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Opinion
Spineless Students
By
Jordan Osserman
| February 10, 2010
January 26th's Student Assembly meeting which the Assembly debated whether to pass a resolution asking the College to explain publicly why staff have been excluded from the budget committees ("SA debates inquiry of staff input on budget," Jan.
Sports
Rec League Legends
February 10, 2010
It's Thursday and it's Winter Carnival, which makes it the most legendary Thursday of the Winter term no excuses. The Legends decided that they are bored with D-I sports and wanted a little more originality.
Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Our Words
By
Walter Simons, Associate Professor of History
| February 10, 2010
To the Editor: Professor Doug Irwin's letter to the editor ("Standing with the Students," Feb.
News
Hanover Police to delay alcohol law enforcement policy
By
Conrad Scoville
| February 10, 2010
Hanover Police will delay implementation of its alcohol law compliance check policy announced last week, pending discussions with the College and student groups, Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone announced in a press release Wednesday. "The Town shares with the College the goal of reducing the risks to student health and safety posed by excessive alcohol consumption," Giaccone wrote in the release.
News
Daily Debriefing
By
Grace Afsari-Mamagani
| February 9, 2010
Dartmouth will offer tuition-free education to a group of Haitian students whose studies were put on hold by the recent earthquake in their country, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in a press conference Monday.
Sports
Parsons '10 leads current Big Green players with 151 points
By
Chad Hollis
| February 9, 2010
Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth women's hockey co-captain Sarah Parsons '10 played in the last home game of her college career at Thompson Arena on Sunday in exhilarating fashion.
News
Budget splits student response
By
Robert szypko
| February 9, 2010
Following College President Jim Yong Kim's $100 million budget reduction announcement Monday, members of Students Stand with Staff voiced concerns about the proposed layoffs and lack of negotiations between the administration and staff, while other members of the Dartmouth community stood behind Kim's proposal. Kim's budget cut announcement was somewhat vague in its justification for layoffs and many details remain unclear, Eric Schildge '10, co-founder of Students Stand with Staff, said. "I think that the e-mail that he sent to the campus community was to a certain degree opaque and raised more questions than it answered," Schildge said.
Opinion
Dividing Dartmouth
By
Josh Kornberg
| February 9, 2010
Strolling along Webster Avenue last weekend, I thought I had stumbled upon the abandoned set of an archaic, low-budget Western film.
Opinion
Lighting Candles
By
Ibrahim Elshamy, student director of the Tucker Fo
| February 9, 2010
"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." This message has been echoed by peoples across the world since time immemorial.
Arts
‘Dartmouth Idol' semifinals narrow field to six finalists
By
Caitlin Ardrey
| February 9, 2010
Eunice Lee / The Dartmouth Staff Eunice Lee / The Dartmouth Staff Tuesday night, 18 Dartmouth students performed a range of songs from Christina Aguilera to James Morrison to Norah Jones to N'Sync as they competed in the third annual, bigger than ever "Dartmouth Idol" competition. In front of a packed Alumni Hall, the contestants, representing all class years and a range of musical backgrounds, competed for a spot as one of the six finalists.
News
Panel questions social media power
By
JOY CHEN
| February 9, 2010
Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Social media technology has had a mixed influence on the effectiveness of political protest, according to members of the Tuesday panel "Activism in the Electronic Age: The Impact of Technology on Political Protest." The three panelists focused on the debate over the way blogs and other networking technologies are used by political dissenters, as well as the governments that attempt to thwart their protests. Bruce Etling, director of the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University; Elham Gheytanchi, a sociology professor at Santa Monica College; and Evgeny Morozov, a fellow at Georgetown University, presented information about the impact that social media has in the context of protest movements. The Internet and Democracy Project began by observing anecdotal evidence of technological influence on protests and later shifted its focus to a more analytical examination of the blogosphere, Etling said. "I want to introduce this concept of Newton's Third Law of the Internet,' that for every action there is an equal amount of reaction," Etling said. While blogs may represent members of a population pushing for change, research shows that more conservative groups also have an online presence, Etling said. Authoritarian countries are generally less successful when filtering information than the international community generally believes, he said.
Sports
Despite strong diving, women's swimming falls to Huskies
By
Priya Krishna
| February 9, 2010
Ben Gettinger / The Dartmouth Staff Ben Gettinger / The Dartmouth Staff Despite exceptional performances from Galen Barry '12 and Erica Serpico '12, the Dartmouth women's swimming and diving team fell to Northeastern University on Saturday, 172-123. "I think we definitely could have done better," co-captain Catherine Armstrong '10 said.
Arts
‘Mass Effect 2' improves on original
By
Alec Brodsky
| February 9, 2010
Just one month into this new decade, video game mogul Bioware famous for such classic titles as "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" (2003), "Baldur's Gate" (1998) and "Neverwinter Nights" (2002) has already released a game that will form the standard against which future games will be judged.
News
Overall, Kim's budget plan impresses alumni
By
Greg Berger
| February 9, 2010
Several alumni praised College President Jim Yong Kim's commitment to maintaining Dartmouth's academic standards and considerate approach to determining staff layoffs in the $100-million budget cut plan announced to the Dartmouth community on Monday.
Arts
BOOKED SOLID: ‘Roses' capitalizes on ‘Twilight' paradox
By
corinne white
| February 9, 2010
On the inside cover of Leila Meacham's debut novel "Roses" (2010) the summary proclaims that the new novel "reads like a Texas Gone with the Wind.'" The publishers probably shouldn't have done that. "Roses" does not even begin to live up to the expectations set by Margaret Mitchell's epic saga.
News
SA appeals to police to rethink plan
By
PAULINA KARPIS
| February 9, 2010
Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Staff Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Staff Student Assembly unanimously passed a resolution calling for Hanover Police to reevaluate the new alcohol enforcement policy Chief Nicholas Giaccone announced last week at their General Assembly meeting Tuesday night. The resolution, sponsored by the Student Assembly Executive Committee, calls for the Hanover Police Department and Hanover Town Select Board to negotiate with the College and students and develop policies that will maintain or improve students' safety.