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Ivy League uses A.I. to recruit athletes

Aires perform for Obama at White House

The Dartmouth Aires did not let the temperate climate of Washington, D.C., preclude them from celebrating an early "white" Christmas on Friday, when the a cappella group performed at the White House as part of its winter tour. The Aires sang holiday favorites and some of their arrangements from NBC's "The Sing-Off" for the last of a series of private holiday parties held by President Barack Obama.

'The Lorax' brings Seuss story to life

Dartmouth accepts 465 students in early decision process

The College offered 465 students early decision admission to the Class of 2016 out of the 1,800 applications received, according to a College press release. This marks a 21-student increase, as 444 students were accepted early into the Class of 2015 from an 1,759-person applicant pool. This rise in accepted students is due to the strength of the early applicant pool, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

Green Team finds footing at Dartmouth

  Head into any Greek house on a party night and you'll see no­tice count­less in­ter­ac­tions that grow more mud­dled as BAC's climb. Since their first gig at Theta in Feb­ru­ary, 2011, a group of Dart­mouth stu­dents have been work­ing cre­atively to an­swer ques­tions about the best way to han­dle the com­pli­ca­tions of drink­ing on cam­pus. Green Team, the stu­dent-run by­stander in­ter­ven­tion pro­gram de­signed to re­duce al­co­hol harm and sex­ual as­sault, has grown by leaps and bounds since its ini­tial im­ple­men­ta­tion. Mod­eled after a sim­i­lar by­stander in­ter­ven­tion pro­gram at Haver­ford called the Quaker Bounc­ers, Green Team began shak­ily and suf­fered staffing chal­lenges in the Spring. Ac­cord­ing to Will Conaway '13, a Green Team com­mit­tee mem­ber, Sum­mer term bore wit­ness to a great in­crease in use. From spring to sum­mer, staffing is­sues that left some par­ties staffed by only a par­tial team dis­ap­peared. Now, Conaway says, any­where be­tween 20 to 30 peo­ple sign up to work work Green Team on a given Wednes­day, Fri­day or Sat­ur­day. Conaway es­ti­mates that there are over 300 trained Green Team mem­bers on cam­pus this fall and even more off cam­pus. Rec­og­niz­ing the ben­e­fits of hav­ing mem­bers trained to deal with high-risk Greek is­sues, some Greek or­ga­ni­za­tions have begun send­ing mem­bers to get trained. Be­yond solv­ing staffing is­sues for Green Team, Conaway be­lieves that Green Team train­ing will kick in for stu­dents whether they're on duty or hang­ing out ca­su­ally with friends. In other words, hun­dreds of stu­dents trained in by­stander in­ter­ven­tion are now de­ployed across cam­pus each night, cer­tainly a pos­i­tive for cam­pus. At this point, Green Team's fate is no longer in ques­tion. Conaway de­scribes the pro­gram as steady-state since the sum­mer and re­sources do not ap­pear to be an issue as the group's re­ceived strong sup­port from the Col­lege. Green Team's focus is shift­ing from major im­ple­men­ta­tion chal­lenges to data col­lec­tion, the analy­sis of which can feed into larger Col­lege harm re­duc­tion strate­gies. In­ter­est­ingly, other col­leges may begin to pick up the pro­gram. In early No­vem­ber, stu­dents from De­pauw Uni­ver­sity vis­ited Hanover to dis­cuss the pro­gram with Green Team mem­bers and ob­served a party in progress. Conaway notes that many schools are still stuck with a pol­icy en­force­ment strat­egy with re­gard to al­co­hol. If other schools begin to try a harm re­duc­tion ap­proach, we may see lo­cally grown va­ri­eties of Green Team and the Haver­ford Bounc­ers pop­ping up across the na­tion. Conaway seems op­ti­mistic, but rec­og­nizes harm re­duc­tion in so­cial spaces as only one of many steps to chang­ing cam­pus drink­ing cul­ture. And, per­haps in the not-so-dis­tant fu­ture, Dart­mouth will be held up as a model of in­no­v­a­tive al­co­hol poli­cies.

Second perpetrator in Petit home invasion receives death penalty

Joshua Komisarjevsky, one of two individuals found guilty for his role in the 2007 Connecticut home invasion in which Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, Hayley Petit, 17, and Michaela Petit, 11, were murdered, was sentenced to death today, according to NBC News.

