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A Major Mix-Up

By Maggie Shields | August 7, 2014

Now that we’re sophomores, we have all declared a major in something that we are at least remotely interested in. However, for many students the standard majors of biology, math, English, economics or government do not fully encompass their interests, passions and goals.

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Home Sweet...Hanover?

By Mary Liza Hartong | August 7, 2014

Feeling a shiver of terror creep up your spine? Glimpsing tiny, shadowy figures? You’re not alone. Every few solstices a throng of menacing creatures appears, seemingly overnight, on campus, and we are powerless to stop them. We turn our heads and drop our FoCo to go boxes in fear as we watch these beings take flight, zero in on their targets and descend. Cicadas, you ask. Wasps? Alums? No, friends, I’m talking about your parents.

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A Day in the Life

By Amanda Winch | August 7, 2014

As the only Dartmouth term with a reputation for lighter course loads and “ample” free time, sophomore summer has proven distinctive, but perhaps not in the ways that one might have so eagerly expected while cruising down the road to 14X. Faced with an almost unhealthy number of opportunities for procrastination and inspired by a new sense of durability that undoubtedly only serves to help us justify our sluggish work habits, many in the ’16 class have finally reached the end of what might be referred to as an eight-week “adjustment period.”

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Trending @ Dartmouth

By The Dartmouth | August 7, 2014

The Fifty Through Hikers:You’ll smell them first, but regardless, they’re tough as nails. Fieldstock:Green Key 2.0 or just a normal weekend? 10-Year-Olds:High schoolers we can deal with, but since when did FoCo become an elementary school cafeteria? Tanks:If you haven’t receivedat least one this summer, you’re doing something wrong. Missing The Hop:It’s been too long since we’ve had a Christmas bacon wrap. Lingerie

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Overheards

August 7, 2014

’16 New Yorker: I really needed a cell phone in 7th grade so I could call my parents to pick me up after bar mitzvahs. ’16 Girl: Would it be bad if I wore my Masters tank to Diversions? ’16 Guy: I’m gonna make the Masters chess tournament a drinking event.

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Football ranks third in preseason Ivy League media poll

By Macy Ferguson | August 7, 2014

The annual Ivy League football season media poll ranked Dartmouth’s football team third for the first time since 1997. The team earned 91 points in the poll, but received no first place votes.\nPrinceton University and Harvard University ranked first and second, with 128 and 127 points, respectively. The poll was one of the areas discussed at Tuesday’s Ivy League Football Media Day Teleconference.

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Hockey team sends six players to NHL summer camps

By Henry Arndt and Joe Clyne | August 7, 2014

Six Dartmouth hockey players attended NHL development camps over the month of July as undrafted invitees, looking to hone their skills in the hopes of playing hockey at the highest level. \nNHL teams traditionally invite between 30 and 40 players to their development camps in an attempt to identify and train young talent. The camps traditionally have both on-ice and off-ice elements as well as a few high intensity scrimmages.

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Lazarus to give special screening of new film

By Aimee Sung | August 7, 2014

Taking its name from the weapon that David uses to face the giant Goliath, “SlingShot” — a new documentary directed by Paul Lazarus ’76 — follows the story of inventor Dean Kamen, who invented the Slingshot water purifier to tackle the lack of clean drinking water across the globe. The film will have a special advanced screening tomorrow in Loew Auditorium, followed by a discussion session with Lazarus.

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Civil rights artwork comes to Hood

By Luke McCann | August 7, 2014

In development for several years, the exhibition was created to mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, said Kellie Jones, art history and archaeology professor at Columbia University, and one of the original curators for the show’s premiere in Brooklyn.

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One year after, Clery complaint investigation launched

By Jessica Avitabile | August 4, 2014

As federal investigation into the College’s compliance with the Clery Act is set to start on Aug. 18, College officials who work on the Clery Act believe that the College is in compliance, associate general council Kevin O’Leary said.\nMore than 30 students and alumni have signed onto the complaint, filed in May 2013.

A candlelight vigil concluded Monday's Respect Works programming.
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Students discuss sexual assault

By Josh Koenig | August 4, 2014

A program intending to spark conversations surrounding sexual assault on campus brought approximately 130 students to Bones Gate fraternity yesterday afternoon. During the nearly four-and-a-half hour event, which stretched into the early evening, participants listened to an eight-student panel, spoke with faculty and guest speakers and crossed campus to the steps of Dartmouth Hall in a candlelight vigil.

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Kappa Delta, Triangle House to open for fall

By Sean Connolly | August 4, 2014

Soon the sight of fences, the sound of power tools and the bustle of construction workers around Kappa Delta sorority and the Triangle House, a living learning community focusing on LGBTQ issues, will be distant memories. Construction on both buildings is set to finish this month in time to allow for fall student occupancy, residential operations director Woody Eckels said.

A social perception workshop brought researchers from across Europe and the U.S. to the Hanover Inn late last week.
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Psychologists mingle at workshops

By Roshan Dutta | August 4, 2014

Last week’s social perception workshop exposed younger social psychology community members to high-level work as part of a conference involving presentations and a poster session sponsored by the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Center for Social Brain Sciences at the Hanover Inn.

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Riding the Pine

By Henry Arndt and Joe Clyne | August 4, 2014

Since this is the antepenultimate Riding the Pine, our readers may be deceived into believing that we’re going to be throwing our 95 mph fastballs from here on in.

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Sophomore auditions for New York production of 'Carmen'

By Annie Smith | August 4, 2014

Jordana Composto ’16 rushed into her audition, slightly late. She was suffering from a bout of laryngitis, and as she heard the voices of her competitors, she grew even more nervous. She had a shot at her dream: performing for the Amore Opera Company’s production of Georges Bizet’s world-famous opera “Carmen.”

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Braff's 'Wish I Was Here' entertains with heartfelt angst

By Andrew Kingsley | August 4, 2014

Most of you know Zach Braff as the goofy, daydreaming doctor from “Scrubs,” capable of transitioning from playing the eagle-playing goof to a teary-eyed sentimentalist in a heartbeat. He brought this sad clown effect to Andrew Largeman, the despondent lead character of his 2004 self-directed indie hit “Garden State.” His second feature “Wish I Was Here” (2014) — which he directed as well as stars in — exists in the same angsty universe, enlivened only by its own dark humor and bizarre coterie of characters.

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