Reboot and Rally: The New Betas

Over the break, I was jamming away to the Bryan Adams -- the best thing to come from Canada since snow -- when I noticed something: I really wish iTunes would go back to putting artists that start with numbers first alphabetically instead of last.

The Granite in Our Brains

Spring Break can be rough on the body. Whether alcohol ravaged your liver or your threw out your back gyrating your way onto a "Girls Gone Wild" video, your fellow collegiates can certainly feel your pain.

Spring Awakening: Teaching the Class of 2011 Some Manners

Break out the thong sandals, oversized aviators and skorts, ladies and gentlemen, it's Spring term and 35 degrees!

Speaker looks critically at tobacco companies

LEBANON, N.H -- Joking that he was "making up for past family sins," Michael Cummings, a researcher at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the grandson of a cigarette company employee, criticized the tobacco industry in a lecture at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Thursday. Focusing on the public health implications of tobacco use rather than the science behind these issues, Cummings addressed the expansion of smoking worldwide, the history of cigarettes, the reasons people smoke and how governments can combat tobacco use. Cigarette smoking causes 7,500 deaths each week, Cummings said. "Imagine if those deaths were caused by the 'evil-doers' out there, we'd probably do a lot more to fix it," he said. Images of the Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar, Osama bin Laden and the founder of Phillip Morris then flashed on the screen behind him. Cummings colored his lecture with a series of videos and jokes.

Alums at Bear Stearns fear firing

As JPMorgan Chase managers filed into the lobby of Bear Stearns headquarters following the latter bank's near collapse earlier this month, Dartmouth alumni working on the floors above began to question whether their jobs were in jeopardy.

Softball comes away empty-handed in UMass doubleheader

Dartmouth's softball team's early season struggles continued on Wednesday when the squad lost a doubleheader at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

I Feel Like... 2008-03-27

Daily Debriefing

The United States Department of Education submitted a plan to define the circumstances in which universities are able to divulge confidential information about potentially dangerous students, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Eighth graders shadow Dartmouth employees

Baking chocolate eclairs does not figure into the usual schedule of a middle school students, but that was the assignment for several eighth graders who shadowed professionals in the kitchens of the Hanover Inn as part of a "Job Shadow Day" on Wednesday.

DMS stunts growth of cancer cells

Dartmouth researchers may have found a way to stop breast cancer tumors from growing, which would make the cancer easier to treat.

Real Beauty Initiative tackles body image

Noting the power of a six-inch Barbie doll to breed unhealthy beauty standards in young girls throughout the country, the 20 students involved in Dartmouth's newly formed Real Beauty Initiative aimed to humorously readdress Barbie's body-image standards with their newly purchased 7'2'' "life-sized" Barbie, complete with a 40-inch bust and 22-inch waist. The group, which announced its presence on campus this term with a colorful exhibit in the Collis Center and promotions for its first dinner event, hopes to start campus-wide discussion on healthy and unhealthy concepts of beauty. "Having a negative body image detracts from all areas of life," Kelly Everhart '09, the project's student intern and leader, said.

Madonna loses edge with Justin duet

Madonna has officially broken my heart. Once, it seemed her reign as the most incisive interpreter of pop culture's cutting edge could never end: Her spot-on 1980s mutations from "Like a Virgin" to "Material Girl" to the burning crosses and dogma bashing of "Like a Prayer" were matched only by the next unexpected decade.

Tennis squads post mixed results in pre-Ivy tune-up matches

The men's and women's tennis teams travelled to opposite coasts this spring break to pick up some match-speed practice in preparation for the upcoming Ivy League season. The women's tennis team lost just one of five matches in a week-long trip to Florida, while the men's team lost three matches and snagged one close win over Loyola Marymount University in California. The Big Green men (6-7, 0-0 Ivy) matched up against Utah on March 16, falling 2-5.

An End Without An Answer

T-minus 73 days. After 11 terms, 33 classes and the greatest three-plus years of my life, the end is shockingly near.

A Boot In The Face

Tibet has long captured the imagination of Westerners. In fact, the very first paperback ever published, "Lost Horizon" by James Hilton, was about the mystical, hidden kingdom of "Shangri-La," nestled in the Himalayas north of India and populated by enlightened and incredibly long-lived citizens.