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Senior Spring: Jack Traynor ’19 engineers an outstanding career

By Justin Kramer | April 5, 2019

If there is one thing linebacker and co-captain Jack Traynor ’19 has always been good at, it’s tackling: tackling the most high school opponents in Illinois history (378), tackling the second-most (98) foes in the Ivy League last year and tackling an impressive engineering course load.

Opinion

College Scandal Culpability

By Gabrielle Levy | April 5, 2019

Colleges need to stop fueling the admissions craze.

Arts

Intro to UI/UX: Designing Beauty and the User-Experience

By Mia Nelson | April 5, 2019

This spring is the inaugural term for the class “Intro to UI/UX Design I” with professor Lorie Loeb. According to Loeb, the class, which is open exclusively to first- and second- year students, focuses on creating meaningful, accessible and beautiful interfaces for technology. The class, which requires no previous experiences, uses elements of human-centered design, graphic design and design with digital tools. As the first part in a two-class sequence, students are expected to take “Intro to UI/UX Design II” in the following summer, fall or winter terms in order to apply their skills in the DALI lab as a designer.

News

Capital campaign surpasses $2 billion in donations

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | April 4, 2019

College President Phil Hanlon announced yesterday that the College’s ongoing capital campaign has raised just over $2 billion toward its goal of $3 billion.

News

Downtown Hanover sees additional business closures

By Gigi Grigorian | April 4, 2019

Hanover restaurant Orient Chinese and Japanese closed suddenly this week after it was discovered that the restaurant was pouring grease into a Hanover storm drain, according to Hanover town manager Julia Griffin.

Opinion

Jones: The Good Kind of Nationalism

By Tanner Jones | April 4, 2019

How we can emphasize what’s good about America to combat exclusion.

News

College to alter admissions practice

By Wally Joe Cook | April 4, 2019

Dartmouth will change its practices to protect the integrity of the admissions process for incoming athletes following a federal investigation that uncovered a widespread college admissions scandal and resulted in the arrest of 50 people.

Opinion

Wealth in College Admissions

By Akosua Twum | April 4, 2019

The bribery scandal highlights the unmerited role of wealth in college admissions.

News

CPD employer fair offered few public policy, social sciences options

By Cassandra Montemayor Thomas | April 4, 2019

On Tuesday, the Center for Professional Development hosted 55 companies, firms and organizations at its Employer Connections Fair in the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts. The fair included representatives from the finance, consulting education and technology sectors; however, the fair offered comparatively few public policy or social science opportunities.

Opinion

Subway or the Highway

By Valerie Truong | April 4, 2019

Public transportation facilitates immersion in a place.

News

Incoming Thayer dean Abramson looks to raise the school’s profile

By Sunny Drescher | April 4, 2019

Coming to Dartmouth as the next step in a career that has spanned the private sector, government and academia, Alexis Abramson has been named the next dean of the Thayer School of Engineering.

Opinion

Inventing Innovation in Silicon Valley

By Frances Mize | April 4, 2019

It’s time we reconsider our definition of “disruption.”

Arts

Hasan Minhaj's 'Patriot Act' is breath is a breath of fresh air for comedy

By Joyce Lee | April 4, 2019

Netflix has been a boon for stand-up comedians these past few years, offering an enormous platform for artists whose work would have been a little more difficult to find for our generation of instant streamers. I fell into the rabbit hole of stand-up around the same time I started my Netflix subscription, which means for a while, I hadn’t done much else but listen to the upteenth comedian give a self-deprecating monologue.