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(05/11/04 9:00am)
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles examining higher education admissions in the wake of last year's University of Michigan Supreme Court decisions. This article looks at race preference.
(05/11/04 9:00am)
Public speaking may be most Americans' single greatest fear, but for five finalists in speech contests on Monday night, oratory proved both enjoyable and materially rewarding.
(05/11/04 9:00am)
Alumni voting to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Board of Trustees ended late Saturday evening after two months of online and paper balloting. The announcement of the trustee-elect, who will succeed Peter Fahey '68 after his ten years of service to the Board, is pending notification and formal approval by the Board.
(05/10/04 9:00am)
PARIS May 5 -- In 1977, the soon-to-be-legendary quartet Talking Heads appeared at Le Bataclan opening for The Ramones on their first European tour. That night, a gawky, awkward man-child with his black hair parted to one side, strained his upper register while singing, "Mommy, Daddy, come and look at me now/I'm a big man in a great big town."
(05/10/04 9:00am)
No artist from the 1980s combined commercial success with lasting musical influence more fruitfully than Prince. Albums like "Dirty Mind," "1999," "Purple Rain" and "Sign O' The Times" have spawned innumerable imitators, as nearly every contemporary hip-hop and R & B performer has borrowed something from the Purple One's repertoire.
(05/10/04 9:00am)
Imagine a world in which the President of the United States pushes us to war with a country over invented claims of weapons of mass destruction and fabricated assertions of ties to terrorism. Imagine a world in which terrorists crash airplanes into the Twin Towers, and then the White House uses this tragedy as an excuse to usurp the civil liberties of Americans. Imagine a world in which no one can publicly criticize the President of the United States, including through the venue of film.
(05/10/04 9:00am)
I am a free man. Free from the inexplicable brutality that marks a student body election. Free from sidewalk chalk and stupid posters. Free from the assumptions people make without daring to look deeper. I am very free now, and content because of it.
(05/10/04 9:00am)
The Women and Gender Studies department was born as Women Studies at Dartmouth in 1978, six years after the college went co-ed in 1972. The department has since expanded, incorporating "gender" into its name in 2000.
(05/10/04 9:00am)
Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of articles examining higher education admissions in the wake of last year's University of Michigan Supreme Court decisions. This article looks at legacy preference.
(05/10/04 9:00am)
Derrick Cartwright will leave an impressive legacy on the Hood Museum of Art when he departs as its director in early September to lead the San Diego Museum of Art.
(05/10/04 9:00am)
Saturday's double-header at Red Rolfe Field proved a trial for the boys in green. The baseball team had a rough day, too. The Loudmouth Brigade, a band of self-described "professional hecklers" composed largely of Dartmouth seniors, had been preparing all week, and in fact all season, for Saturday's match-up against the Princeton Tigers.
(05/10/04 9:00am)
The nearby town of Lebanon recently nixed approval of a local methadone clinic when it realized its blunder in issuing a "retail" permit to the drug treatment facility.
(05/07/04 9:00am)
Dartmouth softball hosted Vermont (6-33-2) Tuesday, winning both games easily to end their season with a 17-20, 5-9 Ivy record.
(05/07/04 9:00am)
In their final tune-up before the Princeton Tigers come to town for the Ivy League Championship, the Dartmouth (25-15, 15-5 Ivy) baseball team ended the 2004 regular season schedule with a losing 11-3 effort against the Boston College Eagles on Wednesday.
(05/07/04 9:00am)
Dartmouth women's water polo returned from California Polytechnic University of San Luis Obispo this weekend as the number-two club water polo team in the country. The National Championship Tournament brought together the best teams in the each of the 11 regions, with the Pacific region sending two, to battle for the title.
(05/07/04 9:00am)
This election certainly is bittersweet for all involved. I don't think anyone feels completely satisfied about the process or even the end result.
(05/07/04 9:00am)
And so end the weeks of feverish campaigning, the hours of impassioned speeches and the closest Student Assembly election in recent memory.
(05/07/04 9:00am)
While striking, frustrated, underpaid graduate students have beset universities across the country, Dartmouth seems to have escaped the epidemic, thanks to measures taken by the College to placate its graduate students. But not all of the graduate students at the College are content: Many cite the tedious nature of their work.
(05/07/04 9:00am)
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of articles examining the far-reaching effects of last year's Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action.
(05/07/04 9:00am)
General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt '78 will speak at this year's commencement, while Kofi Annan, Sandra Day O'Connor, Bill Clinton and Jon Stewart are speaking at the graduations of other top universities -- a state of affairs that has riled many campus seniors.