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Galas gives provocative show

By Susan Zieger | November 24, 1993

A spotlight parts the darkness, revealing a muscular female figure, black hair amuck and bared torso slick with what appears to be blood. "Were you a witness?" she intones throatily, then commences to sing, shriek, whisper, cackle, gasp and ululate, conjuring visions of a soul in hell.

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Big Green fall seasons in review

By Ally Hyun | November 24, 1993

While Dartmouth's football team proved to us all that you don't need an Ivy League crown to call a season successful, the league title certainly helped women's soccer. Best of luck to all the teams for the rest of the year.

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A capella groups sing in your room

By Ally Hyun | November 24, 1993

Dartmouth's a capella groups typically perform in front of a standing-room only crowd during their concerts. Two acts, the Dartmouth Decibelles and the Dartmouth Aires, released albums earlier this term so groupies can listen to the musical talent of these groups in the comfort of their own rooms. Although both albums are well produced, the magic of a live performances -- a key ingredient to both groups' concerts -- can never be reproduced on tape, but all fans should definitely add these albums to their collections. Twenty-three songs appear on "Aires to the Throne," the latest album by the popular Dartmouth Aires.

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Barbary Coast jazz celebrates Sun Ra

By Ian Fitzgerald | November 23, 1993

Saturday evening the Barbary Coast jazz ensemble paid tribute to Sun Ra, the innovative pianist and composer who died this past May. Under the direction of Music Professor Don Glasgo, the ensemble rendered a selection of Ra's compositions with tremendous energy and conviction, captivating an audience of nearly 500. Improvisation and syncopation are two fundamentals of jazz that come out in Ra's work. Guest artists Micael Ray and Marshall Jackson, on trumpet and alto saxophone respectively, performed extraordinary solo passages rich in technical proficiency and the expressive possibilities of both instruments. Particularly memorable was "Discipline 27/ No.

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Galas enacts 'Judgement Day'

By Jennifer Skoda | November 23, 1993

Avant-garde performance artist Diamanda Galas will perform "Judgement Day," an emotionally charged, solo stage production about the AIDS epidemic, tonight in Spaulding Auditorium at 8 p.m. The classically trained singer and pianist uses everything from biblical passages to parodies of fundamentalist preachers in her criticism of how the disease is dealt with by many Americans. Shock is an integral part of Galas's shows.

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Graham reveals the 'Dartmouth Story'

By Allison Sciortino | November 22, 1993

Anyone who has crossed the Green alone at night and listened for the laughter and footsteps of past Dartmouth students in the rustling leaves should read Robert Graham's "The Dartmouth Story." The book, published in 1990, was given to incoming freshman at convocation, but is a good read for anyone that has spent time at the College. While leading the reader on a historical tour of the Dartmouth campus, Graham first explains the history of the College and then reveals interesting facts such as the origins of the College's name and motto, former functions of the Colleges' buildings and the stories behind campus traditions such as 4 o'clock tea at Sanborn Library. Graham discovered these hidden aspects of the College through fours years of intense research and 20 years of casual questioning. The author begins his proverbial tour at Dartmouth Row, which he refers to as the "crown jewel" of the campus.

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Art becomes computerized

By Hannah Wolfson | November 22, 1993

It's about time for the final art history slide reviews, which are students last chance to see the hundreds of works of art that flashed by on the screen throughout the term.

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Chamber singers peak with Haydn mass

By Joe Marcheso | November 22, 1993

Friday night's concert of the Dartmouth College Chamber Singers and Arcadia players at Rollins Chapel, presented a variety of musical styles with equally various successes. At the heart of the problem were the French chansons (songs), performed a Capella.

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Director takes stage; Loehlin speaks on contemporary 'Measure'

By Susan Zieger | November 18, 1993

The director of a theatrical production rarely graces the stage on which he has worked so hard to shape a drama, but James Loehlin stepped into the limelight of Center Theater on Tuesday afternoon to deliver a long, not-so-dramatic monologue titled "Shakespeare's Urban Problem Play." Loehlin's currently running production of "Measure for Measure," which he contemporized and set in an unspecified, deteriorating city (although the Brooklyn accents of some of the characters lead one to speculate) opened last week to campus-wide praise. The play's central themes, Loehlin felt, resonate keenly with a modern audience.

