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Special Issue

Teszler: Nalgene in the Streets, Tons of Trash per Week

By Max Teszler | February 12, 2021

The Dartmouth community’s wasteful habits do not match student values of sustainability.

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Pandemic prompts College to reexamine accessibility, learning accommodations

By Kyle Mullins | February 12, 2021

After several months of virtual learning, the pandemic has underscored the effectiveness of some accommodations — such as increased flexibility with assignment deadlines, extra time on exams and recorded lectures — and the potential for a more accommodating class environment in the future.

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Arrington: Reopening the Dartmouth Experience

By Katherine Arrington | February 12, 2021

Dartmouth should bring back the college experience as soon as the public health situation permits.

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Alumni Relations shifts focus to online programming

By Anaïs Zhang | February 12, 2021

The advancement division at Dartmouth, which includes the alumni relations and development offices, has developed a host of new methods, including webinars, podcasts and livestreams to boost alumni engagement across digital platforms.

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Editors' Note: Winter Carnival Special Issue 2021

By Jacob Strier and Natalie Dokken | February 12, 2021

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have been forced into home offices and dorm rooms, left to reflect on the past and think about the future. But, though we may be separated, members of the Dartmouth community have continued to grow, learn and connect digitally behind closed doors.

News

Shontay Delalue named senior vice president and senior diversity officer

By Gigi Grigorian | February 11, 2021

On Feb. 4, the College announced that Shontay Delalue will serve as the College’s senior vice president and senior diversity officer, the administration’s point person on equity and inclusion. Delalue, who currently serves as the vice president for institutional equity and diversity at Brown University, will assume her role on July 1.

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College to offer 10 undergraduate in-person classes this spring

By Penelope Spurr | February 11, 2021

On Feb. 5, the College released its spring term course timetable, revealing that 10 undergraduate courses will have at least one in-person section — up slightly from the eight classes taught on campus in the winter term.

Arts

Review: Weezer’s 'OK Human' a sincere, dynamic return to the band’s roots

By Jack Hargrove | February 11, 2021

No other band has had as inconsistent a career as Weezer has. After achieving critical and commercial success with the power-pop of their 1994 self-titled first album, the darker direction of Weezer’s second album, “Pinkerton,” initially drew negative reviews, despite later achieving cult status. Lead singer Rivers Cuomo’s embarrassment over “Pinkerton” led to a long series of albums in the 2000s full of safe, boring pop music that lacked the magic of Weezer’s early work. While the band did produce a couple of albums I enjoyed during this period, particularly 2016’s “White Album,” they reached a low with 2019’s “Black Album.”

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‘Visibility’ events to promote gender equity, confront gender-based violence

By Daniel Modesto | February 11, 2021

“Visibility,” Dartmouth’s month-long campaign to promote gender equity and end gender- and power-based violence, started on Jan. 29 and will feature remote programming throughout February. This year’s events will focus on the intersections between gender- and power-based violence and race.

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News

FUERZA Fund and Sunrise Dartmouth raise money for Upper Valley migrant farmworkers

By Griselda Chavez | February 11, 2021

Environmental advocacy group Sunrise Dartmouth and the FUERZA Farmworkers’ Fund have collaborated to raise over $1,600 for migrant farmworkers in the Upper Valley. The week-and-a-half-long fundraising push consisted of events that spotlighted local farmworkers and aimed to educate Dartmouth students on migrant labor in New Hampshire and Vermont.

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Hop to undergo $75 million expansion

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | February 10, 2021

Dartmouth has commissioned architecture company Snøhetta to lead an expansion of the Hopkins Center for the Arts. Dubbed “the Hop project,” the initiative aims to raise approximately $75 million for its construction and related programming, $25 million of which has already been amassed.

Mirror

Rush Reflections and the ‘Sophomore Slump’

By Caris White | February 10, 2021

Every year, hundreds of Dartmouth students rush Greek houses. A lot of us end up affiliated, and many of us do not. The process is hectic, inconsistent, fun and frequently disappointing. Even in normal times, it adds a complicated, sometimes contentious, layer to the social networks that we occupy. This year, that extra layer has felt especially weird.

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Going Green: Dartmouth’s Sustainability Initiatives in the COVID-19 Era

By Brian Zheng | February 10, 2021

From the College’s yearslong quest to replace its central heating system to the adoption of the Green2Go program at the Class of 1953 Commons, green initiatives have, in recent years, taken on greater importance in Dartmouth’s institutional agenda.

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Did Marriage Pact Work? A Look at the ‘Best Match’ on Campus

By Arielle Feuerstein | February 10, 2021

From Last Chances to Datamatch, it seems that many Dartmouth students are eager to find “the one.” But where did Marriage Pact — the latest in a string of matchmaking algorithms on campus — come from, and why is the idea so enticing to Dartmouth students?

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Q&A: Italian Professor Damiano Benvegnù on Dartmouth’s Environmental Humanities Initiative

By Eva Legge | February 10, 2021

When Italian professor Damiano Benvegnù came to Dartmouth, he saw a divide between the sciences and humanities where there should have been a bridge. Particularly in response to the climate crisis, he noted that the cry for change is interdisciplinary — incorporating a diverse dialogue of voices from policy to poetry to art to science.

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Editors' Note

By Sarah Alpert and Novi Zhukovsky | February 10, 2021

Does anyone else feel like we’re living inside a snow globe? Inches of powder cover campus, and practically every day more flakes fall from the sky. Ice sculptures line the walk to Collis, marking the start of Winter Carnival. Walking across the Green means creating fresh tracks, passing ice skaters twirling in circles — and of course, everyone’s favorite: donning a frosty mascara from the condensation in your mask.

Sports

Athletics director Harry Sheehy to retire, Peter Roby ’79 to serve as interim AD

By Justin Kramer | February 9, 2021

After more than a decade as athletics director, Harry Sheehy, 68, will retire this month. Peter Roby ’79 will serve as interim athletics director starting Feb. 16.

Sports

Reinstated athletes alleged Title IX non-compliance in threatened litigation against College

By Benjamin Ashley and Vikram Strander | February 9, 2021

The College's reinstatement of five athletic teams, announced on Jan. 29, was the culmination of a two-month legal process that began in early December. Before settling with the College, 21 plaintiffs from the women's golf and women's swimming and diving teams alleged that the program eliminations violated Title IX.

News

Students, alumni denounce BVAC donor Leon Black’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein

By Ben Fagell | February 9, 2021

Upon the recent revelation that Leon Black ’73 paid convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein upwards of $150 million between 2012 and 2017, some students and alumni have called for the College to change the name of the Black Family Visual Arts Center.

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Author Lawrence Ross explores systemic racism in Greek life in ISC/GLC lecture

By Kyle Mullins | February 9, 2021

Over 500 students and other attendees packed into a Zoom room Monday evening to hear author and lecturer Lawrence Ross explain the links between systemic racism and Greek life on college campuses.