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(09/16/15 10:04pm)
In 1972, Bill Pence and his wife Stella Pence transformed an old opera house into a functional theater and screened two movies there. The opera-house-turned-theater was in Telluride, Colorado, and the Telluride Film Festival was born.
(09/16/15 10:01pm)
Although the volleyball team began with a tough start to the preseason, ending 0-3 after losses in the San Diego State University and University of San Diego Invitational, the women quickly bounced back in their own tournament this past weekend, defeating both visiting teams, West Virginia University and the University of Connecticut.
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The Big Green’s cross country teams opened their fall seasons in dominant fashion, taking first place in both the men’s and women’s races of the Dartmouth Invitational at the Hanover Country Club this past Saturday. Both the men and women recorded perfect team scores of 15 points in the home meet.
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We asked our Opinion Staff to reflect on Dartmouth's new "Citizenship Pledge."
(09/16/15 10:00pm)
With all eyes trained on Pope Francis’ arrival in Washington, D.C., next Tuesday, many news outlets have dedicated a significant amount of coverage to preparations for the special guest. The visit will begin that afternoon, when President Barack Obama will greet the leader of the Roman Catholic Church at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. After paying his respects at the White House the next morning, Pope Francis will embark on a two-week-long journey across the United States. While the Holy Father’s visit is an occasion for celebration, we should be weary of the inevitable commotion that will accompany it. The truth is that the U.S. is not the only stop on the papal itinerary. Instead, we should be paying more attention to where Pope Francis will be spending his days prior to setting foot on American soil.
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Dartmouth prides itself on inventing pong. We'll show you how to play the right way.
Videography and Editing by Alex Moushey.
(09/16/15 11:26am)
I’m a firm believer in the idea that if you talk to even the most normal-seeming person for long enough, you’ll discover that they’re a total weirdo. The great thing about Johnathan James Recor, better known to Hanover residents as the Sun God, is that he cuts right to the chase. The car he drives around and the music he plays is an extension of his personality, and as I learned first hand driving around with him at the end of term last spring, he’s weird in a way that makes him more human, not less.
(09/16/15 7:29am)
Brown University:A Brown University online sexual assault education program was shut down after malicious hackers stole personal information from an associated web service, the Brown Daily Herald reported. The program, Agent of Change, and its web vendor, We End Violence, noticed a potential hack on Aug. 24 and proceeded shut down the website two days later. A press release from the vendor noted that information submitted directly to the website — usernames, passwords and associated demographic information — was compromised. Ravi Pendse, vice president for Computing and Information Services, confirmed that more damaging information like social security numbers was not lost, adding that an investigation into the incident has begun.
Columbia University:A group of three students at Columbia University have won national acclaim after inventing an apparently simple but possibly life-saving health product, the Columbia Spectator reported. The product, Highlight, is a blue coloring added to various clear disinfectants that can show which areas of a target surface have been cleaned and which have not. The team has won Columbia’s Ebola Design Challenge and the USAID Fighting Ebola Grand Challenge and has integrated their product into the New York City Fire Department’s decontamination policies.
Cornell University:On Friday, Cornell University announced a second round of changes to its sexual assault policy, the Cornell Sun reported. The amendment moves responsibility for the investigation of students’ Title IX complaints out of the Judicial Administrator’s Office and into the Workforce Policy Office. The changes are part of a movement to conform to a recent New York law titled “Enough is Enough,” which requires colleges to use an “affirmative consent” standard for assault and provide drug and alcohol amnesty for students reporting an assault, among other provisions.
Harvard University:Spee Club, one of Harvard University’s finals clubs, may be the first of 13 clubs to go coed after inviting women to “punch,” or begin the process of joining the group, the Harvard Crimson reported. Spee Club is one of eight currently all-male final clubs at the university. The off-campus social groups have recently come under more scrutiny, the Crimson reported, due to concerns about sexism and the potential for sexual assault to occur on club premises.
