my spin class can only sprint to “Ugly Heart” so many times before mutinying. Consequently, for this week’s PB&Jams I’ve resorted to revisiting an album that I will love unconditionally forever and ever — fun.’s “Aim and Ignite” (2009).
(05/08/15 1:44pm)
Anti-Derby: so. much. mud.
(05/08/15 12:13pm)
FoCo Employee to student post-Derby: "Ma'am, you need to put your shoes on.”
(05/08/15 10:40am)
Each week, Dartbeat asks a group of musically inclined students to recommend their favorite songs of the week. We then share a few of those tracks. Enjoy!
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(05/07/15 1:54pm)
The weather is warming, spring is in the air and’tis the season for ultra-competitive intramural sports. I know what you’re thinking, “Parker, c’mon! IM sports aren’t competitive at all!” Well, you’re bloody well wrong, and you should be ashamed of yourself. Your IM team should be so ruthlessly efficient, well-organized and brutal that it could goose-step all over Poland on a whim. IM sports are no joke, folks, and the way you people are treating them is a true disgrace to us all. Without further ado, here is everything you need to know about how to assemble your dream IM squad.
1. Build up a minor league division
This one is really a no-brainer, guys. You’ve just got to recruit players straight out of high school and have them begin training in your Single-A team, based out of Bunker Hill Community College. After that, your best Single-A players can advanced to the Double-A team at the University of New Hampshire, and, finally, the very cream of the crop can move up to the Triple-A team at Colby-Sawyer College. After that, it’ll be time for your ultra-elite, highly trained athletes to come up to the big leagues: the Dartmouth College Intramural Tennis competition.
(05/07/15 12:00pm)
Brown University: Brown had a record-low acceptance rate this year, dropping 0.1 percent from last year for a rate of 8.5 percent, the Brown Daily Herald reported. This year was also the second largest pool of applicants in Brown’s history, with 30,397 total applicants and 2,580 accepted students.
Columbia University: More than 100 students attended a candlelight vigil to honor those affected by the April 25 earthquake in Nepal, the Columbia Spectator reported. The Nepali Students at Columbia University, the Mailman School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Organization for Migration and Emergencies and Amnesty International organized this event, which featured signs that read, “I stand with Nepal.”
(05/07/15 10:25am)
Before mozz sticks and chicken tenders, it seems likeLou's used to be a late night staple. In the advertisement below, the restaurant offers a free "Ice-A-Fudge" to freshmen who have only recently lost their beanies. I thinkif Lou's revived their late-night business, they'd definitelyhave enough paying customers looking for some midnight Big Greens. On the contrary, I'm not sure what this means for the Lou's Challenge?
(05/06/15 7:29pm)
May 1, 11:13 a.m., The Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse: Safety and Security officers and the Grounds Crew responded to a report of an 8-foot sinkhole near the Boathouse. L&M Construction arrived upon request with an excavator to correct the sinkhole.
(05/06/15 11:40am)
If you’re a NARP, chances are you still haven’t completed your P.E. requirements. Even though there are roughly a million NARP-y classes you can take (I’m looking at you, speed reading), it can be hard to find the motivation to sign up on Banner. Plus, there are a lot of everyday activities that already get your heart rate going just as much as organic farming would (yes, that is a P.E. class). Here are 10 things you should get P.E. credit for, but unfortunately don’t.
1. Living in the River. On a windy day the walk up Tuck Drive is pretty much this:
(05/06/15 7:45am)
Although some of us might not notice it on a day-to-day basis — consumed with things like midterms, relationships and Yik Yak — money and class likely affect every thing we do on campus, from who we interact with, how we dress and even sometimes which classes we take.
Yet, for all its influence, socioeconomic diversity remains a little-discussed topic around campus.
(05/05/15 1:55pm)
When I originally pitched this article, I wanted it to be about something broad that we could all relate to: the wall graffiti in the third-floor men’s bathroom of Fairchild — also known as the beggar’s Yik Yak. In the process of examining these hate hieroglyphics, however, I accidentally exposed a part of one of Dartmouth’s most secret societies, the Sphinx.
For those you who are reading Dartbeat to vicariously experience Dartmouth, the Sphinx is the College’s oldest secret senior society. They have a very prominent meeting space in the shape of an Egyptian tomb on Wheelock Street.
(05/05/15 11:05am)
From avoiding someone on the Green, standing in line at Collis or just staring at a blank page of an essay you haven’t started, Yik Yak has rescued us in our times of need. Yik Yak is the metaphorical courtroom of cyberspace, where our thoughts, observations and most secretive embarrassments go to be judged by a jury of our peers.
Yik Yak is polarizing — some of us get hundreds of upvotes, while others will never live to see the day when they get more than 30 upvotes on a post. Regardless, it’s important that even if we can’t be the best, we still put our best foot forward with our Yaks. Because when we’re procrastinating hard enough, we read everything posted there anyway.
(05/05/15 8:01am)
The founders aptly describe C.R.E.A.M.’s vibes on their website, “It was a throwback to our childhood, when it became a ‘thing’ for us to sandwich rich ice creams and fillings between mom’s fresh-baked cookies.” The ingredients definitely taste homemade, and the store evokes a nice nostalgia of childhood. The store’s name, an acronym for “cookies rule everything around me,” is not quite the same as the Wu-Tang Clan’s 1994 single “C.R.E.A.M.” — “Cash Rules Everything Around Me” — coincidentally released a month before my first birthday. I may be old, but no one is too old to enjoy one of these ice-cream sandwiches.
(05/04/15 11:35am)
“You Should Be Here” is the first full-length album by Oakland, California native, Kehlani. It’s the follow-up to her fantastic 2014 mix tape “Cloud 19.” Kehlani’s vocals are clear and occasionally a little hollow, but the rich backing tracks to every song on the album offset whatever her vocals lack in fullness. Her real talent lies in the construction of her lyrics and the range of rhythms and cadences she can seamlessly meld together in a track.
(05/04/15 7:50am)
You pick up a bowl of bibimbap at World View, being careful not to burn yourself on the piping hot stone, err…plastic bowl and breathe in the delicious aroma of sub-par Korean cuisine. You notice it’s missing a little something and head over to FoCo’s condiment section. As you reach out for what would be the perfect compliment to your meal, you realize something is wrong. There is no green cap on this red bottle of sauce…it’s…yellow? What you’re holding is, in fact, fauxracha.
The iconic green-cap, red sauce sriracha (pronounced see-rotch-ah, in case you’re curious) that we are most familiar with is produced by Huy Fong Foods and available at Collis. The one available at FoCo, however, is the lesser-known Roland Sriracha Chili Sauce.