Versatile Big Green athletes balance commitments on and off the field
Think it's tough being a varsity athlete at Dartmouth, trying to balance athletics and education and still fit the rest of your life in there too?
Think it's tough being a varsity athlete at Dartmouth, trying to balance athletics and education and still fit the rest of your life in there too?
EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff Last year's Ivy champion, Dartmouth, has experienced a rough start to this season, winning only two of its first eight games and managing to score only six goals thus far.
Those who still doubt the intensity of the Western cultural and political conflict with radical Islam should take a closer look at the lecture delivered by Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg, and the severe reaction it sparked among some Muslims. Pope Benedict, himself a professor emeritus at the University of Bonn, delivered an academic lecture this month about the role of reason in theological discussions.
Environmentalism and religion joined forces this weekend at the "All Together Now" conference, an event that stressed spirituality and morality as essential elements in dealing with today's environmental issues. The conference, initiated by Lutheran co-pastors Michael and Susan Thomas, bypassed the typical array of scientific details in favor of faith as its focus.
It is impossible to simply walk by the Andrew Moore Artist-in-Residence Exhibit currently on display at the Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries at the Hopkins Center. A full-time artist, Moore divides his time between teaching at Princeton and the School for Visual Arts, shooting assignments and traveling to work on long-term projects.
As senior Creative Writing majors toured Robert Frost's former home in Franconia, N.H., this past Saturday, the director of Frost Place made a very fitting announcement: Frost's celebrated and prolific collection of poetry was about to incorporate a poem previously unknown and unseen to the world. The never before published poem of the beloved poet and one-time Dartmouth student Robert Frost was discovered by a University of Virginia graduate student this past month.
Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff An Emily Tracy '07 goal in the 39th minute of play was enough to lift Dartmouth women's soccer to the top of the Ivy League as the Big Green (6-3-1, 2-0 Ivy) rolled over Princeton (4-4-1, 0-2 Ivy) 1-0 on Saturday afternoon at Lourie-Love Field. "Beating Princeton was a huge win for us because it gets us one step closer to our goal of the Ivy championship," Tracy said.
Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff They call Philadelphia "The City of Brotherly Love." So it came as no surprise that when Jason Bash '06 trotted out onto the fabled Franklin Field against the University of Pennsylvania Quakers (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) on Saturday, some of the Penn fans gave him a standing ovation.
Under crystal skies and idyllic conditions, the Dartmouth cross country teams were able to let loose at a blistering pace.
Chris Takeuchi / The Dartmouth Staff The College has implemented a series of changes to Social Event Management Procedures this fall, allowing groups to register "tails" parties with hard alcohol and standardizing the procedure for exemptions when registering outdoor events with alcohol.
Terra Branson '10 and Jay Calhoun Tu'08 were recently awarded scholarships by Accenture's American Indian Scholarship Fund.
The Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, a projected seven-year-long comprehensive capital campaign, has reached the halfway point of its $1.3 billion goal, having raised $744.2 million to date. The goals of the Campaign are to "strengthen Dartmouth across academic disciplines, make critically needed improvements in residential and campus life, and preserve Dartmouth's preeminence in providing the finest student experience in the world," according to Campaign publications. The capital campaign is divided into four strategic imperatives aimed at revamping the college: academic enterprise, residential and campus life, financial aid and annual giving. According to Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience co-chair Brad Evans '98 and Vice President of Development Carolyn Pelzel, the campaign is on track and has reached the point where it hoped it would be at this time. "I think we're right on track right where we expected and hoped to be at this stage of the campaign.
The Dean of the College search committee, which began meeting this summer, is in its initial stages of generating ideas for the process of finding candidates.
Over the past months, both sides in the alumni constitution controversy have drawn caricatures of each other for potential voters, obscuring the more diverse underlying position each actually represents.
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Hop, a studio art major is getting annoyed at the flautist on the other side of the wall.
Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The stands at the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field have stood nearly empty for years.
My roommate calls me "The Squid." I don't mind the nickname because I think it makes me sound like some badass super-villain.
In a field hockey conference like the Ivy League, it's important for a team to hit the ground running and notch victories early in the season.
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