Kim: The Myth of Mobility
Some students start at a profound disadvantage when they arrive on campus.
Some students start at a profound disadvantage when they arrive on campus.
Clifford Owens’s performance art piece “Anthology,” performed Tuesday night at the Hopkins Center, demanded audience members to forget faintness and fortitude of heart and embrace flexibility. The collection of performance art scores forced viewers to examine their perceptions of race, gender, sexuality and sexual assault.
In her short time at Dartmouth, Haley Reicher ’17 has already made a name for herself in the campus arts community. Reicher has performed in two of the theater department’s main stage productions and sings regularly in her a cappella group, the Sing Dynasty.
The equestrian team competed in regional championships on Saturday, qualifying four members for the ISHA Zone I New England Championships at Mount Holyoke College this weekend. At a competition at the University of New Hampshire on March 8, the team had already secured the regional title, entering it as a team in the upcoming New England competition.
The softball team opened Ivy League play last weekend, winning all four of its games. Despite torrential rain and adverse field conditions, the Big Green (14-13, 4-0 Ivy) swept both Cornell University and Princeton University.
A group of about 35 students have entered College President Phil Hanlon’s office, demanding a point-by-point response to the “Freedom Budget.”
CoFIRED’s event, titled “Drop the I-Word,” addressed the use of the word “illegal” to refer to undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. Speaking to an audience of over 50 students and other community members in Collis Common Ground, CoFIRED leaders and supporters said they seek to eliminate the use of the word both at the College and nationwide.
Greek organization leaders responded positively to a Student Assembly resolution that will provide dues-assistance funds to the governing council of Greek organizations in which a certain number of members complete Dartmouth Bystander Initiative training, pending undergraduate finance committee approval.
The Class of 2019 will be the first to experience a “neighborhoods” system, which will give upperclassmen housing in the same residential cluster for three years, residential education director Mike Wooten said.
Facing low enrollment and declining interest in teaching courses, the Collis Center for Student Involvement cancelled the majority of its spring Collis Miniversity course offerings. Instead of ending the program outright, however, the Center is launching a redesigned Miniversity, including events under the banner “Not Another Lecture Series.”
Admissions officers will attend more admitted student receptions in metropolitan areas this spring as well as work to standardize the resources and materials given to smaller Dartmouth clubs for their events, dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said.
Layup classes undermine the value of a liberal arts education.
One fundamental truth unites us all: our humanity.
The Dartmouth baseball team split a doubleheader against host Cornell University in its first pair of Ivy League games, dropping the first game 3-2 and coming back to win the second game, 5-4, in extra-innings.
No matter who you are, it’s hard to deny that our campus is brimming with active people — we have everyone from varsity athletes to just-learned-to-skate intramural hockey player coaches.
This term, the Dartmouth Film Society presents audiences with “The Life Cinematic with Wes Anderson,” a series that surveys all eight of the esteemed director-screenwriter’s feature-length works.
A glance through the glass walls of the Hopkins Center’s Strauss Gallery reveals vibrant and intriguing photographs hanging on its whitewashed walls — the works of senior studio art lecturer and renowned photographer Virginia Beahan.
Posters urging students to “drop the I-word” have appeared around campus. And for some undocumented students, threads of activism are weaving together at exactly the right time.
Through a Student Assembly resolution passed Tuesday, councils will receive $2,000 in funding for each fraternity or sorority in which either 25 members or 50 percent of sophomore and junior members complete training.
Though the extent of its impact cannot be concretely measured, the acquittal of Parker Gilbert ’16 will likely further campus discussion of sexual assault, said College administrators and members of organizations that seek to address sexual violence. The trial and verdict, they said, may also discourage future victims from reporting and perpetuate false conceptions of assault.