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Men's tennis takes fifth in ECAC, women sweep weekend

By Mark Cui | February 16, 2016

Over the weekend, the No. 34 Dartmouth men’s tennis team played in the ECAC Indoor Championship in Philadelphia, which consisted of St. John’s University and all the Ivy League teams except Columbia University. The team played a total of three teams during the tournament, falling to the University of Pennsylvania in a tough 3-4 battle but rallying to defeat Brown University 4-0 and St. John’s 4-1 to secure fifth place.

Sports

Squash teams finish in top ten, men qualify for the Potter Cup

By Matt Yuen | February 16, 2016

Over Winter Carnival weekend, the then No. 5 men’s squash team fell 8-1 to then No. 4, now No. 2 Yale University in Hanover, followed by a 7-2 victory over No. 16 Brown University in Providence. The team finished the regular season 9-4 and ultimately ranked seventh in the country.

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Arts

Osher shows 'Paris in a Second' photography exhibit

By Elise Higgins | February 16, 2016

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is currently showing an exhibit called “Paris in a Second” featuring photographs by Jim Lustenader ’66, taken for his book of the same name. The exhibit, which opened Feb. 1, is a collection of pictures featuring scenes from daily life in Paris.

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Student Spotlight: Artist and illustrator Beverly Alomepe ’17

By Will Tackett | February 16, 2016

Beverly Alomepe ’17 drew her early artistic inspiration from an atypical source. \n When she was younger, she was interested in anime and manga, she said. \n Her interest in manga comics encouraged her to take a basic drawing and charcoal art class in high school. Alomepe noted that she recognized her artistic talent after this class, but decided that pursuing a career in art would be difficult, even prohibitive. She went into Dartmouth thinking about studying biomedical engineering and Chinese.\n Her path changed when during her spring term of her first year she took “Drawing 1.”

News

Carnival sees 52 incident reports to S&S

By Zachary Benjamin | February 15, 2016

An unseasonably warm winter followed by a sharp drop in temperatures over the weekend did little to slow down Winter Carnival festivities. Classic events like the polar bear swim and the human dog-sled race went on with some modifications, while Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said that the department received 52 incident reports during Winter Carnival weekend.

Thomas Rover ’16 organized students to build a snow sculpture despite its official cancellation.
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Students build ‘rogue sculpture’

By Erin Lee | February 15, 2016

When Thomas Rover ’16 heard that there would be no snow sculpture built for his last Winter Carnival, he said he was devastated. Last Thursday night, Rover and a group of about 30 other students took it upon themselves to build a “rogue” snow sculpture of the Cat in the Hat’s red and white headpiece on the Green.

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House professors discuss new residential system

By Sonia Qin | February 15, 2016

On Feb. 26, Dartmouth students will gather in Baker-Berry Library at 8 p.m. to attend Founders’ Day, where they will get sorted into their respective housing communities. The library will be separated into sections for each house community and students will break off into receptions to meet the other members of their new communities.

Opinion

Qu: Environment in the Balance

By Dorothy Qu | February 15, 2016

That is, if the plan goes through. Last Thursday, the Supreme Court voted to delay the plan’s enforcement. The vote was 5-4, with Scalia voting against the plan. As decisions had yet to be formally written, Scalia’s unfortunate passing made the vote 4-4. Now, the chances of the plan being struck down are now incredibly miniscule. This tie will probably lead to an affirmation of the lower court opinion, which was in favor of the CPP.

Opinion

Hsu: Mandatory Attendance

By Caroline Hsu | February 15, 2016

From elementary to high school, students are expected to regularly attend classes. “Roll call,” the process of taking attendance and penalizing students who are absent without a legitimate reason, is a common occurrence. This is a far cry from the classroom dynamic of higher education. In classes with over a hundred students, it is difficult and often unfeasible for professors to take attendance regularly. This unfortunately can lead to students skipping class. Oftentimes, large classes will see attendance steadily dwindle as the term progresses. Although students may not think that physically going to class is critical to their academic experience, they are actually doing themselves a disservice when they fail to attend lectures.

Arts

The musical roots of Vampire Weekend’s ‘Step’ reach to the past

By Will Tackett | February 15, 2016

Like all art, music has a history of referencing itself. Musical ideas in all different forms are recycled again and again, songs are copied, reworked and parodied. Bits of different songs are recombined to create new ones. One relatively recent example of this is sampling, the taking of parts of actual recordings and altering them to fit into a song, a technique made possible with the advent of recorded music and other new technologies. Another sort of category related to this phenomenon is the cover — when an artist performs a song someone else has written.

News

Five new edX classes planned

By Heyi Jiang | February 14, 2016

On Tuesday Feb. 16, the College’s fourth DartmouthX course will launch officially on edX, welcoming more than 2,000 students into the classroom of “The American Renaissance: Classic Literature of the 19th Century.” Following the launch, five new DartmouthX courses will be created throughout 2016 and 2017: “Question Reality! Physics, Philosophy and the Limits of Knowledge,” “Free Will, Attention, Top-Down Causation and Consciousness in the Brain,” “John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’,” “Materials in Gear” and “Complementary and Alternative Medicine.”

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Two named to Thayer Board

By Alyssa Mehra | February 14, 2016

The Thayer Board of Overseers has elected two new members, Andy Silvernail ’94 and Catherine Sellman ’93. The will each serve a three-and-a-half year term.

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Q&A with Reyad Allie ’11, Forbes 30 Under 30

By Megan Clyne | February 14, 2016

Reyad Allie ’11 was recently named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in consumer tech for his work as a global threat analyst at Uber. The Dartmouth spoke with Allie about his time at Uber and how his experience at the College has effected his career.

Opinion

Sharma: Rethinking Cultural Appropriation

By Hansa Sharma | February 14, 2016

When Coldplay and Beyoncé released the music video for their new single “Hymn for the Weekend,” they were immediately accused of cultural appropriation. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, cultural appropriation entails the taking over of creative or artistic forms, themes, or practices by one cultural group from another. Generally, we use it to describe Western appropriation of non?Western or non?white culture. The music video, shot in Varanasi and Mumbai during the spring festival of Holi, has been criticized for exoticizing India.

Opinion

Szuhaj: The Problem With Pink

By Ben Szuhaj | February 14, 2016

For those of you who haven’t yet heard of the Pink Tax, prepare yourselves. A study by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs found that, on average, the “female” version of a product costs seven percent more than its “male” counterpart. The most well-documented examples of this inequity are found in health and beauty products. There’s the pink razor that costs more than the blue razor and the women’s shampoo that costs more than the men’s, despite being made of essentially the same ingredients. For the most part, there is no discernible reason — other than marketing — for the difference in price.

Sports

Men's hockey splits against Union, No. 18 RPI

By Sam Stockton | February 14, 2016

The men’s hockey team split a pair of ECAC match-ups at Thompson Arena this weekend. After falling to Union College in a 4-1 contest that was closer than the score indicated, the team earned a 2-1 come-from-behind win against No. 18 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on the strength of a Troy Crema ’17 overtime goal. The split leaves the Big Green’s record at 13-11-1, 10-8-0 ECAC, good for a tie with RPI for fifth in the ECAC.

Sports

Women's basketball sweeps road set

By Ashley DuPuis | February 14, 2016

It was a winning weekend for Dartmouth’s women’s basketball program, as the team managed to come from behind in both match-ups to claim late-game victories. The Big Green traveled south to face Yale University and Brown University, improving their league record to 4-4 and overall record to 9-15.

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