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Squash teams go undefeated against non-conference foes

The Dartmouth Both the men's and women's squash teams were undefeated this weekend, going a combined 4-0 while visiting Navy, George Washington University and Franklin & Marshall College.

Lack of grit, nuance handicaps feel-good football movie

Courtesy of aceshowbiz.com "The Blind Side" (2009) tells the story of a hopeless and homeless black teenager fighting desperately to overcome obstacles correlated with race, poverty and his mother's drug addiction and it starts with a Sandra Bullock voice-over about football. If that isn't indicative of the movie's flaws, I don't know what is. There's nothing particularly bad about "The Blind Side" except that it could have been so much better.

Women's hockey posts first two-game weekend sweep

Akikazu onda / The Dartmouth Staff akikazu onda / The Dartmouth Staff Co-captain Jenna Cunningham '10 secured her 100th career point this weekend as the Dartmouth's women's hockey team earned its first two-game sweep of the season against league rivals Brown and Yale. After splitting the last two weekends at home, the Big Green (4-3-1, 4-3-1 ECAC Hockey) highlighted its offensive prowess on the road this weekend, taking control early in both matches and peppering both the Bears and the Bulldogs with shots. "It was great getting the 100th point this weekend, but coming out of the weekend with two great wins was the best part," Cunningham said. On Friday, Dartmouth traveled to Providence, R.I., where the team picked up two goals in the final five minutes of play to dispatch Brown (1-6-3, 0-5-3 ECAC Hockey) with a 5-2 victory. Amanda Trunzo '11 extended the Big Green's advantage to two, while Jenna Hobeika '12 followed up on a power play with her first goal of the season with 30 seconds left on the clock. Dartmouth dominated the shot battle, as the Big Green sprayed the net in the final frame with 21 shots to finish the match with a 53-22 advantage. "Offensively, I think we did very well," co-captain Sarah Parsons '10 said.

Leads shine in student production of ‘Antigone'

EUNICE LEE / The Dartmouth Alexis Monroe '13 and Bill Calder '12 brilliantly acted out their characters' dueling approaches to fate and political philosophy in the Shakespeare Alley Showcase's performance of Jean Anouilh's 1943 adaptation of "Antigone" this weekend, The student-produced play, directed by Sarah Laeuchli '11, was performed at the Bentley Theater in the Hopkins Center. As in the original Greek tragedy, conflict arises in Anouilh's revisionist adaptation when Antigone played by Monroe attempts to bury her brother Polynices, who killed her other brother in a duel. Antigone faces execution for this act because Creon, her uncle and the new king played by Calder, has declared Polynices a traitor and prohibited his burial. Anouilh adapted "Antigone" in the context of the Nazi occupation of Paris.

Prof. discusses partisanship, treaty

DOUGLAS GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth Staff Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies professor Lisa Baldez pointed to partisan divisions to help explain why the United States remains one of only eight countries that have not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in a lecture, "The Cold War and Women's Rights," held in Alumni Hall on Saturday. While most Americans are well informed about the construction of the Berlin Wall and the 1980 Olympic hockey victory over the Soviet Union, few know about CEDAW, a Cold War-era United Nations treaty designed to grant women equal rights worldwide, Baldez said When Baldez asked the audience, which consisted predominantly of Dartmouth alumni, how many had heard of CEDAW, only three people raised their hands. "The people of the United States are at a distinct informational disadvantage because we've never even heard about CEDAW," Baldez said. She attributed the United Nation's adoption of the treaty in 1979 to the work of a diverse coalition of well-known American female icons, Soviet women's rights activists, governments of non-aligned countries and "enlightened monarchs of Afghanistan and Iraq." "It's a nonbinding treaty, but nonetheless it's been incredibly important around the world in ensuring women's rights," Baldez said.