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October 7, 2024 | Latest Issue
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Presidential candidate Martin O’Malley discusses viewpoints

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O’Malley, touting his progressive record, touched upon his views on a wide array of issues — including increasing discipline on Wall Street, gay marriage, immigration reform and his experience as governor and as Baltimore mayor — during his 30-minute speech and question-and-answer session.



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Hanover Police implement “You Have Options Program”

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The Hanover Police Department will train its staff and other members of the community this summer in the “You Have Options Program,” a sexual assault reporting program that aims to increase the number of sexual assault cases reported through a survivor-focused approach.






Arts

After years in chemistry, Reingold ’71 turns to glassblowing

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David Reingold ’71 is not a typical glassblowing instructor. A chemistry student at the College, Reingold received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Oregon in 1976 and spent two years completing post-doctoral research at the University of Alberta before taking a job as a chemistry professor at Haverford College, where he first encountered scientific glassblowing. Although he continued to teach chemistry for most of his professional career, glassblowing subsequently became a valued hobby for Reingold, and through self-teaching and dedicated experimentation it has grown into his current field.



Arts

“Far From the Madding Crowd” (2015) offers Victorian romance

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With the Twilight saga thoroughly finished and the Hunger Games soon coming to a close, audiences clearly need a new heroine torn between gorgeous men. How else are we supposed to live out our romantic fantasies, or wear our Team Edward or Team Jacob T-shirts? Fortunately, Thomas Vinterberg’s “Far from the Madding Crowd” (2015) is here to fill the gaping void in our hearts, bringing Thomas Hardy’s 1874 eponymous novel to life. In the process, we are introduced to the steamy Victorian romance of Bathsheba Everdene — whose surname inspired Katniss Everdeen of “The Hunger Games” — and her three suitors.


More than 70 percent of Delta Delta Delta sorority members voted to localize.
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Tri-Delt to localize, disaffiliate from national organization

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Delta Delta Delta sorority will disaffiliate from its national organization and become a local sorority after a chapter-wide vote, Tri-Delt president Lauren Buchanan ’16 said Thursday. Tri-Delt will need to select a new name, new colors and will also face various logistical hurdles before it can officially reincorporate.


Geisel Dean Duane Compton delivers a State of the Medical School address
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Geisel Dean Duane Compton delivers a State of the Medical School address

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In his inaugural State of the Medical School address Thursday evening, interim dean of the Geisel School of Medicine Duane Compton announced that Geisel is on its way to becoming financially stable after a year of budget adjustments. Before an audience of about 100, three faculty members also received lifetime achievement awards and nine were inducted into the Geisel Academy of Faculty Master Educators.


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College creates math scholars program following $20 million donation

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The College has announced the creation of the Jack Byrne Scholars Program in Math and Society after a donation of $20 million from Dorothy Byrne in honor of her late husband. The College will match the gift with a contribution of $5 million from the $100 million gift to support academic excellence that the College received in 2014.


Over 200 students presented research at the 24th annual Karen E. Wetterhahn Science Symposium.
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Students present research at symposium

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The College held its 24th annual Karen E. Wetterhahn Science Symposium in the Life Sciences Center on Thursday, with 232 students participating — the highest number in the symposium’s history — and 176 poster presentations, undergraduate advising and research assistant director Kathy Weaver, who coordinated the symposium, said.





Mirror

Lessons in Geopoetry

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Some 20,000 years ago, the Laurentide Ice Sheet began to melt, gradually thawing and retreating, inching up and up and up, at some point shaping the very valley we inhabit. I won’t purport to understand this process better than my B+ in “Marine Geology” suggests.


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Defining My Dartmouth

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A few weeks ago, in one of my few forays into the wilderness since my Hiking 1 trip freshman year, I spent the night with a group of friends at the Class of 1966 Lodge, also known as Harris Cabin. As we laughed through rounds of Taboo and “yum-yummed” the remainder of what must have been an industrial-sized block of Cabot cheese, the daylight receded, bringing with it the serene darkness and the distant, unknown living sounds characteristic of a forest at night.


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Once A Cynic, Now Reformed

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There was a moment my freshman fall — standing on the snow-covered Green, wearing drenched sneakers and a crayon costume (yes, it snowed on Halloween) and surrounded by hundreds of my similarly elated classmates — when I declared in an uncharacteristic display of sappiness that I loved Dartmouth.