Princeton University:Nate Ruess, the former frontman of the band Fun., will perform at Princeton University for its fall “Lawnparties” festivities, along with Indie pop duo Holychild, the Daily Princetonian reported. While with Fun., Ruess topped the Billboard 100 with the song “We Are Young” (2011) and proceeded to start his solo career after the group disbanded in February. The choice of Ruess comes after controversy last spring around the selection of Big Sean for Lawnparties. Shorty after Big Sean’s April selection, a pair of students circulated a petition asking the student government to rescind the invitation because the artist’s lyrics allegedly support misogyny.
University of Pennsylvania:A new program at the University of Pennsylvania will allow school administrators and athletics department staff members to ride along with Penn’s Division of Public Safety and observe the officers’ day-to-day interactions with Penn students and the greater Philadelphia community, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The program was conceived to reframe administrators’ perception of the division and give an accurate portrayal of the work that officers do every day.
Yale University:Abullah Kamel, a Yale University donor, has received criticism following Yale Law School student Omer Aziz’s recent column in the Huffington Post, “Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia and Their Gift to Yale,” which accuses Kamel and the Saudi Arabian government of being complicit in the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City. Kamel donated $10 million to establish the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School on Thursday, the Yale Daily News reported. Despite the controversy, professor and former dean Anthony Kronman maintained that Kamel and his gift were appropriately vetted.
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Maria Laskaris served as dean of admissions and financial aid from 2007 to 2015, overseeing a period of increased diversity.
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The case against African and African American studies and English professor J. Martin Favor will move to a grand jury after Favor waived his right to a probable cause hearing on Monday. Favor was arrested on Sept. 4 for the alleged possession of child pornography.
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Dartmouth failed to crack the top 10 on the U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of national universities for the second consecutive year, falling to a tie for 12th place with Northwestern University. The College also rose in the publication’s best undergraduate teaching list, rising from fourth to second place this year, although the College had ranked first for multiple years prior to 2014.
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Former dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris left her position to become the special assistant to the provost for arts and innovation, Provost Carolyn Dever announced on Aug. 27. Former admissions director Paul Sunde will assume Laskaris’ post as interim dean for the upcoming academic year.
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Mridul Khan is remembered by peers and professors for his passionate love of technology, selfless want to help others and engagement in meaningful conversations across a broad range of topics.
(09/15/15 10:03pm)
I recently got a first-hand look at how a lack of determination can hurt a child, and the effects can only get worse as his or her world gets wider, harsher and more competitive. One of my family friends has a preteen son whom I visit regularly. They are a family of first-generation immigrants, and the parents know little English. They try incredibly hard to give their son everything they can, but between the sheer length of time they must spend working just to get by and their limited English, they cannot help him with his education as much as may be ideal. Currently, his reading and writing skills are vastly behind those of his classmates, and worse, he has no sense of determination — of gritting his teeth to solve a problem. When he gets stuck on a word he does not know or a passage he does not understand, he grows frustrated and gives up without even trying.
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During his address to alumni at my June reunion, College President Phil Hanlon declared that the College must be a place of big ideas where risks are taken to solve the world’s most difficult challenges — that it should be a place where students and faculty work together to change the world. This is an inspirational purpose. Afterward I asked, “Last week Pope Francis identified climate change as one of the greatest challenges facing mankind and implored us to act. What big ideas and bold efforts do you have for Dartmouth in solving this challenge?”
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Highlighted by a double-overtime home win over the College of the Holy Cross, the men’s soccer team wrapped up its early four-game schedule before the beginning of the fall term with a 2-1-1 record.
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The early season — that time when fall athletes and a few freshman are some of the only faces on campus, when entire days revolve around the sport and the team — is a time of development for each player, aided by teammates and coaches. Games are tough and each one matters, but the Ivy League games have yet to be played.
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Director Noah Baumbach’s latest feature “Mistress America” (2015) is a screwball comedy about the humor and perils of saying “yes.” Without a voice of reason and the sense that everyone should go with the flow, the viewer gets terrific farce, at the cost of vulnerability and pain. Greta Gerwig, Baumbach’s muse and the film’s co-writer and star, has mastered the effortlessly mercurial stream of consciousness style of Jean-Luc Godard’s muse Anna Karina — she’s even got the same dance moves — with the quirky modern sensibility of Zooey Deschanel.
(09/15/15 9:31pm)
Maria Laskaris served as dean of admissions and financial aid from 2007 to 2015, overseeing a period of increased diversity.