Alumni Council selects Trustee candidates

Dartmouth's Alumni Council nominated Nathaniel Fick '99, Richard Kimball '78 and Benjamin Wilson '73 to seek election to the Board of Trustees on Friday. The candidates were unanimously approved by a vote of 85-0.

Dartmouth researchers recognized for recognizing photoediting  

Dartmouth staffers celebrate transition in style at Changeover

  It’s been a news­wor­thy year for The Dart­mouth’s ’12 di­rec­torate, who pub­lished their final paper today - ’13 staffers are tak­ing over pro­duc­tion be­gin­ning on Jan­u­ary 1st, a tran­si­tion that was cause for cel­e­bra­tion. Fri­day No­vem­ber 18th saw The Dart­mouth staff don­ning their glad-rags for The Dart­mouth’s An­nual Changeover Cel­e­bra­tion at Casque & Gaunt­let.   Out­go­ing '12 di­rec­torateThe mem­bers of the ed­i­to­r­ial board were the first to ar­rive at the event, bear­ing bot­tles of cham­pagne and closely-guarded award en­velopes. They were closely fol­lowed by ju­nior staff mem­bers dressed up to the nines in blaz­ers, ties, dresses and heels.   Ju­nior staffers ar­rive at C&GThe first per­son to catch my eye was our very own out­go­ing Dart­beat ed­i­tor Ta­tiana Cooke ’12, who wowed the crowds in a mod­ern clas­sic – the black ban­dage dress. Out­go­ing ex­ec­u­tive ed­i­tors Jamila Ma ’12 and Katie Gon­za­lez ’12 daz­zled on-look­ers in a sim­ple and el­e­gant nude beaded chif­fon dress and a petrol blue and metal­lic shift re­spec­tively.   From left: Gon­za­lez, Wray, Zou and CookeThe stun­ning Chris­tine Kim ’14 bright­ened up the room in strik­ing bright red lip­stick and match­ing dress, and the adorable Mag­gie Zou ’12 looked every inch the lady with del­i­cately braided hair.   Kim in redExtra fash­ion credit goes to Staff Writer of the Year Jenny Che ’14, who broke the mold in a clas­sic cream vin­tage shirt and gor­geously pat­terned pen­cil skirt. News writer Diana Ming ’14 and lay­out staff-mem­ber Laura Dorn ’15 kept their looks light and fresh in beau­ti­ful sum­mer dresses.   Ming sec­ond from right in pinkNot to be out­done by the girls, out­go­ing ad­ver­tis­ing di­rec­tor Alex Lucey ’12 em­u­lated a suave busi­ness­man in his grey three-piece suit, black bow-tie and heavy-rimmed glasses.   Lucey, cen­ter in greyNever to be un­der­es­ti­mated, the most beau­ti­ful in­ter­pre­ta­tions of the clas­sic LBD that night were seen on Alesy Itur­rey ’14, Jen Dalecki ’15 and Ester Khacha­tryan ’15. Who im­pressed you the most at last week’s changeover? Tweet me @la­bele­tran­gere

Freddie and the Bigger People 2011-11-30

Ex Libris 2011-11-30

Schwieger places second for Player of the Year

Dartmouth running back Nick Schwieger '12 relinquished the Asa S. Bushnell Cup Ivy League Player of the Year title on Monday, losing out to Cornell University sophomore quarterback Jeff Matthews. Despite leading the League in rushing yards for the second consecutive season, Schwieger faced a difficult challenge in upending Matthews for Offensive Player of the Year, as Matthews set the conference's single-season record for passing yards and was named national player of the week twice.

Former hockey player Hartwick '07 creates surfing simulator

Combining a love of sports with Dartmouth-nurtured creativity, former Big Green men's hockey player Mike Hartwick '07 recently created Rip Surfer X, a fitness apparatus designed to simulate surfing movements in a gym setting. The product, which was slated to go on sale Tuesday night, simulates the actions of carving turns on waves and paddling out to sea with a piece of sedentary fitness equipment.

Booked Solid: 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)'

Released by Random House on Nov. 1, Kaling's comedic memoir is a series of witty essays in which she chronicles her childhood as a "chubster," her years at Dartmouth where Kaling "went to pursue her love of white people and North Face parkas," she writes her post-college employment struggles and her ultimate rise to success as a writer, actress and executive producer for "The Office."