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'Pathology' seeks to desensitize audience, fetishize death

By John Ternovski | April 24, 2008

Courtesy of RottenTomatoes.com There was something deeply unsettling about leaving the theater after watching the horror film "Pathology" (2008). It wasn't simply the brutal, gruesome, and largely sociopathic ending, but rather the entire endeavor, which managed to be one of the most stoic pieces of misanthropy that I have ever seen on film.

Sports

Exhibition soccer matches mark dedication of Burnham Field

By Stephen Preefer | April 24, 2008

The College marked the dedication of Burnham Field and the adjoining Sports Pavillion, which will serve both Burnham Field and the nearby Scully-Fahey Field, with two exhibition soccer matches and festivities for donors and alumni involved in the project last weekend. The new field has been dedicated to Alden "Whitey" Burnham '46.

Damon Wright '08 helped keep the Big Green alive in the tenth inning, connecting on a critical one-out, RBI triple.
Sports

Baseball rallies in marathon win over Catamounts

By Paul Glenn | April 24, 2008

Larissa Cespedes / The Dartmouth Designated hitter Jim Wren '10 blooped a single down the right field line to drive in the winning run in a 12-inning, 10-9 Dartmouth comeback win against the University of Vermont Tuesday afternoon in Hanover.

Opinion

A Corrupting Legacy

By Brian Solomon | April 24, 2008

While the Dartmouth Class of 2012 admissions statistics -- including records of 16,536 applicants and just a 13.2 percent acceptance rate -- portend a bright future for the College, they disguise a problem that subverts the very purpose of this esteemed institution and has become far too widely tolerated: high acceptance rate of legacy students. The College acknowledged that the acceptance rate for legacy applicants (29.7 percent) ran over twice as high as that for everyone else (12.7 percent) and that the total number of legacies admitted was the highest in five years.

Opinion

The End of The Liberal Student

By Phil Aubart | April 24, 2008

The term "liberal" has certain connotations. These connotations become even stronger when coupled with the word "student." The Liberal Student is one of the distinguishing marks of recent generations.

News

Daily Debriefing

By Emily Goodell and Mitch Davis | April 24, 2008

Parents' expectations for whether their children will attend college differ based on family income, students' academic performance, race and gender, according to a report released by the United States Department of Education on Tuesday, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

News

DMS profs question the benefits of more doctors

By Emily Goodell | April 24, 2008

Adding more physicians to the American health care system will not improve the quality of health care, according to a report written by Dartmouth Medical School professors David Goodman and Elliot Fisher, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Apr.

Ethan Dmitrovsky
News

Dmitrovsky receives research grant

By Allyson Bennett | April 24, 2008

Courtesy of Joseph Mehling Dartmouth Medical School professor Ethan Dmitrovsky will spend the next five years continuing his study of lung cancer -- the leading cause of cancer deaths for both men and women nationwide -- after receiving a $400,000, five-year grant from the American Cancer Society.

News

Daily Debriefing

By Erin Jaeger | April 23, 2008

Trevor Ugolyn Tu'08 has been named a regional finalist in the White House Fellows program, according to a statement released by the Tuck School of Business.

College President James Wright honored senior thesis writers, senior fellows and studio art majors at the Academic Gala Tuesday evening.
News

Seniors honored at Academic Gala

April 23, 2008

Valentin Yanev / The Dartmouth Staff College President James Wright and Susan Wright lauded senior thesis writers, senior fellows, studio art majors and the deans and faculty who have supported them at the 11th annual Academic Gala on Tuesday afternoon. Kate Eklin '08, Dustin McMahon '08, Mita Sharma '08 and Latif Nasser '08 were chosen to present their theses and fellowship work at the event.

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Green littered with Earth Day events

By Vera Bergengruen | April 23, 2008

Marina Agapakis / The Dartmouth Staff Alongside tables offering information about environmental awareness, a day's worth of trash produced by the McLaughlin Cluster was displayed in the center of the Green on Tuesday.

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