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The Hopkins Center and the Hood Museum have much in common. Physically, the two buildings share a connecting hallway, while abstractly, they share the goal of promoting education in the arts on campus. Both also would not exist if not for two large founding gifts, and gift giving remains a significant source of funds for both the Hop and Hood.
The Box, the solitary food truck often parked outside Silsby Hall, is quickly becoming a fixture on campus.
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Reflecting on campaign approaches, Student Assembly presidential and vice presidential candidates cited being personable, willing to listen and reflecting diverse voices on campus — including using Improve Dartmouth as a resource — as key strategies.
A New Hampshire veterans advocacy organization plans to purchase a residence for veteran students at Dartmouth, thanks to a $375,000 donation, the organization announced last week. The donor, an unidentified veteran’s family, will contribute the money if the organization, Project VetCare, raises an additional $100,000 to meet the house’s price before its May 31 closing date.
Phil Klay ’05 is a former Marine who released his first short story collection, “Redeployment,” early last month. After graduating from Dartmouth, Klay served in Iraq’s Anbar province from January 2007 to February 2008 as a Public Affairs Officer.
Several students sat outside Hartman Rehearsal Hall on Monday afternoon waiting for rehearsal with instruments on their laps and The Spring Quartet’s Tuesday concert on their minds. Barrett Clark ’17, a trombone player in the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, pressed fellow musician Erin Huffer ’17 to come to the 7 p.m. concert. A real “jazzer” would see the Spring Quartet, he insistsed.
Brightly colored posters announcing startling facts about the U.S. K-12 education system stopped students at the south end of Baker-Berry Library on Sunday afternoon. One of the five proclaims, “schools are more segregated now than they were 40 years ago,” while another says, “many U.S. teachers comes from the bottom third of college graduates. In top performing countries teachers come from the top third of college graduates.”
When Tyler Bergmeier discovered he would join the College’s financial aid office, he and his spouse, Miranda Bergmeier, were tasked with relocating to the Upper Valley. In addition to expensive housing, limited after-school child care and few options for African-American hair care, for Miranda Bergmeier, one of the most pressing challenges associated with moving to the area has been finding a job.
All Lego aficionados should rejoice the day in fall 1993 when filmmakers Phil Lord ’97 and Chris Miller ’97 met as freshmen at Dartmouth. The duo wrote and directed “The Lego Movie” (2014), which has received an overwhelmingly positive reception from critics and moviegoers, earning $69.1 million over its opening weekend in early February. The animated movie features the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman. Lord and Miller’s previous films include “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” (2009) and “21 Jump Street” (2012).
This year, Student Assembly has focused on encouraging student participation in the Dartmouth Bystander Initiative and developing institutional memory, said student body president Adrian Ferrari ’14 and vice president Michael Zhu ’14. Some students were not aware of the organization’s work, but Ferrari said he hopes that “the invisible legacy” of this year’s Assembly will lead to increased efficiency in future years.
The 23 residents of the Alpha Phi sorority house were forced to temporarily relocate on Friday due to water damage caused by a blockage in the house’s pipes, according to residential operations director David Eckels. While students are expected to be able to return to the house by Tuesday night, the Office of Residential Life will reevaluate the situation and timeline on Monday, Eckels said in an email.
Louise Fishman, a former artist-in-residence at the College, still remembers how she feared leaving New York City for Hanover.
Michelle Khare ’14 has a film fanatic or animation buff’s dream resume. Khare, a digital media and technology major at the College, is currently in Los Angeles on the film studies Foreign Studies Program, where she is interning in the office of actor Steve Carell. In the past, Khare has worked in the marketing departments for Google and DreamWorks Studios and interned for Chris Sanders, who directed “The Croods” (2013), nominated for best animated feature film in the 2014 Academy Awards.
Kate Mulley ’05 is a playwright and co-founder of Vox Theater, a group of Dartmouth alumni involved in theater. Mulley’s original play “The Reluctant Lesbian” will be staged Saturday afternoon as part of the Northern Stage’s “New Works Now” professional play reading festival in White River Junction.
The Handel Society of Dartmouth College, America’s first “town-gown” choral ensemble, will perform Francis Poulenc’s “Gloria” and two other 20th century compositions tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium.
Denice Frohman, of the poetry slam duo Sister Outsider and the latest world poetry slam champion, offered a few suggestions to the students and faculty crowded at One Wheelock Tuesday night.
Most students probably haven’t stopped to think about the mosaics on the first floor of Berry library. To some, the mosaics are a bewildering object, funny or simply an unnoticed adornment. A few people will read the sign or watch part of the six-minute documentary set up on a consul next to the mosaics.
This year's Homecoming marked the return of many alumni to the College, and one graduate, Jeremy Teicher '10, screened an original film in Loew Auditorium. "Tall as the Baobab Tree," which Teicher co-wrote with Alexi Pappas '12, is a feature filmed in the West African language of Pulaar that tells the fictional narrative of two Senegalese girls.