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Alumnus Q&A: Creative developer Preston Copley '07

By Sophia Siu | February 17, 2016

Preston Copley ’07 graduated from Dartmouth with a history major. After graduation, Copley transitioned from performance to production, working for companies that produced reality television, shows off-Broadway and, eventually, for the Disney Theatrical Group. Copley is now the director of Creative Development for Jean Doumanian Productions in New York City.

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Theater department's production of 'Chicago' to open Friday

By Madeline Killen | February 17, 2016

We might be able to blame the theater department for the wind chill over Winter Carnival weekend. While the rest of campus was human dogsled racing and taking a stab at ice sculpting, the cast and crew of this term’s main stage production were working hard to bring the Windy City to Hanover. For the next two weekends, students will be staging “Chicago” (1975), the longest-running American musical in Broadway history.

The Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vermont recently celebrated its 40th anniversary.
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Montshire Museum celebrates 40 years

By Joyce Lee | February 16, 2016

The Montshire Museum of Science, an institution that has had a long-standing relationship with the College since its opening in 1976 in Hanover, celebrated its 40th anniversary this January in Norwich, Vermont.

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College bans hoverboards on campus and properties

By Alexa Green | February 16, 2016

In an email to campus last Thursday morning, director of Safety and Security Harry Kinne announced the ban of self-balancing scooters — commonly known as hoverboards. The ban prohibits their use, possession or storage on campus and other Dartmouth owned properties.

Opinion

Peters: Why I Voted for Bernie

By William Peters | February 16, 2016

An unhappy electorate is a dangerous electorate — at least for establishment candidates. The Feb. 9 New Hampshire primary was won by two anti-establishment candidates — real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Trump and the democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sanders left New Hampshire with the most votes ever in the state’s primary, beating previous record holder, Sen. John McCain, and besting Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 22 points. How is it in a state that gives President Barack Obama a 90 percent approval rating, a state with the lowest poverty and murders rates, where unemployment is hovering around 3.1 percent, two political outsiders walked away with such big wins? I can’t speak for the thousands of voters that turned out, but I can speak for myself and why I voted for Bernie.

Opinion

Feingold: Losing the Greek War

By Avery Feingold | February 16, 2016

Last week, The Dartmouth published two opinion pieces lamenting the recent crackdown on Greek houses that committed policy violations and decrying what their authors perceive to be the malicious administration’s latest attempt to cancel all fun and ensure that not a single underage human drinks a sip of alcohol. While Michelle Gil’s and Annika Park’s intentions are noble in condemning what they and others perceive as an affront to cherished traditions and friendships built at Dartmouth, their arguments betray a lack of critical thought all too common in defenses of the Greek system.

Sports

Men's tennis takes fifth in ECAC, women sweep weekend

By Mark Cui | February 16, 2016

Over the weekend, the No. 34 Dartmouth men’s tennis team played in the ECAC Indoor Championship in Philadelphia, which consisted of St. John’s University and all the Ivy League teams except Columbia University. The team played a total of three teams during the tournament, falling to the University of Pennsylvania in a tough 3-4 battle but rallying to defeat Brown University 4-0 and St. John’s 4-1 to secure fifth place.

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Squash teams finish in top ten, men qualify for the Potter Cup

By Matt Yuen | February 16, 2016

Over Winter Carnival weekend, the then No. 5 men’s squash team fell 8-1 to then No. 4, now No. 2 Yale University in Hanover, followed by a 7-2 victory over No. 16 Brown University in Providence. The team finished the regular season 9-4 and ultimately ranked seventh in the country.

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Osher shows 'Paris in a Second' photography exhibit

By Elise Higgins | February 16, 2016

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is currently showing an exhibit called “Paris in a Second” featuring photographs by Jim Lustenader ’66, taken for his book of the same name. The exhibit, which opened Feb. 1, is a collection of pictures featuring scenes from daily life in Paris.

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Student Spotlight: Artist and illustrator Beverly Alomepe ’17

By Will Tackett | February 16, 2016

Beverly Alomepe ’17 drew her early artistic inspiration from an atypical source. \n When she was younger, she was interested in anime and manga, she said. \n Her interest in manga comics encouraged her to take a basic drawing and charcoal art class in high school. Alomepe noted that she recognized her artistic talent after this class, but decided that pursuing a career in art would be difficult, even prohibitive. She went into Dartmouth thinking about studying biomedical engineering and Chinese.\n Her path changed when during her spring term of her first year she took “Drawing 1.”

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Carnival sees 52 incident reports to S&S

By Zachary Benjamin | February 15, 2016

An unseasonably warm winter followed by a sharp drop in temperatures over the weekend did little to slow down Winter Carnival festivities. Classic events like the polar bear swim and the human dog-sled race went on with some modifications, while Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said that the department received 52 incident reports during Winter Carnival weekend.

Thomas Rover ’16 organized students to build a snow sculpture despite its official cancellation.
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Students build ‘rogue sculpture’

By Erin Lee | February 15, 2016

When Thomas Rover ’16 heard that there would be no snow sculpture built for his last Winter Carnival, he said he was devastated. Last Thursday night, Rover and a group of about 30 other students took it upon themselves to build a “rogue” snow sculpture of the Cat in the Hat’s red and white headpiece on the Green.

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House professors discuss new residential system

By Sonia Qin | February 15, 2016

On Feb. 26, Dartmouth students will gather in Baker-Berry Library at 8 p.m. to attend Founders’ Day, where they will get sorted into their respective housing communities. The library will be separated into sections for each house community and students will break off into receptions to meet the other members of their new communities.

Opinion

Qu: Environment in the Balance

By Dorothy Qu | February 15, 2016

That is, if the plan goes through. Last Thursday, the Supreme Court voted to delay the plan’s enforcement. The vote was 5-4, with Scalia voting against the plan. As decisions had yet to be formally written, Scalia’s unfortunate passing made the vote 4-4. Now, the chances of the plan being struck down are now incredibly miniscule. This tie will probably lead to an affirmation of the lower court opinion, which was in favor of the CPP.

Opinion

Hsu: Mandatory Attendance

By Caroline Hsu | February 15, 2016

From elementary to high school, students are expected to regularly attend classes. “Roll call,” the process of taking attendance and penalizing students who are absent without a legitimate reason, is a common occurrence. This is a far cry from the classroom dynamic of higher education. In classes with over a hundred students, it is difficult and often unfeasible for professors to take attendance regularly. This unfortunately can lead to students skipping class. Oftentimes, large classes will see attendance steadily dwindle as the term progresses. Although students may not think that physically going to class is critical to their academic experience, they are actually doing themselves a disservice when they fail to attend lectures.

Arts

The musical roots of Vampire Weekend’s ‘Step’ reach to the past

By Will Tackett | February 15, 2016

Like all art, music has a history of referencing itself. Musical ideas in all different forms are recycled again and again, songs are copied, reworked and parodied. Bits of different songs are recombined to create new ones. One relatively recent example of this is sampling, the taking of parts of actual recordings and altering them to fit into a song, a technique made possible with the advent of recorded music and other new technologies. Another sort of category related to this phenomenon is the cover — when an artist performs a song someone else has written.

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