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(11/13/12 9:00pm)
Louise Erdrich '76 received the National Book Award a prestigious award whose previous recipients include Ray Bradbury, Judy Blume and Tom Wolfe for her fiction novel "The Round House" on Wednesday. Erdrich, who graduated in the first full coeducational class at the College, returned most recently to Hanover as a Montgomery Fellow last spring and has been compared to authors such as William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
(10/11/12 2:00am)
To kick off the festivities, the Hopkins Center will premiere projection artist Ross Ashton's "Five Windows," which will illuminate the facade of the Hopkins Center in preparation for the multitude of performances and concerts that the building will host this weekend. Notable visitors including actor John Lithgow, famed filmmaker Buck Henry '52 and comedian Rachel Dratch '88 will join the Dartmouth community to celebrate the arts this weekend.
(08/19/11 2:00am)
American women not only outperform men in college enrollment and graduation, but also value education more highly than men, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. A survey of more than 2,100 Americans released this Wednesday by the Pew Research Center analyzed public attitudes toward higher education, The Chronicle reported. Of those polled, more than a third held bachelor's degrees or higher. Respondents with or without a college diploma agreed that higher education was more central to a woman's success than a man's, The Chronicle reported. Fifty-percent of females with a four-year college degree were enthusiastic about the country's higher-education system despite the financial costs involved, compared with 37 percent of men, according to The Chronicle. The American public has mixed views on the increase of female versus male enrollment, according to Kimberly Parker, co-author of the report on the survey. "[The public] are supportive of all the accomplishments of women in this regard, but they don't want to see that success come at the expense of men," Parker said.
(08/19/11 2:00am)
The students of Film and Media Studies 30: Documentary Filmmaking will present their final projects in Loew Auditorium tonight at 7 p.m. Under the guidance of professor Jeffrey Ruoff, the students in the class worked in groups throughout the term to create 10-minute documentaries.
(08/16/11 2:00am)
Under the guiding hand of Paul Finkelstein '13, the Dartmouth Summer Orchestra performed in Rollins Chapel for the first time in 12 years on Monday night. Finkelstein, the group's conductor, formed the Summer )rchestra in order to provide students with a classical musical outlet for the term, The Dartmouth previously reported.
(08/09/11 2:00am)
When Dartmouth students graduate, they join a distinguished group of famous men and women both real and fictional. Dartmouth alumni are extremely diverse, ranging from conservative news personality Laura Ingraham '85 and General Electric Chief Executive Officer Jeffry Immelt '78 to entertainers such as Rachel Dratch '88 of "Saturday Night Live."
(08/09/11 2:00am)
The latest exhibition displayed in the Barrows Rotunda in the Hopkins Center for the Arts is an assortment of colorfully painted objects precariously balanced on blocks and shelves or hanging from wires. Designed and created by studio art intern Grace Dowd '11, the exhibit "This is My World" is a sculpture that draws attention to the mixing of colors and the "off-kilter" placement of "visually appealing" objects, according to Dowd.
(08/09/11 2:00am)
"The Tree of Life," Malick's fifth feature in 38 years, has been in development for decades and missed multiple release dates before premiering at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Palme d'Or, the festival's highest prize, awarded to the director of the best feature film.
(08/02/11 2:00am)
The children's book, published in 1911, remains one of Burnett's most popular works, according to Gerzina, who presented the keynote address on Friday.
(07/29/11 2:00am)
In the heavily segregated city of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Dartmouth education professor Andrew Garrod, who retired from the College in 2008, is challenging the country's ethnic tensions this summer by directing a theatrical production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
(07/22/11 2:00am)
Recently appointed Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson began her term on Thursday at an event co-hosted by the Student Assembly and the Dean of the College division. Held on Collis porch, the meet-and-greet allowed students to welcome Johnson and other new staff members in the Dean of the College division, who will begin work in their new positions this summer. Johnson joins Dartmouth after leaving Colgate University, where she served as dean of the college, overseeing all facets of student life outside the classroom, according to the Colgate website. Johnson earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Detroit, and after graduating with a J.D. from University of Michigan Law School, became the first African American female partner at Gran Lucow Miller firm in Detroit, the Colgate Scene previously reported. Johnson succeeds former Acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears, whose tenure officially ended on June 1.
