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(07/06/12 2:00am)
Originally purchased by former College President Jim Yong Kim for the president's house, Beltra's photograph now greets visitors to the Hood Museum's "Looking Back at Earth: Contemporary Environmental Photography from the Hood Museum's Collection" exhibit, opening July 7.
(02/06/12 4:00am)
While British period drama "Downton Abbey" currently in its second season is at its height as the classiest show on television, a recent wave of Downton-inspired memes has satirized its original intents, or perhaps revealed its true nature. These internet videos infuse familiar plotlines of "Downton Abbey" with raunchy twists. Have you, for instance, ever thoughts Bates was just a bit creepy? "Abbey of Thrones" which exchanges violent, foul-mouthed quotes from "Game of Thrones" with stately dialogue from "Downton Abbey" thinks so, too. One of its memes is a characteristically humble picture of Bates with the line, "He's a drunken little lecher, prone to all manner of perversions," attached. Similarly, "Arrested Downton" juxtaposes the period piece aesthetic of "Downton Abbey" with quotes from "Arrested Development." If you like your Downton humor lewd, you will also love "Telegrams from Downton," which combines "Texts from Last Night" with choice "Downton Abbey" stills. "Telegrams from Downton" is akin to reading a Bored@Baker post, but about stiff-lipped aristocrats and their servants, not Dartmouth students. My personal favorite is "Hey Lady," whose tagline pretty much sums it up: "Because Matthew Crawley is the Ryan Gosling of PBS." It is hard to resist "Downton Abbey" heartthrobs with such cheesy, sometimes historically significant pick-up lines attached.
(11/15/11 4:00am)
Wolff, a celebrated composer of experimental music and a former music, classics and comparative literature professor at Dartmouth, received the Walter Cerf Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts. Lea, a poet and former English professor at the College, was named the poet laureate of Vermont, the seventh in the state's history.
(09/26/11 2:00am)
The series will showcase Spaulding Auditorium's new 5.1 digital surround sound system, which was installed last spring, and will run from Sept. 30 to Nov. 20.
(09/21/11 2:00am)
Films played across eight projectors or shot with a camera from 1927 Germany are among the offerings in this fall's EYEWASH film and video series, which is sure to add some variety to Dartmouth's film offerings this fall. Film professor Jodie Mack founded and curated the series that features an array of experimental and independent films.
(05/26/11 2:00am)
Deriving inspiration from the youth and navet of undergraduate students and capitalizing on the free time that the D-Plan allows, English faculty members specializing in creative writing enjoy both the peaceful provinciality of Hanover and the intense interactions in the classroom at Dartmouth as they find time to produce their own work.
(05/12/11 2:00am)
Acclaimed screenwriter and novelist David Benioff '92 has not always received praise for his writing as a student at Dartmouth, he originally was not admitted to the English department's introductory creative writing course, English 80. He had to apply a second time in order to take professor Ernest Hebert's class.
(05/05/11 2:00am)
"With short film, you can pack in so many great things," Hopkins Center Film Manager Sydney Stowe said. "People love to be entertained in short pieces we all love to watch ads and this is a best-of series."
(04/28/11 2:00am)
"When Kidjo came here like 10 years ago, she actually came up into the audience and started dancing with a woman who was pregnant," Hopkins Center for the Arts Director of Programming Margaret Lawrence said. "Anglique did this personal dance with her and this woman has never forgot it. She has said that her daughter has never stopped dancing."
(01/26/11 4:00am)
"Downton Abbey" presents a sharp, radiant dramatization of class boundaries and family ties in pre-World War I England in which characters play traditional roles. The film traces the intrigue and uncertainty that accompanied social change in this era, when the power of the traditional English hierarchy began to crumble.
(01/11/11 4:00am)
The series, which first aired on BBC One in September 2008, chronicles the teenage life of the mythical sorcerer Merlin (Colin Morgan), sent by his mother to live in Camelot. The third season begins with Prince Arthur leading a search party for King Uther's stepdaughter, Morgana (Katie McGrath), who has been missing for a year. After battling a camp of soldiers, Arthur and his men quickly find Morgana and welcome her back with open arms. However, Merlin hesitates to believe Morgana's claims that she was held hostage.
(11/03/10 3:00am)
French gold-hoarding may deserve a large part of the blame for the Great Depression even more so than U.S. monetary policy in 1929, according to a recent paper by economics professor Douglas Irwin that challenges much of the previous research performed on the Great Depression. The paper was published in September by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
(10/28/10 2:00am)
Dartmouth received an A- on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card, and was named one of 52 "Overall College Sustainability Leaders," according to the organization's website. The report praised the College's sale of local food products, commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and eco-friendly student organizations. Dartmouth received an A in the Climate Change and Energy, Food and Recycling, Green Building, Student Involvement, Transportation, Endowment Transparency and Shareholder Engagement categories. The survey also criticized the College's lack of investment in renewable energy funds. Dartmouth received a B in the Investment Priorities and Administration categories. The report is an independent evaluation of sustainability on 322 campuses. Several other Ivies including Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University also received an overall grade of A-, according to the website.
(10/18/10 2:00am)
It took Dartmouth professor Gretchen Gerzina seven years to track down a Vermont couple that died over 200 years ago.
(10/06/10 2:00am)
Community serves as a major theme in Bechdel's work, she said. Bechdel is the author of the comic strip, "Dykes to Watch Out For," which follows a small group of lesbian friends. Her graphic memoir, "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic," documents Bechdel's relationship with her closeted gay father during her youth in rural Pennsylvania.
(10/04/10 2:00am)
A record 39 percent of undergraduate students enrolling in the University of California system this fall come from low-income families, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. This year's figure constitutes the largest percentage of low-income students in the University's history and represents an increase of 8 percentage points from the 2008-2009 school year. On average, 18 percent of students on the flagship campuses of the United States' 39 best-endowed universities came from low-income households, according to a study from The Chronicle. The percentage from this year's report was based on the 70,000 Pell Grant recipients those who receive federal need-based grants for their education enrolled in University of California schools.