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Dartmouth students pick favorite holiday movies for break

By Joseph Debonis | November 21, 2006

When you finally surrender to studying for those miserable finals and tire of sleeping on the couch because of myriad invading family members, the realization hits that with Thanksgiving comes a limited number of joys: football for some, turkey for others, shopping for the brave few and the universal delight sure to warm the hearts of the "grinchiest" folk, the commencement of the holiday movie season. While it is impossible to avoid succumbing to all that holiday cheer, we cannot all erect our Christmas trees before the leftover turkey has even reached the refrigerator.

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'The Real Animal House' relies on perverse shock tactics

By Matt Ritger | November 13, 2006

Welcome to the world of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in 1960, where brains scraped from the windshield of a car wreck are a perfect ingredient for the house brew, where the greatest achievement in recent memory was a brother who could shake quarters out of his foreskin, and where urination, defecation and masturbation make up the Holy Trinity. Chris Miller '63 brings this "awesomely depraved" world to light in his new memoir, "The Real Animal House." Miller is one of the screenwriters of the titular movie that made the Dartmouth fraternity scene so notorious.

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Fate of Hovey murals remains a subject of controversy

By Hilary Becker | November 8, 2006

Editor's Note: This article is the second of a series examining hidden artworks at Dartmouth. Resting in the basement of Thayer Dining Hall are a series of images that have been called deeply offensive, racist and insulting, and have, over the years, continued to spark debate. The fate of the controversial Hovey murals is particularly interesting to contemplate in light of the College's recent uncovering of the Tiffany and Royal Bavarian stained glass windows in Rollins Chapel, which had been concealed since 1972 as a means of making the space less denominational. Painted in 1937-38 by American illustrator Walter Beach Humphrey '14, famous for his covers of "The Saturday Evening Post" and "Collier's," the Hovey murals were a reaction to the famous Orozco Frescoes in Baker Library. In a 1938 issue of the Dartmouth Alumni magazine, Humphrey wrote, "If my allusions to the celebrated murals in Baker Library seem ill chosen to anyone ... I feel it excusable to use them as a foil for my own ideas.

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Dartmouth radio locally popular but has few student listeners

By Joe Debonis | November 7, 2006

Dartmouth Broadcasting is a business. It's not just a business serving your suitemates, or that girl in your psychology class, or even just the beloved denizens of Hanover; Dartmouth Broadcasting is a business (with a capital B) serving 30- to 40,000 listeners in the Upper Valley. "It's a business.

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Casting concerns force theater dept. to change Mainstage production

By Liz Ellison | November 2, 2006

Those who stopped keeping tabs on this term's Mainstage play back in September might have noticed that "The Negro of Peter the Great" is no longer on the schedule. "Negro," originally slated to be produced this fall by the theater department, has been replaced with acclaimed British playwright Caryl Churchill's "Far Away," a futuristic tale "about what will happen in a world in which violence spins out of control," according to director Peter Hackett '75. The play was switched when auditions failed to yield a single candidate for the title role of "The Negro," despite campus-wide outreach to drum up interest. "Although we had a significant turnout by minority students, we did not have an African-American actor," Hackett said.

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