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Lu shares archaeological research

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Chinese archaeologist Lu Liancheng shared photographs of architectural sites and artifacts from the Shang, Zhou and Qin dynasties with students and faculty members on Tuesday night. Lu explained the significance of his own archaeological discoveries relative to China's history, emphasizing what artifacts can reveal about the places they were found. Speaking in Mandarin Chinese, Lu described the various religious, social and political systems in the three dynasties as he narrated slideshow with bronze vessels, jade sculptures, oracle bones and floor plans of homes or temples, Chinese professor Juwen Zhang translated his work into English. One of the most compelling parts of Chinese archeology is comparing different dynastical artifacts, which are often discovered at a single archeological site, Lu said. "Chinese history is layers piled up," he said. The lecture spanned nearly 1,400 years of Chinese history, and bounced between anecdotes of individual finds and generalizations about each dynasty and the relationships between them.


Opinion

Coffey: Glory to the Swedes

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Why is the American economic model of capitalism so different from the Scandinavian Nordic system, which is characterized by a mixed market economy and extensive welfare?


News

Students design turbine for use in African town

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Using only local supplies like aluminum, bricks, fuel, sand and wood, Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering plans to build a hydropower turbine in the Rwandan town of Musange this summer. The group's hydropower team has been building water turbines systems of small aluminum buckets that are forced into motion by a stream of water to generate power in Rwanda since 2008.




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Daily Debriefing

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San Jose State University announced on Tuesday that it will develop a pilot program to create three online introductory math courses in cooperation with the for-profit massive online open course provider Udacity, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.


Arts

Heginbotham directs new Ensemble performances

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Eleven students ranging in class year and dance experience attended a special workshop yesterday with John Heginbotham, guest director to the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble for the Fall and Winter during the ensemble's first meeting of the term. "Just stand," Heginbotham said.



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Sports

Squash teams fall to Trinity

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Yomalis Rosario / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Facing a team that has lost only one match in the past 13 seasons and is undefeated this season is no easy task mentally or physically, but the No.


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Budget, venue affect PB concerts

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Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Programming Board, which has not hosted a large concert since Avicii came in Winter 2012, plans to bring a "popular" artist to campus this Spring term, according to Programming Board public relations executive Zakia Lghzaoui '13. While some peer institutions have had more success inviting major artists to campus each year, each university's ability to bring in performers varies based on venue options, location, budget and reputation. Members of Programming Board have decided not to host a winter concert because of the difficulties involved in securing an indoor venue with enough space for the entire student body, director Alex Martin '13 said. "Leverone is used year-round by various sports groups and as far as we've been told, it is hard to convince these teams to let us borrow the field for the two plus days it takes to get concerts of this scale set up," he said.


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Arts

Newman exhibits miniature sculptures

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Yomalis Rosario / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Artist-in-residence John Newman's exhibition "Everything Is on the Table" features 20 miniature sculptures of diverse and seemingly unrelated colors, shapes and materials.



Opinion

Chalif: A Poorly Framed Hobbit

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Sound was introduced to cinema in the 1920s, issuing in the era of "talkies." Color arrived a decade later, memorialized when Dorothy stepped into Oz and exclaimed, "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." And now, film director Peter Jackson is hoping to make high frame rates the next revolution in filmmaking.


Opinion

Yang: Unchained Racism?

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In recent weeks, "Django Unchained" (2013) has provoked a wide range of reactions. While the film won Golden Globes for screenplay and supporting actor and has garnered several Oscar nominations, it has also provoked harsh criticism from many who believe that director Quentin Tarantino, renowned for his envelope-pushing filmmaking, crossed the line from controversial to simply racist.


News

Profs. study Irene's effect on streams

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A group of Dartmouth researchers trying to assess the impact of Tropical Storm Irene on streams hopes that their results will help policymakers improve regulations for future storms, research group co-leader and geography professor Frank Magilligan said. The research team, which was headed by Magilligan and earth science professor Carl Renshaw, received a three-year, $345,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the study, following an initial $45,000 grant to conduct a damage assessment immediately after the August 2011 storm, Magilligan said. Irene provided an opportunity to gain insight into how natural systems respond to and recover from disturbances. "Irene was a really great example of an unprecedented flood in New England and that led to lots of geomorphic change things like hill slope erosion, landslides, overbank flooding and overbank deposition of material," he said. Magilligan's research also has implications for the effectiveness of "hard engineering," or human interference in order to produce faster stream recovery, he said.


News

Daily Debriefing

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Effective next school year, Lynn University will require all of its students to purchase iPad minis pre-loaded with summer reading and curriculum texts, Inside Higher Ed reported.



News

Daily Debriefing

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Internet protesters associated with hacktivist group Anonymous took responsibility for shutting down the websites of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Department of Justice on Sunday, according to the Huffington Post.


Sports

Vann Island

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You guys all know by now that I love football. But there are a few things about my weekend that you probably don't know like how my schedule on Sunday from 8 p.m.