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Dartmouth Carnival hosts annual ski circuit

By From staff and wire reports | February 11, 2000

With an especially skilled field of competitors this year, the Dartmouth Ski Team turns to its home race courses hoping that spectator support will help drive a successful campaign against the University of Vermont and Middlebury. The Darmouth Carnival starts the run for the NCAA championships, as three Carnival competitions have passed and two more remain.

Arts

Legendary artists join Coast for concert

By Laura Tepper | February 11, 2000

The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Don Glasgo, will share the stage with special guests alto saxophonist Marshall Allan, trumpeter Michael Ray and the world-renowned Sun Ra Arkestra in a special concert tomorrow in Spaulding Auditorium. In trying to coax out of them what the audience might expect to hear this weekend, I got the impression that we shouldn't expect anything. The first set will be mostly swing, but "because it's Ra, it's not typical swing," Glasgo explained.

News

A note on the theme

By Jeremy Skog | February 11, 2000

This year's theme, "Lest the Cold Traditions Fail," was chosen as a way to look back and examine history, Winter Carnival Committee Co-Chair Amish Parashar '03 said. The carnival used to be centered on winter sports, Parashar said, recently the focus has shifted much more towards the festivities.

News

Women at Carnival: from 'special trains' to coeducation

By Rachel Osterman | February 11, 2000

Students familiar with the Winter Carnival posters that hang in Thayer Hall may have noticed a certain peculiarity: the presence of women in many of the signs that date back as late as the 1930s. Indeed, long before coeducation made females' participation in the annual snow festival inevitable, women played an integral, if sometimes controversial, role in the Carnival. Their presence was always highly anticipated, sometimes even competitive, as the men of Dartmouth scrambled to find dates to accompany them during the winter festivities. Once on campus, the women participated in events that would make contemporary female Carnival goers cringe.

Arts

Japanese anime comes to the Hopkins Center

By Alice Gomstyn | February 11, 2000

Japan's most successful feature film will soon be playing at the Hop. "Princess Mononoke" ("Mononoke Hime" in Japanese) is part of the Dartmouth Film Society's Winter term series, "The Last Decade: Movies of the Nineties." Dubbed into English for its release in the United States last October, the film features the voices of several notable American actors, including Gillian Anderson, Claire Danes, and Billy Bob Thorton. The movie is the latest full-length animated film from director Hayao Miyazaki, who has received critical acclaim both in Japan and in other countries for films such as "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" and "Laputa: Castle in the Sky." "Princess Mononoke," like many of Miyazaki's other films, is an action-adventure movie set in a sleek style of Japanese animation known as anime. The story takes place in fifteenth-century Japan during an age known as the Muromachi Era.

News

Alums recall Carnival memories

By Omer Ismail | February 11, 2000

While certain activities -- partying, drinking, building snow sculptures and having fun -- remain key Winter Carnival traditions, according to Dartmouth alumni the weekend festivities have evolved significantly over the years. Carnival Dates Before Dartmouth became coeducational in 1972, students invited women from nearby colleges such as Mt.

Opinion

A Winter Wonderland

By Eric Del Pozo | February 11, 2000

This weekend, Upper Valley residents (total: 8) are offered a chance to take part in the fun-filled 3.5 day extravaganza known as "Dartmouth Winter Carnival." In case you haven't heard, Winter Carnival is a festive and highly regarded tradition, named in honor of its founder, "some guy." Rather than going into the history and importance of Winter Carnival, which would involve making a lot of things up, which I could never do in good conscience after twice reporting that "Godzilla" is a food group, here is a run down of what will undoubtedly be this weekend's highlights: THE THEME -- The theme of this year's Carnival is "Lest The Cold Traditions Fail," as selected by the Committee That Selects Annually What Should Lest Fail.

News

Trustee announcement turns 1999 weekend into fiasco

By Jeffrey Tanenhaus | February 11, 2000

The Board of Trustees' announcement of the Social and Residential Life Initiative three days prior to the opening ceremonies of last year's Winter Carnival's disrupted a tradition that had endured through Prohibition and two major wars. With the Initiative's hints at the elimination of single-sex fraternities and sororities -- one clause called for a substantially coeducational social system -- the festive mood on campus changed into an uproar and discontent that climaxed with student protests and national news media attention. The Initiative was met with bold signs of resistance during the weekend, and the Carnival theme "Gone to the Dogs" came to bear an ironic undertone.

News

Winter Carnival 2000 Issue

By Andrew Marnell | February 11, 2000

Many of us were caught up in the frenzy of last year's protests and rallies, the lack of parties and the sense of chaos on campus, yet even so the weekend proved to be something special -- a break from everyday routine. Winter in Hanover, forcibily reminds you that the College is somewhat cut off from the rest of the world.

