Touch the Fire 2011-04-29

Anything you can chug, I can chug faster

It's fairly obvious that Dartmouth students have made "being social" a competition. It's the reason so many students are disenchanted with the social scene.

Through the Lens of Lentz

Despite Wednesday's forecasted thunderstorms props to the Sun God, they never came it was time for my first round of golf of the spring. Before I recount the events of a common Dartmouth College spring day, let me first explain my views on golf it is from the Animal House school of thought.

Daily Debriefing

Dartmouth students studying on the Asian and Middle Eastern studies program in Fez, Morocco were not impacted by the Thursday explosion suspected to have been planted by a suicide bomber that destroyed a cafe in Marrakesh, Morocco, killing 14 people and injuring at least 12 others, according to Jonathan Sylvia, the Off-Campus Programs fiscal officer.

As team leader, Williamson '12 strives for individual success

When Peter Williamson '12 won his first Ivy League golf championship as a freshman, he proved to the New England golfing community that he was a force to be reckoned with.

Events honor alumni contributions

Correction appended The College's fifth annual Alumni Appreciation Week a tradition created in 2007 to connect students with visiting alumni and help undergraduates recognize alumni contributions to the College features dinners for members of the Class of 2011, a reception with Trustee Bradford Evans '64 and alumni tailgates, Hill Winds Society Alumni Appreciation Week co-chair Yuxiang Zhou '12, said. Alumni Appreciation Week, which began on April 24 and will conclude on April 30, helps educate students about alumni contributions to the College through various planned activities, such as a rugby game tailgate and a postcard signing session to recognize contributing alumni, according to James Barkley '06, assistant director of young alumni and student programs at the Office of Alumni Relations. Although the majority of alumni on campus for Alumni Appreciation Week are class officers, live in the Hanover area or are visiting their children for First-Year Family Weekend, the numerous activities scheduled throughout the week offer alumni unique opportunities to interact with current students and discuss the state of the College, according to Zhou. Approximately 20 alumni and 180 members of the Class of 2011 attended each of the three Daniel Webster Dinners organized by the College this week, according to Barkley.

Bogardus '51, lifelong friend of football, dies

Peter Bogardus '51 Tu'52 a recipient of Dartmouth's Alumni Award and an accomplished former member of the Big Green football and rugby teams died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif., on April 18 after suffering a massive heart attack in his sleep, his son Peter Bogardus, Jr.

Baxter: Guard the Bard

Producing an entirely student-run work of Shakespeare takes the Dartmouth Rude Mechanicals two weeks of editing the First Folio, 78 hours in rehearsal and performance over the course of five weeks, four 10 p.m.

Daily Debriefing

Marissa Lynn '13 and Jeremy Brouillet '13 received honorable mentions from the government-funded Barry M.

Wang: No Tuition Without Representation

Whoever thinks Dartmouth students are entitled and unruly need only to look across the pond to Great Britain.

As Seen On

In purely quantitative terms, cable programming dominates broadcast TV. The amount of airtime occupied by cable-exclusive shows towers over primary network programming from CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX and PBS and overshadows their combined production almost 100-fold.

Standard Deviation 2011-04-27

Daily Debriefing

Seven individuals, including four Emory students, were arrested by the Emory Police Department on charges of trespassing the university's Quadrangle on Monday, the The Emory Wheel reported on Tuesday.

Gardener: Time to Stand

As some may have seen, Students Stand with Staff is circulating a petition calling for the College to restore health care benefits that were cut in January and stop all further subcontracting.