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(09/17/12 2:00am)
Despite its tradition of maintaining a compact campus centralized around the Green, Dartmouth has recently undertaken a number of projects including the 1978 Life Sciences Center and Black Family Visual Arts Center meant to expand classroom and research resources for students that have created hubs of student activity in farther reaches of campus.
(09/10/12 2:00am)
Karlos Santos-Coy joined the Office of Pluralism and Leadership staff this fall in a new, one-year leadership coordinator position, according to OPAL Director Alysson Satterlund. The position was designed to enhance OPAL's Diversity Peer Program and Leadership Discovery Program, to provide a dedicated advisor to its First Generation Network and to reduce the workload of an already short-staffed OPAL office, Satterlund said in an email to The Dartmouth.
(09/04/12 2:00am)
The Year of the Arts coincides with the Hopkins Center's 50th anniversary season, which it will celebrate from Oct. 12-16 with a weekend of performances by returning alumni, current students and Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winner John Lithgow. The weekend will also premiere "Still Moving: Pilobolus at 40," a documentary by film and media studies professor Jeffrey Ruoff about the influential modern dance group that was founded at Dartmouth.
(06/08/12 2:00am)
Over the past year, the College's Board of Trustees discussed issues of diversity and long-term promotion of the College, voted to decrease the number of loans in student financial aid packages and appointed College Provost Carol Folt to fill the role of interim College president upon President Jim Yong Kim's departure. The Board added three alumni trustees Nathaniel Fick '99, Richard Kimball '78 and Benjamin Wilson '73 who will assume their roles in June.
(05/24/12 2:00am)
Students reacted most negatively to Kim's response to hazing, with 70 percent of respondents indicating some level of disapproval. In addition, 51 percent of students said that they disapproved of how Kim has handled binge drinking-related issues, and 47 percent of students said that they disapproved of his response to issues of sexual assault.
(05/22/12 2:00am)
Hanover Police made 17 arrests and Safety and Security responded to 36 emergency calls over Green Key weekend, according to Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone and Director of Safety and Security and College Proctor Harry Kinne. The criminal activity was "a bit heavier than usual" and concentrated mostly on Friday night, according to Giaccone.
(05/17/12 2:00am)
Although Shattuck Observatory may no longer be useful for research purposes, it has supplied astronomical and meteorological information to the College and National Weather Service and provided students enrolled in introductory astronomy courses a look at the night sky since it opened during Fall term 1854.
(05/15/12 2:00am)
Students completed the pieces featured in the show during their senior seminar, a two-term sequence that began in January. Studio art professors were tasked with selecting pieces to include in the show and arranging them in the gallery.
(05/10/12 2:00am)
A panel of seven senior women shared personal stories of sickness, loss, abuse and healing during the 23rd annual Women of Dartmouth panel on Wednesday evening. The women spoke about experiences before and during their four years at Dartmouth to an audience that filled Collis Common Ground.
(05/08/12 2:00am)
Female students did not matriculate at Dartmouth until Fall term 1972, but the College brought a small number of women to campus for one-year exchanges between 1969 and 1973, according to Patricia Fisher '81, director of class activities for the Office of Alumni Relations. Despite the close affiliation that many of the women had with the College, they were not allowed to take further classes, which would have made them eligible to receive a diploma, and they have only recently been invited back to attend their respective class reunions and events.
(05/02/12 2:00am)
The reading marked the first time that Espada talked publicly about the religious symbolism in his work, according to religion professor Elizabeth Perez. Perez was a former student of Espada's at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and organized his visit to campus.
(04/16/12 2:00am)
The exhibit was planned to commemorate the centenary of Pollock's birth and highlights a number of recent acquisitions by the Hood Museum, including Pollock's early works and Orozco's drafts for the mural, according to visiting curator for the show Sarah Powers.
(04/13/12 2:00am)
Student Assembly presidential and vice-presidential candidates participated in the third of four scheduled debates at Sigma Delta sorority on Thursday night, discussing the aspects of the Greek system that they think make it essential to campus life as well as ways they would seek to improve it in the future.
(04/04/12 2:00am)
Amidst the throngs of students, locals and retirees that comprise the breakfast rush on Friday mornings at Lou's, two men occupy the same corner booth every week.
(03/28/12 2:00am)
Li is currently the chair of the arts department at Haverford College, but she has also worked as professional artist after she moved to the United States from China in 1983. Li's work has been displayed in numerous universities' galleries, including at Swarthmore College, Haverford and Bryn Mawr College.
(03/05/12 4:00am)
The College has charged Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity with allegedly violating hazing regulations, but charges have not yet been finalized, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College. The College is also creating a task force to address hazing and its relationship with binge drinking and sexual assault on campus, College President Jim Yong Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(03/05/12 4:00am)
Written by contemporary playwright and recent MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant recipient Ruhl, the play highlights the banality of daily life in New York City through protagonist Gordon, played by Maximillian Saint-Preux '15, whose final day of life is realized on stage. This depiction of quotidian life is contrasted with a surreal film-noir dramatization, however, particularly of the events that follow his death.The play humorously follows the ways in which one cell phone can throw together six individuals after Gordon's cell phone is found by a stranger, while also providing commentary on today's technology-dependent society.
(02/29/12 4:00am)
Treuer spoke Wednesday in Carson Hall in a talk titled "Rez Life: Moving Beyond the Tragic Trap," during which he focused on the events that inspired his book, a semi-autobiographical work that includes profiles of his own extended family. Treuer also visited history professor Benjamin Madley's "History of the American West" class on Monday and Native American studies professor Melanie Benson-Taylor's "Indian Killers: Murder and Mystery in Native American Literature and Film" class on Tuesday, according to Benson-Taylor.
(02/16/12 4:00am)
"Some of my ideas still come from Christian perspective," Moss said. "Some are from my Islamic perspective. I'm just one little body, one little mind, but I want to speak about core values."
(02/10/12 4:00am)
Hanover's weather gods may be behind in snow production this year, but Greek organizations across campus are gearing up to provide students a broad array of nighttime events for Winter Carnival weekend.