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Friends and loved ones will commemorate the life of Dartmouth Medical School professor Dr. Dudley J. Weider '60 on Saturday. An active alpine, telemark and nordic skier, Weider, 67, died suddenly Feb. 18 while skiing in the Dartmouth Grant in northern New Hampshire.
Beginning a four game homestand, the Dartmouth men's basketball team (5-5, 8-15) finally seemed to have hit stride for the first time this season, garnering a .500 record during its defense of its home court. Displaying tremendous tenacity and consistency on both the defensive and offensive ends of the court, Dartmouth is finally reaching the potential that it displayed flashes of throughout the entire basketball season. With just four games left in the season, the Big Green is in shouting distance of Yale's strangle-hold on second place in the Ancient Eight and looks poised to cap off its turnaround season with a few season-ending victories.
Most students hope the College spends their tuition on paying professors and funding research, but in 2002 Dartmouth spent the equivalent of two years' tuition on lobbying. However, rather than working for legislation in Dartmouth's favor, Dartmouth's lobbyists primarily keep their fingers on the pulse of the New Hampshire state legislature.
A record-high turnout for female rush this year forced the Panhellenic Council to turn away 21 disappointed sophomore women, prompting some members of the Dartmouth community to mull the possibility of lifting the moratorium on new sororities.
The track and field teams of Columbia and Yale voyaged to the New England hinterlands this weekend to face the Big Green. Though the men faced a setback and were put down by the Bulldogs, the women shined to take first place.
In the last non-conference game of the season on Sunday afternoon, Big Green women's basketball succumbed to the Virginia Cavaliers (14-5) in a disappointing 83-70 match at University Hall before a lively crowd of 2,090.
Big Green women's basketball picked up its second consecutive win in a 67-61 victory over the Central Connecticut Blue Devils on Tuesday night at Detrick Gymnasium in New Britain, Conn. Dartmouth improves its overall record to 5-7 and stands firmly at 1-0 in the Ivy League.
The holiday weekend was witness to another decisive victory by the men's and women's track and field teams of Dartmouth College. Hosting the universities of New Hampshire and Vermont on the rubber track and Astroturf fields of Leverone Field House, the Big Green proved itself the greatest track program within, at minimum, a 100-mile radius of Hanover.
Sheltered from the snowy landscape of Hanover, NH, Dartmouth's track and field teams competed this weekend in the Leverone Field House at the 36th Annual Dartmouth Relays. Every year, the meet draws athletes from dozens of colleges and universities around the northeast and is the athletes' first chance to see the results of their off-season's grueling training regimen.
"He iz a criminal! And not even da good type wot deals drugs and does drive-bys," says wannabe British gangster Ali G in his just-released-on-DVD-in-the-USA movie, "Ali G Indahouse." That quote, in reference to a corrupt politician, evokes the best moments of the brilliant HBO (and onetime BBC) TV show.
With 67 students for every one elliptical machine at Kresge Fitness Center, chances are that students cannot get their cardio workouts in without reservations.
A Dartmouth teaching center established this summer will soon take physical form in Baker-Berry Library, College officials recently announced.
When the debate over same-sex marriage recently came to a head in the U.S. Senate, New Hampshire Sen. John Sununu broke rank with his colleagues right of the aisle to oppose moving forward with a vote on the proposed constitutional amendment to ban the practice. The procedural vote failed, killing the gay marriage ban before it could reach the Senate floor.
Dartmouth women's rowing qualified four crews for grand finals and two others for petite finals in the Eastern Sprints competition in Camden, N.J.
The Oakland A's were the first team to extensively (and successfully) use sabermetrics, or scientific, statistical baseball analysis. Through the best-selling book "Moneyball," by Michael Lewis, the A's successful utilization of sabermetrics became famous. Now, nearly half the teams in Major League Baseball use scientific statistical analysis, most notably, the Red Sox, who employ the legendary sabermetrician Bill James.
Thanks to a $4.5 million donation, Baker-Berry Library will soon host a technology resource facility for faculty -- The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning.
In the summer of 2002, Elizabeth Right '04 made a bold prediction for herself and her Dartmouth lacrosse teammates -- that they would win a national championship.
Country has the Dixie Chicks, pop has Destiny's Child, and classical has Eroica Trio. They are three astonishingly beautiful women with talent to match their looks. Making their first appearance at the Hop Saturday night, they delivered an impressive performance to a packed Spaulding Auditorium. What drew so many people to listen to classical music on such an unbearably frigid night? Perhaps it was the gorgeous women on the posters that were plastered up all over campus, but more likely it was the remarkable talent of the group that prompted such a turnout.
As hockey and basketball start to warm up in their early season schedules, and the rumors abound in the baseball world, those of us with a hard dedication to sports know that what matters right now is football. Most of you assume I'm going to talk about the NFL, the undefeated Chiefs, the resilient Patriots and the coaching job of the mighty Tuna. But you are all wrong.
While President Bush has garnered criticism over major issues such as Iraq and the economy, yesterday at Dartmouth Hall a member of his administration addressed another flashpoint of controversy -- his proposal to federally fund faith-based charitable organizations. Jim Towey, Director of the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, spoke about the program's goals and constitutionality.