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Shoot for It: With Alex Lee '16 and John Beneville '16

By John Beneville and Alex Lee | February 2, 2016

The “Hack-a-Shaq” has become a widely employed strategy in basketball. It involves identifying a member of the opposing team with a weak free throw percentage and purposefully fouling that player to send them to the free throw line. The ultimate hope is that the fouled player will miss the free throw and possession will go to the team that originally committed the foul.

Sports

Men's tennis beats No. 32, 37 after women's doubles team downs nation's top pair

By Mark Cui | February 2, 2016

On Jan. 23 and 24, the women’s tennis team kicked off the new year by splitting its first two matches. The team fell to the No. 23 University of Kentucky 1-4 before dominating the University of San Francisco 4-1. On Jan. 30 and 31, the men’s tennis team continued its fantastic season by winning two nail-biters against No. 37 Drake University and No. 32 Tulane University with final team scores of 4-3 against both.

Dress rehearsal of Mad Love, produced by Northern Stage in White River Junction, Vermont on Tuesday, January 26, 2016. Copyright 2016 Rob Strong
Arts

New play 'Mad Love' inspired by Dartmouth dating culture

By Katherine Schreiber | February 2, 2016

On Saturday the new play “Mad Love” (2016) premiered at the Barrette Center for the Arts, Northern Stage’s new theater in White River Junction, Vermont. Written by Marisa Smith and directed by Maggie Burrows, the comedy follows the lives and romantic pursuits of four young adults living in New York City. The comedy follows Sloane Hudson, a young Dartmouth graduate who has decided to take control of her life after a traumatic incident in a college fraternity. Sloane, who has given up on love and marriage, decides that she wants to have a baby through artificial insemination instead of settling down. However, when she asks Brandon, the man she is casually dating, to be her sperm donor, she finds that he has a different attitude towards love and romance.

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GLC explicitly bans display of Indian head imagery in Greek houses

By Zachary Benjamin | February 2, 2016

On Monday night, the Greek Leadership Council passed two changes to their code of standards and greater bylaws, explicitly banning Greek houses from displaying the Dartmouth Indian head. While the council’s code of standards had previously forbidden houses from engaging in acts of cultural appropriation, the new rule explicitly mentions displaying the Dartmouth Indian head as a violation.

KDE will be suspended until the end of term, followed by probation until Jan. 3, 2017.
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College suspends KDE

By Daniel Kim | February 1, 2016

The College’s Organizational Adjudication Committee suspended Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority for one term starting Jan. 26 for violations of the College alcohol policy, disorderly conduct and property damage, according to an official statement released by College spokesperson Diana Lawrence. After the suspension is lifted, KDE will be under social and then College probation until Jan. 3, 2017. The sanctions are related to a social event held in November 2015 at the KDE house and a venue in the Upper Valley.

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Thayer searches for new professors

By Noah Goldstein | February 1, 2016

The Thayer School of Engineering is conducting three distinct searches for faculty members. At the end of the searches, the school will hire three new faculty members — one specializing in engineering in translational medicine, one in the intersection of energy and design and one in computational material science.

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Rajput ’14 and Carlin ’15 design award winning app

By Alyssa Mehra | February 1, 2016

One year and two days ago, Salman Rajput ’14, Carly Carlin ’15 and software engineer Annie Tuan founded the fitness app Simple Steps. Recently named the “Best Health App of 2015” by Men’s Fitness, Rajput said that thousands of people are now using it to track their health.

Opinion

Albrecht: No Laughing Matter

By Emily Albrecht | February 1, 2016

It comes as no surprise to anyone that students at Dartmouth drink a lot of alcohol. Most students at most colleges imbibe regularly, an aphorism that has held true from “Animal House” (1978) to “Neighbors” (2014) — in fact, I like to think of collegiate inebriation in the terms of my second-favorite Bible verse, Ecclesiastes 1:9. “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.” Whether it is beer, boxed wine or the now-Dartmouth-banned hard alcohol, booze plays a large role in both the public and private lives of American college students.

Daniel Shanker '16 and Drew Zwetchkenbaum '16 partnered to write the musical "Legally Drew," showing in March.
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Shanker and Zwetchkenbaum to resurrect 'Legally Drew'

By Will Tackett | February 1, 2016

Daniel Shanker ’16 and Drew Zwetchkenbaum ’16’s musical, “Legally Drew,” got its title from a joke about Zwetchkenbaum’s first name, though he wasn’t involved with the conception of the play. \nThe pair wrote four more songs their freshman fall, Fall 2012. Over winter break, Zwetchkenbaum and Shanker worked on the musical individually and completed it during winter term before staging the musical Spring 2013. Now, the pair plan to bring the show back for another round.

News

Gloria Steinem talks gender and politics

By Joyce Lee | January 31, 2016

Feminist activist and journalist Gloria Steinem visited a crowded Morano Gelato on Friday to speak to a crowd of 50 College students and community members on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The audience was mostly comprised of women — from high school students to older residents from the Upper Valley.

Rick Perry, speaking in 2014 at the College, is one of many conservatives who have come to campus.
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A conservative voice on campus

By Carter Brace | January 31, 2016

With the presidential primaries only eight days away, there has been no shortage of political involvement on campus. Among the tables for Bernie Sanders and the canvassing for Hillary Clinton, where do conservative voices find a space on campus?

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Annual symposium discusses refugee health

By Daniel Kim | January 31, 2016

The free public symposium “A Place for the Displaced” — hosted by the Geisel School of Medicine chapter of Physicians for Human Rights, Nathan Smith Society and the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health — focused on refugee health and other aspects of refugee life including settlement, mental health and education in light of the recent global refugee crisis.

Opinion

Why I'm Endorsing Kasich

By Rob Portman | January 31, 2016

I have known John Kasich for 25 years. He’s my friend, my governor and was my colleague in Congress for a decade. However, my decision to back John Kasich is rooted in much more than those connections or Buckeye State pride. I am endorsing John Kasich because I believe he is the person our country needs to bring Americans together and deliver on a common sense, conservative approach to change.

Opinion

A Step Forward for Dartmouth

By Jon Kull | January 31, 2016

On Jan. 27, the Board of Trustees voted to establish a School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth. Their vote marks the final step in the approval process of an idea that faculty members have been suggesting for many years and demonstrates Dartmouth’s commitment to research and the important role it plays in the education of all of its students. The mission of the school is to foster postgraduate academic programs of the highest quality, catalyze intellectual discovery and prepare a diverse community of scholars for global leadership. We should all celebrate this important milestone.

Tennis balls fly after the first goal at the Dartmouth men's hockey game against Princeton on Saturday.
Sports

Men's hockey splits weekend games

By Mac Emery and Gayne Kalustian | January 31, 2016

The No. 1 Quinnipiac University Bobcats and unranked Princeton University Tigers trekked north to Hanover this weekend to face off with the Dartmouth men’s ice hockey team, in the receiving votes category, bringing with them two completely different stresses.

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