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The Accidental Fan: What is a sport?

Neither dance nor football is easy. Both take extreme skill and stamina. But while football is inarguably a sport, I wonder if dance can be classified as such. The 2007 movie “The Game Plan” intimates that dance is even more difficult than football. The lead female character, a ballet teacher, is getting ready to teach Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s character, an NFL football player, how to dance. She proceeds to take him through a crazy workout that has him gasping for air and in desperate need of water. As he tries to shrug off his exhaustion, she says, “If ballet were easy, they’d call it football.”

Elias: Frackets; What’s Yours Is Mine?

This year's Oscar-nominated shorts have surprising depth

Last Saturday, I went to watch the Hopkins Center’s screening of the collection of Oscar-nominated live-action short films without a clue of what I was getting into. I hadn’t looked up any of the films before my viewing, and in my innocence, I assumed that the brevity of the shorts meant they would toe the line between light-hearted and meaningful. They would not be too dark or bleak, I assured myself, before the lights went dim and the title card for the first short appeared on the screen.

Students and professors targeted by racist, sexually explicit emails

Updated Feb. 13, 2019 at 5:37 p.m.

Dinesh D'Souza '83's lecture at the College sparks protests

On Monday evening, Dinesh D’Souza ’83 spoke at an event sponsored by the Dartmouth Republicans and the Young America Foundation. Over 200 people attended the event, and dozens of students and community members protested the speech through song, chants and signs. The event, part of Young America Foundation’s 10-campus “Dinesh D’Souza tour: Fake History Debunked,” took place in Filene Auditorium.

Film Thoughts: What is the enduring power of the cult classic?

As we find ourselves hurtling toward the already contentious 91st Academy Awards ceremony, I think it might be time to take a break from our regularly scheduled programming and tackle a seemingly unrelated question: Why do we like cult films?

Pucks in Deep: Artemi Panarin and the small market free agency dilemma

Last Friday, Columbus Blue Jackets winger and leading scorer Artemi Panarin announced a change in agents from Dan Milstein to Paul Theofanous. In a vacuum, this would be a horrifically boring announcement, but in context, there is more to the story. Along with the new agent, Panarin, an impending unrestricted free agent, made fully public what had been an open secret since last offseason — that he intends to test the free agency market, where he will surely collect a handsome raise on the $6 million he took home this season. 

Alumni reflect on their Winter Carnival experiences

 Before Robert Trundle ’91 arrived on campus, he already had high expectations for Winter Carnival.

Pak: Make It Yours

This year, Dartmouth is celebrating its 250th anniversary. And at first, I thought it had absolutely nothing to do with me. 

This One Goes Out to All My Girls

Baby It's Cold Outside (and Inside)

Courtyard Café to make Green2Go mandatory

The last disposable to-go container “walked out” of the Courtyard Café on Feb. 3. 

Andy Harvard '71 remembered for energy and zeal

World-renowned mountaineer, accomplished lawyer and former Dartmouth Outing Club director Andy Harvard ’71 brought a boundless energy and infectious zeal to every challenge he took upon himself. Then, at the age of 59, an Alzheimer’s diagnosis dealt him a devastating blow. 

Not Your Average Humans of Dartmouth

Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend: My Favorite Place on Campus

Pak: Homecoming

College celebrates 2019 MLK day with Franchesca Ramsey

On Monday night, comedian and social justice activist Franchesca Ramsey delivered the keynote address at the College’s 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Feature Presentation. Over the weekend and in the upcoming weeks, Dartmouth held and will hold events ranging from presentations on topics such as mental health and sexual assault to films centered around social justice. 

Adelberg: New Foe, Old Ideas

Fishbein: The Big Green Moderate

'Burning' is a riveting drama about masculinity and desire

There’s an image in Lee Chang-dong’s “Burning” that I still see when I close my eyes at night: a little boy approaches a burning greenhouse. He is inexplicably dripping wet — with water? with gasoline? — and he stares at the flames in a trance.