10.28.13.news.majorshifts
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10.28.13.news.majorshifts
The football team improved its Ivy record with a win over Columbia at home.
Despite much recent discussion of social and residential life, Dartmouth’s primary mission is academic. As such, academics should be at the heart of President Phil Hanlon’s agenda over the coming months and years. Dartmouth’s core mission is about close faculty and student interaction, a focus on the liberal arts and a community that is engaged with the issues of the world. Experiential learning, interdisciplinary learning and practical skills such as entrepreneurship may stem from this mission, but they are not the mission. If Hanlon wants to enact true change that will allow Dartmouth to prosper, then we have three suggestions.
A team of inspectors from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement arrived on campus last Saturday to examine Safety and Security facilities determine if the department is eligible for accreditation as a college security agency. This is the first time that Safety and Security is undergoing an accreditation process.
The men’s and women’s rugby teams seem to have forgotten how to lose. Both teams tackled, ran and kicked their way to undefeated records, putting on spectacular performances wherever they travel. This weekend, they hope to continue their stellar seasons in two different tournaments. The men will compete in the North Ivy Sevens Championship, while the women will compete in the Ivy Fifteens championships, which will both be staged at the Corey Ford rugby clubhouse in Hanover.
Last Sunday, Fox ran a promotion of the upcoming Fox Sports Network coverage of the Big East conference’s college basketball games, but it didn’t focus on the league’s top teams or players. It instead featured the two men who would be behind the mic for those games: play-by-play announcer Gus Johnson and color commentator Bill Raftery, who for the first time will work together for an entire season. They have gained a loyal following for their passionate calls and signature lines, particularly during the NCAA tournament on CBS. Now the sports networks themselves finally notice what a tremendous asset the Johnson-Raftery team can be to their coverage.
On Saturday, Dartmouth plays its most important game of the season against Harvard in Cambridge, Mass.
No construction has been done on the North Campus Academic Center.
For centuries, scholars interested in Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” were accustomed to combing through heaps of physical documents, most of which were housed in Italy. These academics were granted instant access to historical and contemporaneous Dante scholarship through the Dartmouth Dante Project, which in 1988 began digitizing poem and commentaries from 1322 onward.
Since its introduction last fall, Collis After Dark has increasingly sought to provide social alternatives to the Greek system, seeing steady attendance despite the end of the six-week ban on first-year students entering Greek houses.
The College is reevaluating the future use of the planned $150 million North Campus Academic Center, interim vice president for campus planning and facilities Bill Anderson said.
The number of students applying to law school has been on the decline, with October’s law entry exam administrations down nearly 11 percent from last year, The Wall Street Journal reported. The decline marks the lowest number of potential applicants taking the LSAT since 1998 and corresponds with an approximately 18 percent drop in applications since last year. The LSATs saw 45 percent fewer takers this October compared with the 2009, when the exam’s popularity peaked.
Spreading oneself too thin is the natural tendency of many students — it is often what got us here in the first place — but it is also a tendency we should learn to overcome. Many of us share perfectionist tendencies that drive us to settle for no less than excellence in our academic and personal pursuits. Working hard and being involved are certainly admirable goals, but too often students find themselves equally disengaged from all aspects of their busy lives.
College President Phil Hanlon spoke at the Digital French and Italian conference.
No construction has been done on the North Campus Academic Center.
There was a time when dressing up as a rabbit was the highlight of your year.
There was a time when dressing up as a rabbit was the highlight of your year. You heard the final click of the sewing machine, put down your Pokemon cards, took your eyes off of PBS Kids and stared in awe at the fluffy white suit in your mother’s hands. You wore it for weeks in anticipation. You begged to wear it to school and were denied. When the big night finally came you cringed as your mother pinned your white tail to your fluffy rump, fearing it might poke into your real skin. Once your three whiskers, drawn with mom’s best eyeliner, were finished and your pink lipstick nose was applied, you were ready to hop down the bunny trail. Your sister, mummified with toilet paper, stood next to you for the picture. She then took your small hand in hers and led you to the first house because she’d done this before. As you toddled to keep up with her, your pumpkin-shaped candy bucket bobbed against your leg like a merry ghost. From the porch your mother watched you go, waving but not worrying. She knew you’d come back eventually.
The Great Vermont Corn Maze is one of multiple maize-themed attractions in the Upper Valley available for students who wish to get lost off campus.
We got off to a rocky start. Before even getting to our destination, the gas light was on, our phones had no service and we’d pulled several u-turns. Returning to Hanover without leaving the car crossed our minds. But, just as our last bit of positive energy almost dissipated, we stumbled upon the Great Vermont Corn Maze. We arrived just in time, and it was well worth the journey.
In case you were wondering, in 2004, British explorer Ben Saunders became the youngest and possibly last person to solo ski to the North Pole. This piece of knowledge is inspiring, crazy and somewhat sad. Traversing 204 kilometers of frozen wasteland on skis by yourself seems incredibly brave and lonely. The sad part is that Saunders’ expedition may be the last overland adventure to the North Pole because the rapidly decreasing sea ice will soon make such a feat impossible.