Mirror

Through The Looking Glass: Little House Life

By Riley Carbone | March 28, 2018

I don’t remember when I first read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series. I can picture the nine-volume paperback box set, each cover a different pastel gingham, sitting on the lower left of the downstairs bookcases as if it has always been there.

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Mirror

Editor's Note

By Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne and Carolyn Zhou | March 28, 2018

Renaissance translates to “rebirth” in French. The term “renaissance” evokes images of art, science and humanism, of the printing press and the Sistine Chapel.

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Mirror

The Renaissance Man and Woman Today

By Cristian Cano | March 28, 2018

Dartmouth, as a liberal arts institution, not only encourages but also requires students to take a variety of courses in many different subjects.

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Mirror

The Invisible: Menstrual Taboos in the 21st Century

By Vanessa Smiley | March 28, 2018

Menstrual stigmas are rooted not in what is said but in what goes unsaid. We encounter them in the silence between words, in the euphemisms that have spilled into our social script to claim a language of their own, reflexive but prosaic.

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Mirror

Q&A with art history professor Jane Carroll

By Kylee Sibilia | March 28, 2018

Professor Jane Carroll is a senior lecturer in the art history department and a member of the steering committee of the Medieval and Renaissance studies department.

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News

Study suggests e-cigarettes are a net harm

By Jennie Rhodes | March 28, 2018

Despite e-cigarettes’s potential to help smokers quit smoking, a recent study suggests that they are more harmful than beneficial to the American population. The study, titled “Quantifying Population-Level Health Benefits and Harms of E-Cigarette Use in the United States,” was conducted by researchers from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the Geisel School of Medicine, as well as the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego; the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing; and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

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News

Researchers study perceptions of anxiety and women in STEM

By Wally Joe Cook | March 27, 2018

A study by a team of researchers from Dartmouth, the University at Buffalo and Carnegie Mellon University has found that gender affects an individual’s perception of women’s anxiety in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines.

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News

Hocus Pocus! Missing dog found after three weeks

By Isabel Adler | March 27, 2018

While students stayed in the library or in their rooms at the end of last term, studying for final exams and waiting out the seemingly endless torrent of nor’easters, research grant manager Jean Blandin’s red-golden retriever puppy Hocus was missing, likely without food or shelter. Luckily, Hocus has since been found and is now safe and healthy, according to Hanover Police patrol officer Robert DePietro, who helped guide the dog home.

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News

Biron and Mills discuss house communities at town hall

By Charles Chen | March 27, 2018

Dean of the College Rebecca Biron discussed and answered questions on the house communities at a town hall with executive vice president Rick Mills on March 21.

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News

Dean of the College will step down ahead of tenure

By Eileen Brady | March 27, 2018

Dean of the College Rebecca Biron will step down from her position at the end of June to return to full-time teaching and research.

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Arts

A year after its release, "S-Town" remains haunting, captivating

By Isabelle Blank | March 27, 2018

S-Town, a podcast released in March 2017and hosted by “This American Life” producer Brian Reed begins as a true crime story.

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Arts

Review: Gritty “Tomb Raider” reboot clears a low bar

By Sebastian Wurzrainer | March 27, 2018

According to Rotten Tomatoes, 2018’s “Tomb Raider” is the best reviewed video game film adaptation ... ever.

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Arts

Review: Jack White misfires on "Boarding House Reach"

By Habib Sabet | March 27, 2018

White’s newest album “Boarding House Reach,” released last Friday, is a convoluted imbroglio that mashes unwanted sounds and time signatures together and provides few redeemable moments.

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Opinion

Raja: New Life, New Beginnings

By Neelufar Raja | March 27, 2018

In the first installment this term of her series "Recollections: A Dartmouth Experience," Raja explores new beginnings.

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Opinion

Truong: A Dash of Nash

By Valerie Truong | March 27, 2018

What a week in Nashville taught me about Southern stereotypes.

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Opinion

Shah: New Thinking and Possibilities

By Rachna Shah | March 27, 2018

Gender gaps begin — and can end — during our undergraduate education.

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Sports

Big Green Takes Third at NCAA Championships

By Evan Morgan | March 26, 2018

The trophy case in Robinson Hall might need a new shelf following Dartmouth’s return from the 2018 NCAA skiing championships in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

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Sports

Senior Spring: Sara Lindquist ’18 excels both on and off the court

By Samantha Hussey | March 26, 2018

After graduating a record eight seniors the year prior, the women’s volleyball program appeared to be in a rebuilding year for the 2017-2018 season.

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Sports

Mannella and Trygstad-Saari lead Big Green in the Paralympics

By Caitlyn McGovern | March 26, 2018

While Dartmouth students were on spring break, Olympic action didn’t stop as the Paralympics Games ran from March 9 to March 18 in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

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Sports

March Madness Review: Where Were You When It Happened?

By Evan Griffith | March 26, 2018

Before this NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, 1-seeds were 132-0 against 16-seeds, those teams’ first round opponents. Only 16 of those 132 wins were by single digits, and only seven of those wins happened in the past 27 years.

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