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Academic Rigor: The Words We Don't Say

By Kylee Sibilia | May 2, 2018

You hear the words “I’m fine” all the time at Dartmouth. It’s part of the lingo, the same as words like “Foco” and “facetimey.” It’s just something we say.

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Q&A with Rauner digital collections and oral history archivist Caitlin Birch

By Berit Svenson | May 2, 2018

Since her arrival in June 2014, Caitlin Birch has become an integral part of the Rauner Special Collections Library.

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Tinashe will headline this year's Green Key Concert

By Julian Nathan | May 1, 2018

Tuesday morning, the Programming Board announced in an Instagram post that R&B artist Tinashe will headline this year’s Green Key Concert on May 18.

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PAC and Rainbow rooms to leave Robinson Hall

By Ruben Gallardo | May 1, 2018

By the end of this term, the Pan Asian Community resource room and the Rainbow Room will be moved from their current location on the first floor of Robinson Hall.

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College reallocates $17 million

By Jacob Chalif | May 1, 2018

The College will follow through on its 2016 pledge to reallocate $17 million from non-academic divisions to academic departments, according to executive vice president Rick Mills.

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Ombudsperson position will remain vacant

By Sunny Drescher | May 1, 2018

College President Phil Hanlon has decided to leave Dartmouth’s ombudsperson position vacant, following a recommendation from an internal search committee.

Sports

Honorable Mention: Pretty Dang Cold

By Ray Lu | April 30, 2018

Honorable Mention: Pretty Dang Cold Youth fades quickly, or so I’ve learned in the past few years.

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Rauner to hire fellows to study history of marginalized groups at Dartmouth

By Jennie Rhodes | April 30, 2018

This summer, the Rauner Special Collections Library will pilot a historical accountability project as part of the Inclusive Excellence Initiative.

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Odette Harris '91 becomes first black female tenured neurosurgery professor in the country

By Sunny Drescher | April 30, 2018

For Odette Harris ’91, neurosurgery regularly fulfills a professional “trifecta.” It is challenging, rewarding and meaningful.

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College announces $3 billion capital campaign, “The Call to Lead”

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | April 27, 2018

The College’s “The Call to Lead: A Campaign for Dartmouth” capital campaign, announced to campus through email Friday night, seeks to raise $3 billion in donations by the end of 2022 to fund a series of projects.

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Six students attend sexual misconduct committee session

By Abigail Mihaly | April 27, 2018

Six students attended a student community session held by the Presidential Steering Committee on Sexual Misconduct on Apr.

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College to add eight new solar panels installations

By John Fulton | April 27, 2018

Beginning mid-June, Dartmouth will be installing new solar panels on eight buildings on campus. Photovoltaic arrays will be added to the roofs of the Class of 1953 Commons and Fahey-McLane, Kemeny-Haldeman, McLaughlin, Moore, Russell-Sage, Silsby and Sudikoff halls.

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University Press of New England will close, citing financial considerations

By Ruben Gallardo | April 27, 2018

The University Press of New England board of governors voted on Apr. 17 to dissolve the publishing consortium and wind down operations by December.

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Allison Gelman '18 awarded James C. Gaither Junior fellowship for policy research

By Alice Zhang | April 27, 2018

After a high school trip to Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., Allison Gelman ’18 said she wanted to study international relations and make an impact on the world.

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Hillel celebrates Roth Center for Jewish Life's 20th year

By Claudia Bernstein | April 26, 2018

This past weekend, Dartmouth College Hillel celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Roth Center for Jewish Life, which opened in 1998 following a donation by Steven Roth ’62 TU’63.

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Cheryl Bascomb '82 to be VP for alumni relations

By Eileen Brady | April 26, 2018

“Dartmouth to the core” is how vice president for alumni relations Martha Beattie ’76 describes her successor, Cheryl Bascomb ’82.

Arts

Gallery Walk — Garbáge: An Artistic Wasteland

By Habib Sabet | April 26, 2018

“Garbáge: An Artistic Wasteland,” which showed at the Hop Garage over the weekend, featured works incorporating trash as a primary medium and theme, examining global struggles with pollution and waste management.

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Greek Hero Reborn: Heracles Versus Dartmouth Greek Life

By Cristian Cano | April 25, 2018

Thousands of years ago, legend says that the Greek hero Heracles, having killed his own family in an act of madness, traveled to the Oracle of Delphi to learn how he could atone for his wrongdoings.

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A Fish Out of Water: A Word-Lover Takes On STEM

By Vanessa Smiley | April 25, 2018

Numbers confuse me, science eludes me, but fortunately I possess the “useless” ability to hear the rhythm between words and read too deeply into texts — to transform the female body into a gesture of capitalist resistance, a character’s mixed skin tone into the embodiment of hybridity, a spectral figure into the enduring presence of our past or — if I’m feeling particularly misanthropic — the nonhuman, neoliberal Other. I have worried, of course, about finding a job, because I presume that not many companies are seeking to hire someone with my qualifications.

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Q&A with music professor Ted Levin

By Charles Chen | April 25, 2018

Professor Ted Levin teaches courses about world music and interdisciplinary music topics at the College.