Le Facepalm 2011-04-21

Jaar emphasizes power of artwork

The image of hundreds of brightly-lit silhouettes of dead and living Chileans remains with viewers long after they emerge from artist Alfredo Jaar's underground installation in Santiago, Chile.

College offers services for pregnant students

Although the College will continue to offer assistance to pregnant undergraduate and graduate students, budget cuts proposed by state officials and federal legislators may affect the "convenience" of care for some pregnant students, Dick's House family nurse practitioner Elizabeth Morse said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

Touting power and control, Sulser '12 leads baseball's pitching

When the Dartmouth baseball team won its second consecutive Ivy League Championship in 2010, the team's top pitcher was not 6'3", 230-lb power lefty Robert Young '10, a senior who went on to be selected in the MLB draft by the Chicago White Sox.

N.H. House votes to cut budget

While the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted on a budget for the next fiscal year last Thursday, 2,500 demonstrators rallied outside the State House in Concord, N.H., to protest cuts to social programs.

Buntz: Reading Between the Critics

In reading the comments on Peter Blair's recent column on Jane Austen ("Austen's Power," April 19th), I was struck as I continually am by the difference in the way I read books compared to my peers.

Men's tennis ends winning season with loss to Harvard

In a disappointing stand-off with Harvard University that was decided by the match's final set, the Dartmouth men's tennis team fell to the Crimson (15-10, 4-3 Ivy) on Wednesday afternoon in its last matchup of the season, 4-3.

Freddie and the Bigger People 2011-04-21

Vance: Access For All

I reacted to Roger Lott's recent article ("Education on Credit," April 18) with mixed emotions. It inspired in me, and many others, a need to publicly articulate the philosophical underpinnings of Dartmouth's policies and affirm the ideals to which we ascribe. As Dartmouth students, we are tasked with carrying traditions of loyalty and support into a world starkly different from that wherein they were born.

Daily Debriefing

Philosophy professor Adina Roskies received the 2011 Stanton Prize awarded to scholars who have made "significant contributions to interdisciplinary research" from the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, according to the Society's website.

Besting St. Anselm, baseball continues home winning streak

Correction appended After a difficult four-game losing streak against Yale University last weekend, the Dartmouth men's baseball team regained momentum for a 5-1 win over St.

Standard Deviation 2011-04-20

Alum. wins Pulitzer for editorial writing

Joseph Rago '05 was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing on Monday. Rago, who studied American history at the College, received the award for 10 editorial pieces he wrote for the Review & Outlook section of The Wall Street Journal that challenged President Barack Obama's health care reform. Rago served as the editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review as an undergraduate and currently serves on its advisory board, according to The Review. Rago's prize, which included $10,000 and was administered by Columbia University, was the first awarded to a Wall Street Journal writer since Rupert Murdoch's purchase of The Journal in 2007, according to The New York Times.

BOOKED SOLID: "Bossypants"

Judging a book by its cover has its perils. The humor and wit contained in the pages of Tina Fey's new autobiography, "Bossypants," however, matches up to the ridiculous impression that the book's cover makes. The front cover of the book features Fey's head superimposed on the body of a man with rather hairy arms, which made me chuckle to myself.