News

Sculptures over the years: see how 2000's stacks up

By Kascha Semon | February 11, 2000

In keeping with the theme for this years carnival, "Lest the Cold Traditions Fail, Carnival Through the Years..." the Winter Carnival Committee created a ski jump and skier on the Green, reminiscent of the fomer ski jump competitions held annually on the College's golf course. The jump and skier, designed by Ben Moor '00 and Andy Louis '00, was designed to be approximately 30 ft.

Sports

Keg jump returns to Psi U after hiatus in 1999

By Mark S. Davis | February 11, 2000

One drunken frat boy. A bunch of kegs lined up in a row. Could anything better represent man's never-ending struggle to conquer nature? The brothers of Psi Upsilon fraternity meet once a year to try to answer this complex question, or at least to get slightly inebriated in public. Returning from a one-year hiatus, Psi U is holding its 19th annual Keg Jump this Winter Carnival weekend.

News

Middlebury, Bates and Williams celebrate the snow

By Julia Levy | February 11, 2000

It's hard to imagine a Winter Carnival like Dartmouth's existing at most other schools. Just picture a snow sculpture plopped in the middle of Harvard Square, a polar bear swim in Penn's Schukyll River, or a keg jump on Brown's College Hill.

Opinion

A Tale of Two Sculptures

By Ben Rifkin | February 11, 2000

Once upon a time, oh, I don't know, about four years ago, when I was but a wee freshman, there stood a sculpture, proud, gallant, and tall ... for about five hours.

Sports

Give the man his stripes

By Lou Scerra | February 10, 2000

When? What WILL it take? Winning all four Grand Slam events on the PGA Tour? The eclipse of Byron Nelson's consecutive win record of 11 PGA tournaments that sportswriter after sportswriter listed as the most difficult record to break in sports? Hitting the ball further than Happy Gilmore on steroids every time to the tee? For the last two years, it seems that no one will recognize Tiger Woods as the greatest golfer in the world.

News

Sex series ads offend some students

By Julia Levy | February 10, 2000

Some students have expressed concern about graphic and explicit BlitzMail messages and Posters advertising events included in The Women's Resource Center's "Sex Series." Shelley Sandell '01 asked the WRC to remove her from its Blitz list after she received a message from them that she considered "very crude." The original message that Sandell received along with other students across campus contained a self description of Inga Muscio, the author of "Cunt: A Declaration of Independence." Sandell also voiced the opinion of a number of community members whenshe called the poster advertising the month-long Sex Series "lewd." She said the posters around campus containing "graphic nudity" were, in her view, inappropriate. Emilie Linick '00, one of the student coordinators of the series, said the photograph of Muscio -- which included a frontal portrayal of her vagina -- was the only photograph sent to the WRC before Muscio's visit to the College. Linick said the people she works with in the WRC thought the photograph was an asset to the poster because it shows Muscio to be "young" and "kind of funky." Muscio's recent book argues that every woman should be in charge of her own sexual universe. But this typical feminist stance comes wrapped up in a package of rough terms that the WRC predicted could offend certain members of the community. Muscio's book delves into the meaning of the word "cunt," which originated in China, Ireland, Italy and Egypt and was first used respectfully to describe women and women's power. Sandell told The Dartmouth, "My concern was with their presentation of the material and not the subject matter.

News

Silver selected as new International director

By Alice Gomstyn | February 10, 2000

Acting Director of the International Office Steve Silver has been selected to permanently fill that position. Silver was chosen out of a pool of over 100 candidates in a national search for a new director by a committee comprised of faculty, administrative, undergraduate and graduate student members who narrowed the field of applicants and conducted interviews. Senior Associate Dean of the College Dan Nelson announced the decision this week. Silver said he was pleased to have been chosen to fill the position.

News

Yale frats battle New Haven alcohol attacks

By Mark Bubriski | February 10, 2000

While Dartmouth Greek organizations are enduring pressure from the College administration to improve their standards, Yale University's fraternities are under the gun from a different source -- the city of New Haven. City officials and Yale police have been attempting to enforce zoning codes from the "New Haven Livable City Initiative" to cut down on binge and underage drinking in Yale's fraternities, but little effect of the movement is being seen. Yale's Zeta Psi fraternity, an off-campus house, was considered in the most danger of being evicted -- a letter from the city to Zeta Psi gave the fraternity 10 days to cease and desist from "fraternity business and/or activities" on the property, according to the Yale Daily News. This is of particular concern to all Greek houses at Yale because all are off-campus and, therefore, not regulated by the university.

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