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Musicians win cash

By Susan Zieger | April 12, 1994

The lilting tones of woodwinds, the searing melancholy of strings and the boom of brass instruments emanated from Spaulding Auditorium yesterday afternoon, but this was no ordinary practice session of one of the College's myriad ensembles. The music was fraught with concentration and determination as students competed not only for critical acclaim but for cash prizes in the annual Culley Competition. The Culley competition selects the best performance by undergraduate musicians in three divisions, brass, woodwind and stringed instruments.

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'Stark Impressions' shows Weimar artists' activism

By Hannah Wolfson | April 12, 1994

Last Friday the Hood Museum of Art opened an exciting new exhibit in its Jaffe-Hall galleries. Although small in number, the works in "Stark Impressions: Prints in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933" are each big in impact; grouped together, they brilliantly portray life in the dark period of interwar Europe. The exhibit's designers made an interesting choice in the organization of the works.

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Festival of student performances draws heavy crowds

By Colin Grey and Colin Grey | April 11, 1994

Hundreds of students flocked to the Hopkins Center Saturday night for the second annual "Rock the Hop," a six-hour extravaganza of student performances and artistic displays. All throughout the center there were singers belting and crooning, a capella groups indulging in antics, light shows and displays dazzling the crowds, poets and actors reciting to enchanted audiences and of course, hordes of students milling around and taking it all in. "I thought it was great.

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Selectmen say Hanover police can 'boot' cars

By Jack Vaitayanonta | April 7, 1994

Hanover parking officials now have authorization to unleash a new weapon against car owners with outstanding parking tickets. Last Monday, the Hanover Board of Selectmen approved an ordinance allowing Hanover parking enforcement officials to use "The Denver Boot," to make people pay their overdue parking tickets. The Boot is a device parking officials can attach to the front end of a vehicle to immobilize it until the owner pays a fine. "We passed the ordinance to specifically target a select very few chronic violators who continue to park in time-restricted parking spaces," Selectmen Kate Connolly said.

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'Century' series presented realistic images of women

By Megan Mitchell | April 7, 1994

"I wonder where those messages of shame and humiliation came from," writes Reema, age 25. Reema is refering to a wealth of tensions and taboos surrounding the issues of nudity, sexuality and women. She is one of the women whose nude protrait was featured in Frank Cordelle's "Century" exhibit Tuesday in Collis Common Ground.

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'Paper' scoops action, drama

By Dawn Conner | April 5, 1994

Stop the presses! It's an exclamation every newspaper journalist dreams of shouting - if only to supplement the exhilaration of printing a lead story fantastic enough to stop the media.

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Music of Java and Bali weaves a spell

By Elizabeth Drake | April 4, 1994

Friday night the Hopkins Center brought "Planet Gamelan" to Spaulding auditorium. It was the third annual production of the festival of gamelan music combining the performances of three separate gamelan groups. Gamelan is a type of music which originated on the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java.

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Wal-Mart rejected

By Colin Grey | March 31, 1994

The Lebanon Planning Board said Tuesday it will not allow Wal-Mart, a national discount superstore chain, to move onto Route 12A in West Lebanon because the store would cost the town $4,000,000 in facility upgrades. The intended site for the store was at the corner of Interchange Drive and Route 12A, a strip already crowded by fast food restaurants and commercial outlets. "The public highways providing access to the site do not have adequate capacity for the safety of vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles and the improvements necessary to create adequate capacity ... will require an excessive expenditure of public funds," the denial motion passed by the board stated.

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Student Artisans craft fine jewelry in design studio

By Colin Grey | March 31, 1994

When Erling Heistad talks about Dartmouth's Claflin Jewelry Studio at the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts, his blue eyes glow brightly and the corners of his mouth curl into a contented smile. Heistad has run the Jewelry Studio, tucked away in the basement of the Hop, since he first set it up in 1966, and he speaks lovingly of the workshop which he has nurtured from its inception. "I want to have a process that allows you to challenge yourself and do it in a non-threatening environment," Heistad said. The Jewelry Studio offers a golden opportunity for students to expand their learning beyond the courses offered in the Organizations, Regulations and Courses book. It is one of three student workshops.

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Improved Oscar ceremony honors fine films of 1993

By Susan Zieger | March 28, 1994

Just as Oskar Schindler comes to see the truth of the Holocaust in "Schindler's List," the Oscars themselves reflect an awareness of how films influence public perception of historical truth. "Schindler's List," though it depicts events that happened decades ago, is particularly relevant now, when Holocaust deniers propagate their view around the nation and when a recent national survey found that nearly one-fifth of Americans doubt that the Holocaust happened at all. The phenomenon of "Schindler's List" is intriguing.

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Glover, Slyde to tap tomorrow

By Rick Owen | March 7, 1994

If you have never seen tap dancing up close than you are really missing some of the most exciting and intense dancing ever performed. Luckily, tomorrow night "Fascinating Rythmns" will be performed in The Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts, featuring several world renowned tap dancers in what should be an inspirational show. One of the dancers, Savion Glover, 19, took to the Broadway stage in the title role of "The Tap Dance Kid," at age 12 and co-starred with Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr.

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Student tenor sings

By Joe Marcheso | March 7, 1994

Judd Serotta '94 , tenor, gave a strong senior vocal recital with Bill Guerin '96 yesterday in Faulkner Auditorium. The program ranged from Handel and Beethoven to English folk songs, arranged by the country's pre-emminent 20th century composers. In "Ammarili, mia bella", Serotta and Guerin revised the heavily romanticised rendition available to them with something more appropriate for the 20th century. Serotta sang the pieces with immaculate diction although he could have rolled his 'R's more effectively, especially when singing Italian. While his interpretation at times contradicted the style, Serotta was very relaxed and exhibited a high degree of musicality. Serotta's nerves caused him to begin a bit tentatively in the Handel and consequently he did not fully capture the interpretive flavor of the piece.

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Production staff perform behind-the-scenes magic

By Jack Vaitayanonta | March 2, 1994

In a term packed with unprecedented and powerful dramatic productions, some of the people most responsible for the successes of the plays are not the ones whom the audience sees acting and performing on stage. The faceless individuals who work behind the scenes are some of the true engineers of the theater.

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