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’14 (Grad. Student): “My prof just responded to a blitz I sent a year ago…Bad news is I sent it as an undergrad, good news is she can meet Tuesday.”
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’14 (Grad. Student): “My prof just responded to a blitz I sent a year ago…Bad news is I sent it as an undergrad, good news is she can meet Tuesday.”
As we all spend this week recovering from Winter Carnival and wearily finishing midterms, here @Dartbeat we’re all too aware that course selection for 15S is looming unpleasantly over our heads. How could it already be time for course selection?!, we’ve asked ourselves, shaking out our frozen hair. Didn’t winter just start? While the answer to the latter is an unfortunate yes, we’ve decided to make the most of course selection by compiling a list of the true descriptions of courses – based only on their titles and our imagination – to help show you some fun courses you might be missing. Just remember that if you really want to know what’s worth signing up for, you might want to check the Dartmouth course catalogue.
Brown University: Alumni at Brown University, partnered with four current undergraduate students, are working to launch a new app by early April, the Brown Daily Herald reports. The app — titled “Groupies” and initially developed by Rob Gillett, a member of the Brown Class of 2012 — aims to help groups of young adults find other groups interested in participating in similar activities. As Gillett prepares the application for launch, he is also working with business students at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and plans on extending the outreach to include representatives on various campuses.
Twenty-nine years ago last week, The Dartmouth published an article describing the laborious construction process behind the 1986 Winter Carnival sculpture, a 40-foot tall “wild thing” based on the popular children’s book by Maurice Sendak. According to the report, the procedure for building the sculpture involved plywood boards, scaffolding, hoses and garbage cans of snow —as well as help from students and several rounds of hot chocolate.
Jan. 6, 11:30 p.m., McLane Hall: Safety and Security officers responded to a physical confrontation involving an intoxicated member of the Class of 2018, who reportedly pushed another individual. The intoxicated student was transported to Dick’s House and admitted for the night.
Last week I introduced you all to the FoCo Superbowl, a healthy, hearty dessert with fruit, yogurt and granola. What was I thinking in turning away from the sugary sweetness of my previous columns? Well, I was inspired by the availability of a “Superbowl” pun, and the start of the Dartmouth on Purpose 21-Day Challenge had me feeling inspired. This week, though, I’ve returned to my normal routine, and as promised, I’ll be introducing the seriously sinful opposite of last week’s creation — the Superbowl Sundae. If I had to describe my aims in creating this dessert in one word, I would probably go with “glutinous.” Luckily, I have a whole column, so you’ll get a lot more information shortly.
The commentary below is entirely fictional and does not represent the true diary entries of an anonymous member of the Class of 2018.
Last week, The Dartmouth published a roundup of reactions in the national media to College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” (MDF) plan. Unfortunately, in a shocking editorial oversight, The Dartmouth’s reporting failed to cover the viewpoints of another important indicator of national opinion —anonymous online commentators. So, on a mission to compliment our previous reporting, Dartbeat trolled the internet for the most ridiculous comments we could find about MDF. Here are our findings, presented without changes to their spelling, grammar or lucidity:
It must be true love.
Winter Carnival: Villains or Heroes, we can all agree that campus looks beautiful this week.
'15:"People think it’s bad to drunk blitz your ex, but drunk blitzing your prof? It’s hard to go to office hours once you’ve told her that she looks like Megan Fox.”
Last month, New Hampshire began to sell $1 bacon-scented scratch-n-sniff lottery tickets. Yes, you read that right, and yes, here @Dartbeat we couldn’t be more thrilled about the development. So, as a lover of all things breakfast, I volunteered to rush down to the gas station by CVS this week and buy two tickets as fast as I could. Here’s a breakdown of my experience.
As the snow on the ground and our excessive x-hours indicate, Winter Carnival is looming. As a first-year, I must admit I have no idea what exactly this weekend entails —I’ve heard something about the “Polar Plunge,” and someone told me that there’s a human dogsled race, but I can’t be sure what’s true and what’s not. I can confirm with my own eyes, however, that something is happening on the center of the Green, where a large chunk of ice and snow is slowly but surely being shaped into something regarding villains and heroes. So, in honor of my new knowledge and of Winter Carnival’s greatest tradition, I’ve taken a walk down memory lane (with the assistance of the Rauner Special Collections Library) and reviewed the top ten Winter Carnival ice sculptures of all time. Will this year’s make the list? TBD.
