Big Green athletes receive awards for performance, service
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On Jan. 3, 2009, Israeli troops launched a ground operation in the Gaza Strip following several months of heightened tension in the region. Later that week, the Handel Society of Dartmouth coincidentally held its first rehearsal of the new year to practice Handel's oratorio "Samson," which retells the Biblical story of the conflict between the Israelites and Philistines in ancient Gaza.
"Whatever we know about North Korea here at Dartmouth is maybe through a nuclear weapons class, or just from what we hear in the news," she said, adding later, "It's the most closed-off country in the world, but there is an insane human rights crisis [right now], a famine throughout the 1990s and utter economic devastation. A lot of people even consider it a genocide on the part of the North Korean government."
Dartmouth entered the championship series after winning the North Division by one game over Harvard. After losing 4-0 in game one on Saturday, the Big Green bounced back to take game two 5-1, forcing Sunday's deciding game.
Captain Ashley Gleason '09, in her final year with the team, said words cannot explain her feelings of excitement over the win.
The Big Green softball team went 2-2 over the weekend, splitting both of its doubleheaders against Yale in New Haven, Conn.
Most theater productions rely on hours and hours of rehearsal. But the students involved in WiRED, Dartmouth's quarterly 24-hour playwriting experience, threw this standard to the wind. Given only one day to write, rehearse and perform short plays, four groups of participants relied heavily on improvisation to create plays based on one, pre-determined prompt.
It was a relatively uneventful day for the usually potent Big Green offense. The five total runs scored in the two games were less than the number of runs the Big Green often score in one game alone.
The Big Green (15-13, 6-2 Ivy) had success in all aspects of the game. Batters were aggressive at the plate and put together big innings, while both of the squad's pitchers had strong performances on the mound, keeping the opponent off the basepaths.
Although Dartmouth posted a 2-12 record in non-conference play this year, the team persevered to become a force in the league.
The loss to Cornell dropped the Big Green to three games back in the Ivy League standings with three games left in the season. Saturday's win over Columbia, combined with Cornell's loss to Harvard, means that the Big Green is not mathematically eliminated.
On Friday night, the Big Green (8-16, 6-4 Ivy) defeated the University of Pennsylvania, 69-59, for the team's first season sweep of Penn (8-15, 4-5 Ivy) in 50 years, and its first victory at the The Palestra in 12 years. Then, on Saturday, the Big Green defeated Princeton, 66-63, for the first weekend sweep of Penn and Princeton (10-12, 5-4 Ivy) by Dartmouth in 50 years.
For the first half of the concert, the Wind Symphony stepped aside and The College of New Jersey Wind Ensemble owned the stage. Culpepper, a TCNJ alumnus, performed with his wife in the ensemble 55 years ago.
The Big Green's seven-game road-trip included a 71-67 overtime win over Princeton and a 31-point demolition of Brown. The last time the women played at home, they took a tough 57-45 loss to Holy Cross.
"The beginning is choosing a play," Alexi-Meskhishvili explained. "You read the play, take your notes and meet with the director. This is a kind of an artistic conversation where we try to figure out technically what he needs."
"I am really excited about our team this year, and I think we are a really strong team," said Courtney Hammond '11, who finished last season ranked first in the giant slalom and won the Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing Association Rookie of the Year award.
Three Academy Award nominations and over 30 film scores after that initial meeting, Glass' impressive film music career brought him to the Hopkins Center on Thursday for "An Evening of Films and Discussion with Philip Glass."
Snow sculpting, a long-standing Dartmouth tradition, is now a physical education course that can be counted toward the three required PE courses for Dartmouth students.
More than 50 years after its Broadway premiere, "West Side Story" is back with an old face pushing the show into the 21st century. The old face (pun not intended) is Arthur Laurents, 91, who wrote the book for the original Broadway production in 1957 and returns as the director of the revival. This time around, though, the show will sound distinctively different: Much of the dialogue and some of the lyrics are in Spanish.
Captain Andrew Ballentine '09 had a big weekend for the Big Green (0-4, 0-3 Ivy) on the men's side, coming in second in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:09.76 and third in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:26.10.