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Freshman Issue 2017

Huebner: Academically Directionless?

By Julia Huebner | August 13, 2017

This article was featured in the 2017 Freshman Issue. The summer before my freshman year, I would waltz around my neighborhood in a Dartmouth t-shirt and Lone Pine baseball cap, telling family friends I was “just thrilled to go to Dartmouth in the fall!” and “planning on majoring in communications or journalism, because they’re my passions.” As it turns out, Dartmouth doesn’t have a communications department.

Freshman Issue 2017

Skiing at the College: A history of tradition and championship

By Mark Cui | August 13, 2017

This article was featured in the 2017 Freshman Issue. Despite its small size, Dartmouth College, as author Stephen Waterhouse asserts in “Passion for Skiing,” can “claim the lead role in the development of skiing in the past, present and future.” The school has been crucial to shaping the skiing landscape on both the national, collegiate and international level.

Freshman Issue 2017

Students reflect on their experiences abroad

By Mika Jehoon Lee | August 13, 2017

From observing the Southern hemisphere’s night sky in South Africa to cultivating a deeper understanding of Chinese culture in Beijing, over 55 percent of Dartmouth students participate in an off-campus program before they graduate. Every year, the College provides various opportunities for students to take their education outside of the classroom and beyond Hanover.

Joe Goldfield '76 gives a demonstration immersion class in French to showcase the Rassias method.
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IAPE celebrates 10th anniversary at Dartmouth

By Paulomi Rao | August 3, 2017

 Last week, over 40 teachers from across Mexico gathered at Dartmouth for a two-week program led by the Inter-American Partnership for Education, held in partnership with the educational nonprofit WorldFund and the Rassias Center for World Languages and Culture.

Opinion

Solomon: Learning and Leading

By Ioana Solomon | August 3, 2017

Wherever you stand on the ideological spectrum, it is hard to deny the fact that things in the White House are not quite running like “a fine-tuned machine,” as President Trump recently tweeted they were.

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Film highlights scholars

By Alexa Green | July 27, 2017

On June 25, CNBC aired a documentary featuring two recent Dartmouth graduates. “A Billionaire’s Bet: The Best & Brightest” followed 110 students from around the world as they participated in the Schwarzman Scholars program at Tsinghua University.

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Q&A with professor Charles Wheelan

By Amanda Zhou | July 27, 2017

Charles Wheelan ’88 is a senior lecturer in public policy at the College. He is the founder of The Centrist Project, which supports centrist policies and independent candidates, and is the author of “Naked Economics.” This summer he is teaching a class titled “Economics of Public Policymaking.” In May, Wheelan returned from his most recent sabbatical, during which he traveled with his family for nine months around six continents.

Opinion

Regan: Reevaluating Leadership

By Joseph Regan | July 27, 2017

Leadership and competence are the two qualities prestigious institutions prioritize in their selection of applicants – be it a premier university, an important organization or a major employer. While leadership is valuable and competence indispensable, so too is the often overlooked quality of conviviality.

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