Brown University: Funding for new research proposals at Brown University has been roughly thirty percent higher in the first half of fiscal year 2015 than in 2014, the Brown Daily Herald reports. Available funds at the University had declined by roughly 13.7 percent in the period between 2013 and 2014 in the aftermath of federal sequestration, according to the Herald, and funding has still not returned to its peak 2011 levels. Columbia University: Following the appointment of Cristen Kromm as Columbia University’s new dean of undergraduate student life, student members of the University’s search committee have released a statement opposing the decision, the Columbia Spectator reported. In a press release published on Feb. 2, the student members of the search committee claimed that student voices had been silenced throughout the process. Cornell University: In a Feb. 2 profile, the Cornell Daily Sun reported on the work of John Lowry, a Cornell junior,who successfully brought the Food Recovery Network to Cornell following his realization as a Cornell Dining employee that a large amount of usable food was being wasted by the University. At Cornell, the Network —a national organization devoted to providing food to those without —has focused on gathering recoverable food from University dining halls and distributing it to volunteer organizations. Harvard University: Students interested in watching the New England Patriots compete against the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX had a number of unusual options, according to the Harvard Crimson. While many chose to view the game in their residential communities or in Harvard dining halls, some students and community members also opted to attend an “anti-Super Bowl” party, held at the University’s Humanist Hub in conjunction with a Super Bowl party. At the “anti-Super Bowl” party, television screens displayed Animal Planet’s “Puppy Bowl” instead of the National Football League’s broadcast. Princeton University: Following the repeal of a grade deflation policy at Princeton at the beginning of this academic year, the University will began attaching a letter to the transcripts of upperclassmen explaining the decision, the Daily Princetonian reported. Although some students had expressed concerns about how the policy would affect upperclassmen, the removal of the grading policy will not apply retroactively to the grades earned under the old policy. University of Pennsylvania: Analysis of data on undergraduate employment collected by the University’s career services office reveals that the percentage of students opting to work in finance has decreased each year over the past five years, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Despite this trend, finance and consulting remain the two most popular professional sectors for undergraduates at the University, followed by education and technology. Yale University: Until Feb. 16 faculty at Yale University will have the opportunity to voice feedback about a newly proposed faculty code of conduct, the Yale Daily News reported. The code, which is currently in draft document form, is intended to ensure that the University’s ethical expectations are explicitly stated in published documents.
I have a confession to make: I did not watch the Superbowl this weekend, and I am still using it as a pun for the title of this week’s column. In my defense, literally my two least favorite athletic teams in the world were playing against one another, and the pun is pretty good. Still, I apologize to my avid readers.
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January 20th has come and gone, and with it, so has the deadline to make use of the ever-present savior of Dartmouth students’ GPAs — the non-recording option (NRO). Here @Dartbeat, we know that it can be natural to wonder if you should or shouldn’t have taken advantage of the option, which allows students to declare the minimum grade they are willing to receive in a given class, with any grade below that higher than an E being entered into the transcript as “not recorded.” How can you tell —if you’re in this doubting camp — whether you made the right call? Well, it’s simple. Look over the following statements, see how many apply to your life, and then calculate your score.
Each week, Dartbeat asks a group of musically inclined students to recommendtheir favorite songs of the week.We then share a few of those tracks below. Enjoy! The Weeknd —“Often" (Kygo Remix) Margot Byrne, The Dartmouth Staff: The Weeknd is like, so hot right now. Did you hear he's on the new 50 Shades of Grey soundtrack? So hot. On "Often," however, The Weeknd's typical sultriness is tempered by the addition of Norwegian DJ Kygo, who lends a subdued beat to the backdrop. Wait, isn't Kygo one of the performing options for Green Key? OMG. Doubly hot. You clearly can’t go wrong with this duo. Grimes —Oblivion Lilly Bain: Every so often, I'll find a song that I'm completely obsessed with, and that song is currently “Oblivion,” the 2012 smash-hit by Vancouver-born Grimes. The song —and its completely amazing video, which features Grimes awkwardly dancing at a McGill University football game —is full of contradictions, with Grimes’ heavy lyrical subject matter clashing with her cheerful, CHVRCHES style beat. While this song might not be for everyone, like my friend who described it as “weird,” its light introduction to goth electronic might just help you find your new favorite sound.
Mad Dog 20/20: Don’t tell me what’s hard and what’s not.
’17: "EBA's is the only favorite on my phone…"