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Hanover group plans purchase of Galleria

By Susie Oh | November 18, 1993

The Galleria mall on South Main Street will be sold for an undisclosed price to the Hanover Investment Corp., a local property owner, according to an agreement signed two weeks ago. Hanover Investment will take over The Galleria from the Hanover Galleria Associates, a partnership that includes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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Accad compares war and sexuality

By Jennifer Skoda | November 16, 1993

In a lecture last night in Rockefeller Center Evelyne Accad, author of "Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East," compared how men and women novelists writing about destruction in Lebanon, where she has lived and studied, react differently to war. Introducing Accad, Marianne Hirsch, professor of comparative literature, noted that it was appropriate for various departments and programs, including Asian studies, comparative literature, French, women studies and the Dickey Endowment for International Understanding, to sponsor Accad's talk because the novelist, writer and feminist theorist teaches French, comparative literature, women studies, Asian studies and African studies in Beirut and in this country at the University of Illinois. Accad began her lecture titled "War and Sexuality" by reading two descriptions of Lebanon.

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DSO delivers shining Fall term performance

By Abbey Neisius | November 15, 1993

On Saturday evening, students and community members filled Spaulding Auditorium for the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra's fall concert. Directed by Anthony Princiotti, the DSO welcomed classical music lovers and non-enthusiasts alike with Mozart's "Overture to la Clemenza di Tito." The short and energetic opening piece awakened the audience's senses in preparation for Felix Mendelssohn's "Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op.

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Caracas ballet combines classic and modern dance

By Richard Owen | November 10, 1993

The Ballet Nacional de Caracas deftly moved from the classical to the modern in a visually and artistically captivating performance in Spaulding Auditorium last night. Authentically rendering classical styles in compelling solos and duets in the first two sections, the performance took a sharp and bold turn in the final section presenting a contemporary Venezuelan backdrop with an unusual fusion of modern and traditional choreography. Brilliantly donned in multi-color lycra and fluorescent capes, a core group of three men and four women started off the three part performance with the highly methodical and seemingly ill-suited excerpts of Handel's "Water Music" and "The Royal Fireworks." Despite the stilted style and continual cadencing of Handel, the young dancers presented one flowing scene after another, interspersing solo dance numbers with provocative duets, commanding a high level of grace and elegance. Set to the Viennese like music of Venezuelan composer, Teresa Carreno, in the second part, the initial group was joined by two more couples.

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Merchants fight town over Topside

By Alexander R. Edlich | November 4, 1993

A Grafton County Superior Court judge is currently considering a lawsuit filed by Hanover merchants against the town that challenges the right of the College to operate Topside, the convenience store in Thayer Dining Hall. The case, which began two and a half years ago, will not necessarily decide the fate of the College's convenience store, but could force Dartmouth to apply for an exception to the town zoning laws. Dartmouth is not named in the suit against the town and was not asked to present briefs to the judge. But the leader of the effort, Dartmouth Bookstore Manager Dave Cioffi, said he and other merchants filed the suit to try to curb the College's "creeping commercialism." The College did not apply for zoning approval when it converted Topside two years ago from a cafeteria to a convenience store that rents videotapes, because administrators and legal consultants felt the renovations were within its rights, said Peter Johnson, the town's code administrator. The town's zoning laws stipulate that merchants, in order to make renovations to their buildings or change the use of their space, must gain approval from the zoning board. Cioffi said the suit is designed to "draw a line and straighten out the zoning ordinances.

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Art enthusiasts revitalize club to promote the arts

By Amy Henry | November 1, 1993

A group of Dartmouth art students are initiating a rebirth of the Dartmouth Art Club, which focuses on the discussion and encouragement of the visual arts and plans events to promote the arts at Dartmouth. Bissera Pentcheva '95 is directing the club in its initial stage and will act as the club's coordinator for the Fall and Winter terms. The club adopted the constitution of the former Dartmouth Art Club, which became inactive in 1990 due to lack of student interest.

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