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(05/28/15 11:29pm)
I have been exceptionally happy with my time here. Every day hasn’t been a Disney fairytale a la singing squirrels and dancing blue jays, but most days I fall asleep thinking that this is a very special place. I have been so lucky and privileged to be the recipient of boundless support and love from my parents and brother, but I also think that I have managed “to do Dartmouth right” for me — which I think entailed taking the classes that excited me, joining the organizations that open my eyes to the world and befriending the people whom I care about to the ends of the earth.
(05/21/14 10:33pm)
Though Marina McClure ’04 came to Dartmouth planning to pursue a math major, she quickly became interested in theater, specifically directing. An original collaborator for WiRED and member of the Displaced Theater Company, McClure is currently directing experimental theater and creating mixed performance and visual arts pieces in New York.
(03/25/14 8:37pm)
Where can you watch actors in a $100-million Hollywood blockbuster spar in front of a green screen, catch a meal with “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy” writer Shonda Rhimes ’91 or Oscar-nominated director Buck Henry ’52 all while attending classes with Dartmouth accreditation? As the 16 students who participated in the film department’s first winter foreign study program can tell you — Los Angeles, of course.
(11/07/13 8:40pm)
This topic seems old to me, and yet here we go. Spending inequality for female athletes continues to persist in college athletics, and Dartmouth and the Ivy League are no exception. Yes, we did just mark the 40th anniversary of Title IX’s passage, and yes, federal law does require universities receiving federal funds to equally finance men’s and women’s athletic teams.
(10/25/13 2:00am)
A recent article in The Atlantic posited a provocative statement perhaps U.S. high school teachers would see better results from their students if schools prioritized funding for academics instead of athletics. In a few sensationalized examples, the article's author, Amanda Ripley, highlighted schools where spending per athlete was twice as great as spending per student in a particular subject: for example, $1,300 spent for each football participant in contrast with $618 per math student.
(10/11/13 2:00am)
When my first grade teacher asked the class to share our role models, 20 or so nubby hands shot up and waved furiously in the air. We belted out cries for mom and dad, followed by Derek Jeter, Mia Hamm and Michael Jordan.
(09/27/13 2:00am)
I run varsity cross country and track and field for the Big Green, and I'm going to look at sports from between the lines, giving an athlete's perspective on major issues in college athletics. This week, I'm looking at the pay-for-play proposals that have come to the forefront of the national conversation.
(09/24/13 2:00am)
The Chinese artist, although popular in China and France during her lifetime, has not had her work publicly exhibited since a 1984 retrospective show at the Musee Cernuschi, an Asian art museum in Paris.
(08/14/13 2:00am)
Home Town: Fairfield, Conn.Major: Environmental science
(08/13/13 2:00am)
In November, the College announced that Philip Hanlon would become Dartmouth's 18th president. A member of the Class of 1977 and a mathematics major, Hanlon has spent his career in academia, teaching advanced mathematics at the University of Michigan and serving as the school's provost and executive vice president for academic affairs.
(08/02/13 2:00am)
Members of the nonprofit Dartmouth Change, a group of concerned alumni and faculty, have been advocating for more direct involvement in student life issues, concentrating their efforts on sexual assault prevention and education programs.
(07/26/13 2:00am)
While the Department of Education has not released specific information about the College's case, Title IX investigations pertain to issues of sex-related discrimination on college campuses.
(07/19/13 2:00am)
When Dan Reicher '78 was 7 years old, he wrote a letter to vendors of wolverine fur parkas, concerned that the sales endangered the animal. The vendors responded they would no longer carry the product.
(07/12/13 2:00am)
How did you begin working on "The Roosevelts?"
(07/12/13 2:00am)
Geithner pulled in $100,000 this spring for his appearances at the annual meetings of private equity firms Blackstone and Warburg Pincus. He earned $200,000 for speaking at a Deutsche Bank conference in June, which he attended alongside former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and former Italian prime minister Mario Monti, CNBC reported. Geithner books his engagements through the Harry Walker Agency, whose clients include former president Bill Clinton and former vice president Dick Cheney.
(07/09/13 2:00am)
"Pizza French Fryu Waffles" featuring Max Hammer '12 and produced with help from Tommy Ford '12, Zach Kuster '11 and Zach Schwartz '11 is currently eighth place with 1,428 votes.
(06/25/13 2:00am)
The provost search committee is moving forward with plans to fill the vacancy left by Carol Folt, who is currently chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The committee hopes to find a provost by spring 2014, committee chair and Native American studies program chair Bruce Duthu '80 said.
(06/13/13 2:45pm)
Amoh, a rising sophomore at Trinity University, drowned in the Connecticut River around three miles north of campus on Wednesday. He was visiting his brother Justice Amoh '13, a graduating senior, and was reported missing during River Fest, a senior week event at the Chieftain Inn.
(06/07/13 2:00am)
The victim, a foreign student attending college in Texas, was last seen on a rope swing on the Vermont side of the river. Emergency officials received a 911 call at 6:01 p.m. and notified the College, Hanover Fire Department captain Jeremy Thibeault said.
(06/07/13 2:00am)
You turn around for a better look. Black caps, gowns and familiar faces. Friends from your Greek house, affinity house, FSP or Tucker program. That kid who returned your black North Face. Moral support from that lay-up turned hardest TAS ever.