Athletes United links College athletes, local children

Aspiring Upper Valley athletes now have the opportunity to learn from members of several Dartmouth varsity squads, thanks to Athletes United, a newly-formed organization responsible for organizing and overseeing one athletic league for children in the Upper Valley each term.

Heartburn at the Hop

To borrow from Michael Scott in the season four finale of the "The Office": "[The Hopkins Center] has been cruisin' for a bruisin' for a long time.

Irony? In the The New Yorker?

It was a slow news day, indeed, that prompted the major media to pounce on The New Yorker magazine like a pack of salivating jackals on a tender, wounded baby antelope.

Daily Debriefing

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will require criminal background checks and drug tests for potential new employees beginning Sept.

Rauh backs public campaign financing

Six dollars a year is all it takes to end the power of corporate lobbyists and create a national public campaign finance system, John Rauh, founder and president of Americans for Campaign Reform, told an audience of approximately 400 local residents at Spaulding Auditorium on Tuesday.

Liswood tells women to be more assertive

Women must understand the dynamics of the workplace in order to make their ideas heard, according to Lisa Liswood, a senior advisor to Goldman Sachs who led an open discussion forum Thursday hosted by Women in Business.

Phillips talks of life, literature

Writer Caryl Phillips was a mere 10 years old when his father first decided to leave him alone while he worked a night shift. "Then, late at night, alone in the huge double bed, he leans over and discovers a paperback in the drawer of the bedside table and he begins to read the book," Phillips read from his autobiography titled "Growing Pains." "It is a true story about a white American man who has made himself black in order that he might experience what it is like to be a coloured man." John Howard Griffin's "Black Like Me" was just one of the works that deeply affected Phillips as a child.

Doctor moves closer to classifying scleroderma

A team of researchers at Dartmouth has shown for the first time that different forms of the autoimmune disease scleroderma can be classified solely by variations in gene expression, according to findings published on July 16 in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS One, an online, open-access publication.

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Losing Harvard

I met an administrator from Reed College on a rock climb in Nevada this past spring break. It turned out he was the director of Reed's Outing Club.

Summer Transformations

In the world of comic book heroes, robots and missions to save the Earth from evil aliens, all eyes are on Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania this summer.

Karr's Chronicles: The Midseason Report

Tonight, to mark the halfway point in the 2008 baseball season, Major League Baseball will send its best players to fabled Yankee Stadium for the 79th All-Star game, where it will once more be determine that the American League is indeed better than the National League.

Dartmouth Film Society pays tribute to African director Haroun

The summer arts festival AFRICAS continued its exploration of African cultures on Friday with a tribute to Mahamat Saleh Haroun, a film director from Chad whose feature films "Bye Bye Africa" (1999), "Abouna" (2002) and "Daratt" (2006) have received international acclaim. The Dartmouth Film Society paid tribute to Haroun in an evening that included the presention of the Dartmouth Film Award and a screening of his newest film, "Daratt" (2006). The tribute began with a short and disastrous clip from Haroun's first feature, "Bye Bye Africa," a docu-drama starring Haroun, who plays a fictionalized version of himself, as he returns home following the death of his mother.