(07/19/11 2:00am)
Documentarian Ken Burns presented the world premiere of the first episode of his and Lynn Novick's three-part film "Prohibition" last Saturday at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. Burns and Novick's "Prohibition," which explores the era of speakeasies, bootleggers and constitutional chaos, will air on PBS on October 2, 3 and 4.
(07/12/11 2:00am)
Lavanway said she does not expect the process to conclude before the end of Summer term.
(07/05/11 2:00am)
Department chairs in the humanities should aim to "open the door" to students and strengthen their departments' presence at the College, according to art history professor Adrian Randolph, the newly-appointed associate dean of the faculty for the arts and humanities. Randolph, who will serve a four-year term in the position, replaced French and comparative literature professor Kate Conley, according to a statement sent to all faculty members by Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno on June 6.
(06/01/11 2:00am)
When Baker-Berry library began staying open 24 hours a day during reading and finals period last fall, the intention was to accommodate students' need for a study space well past the library's usual 2 a.m. closing time. The policy, however, has unintentionally generated a battle for prime real estate in the library, with some students securing desks for extended periods of time leaving their belongings in place even while they are gone and other students left deskless and hopeless in their search for a quiet spot to work.
(05/26/11 2:00am)
Environmentalism, storytelling and community building all came together this spring in a new First-Year Writing Seminar, "COVER Stories: Community Building and the Environment," which gave students the opportunity to escape the classroom and interact with Upper Valley residents, according to Terry Osborne, an English and environmental studies professor who taught the course. Students will deliver their final presentations for the class in which they will discuss their collaboration with the local non-profit organization COVER Home Repair in Collis 101 on Thursday, Osborne said.
(05/17/11 2:00am)
The seemingly disparate worlds of song and financial services came together on Monday night in a benefit concert organized by Hope Sings a "for-benefit" organization founded by Beth Blatt '79 that uses music to support microfinance efforts. The event, which was held in Collis Common Ground, featured performances by three Dartmouth a cappella groups to raise money for Grameen American.
(05/11/11 2:00am)
Student Assembly finalized many of its committee chair positions at the Assembly meeting Tuesday night in Collis 101. For all committees each of which is chaired by two people the General Assembly elected one chair while Student Body President Max Yoeli '12 and acting Vice President Rohail Premjee '14 appointed the other. The position of co-chair of the Alcohol Harm Reduction Committee, which will be held by Will Conaway '13, proved to be the most contentious election, with three students running for the position. Conaway said he will draw on his experience as a Green Team member to help partner the Assembly with other campus organizations dedicated to alcohol issues. Mary Cromwell '12 was elected co-chair of the Diversity and Community Affairs Committee. Both Tyler Kuhn '14 and Donald Casler '14 ran unopposed to be co-chair of the Academic Affairs Committee and the sustainability representative, respectively. Yoeli and Premjee announced their appointments after the meeting. Ji Hyae Lee '13 will co-chair the Alcohol Harm Reduction Committee, Gardiner Kreglow '14 will co-chair the Academic Affairs Committee and Troy Dildine '13 will co-chair the Diversity and Community Affairs Committee. Camden Nogay '13 and Alan Keegan '14 will co-chair the Student Services Committee. While the Assembly's committee structure will include a committee on sexual assault, that committee's chairs have not yet been finalized. The Assembly is still in the process of determining how it will work with the existing Student Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, according to Yoeli. Student Body Vice President Amrita Sankar '12, who is currently off campus in India for personal reasons, reviewed the applications for committee chairs, but left the final decisions to Premjee, according to Premjee.
(05/11/11 2:00am)
Although Zola Mashariki '94, senior vice president of production at Fox Searchlight Pictures, attended Harvard Law School after graduating from Dartmouth and worked in corporate law for three years, she had no qualms about moving on to a lowly internship position at Fox Searchlight.
(05/06/11 2:00am)
"The government began expelling reporters, and those that were in the country such as me were ordered not to leave our office and almost all of my sources were jailed," Fathi said in an interview with The Dartmouth. "It was a coup d'tat."