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DHMC provides Upper Valley residents a range of jobs outside health care

By Erin Lee | September 20, 2015

For Alexander Pruitt, working at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center runs in the family. Six years ago, when he was in high school and looking for a job, he joined his mom at the hospital working for dining services. On Saturday, he stood serving baked goods behind a counter at DHMC. About a dozen people waited in line, and another dozen or so sat eating.

Freshmen stretch during auditions for SHEBA, Sugarplum, Ujima and Fusion this Sunday.
Arts

Performance groups hold auditions over the weekend

By Amelia Rosch and Maya Poddar | September 20, 2015

They begin early, before noon and go late into the night. Sometimes, decisions are not made until the sun rises on Monday. Over the weekend, students had the opportunity to audition for performance groups. While dance groups held group auditions, a cappella groups held both individual and group auditions.

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“Grandma” explores female experience

By Andrew Kingsley | September 20, 2015

“Grandma” (2015) opens on Ellie (Lily Tomlin), a former poet, college professor and widow, bitterly breaking up with Olivia (Judy Greer), her much younger girlfriend of four months. Ellie has been largely forgotten by life beyond a few anthologized poems.

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College ends need-blind admission for international students

By Noah Goldstein and Erin Lee | September 17, 2015

International applicants to the Class of 2020 will be considered under a “need-aware” policy, as opposed to the “need-blind” policy used for the past eight years, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email. The admissions office had been need-blind for international students from the Class of 2012 through the Class of 2019.

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Professor DeSilva part of human fossil discovery

By Bob Wang | September 17, 2015

Incoming professor of anthropology Jeremy DeSilva, who joined the College faculty this year, describes himself as a “New Englander” attracted to “a campus in the mountains.” But to students of anthropology, he is perhaps better known as a member of a global team of 60 scientists that recently found evidence of a new human ancestor, Homo naledi, in the form of over 1,600 fossils in South Africa’s Rising Star Cave.

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Sam's Little Larks

By Sam Van Wetter | September 17, 2015

SCENE: Collis porch. 9:39 a.m. The first day of classes. Sept. 10, 2012 and Sept. 16, 2015 simultaneously. PRESENT SAM sits reading the Valley News and eating a bomb-ass breakfast sandwich. PROTO SAM enters with a bottle of orange juice and cup of frozen fruit from the smoothie bar. It’s not what he intended to get. His backpack is unzipped.

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Joe Kind, A Guy

By Joe Kind | September 17, 2015

Drake is a prophet. We all know this. In some respects, though, he fails to describe my life well. I didn’t start in the six with my woes, but to his credit, the pace of my life has sped up considerably since starting college — probably not quite 0 to 100, but maybe from cruise control to slightly above the speed limit?

Alexander Lopez ‘15 took an unconventional path before his fifth year and shares his tips.
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TTLG: Fifteen Lessons From a Fifth-year '15

By Alexander Lopez | September 17, 2015

I still have a lot to learn, I’ve been around the world and I still can’t answer a simple question — how do I want to live my one and only life? I can’t tell you how to live, either. What I can do is share some stories and tell you what I’ve learned. With that, here are my 15 life lessons from a fifth-year ’15.

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