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The Dartmouth
June 7, 2026
The Dartmouth
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Hyman '94: making films with artistry and nuance

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Andrew Hyman '94 is something of a perfectionist. He pauses thoughtfully before answering questions about his upcoming Senior Fellowship project, a film tribute to Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, choosing each phrase deliberately and sometimes stopping for long minutes while he searches for the best word to describe his work.


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Tribe Called Quest delivers strong but short performance

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An hour before the sold out concert was scheduled to begin, people had already begun lining up outside of Webster Hall to see A Tribe Called Quest. It was Friday night, the eve of Prospectives' Weekend and The First Annual Intercollegiate Conference of the Afro-American Society.


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Film premiere draws crowd, comments

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"The Beans of Egypt, Maine," a feature film written by a College film professor, had its world premiere Saturday night before a full Spaulding Auditorium. Film Studies Professor Bill Phillips adapted the screenplay from Carolyn Chute's best-selling novel.




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Memoirs recall a passion for French, ensuing adventures

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Language comes alive in Alice Kaplan, in her new book, "French Lessons." The memoir traces the young child who gargled on her "r"s and who was attracted to the power of the French language as a student in Switzerland and later as "Madame Kaplan" who directs the fluid sound of the language which she had tried to master as a student. Kaplan, a French professor at Duke University, explores her fascination and lust for the language that once felt so foreign. French words - the rolled-"r"s, seductive sounds and quizzical intonation of questions - for her, become tangible much in the same way that writing did for Jean-Paul Sartre in his autobiography, "Words." Throughout the book, Kaplan tells anecdotes of how French allows her to express herself and her inner feelings.


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Beyond Ledyard bridge, pottery beckons

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Working a pottery wheel at the College's Davidson's Pottery Studio, a student can look up at any time and glance through the window at the Connecticut River flowing by. It is a magnificent vista and one of the things students say makes the studio, which lies just across the Ledyard bridge in Vermont, a special place. "It's really great, especially on nice days," said Paul Graeve '96, who has worked at the studio since his Freshman Spring.


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'Beans of Egypt, Maine to premiere this weekend

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The road from Hanover to Hollywood can seem rather long and untravelled, but this weekend some of that Tinseltown glitz will sparkle in Spaulding Auditorium. The feature film "The Beans of Egypt, Maine" won't be in theaters across the nation until September, but you can catch a sneak preview this Saturday.






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Student art transforms Collis

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Every now and then, something goes right on campus in a big way. This past week, it was the exhibition of student art in the Collis Center. Organized by the Art Club, the show matched Collis' ample space with students' paintings and sculptures, giving the artists a chance to exhibit and transforming Collis into a true home for students' artistic efforts.



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Musicians win cash

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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

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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

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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

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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.