News

Winter Carnival introduces new events

By Frances Cohen | February 9, 2017

This year’s Winter Carnival, called “Dartmouth College of Icecraft and Blizzardry: A Magical Winter Carnival,” is packed with Harry Potter-themed events. In addition to the traditional events such as the polar bear plunge, the human dogsled race, the ice sculpture contest and the 99-cent ski day, this year will also feature some new additions.

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News

Town to vote on 'student residence' zoning status

By Debora Hyemin Han | February 9, 2017

Members of the Hanover Zoning Board of Adjustment postponed voting on proposed changes to the zoning laws governing student residences at Tuesday’s town meeting.

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News

Professor Eric Fossum wins award for photo technology

By Peter Charalambous | February 9, 2017

Nearly 200 million Americans carry Thayer School of Engineering professor Eric Fossum’s groundbreaking invention in their pockets or bags.

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News

Q&A with professor of medicine H. Gilbert Welch

By Sunpreet Singh | February 9, 2017

H. Gilbert Welch is an academic physician and cancer researcher at the College. He is a professor of medicine at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and an internist at the White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

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Opinion

Baum: Trump’s Excellent Decision

By Tyler Baum | February 9, 2017

Withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a victory for Americans.

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Opinion

Bach: The Union Forever

By Jinsung Bach | February 9, 2017

A discussion on secessionist movements in the United States.

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Opinion

Zhu: The New, Old Liberalism

By Michael Zhu | February 9, 2017

It’s time for classical liberals to take back the Democratic Party.

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Opinion

Painter: Give Us the Young Guns

By Ryan Painter | February 9, 2017

The Democrats’ mistake in 2016 came in putting forward old candidates.

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Arts

Barbary Coast’s Don Glasgo to direct his final Carnival concert

By Joyce Lee | February 9, 2017

The “elevator music” conception of jazz is not the kind of music to be expected from the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble’s 41st Annual Winter Carnival Concert.

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Arts

Christian a cappella group X.ado to host Winter WhingDing

By Kylee Sibilia | February 9, 2017

Each year, Winter WhingDing brings an element of musical excellence to a Winter Carnival that is already filled with entertainment.

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Mirror

Trail magic

By Cristian Cano | February 8, 2017

The Appalachian Trail, commonly called the A.T., is an arduous trek spanning over 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine.

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Mirror

The future is in your hands

By Alison Hagen | February 8, 2017

Just for a second, take yourself back to the elementary school playground. Do you remember how easy it was to be a psychic when you were a child?

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News

Editor's Note

By Michaela Ledoux , Lucy Tantum and Alexandra Pattillo | February 8, 2017

In keeping with the Winter Carnival theme — a sort of copyright-free Harry Potter concept — we’ve centered this issue on magic.

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Mirror

Women of color bring magic to campus

By Andrew Sosanya | February 8, 2017

During her sophomore year, Tsion Abera ’17 grew frustrated by the lack of hair care for black women around campus.

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Mirror

Guo: Half a second of magic

By Clara Guo | February 8, 2017

I tie my left skate before my right, tightening and retightening my laces until the calluses on the outside of my pinkies turn red with aggravation.

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Mirror

Wien: The coven

By Elise Wien | February 8, 2017

In religion classes we learn that calling something magic is a way to delegitimize it. If what’s happening here is religion (holy, legitimate), what’s happening there is magic (profane, illegitimate). Kayuri brings a statuette of an owl into our room.

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Mirror

Flowchart: Which Harry Potter house are you in?

By Lucy Tantum | February 8, 2017

If getting a house community scarf wasn’t exciting enough for you, imagine being sorted into a house at Hogwarts.

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News

Community marches to protest travel ban

By Mika Jehoon Lee | February 7, 2017

Over 200 Dartmouth students, faculty and Upper Valley community members participated in the “Main Street March for Human Rights” on Feb. 4.

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News

Lecture examines travel ban

By Julian Nathan | February 7, 2017

Monday night, the Roth Center for Jewish Life hosted a lecture called “Security and Freedom in the 21st Century: The Trump Executive Order on Immigration and Refugees.” The lecture featured four guest speakers and gave audience members the opportunity to ask various questions about President Donald Trump’s recent executive order, which calls for a temporary ban on most immigration to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries. The first of the four speakers to address the audience was the College’s Office of Visa and Immigration Services director Susan Ellison.

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News

Harry Enten '11 reflects on election predictions

By Vignesh Chockalingam | February 7, 2017

On Friday in Filene Auditorium, senior political writer for FiveThirtyEight Harry Enten ’11 returned to campus to discuss the successes and downfalls of polling and prediction.

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