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November 28, 2024 | Latest Issue
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James Gillray satirizes politics

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The first solo exhibition of the works of James Gillray, an 18th century caricaturist, opened on Saturday at the Hood Museum of Art and focuses on his political caricatures. "James Gillray: Prints by the Eighteenth-Century Master of Caricature," was organized by Katherine Hart, curator of academic programming.


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Film Society presents 'Iron Will' in tribute to J. M. Hayes

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The Dartmouth Film Society honored John Michael Hayes, a Hollywood screenwriter and professor of Film Studies at the College in a tribute which included a sneak preview of his exciting new film, "Iron Will" in Spaulding Auditorium last Saturday. Hayes has long been regarded as one of the film industry's most talented and distinguished screenwriters, best known for his collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock in the 1950s on such films as "Rear Window" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much." Before his work with Hitchcock, Hayes had an extensive career writing for radio and screen and was known for the ability to adapt important plays and novels which were judged to be unfilmable. Hayes' work is known for its strong dialogue, character depth, classic structure, wit and humanity.


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Post Office undergoes renovation

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The Hanover Post Office recently expanded its facilities in order to accommodate the increasing population of the town and the demand for more post office boxes by College students. The $13,000 renovations, funded by the U.S.



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'Border Crossings' looks into social issues

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If you could think of twenty movies you would really like to see this term what would they be? Well, the Dartmouth Film Society as usual tries to answer just that question and this term comes up with an unusually interesting selection, addressing provocative issues of race, sex, nationality and experience in a series named "Border Crossings." "Civilization is, and always has been, divided by a series of boundaries," claims the Film Society in it's description of the Winter term film calendar.


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Galas gives provocative show

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A spotlight parts the darkness, revealing a muscular female figure, black hair amuck and bared torso slick with what appears to be blood. "Were you a witness?" she intones throatily, then commences to sing, shriek, whisper, cackle, gasp and ululate, conjuring visions of a soul in hell.


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Big Green fall seasons in review

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While Dartmouth's football team proved to us all that you don't need an Ivy League crown to call a season successful, the league title certainly helped women's soccer. Best of luck to all the teams for the rest of the year.


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A capella groups sing in your room

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Dartmouth's a capella groups typically perform in front of a standing-room only crowd during their concerts. Two acts, the Dartmouth Decibelles and the Dartmouth Aires, released albums earlier this term so groupies can listen to the musical talent of these groups in the comfort of their own rooms. Although both albums are well produced, the magic of a live performances -- a key ingredient to both groups' concerts -- can never be reproduced on tape, but all fans should definitely add these albums to their collections. Twenty-three songs appear on "Aires to the Throne," the latest album by the popular Dartmouth Aires.


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Barbary Coast jazz celebrates Sun Ra

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Saturday evening the Barbary Coast jazz ensemble paid tribute to Sun Ra, the innovative pianist and composer who died this past May. Under the direction of Music Professor Don Glasgo, the ensemble rendered a selection of Ra's compositions with tremendous energy and conviction, captivating an audience of nearly 500. Improvisation and syncopation are two fundamentals of jazz that come out in Ra's work. Guest artists Micael Ray and Marshall Jackson, on trumpet and alto saxophone respectively, performed extraordinary solo passages rich in technical proficiency and the expressive possibilities of both instruments. Particularly memorable was "Discipline 27/ No.


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Galas enacts 'Judgement Day'

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Avant-garde performance artist Diamanda Galas will perform "Judgement Day," an emotionally charged, solo stage production about the AIDS epidemic, tonight in Spaulding Auditorium at 8 p.m. The classically trained singer and pianist uses everything from biblical passages to parodies of fundamentalist preachers in her criticism of how the disease is dealt with by many Americans. Shock is an integral part of Galas's shows.


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Graham reveals the 'Dartmouth Story'

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Anyone who has crossed the Green alone at night and listened for the laughter and footsteps of past Dartmouth students in the rustling leaves should read Robert Graham's "The Dartmouth Story." The book, published in 1990, was given to incoming freshman at convocation, but is a good read for anyone that has spent time at the College. While leading the reader on a historical tour of the Dartmouth campus, Graham first explains the history of the College and then reveals interesting facts such as the origins of the College's name and motto, former functions of the Colleges' buildings and the stories behind campus traditions such as 4 o'clock tea at Sanborn Library. Graham discovered these hidden aspects of the College through fours years of intense research and 20 years of casual questioning. The author begins his proverbial tour at Dartmouth Row, which he refers to as the "crown jewel" of the campus.


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Art becomes computerized

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It's about time for the final art history slide reviews, which are students last chance to see the hundreds of works of art that flashed by on the screen throughout the term.


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Chamber singers peak with Haydn mass

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Friday night's concert of the Dartmouth College Chamber Singers and Arcadia players at Rollins Chapel, presented a variety of musical styles with equally various successes. At the heart of the problem were the French chansons (songs), performed a Capella.




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Director takes stage; Loehlin speaks on contemporary 'Measure'

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The director of a theatrical production rarely graces the stage on which he has worked so hard to shape a drama, but James Loehlin stepped into the limelight of Center Theater on Tuesday afternoon to deliver a long, not-so-dramatic monologue titled "Shakespeare's Urban Problem Play." Loehlin's currently running production of "Measure for Measure," which he contemporized and set in an unspecified, deteriorating city (although the Brooklyn accents of some of the characters lead one to speculate) opened last week to campus-wide praise. The play's central themes, Loehlin felt, resonate keenly with a modern audience.


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Hanover group plans purchase of Galleria

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The Galleria mall on South Main Street will be sold for an undisclosed price to the Hanover Investment Corp., a local property owner, according to an agreement signed two weeks ago. Hanover Investment will take over The Galleria from the Hanover Galleria Associates, a partnership that includes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.


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Accad compares war and sexuality

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In a lecture last night in Rockefeller Center Evelyne Accad, author of "Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East," compared how men and women novelists writing about destruction in Lebanon, where she has lived and studied, react differently to war. Introducing Accad, Marianne Hirsch, professor of comparative literature, noted that it was appropriate for various departments and programs, including Asian studies, comparative literature, French, women studies and the Dickey Endowment for International Understanding, to sponsor Accad's talk because the novelist, writer and feminist theorist teaches French, comparative literature, women studies, Asian studies and African studies in Beirut and in this country at the University of Illinois. Accad began her lecture titled "War and Sexuality" by reading two descriptions of Lebanon.


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DSO delivers shining Fall term performance

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On Saturday evening, students and community members filled Spaulding Auditorium for the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra's fall concert. Directed by Anthony Princiotti, the DSO welcomed classical music lovers and non-enthusiasts alike with Mozart's "Overture to la Clemenza di Tito." The short and energetic opening piece awakened the audience's senses in preparation for Felix Mendelssohn's "Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op.