News

Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement created to bridge science and humanities

By Carter Brace | November 2, 2015

Dartmouth has announced the creation of an Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement to bring together the sciences and humanities. The institute will be directed by philosophy and physics and astronomy professor Marcelo Gleiser.

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Opinion

Beechert: Slash the Staff

By Michael Beechert | November 2, 2015

The College needs to correct its habit of hiring more employees each year.

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Opinion

Uhlir: High Age, High Risks

By Tadeas Uhlir | November 2, 2015

Foreign experiences suggest that the high U.S. drinking age has downsides.

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Arts

World Music Percussion Ensemble performs on Wednesday

By Maya Poddar | November 2, 2015

With a program ranging from Coldplay’s “Clocks” (2002) to recreational Malian dance music, the World Music Percussion Ensemble’s fall show will cover a breadth of styles.

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Sports

Men’s soccer seizes control of Ivy League with OT win

By Ray Lu | November 2, 2015

The men’s soccer team travelled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, this Saturday to take on Harvard University at Jones Field.

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Sports

Men’s hockey drops two straight to No. 11 Harvard University

By Gayne Kalustian | November 2, 2015

The men’s ice hockey team (0-2, 0-2 ECAC) dropped its two season-opening games against no.

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News

College announces details of "Moving Dartmouth Forward" residential communities

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | November 2, 2015

Six new residential communities based in current residence halls will begin housing students next fall, the College announced in a press release on Monday. Students graduating later than June 2016 will be randomly assigned into one of the communities in February and will have the chance to request up to five students they would like to be in their house next month. Members of the Class of 2020 will be assigned houses next July when they are given room assignments.

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News

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talks policy in Lebanon

By Parker Richards | November 1, 2015

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) drew a crowd of over 1,000 — including Upper Valley residents and Dartmouth students — at a speech on Friday at Lebanon High School. Sanders discussed income inequality, institutional racism, campaign finance reform and numerous social issues in his nearly two-hour speaking engagement.

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News

International student advisor Steve Silver departs

By Briana Tang | November 1, 2015

Assistant dean and international student advisor Steve Silver departed from his position at the Office of Pluralism and Leadership last Monday, after serving the College for more than 25 years in various positions.

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News

No incidents following AMP policy implementation

By Katie Rafter | November 1, 2015

The new Alcohol Management Program been in place for two weeks, and the Office of Student Life plans to meet with Greek leaders today for a formal feedback session. No major problems with compliance have been reported so far.

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News

Pymetrics aims to help students determine strengths

By Daniel Kim | November 1, 2015

The first thing that one encounters upon making an account for pymetrics is a series of games. One of them, called “Keypresses,” is — as the name suggests — all about pressing a key as fast as you can for a few seconds. This game, it turns out, is a measure of one’s processing speed, as well as one’s impulsiveness or deliberateness when reacting to new information.

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Opinion

Goldstein: Ethical Artificial Intelligence

By Matthew Goldstein | November 1, 2015

Self-driving cars raise complex problems regarding technology and morality.

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Sports

Men’s basketball beats Keiser University in exhibition

By Mark Cui | November 1, 2015

After beginning practices in early October, the basketball team hosted an exhibition match against Keiser University on Oct.

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Sports

Football drops a heartbreaker to undefeated Harvard in pivotal Ivy League battle

By Alexander Agadjanian | November 1, 2015

It wasn’t supposed to end this way. \n For almost the entirety of last Friday’s game, Dartmouth football simply dominated Harvard University, and shockingly so in what seemed destined to be a tighter game.

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Sports

Women’s hockey ties No. 4 Clarkson and loses to St. Lawrence

By Sam Stockton | November 1, 2015

Following a disappointing 4-2 defeat at the hands of St. Lawrence University on Friday night, the No.

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Opinion

Szuhaj: The Benefits of Prize Hunting

By Ben Szuhaj | November 1, 2015

Conservation hunting can actually help preserve endangered species.

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Arts

Glee Club brought Mozart’s “Requiem Mass” to life

By Maya Poddar | November 1, 2015

The Dartmouth College Glee Club partnered with a guest orchestra and four outside soloists to bring the program “Monumental Mozart” to life on Sunday. They performed excerpts from “The Magic Flute” (1791) and “Requiem Mass in D Minor” (1791), as well as works by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and an original composition by co-president Brian Chalif ’16.

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Arts

Rude Mechanicals performed “King Lear” over the weekend

By Amelia Rosch | November 1, 2015

Family betrayal, insanity, feuding daughters, on-stage fights, death. All of these issues and more played across the stage as the Rude Mechanicals performed William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” this weekend.

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Sports

Football loses to No. 15 Harvard University in final minutes of Ivy showdown

By Alexander Agadjanian | October 30, 2015

In the purest form of a heartbreaker if there ever could be, the No.22 Dartmouth football team lost 14-13 to No.15 Harvard University after holding a lead for the majority of the game.

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Opinion

Verbum Ultimum: Talent Follows Money

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | October 30, 2015

If the College wants top talent, it needs to be willing to pay for it.

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