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Denise McWilliams gives Stonewall Lecture on AIDS

By Emilia Baldwin | February 17, 2015

“Jeez, AIDS was complicated,” former director of the Boston AIDS consortium and executive director of the New England Innocence Project Denise McWilliams said during her lecture “Fears, Fallacies and Failures” yesterday in the Rockefeller Center.

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Hood Museum uses variety of art preservation methods

By Kourtney Kawano | February 17, 2015

Since early artists began drawing charcoal animals in French caves during the Stone Age, art conservation has been an important tool in preserving artwork and maintaining a piece’s visual representation for years to come, to the extent that the practice of conservation has in itself become a form of art.

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Dartmouth rugby and USA Eagles compete in Las Vegas

By Gayne Kalustian | February 17, 2015

Madison Hughes ’15, who was selected to captain the USA Eagles sevens squad earlier this year, reunited with the Dartmouth Rugby Football Club this past weekend in Las Vegas. The reunion came with the coinciding of the 2015 Las Vegas Invitational and 2015 USA Sevens international rugby tournament as part of the Sevens World Series. Hughes was selected to lead the team for the series’ fifth consecutive leg and captained the Eagles to their best World Series finish since 2010. ?

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Men’s tennis takes second at ECAC tournament

By Chanelle Qi | February 17, 2015

The men’s tennis team traveled to Boston over the weekend to compete in the ECAC Indoor Tennis Championship. After defeating St. John’s University 4-3 and shutting out Brown University 4-0, the Big Green suffered a 0-5 loss against Harvard University in the finals. The men are now 5-4 in their season.

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United Way fundraising period closes

By Katie Rafter | February 16, 2015

Fundraising for this year’s Dartmouth United Way campaign ended on Saturday, Feb. 14 without reaching the goal of raising $320,000, Dartmouth United Way campaign co-chair Gail Gentes said.

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DHMC receives A+ financial rating

By Erin Lee | February 16, 2015

For the second year in a row, Fitch Ratings, a New York-based financial ratings agency, has awarded the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Obligated Group’s revenue bonds an A+ rating. The rating, which was issued earlier this month, is based on the approximately $69 million revenue bond series 2009 and $75 million revenue bond series 2010, according to the Fitch report.

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“The Vagina Monologues” will explore female experiences

By Amelia Rosch | February 16, 2015

About 40 self-identifying Dartmouth women will take the stage tonight to perform monologues in the 17th annual performance of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” for V-February.V-February is the College’s annual campaign to end gender-based violence and promote gender equality, and the monologues performed tonight will encompass an array of issues relating to women’s sexuality, ranging from comical to more emotional and provocative performances.

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Beyond The Bubble: In Defense of “Fifty Shades of Grey”

By Andrea Nease | February 16, 2015

Everyone and their cousin has heard of and has probably formed some opinion on “Fifty Shades of Grey.” The book trilogy and newly-released film adaptation have garnered both a lot of fans and a lot of criticism over the past few months. After watching the movie myself last Friday, I would like to explore why the film has elicited such polar reactions — why the fans and why the criticism?

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Women’s basketball splits weekend, ends losing streak

By Alexander Agadjanian | February 16, 2015

Looking to regain its early season form and snap a five-game losing streak, the Dartmouth women’s basketball team headed to New York this past weekend for the middle two games in its Ivy League schedule. While the first matchup ended in yet another loss — 66-46 to Cornell University — the women delivered a monumental victory in the second, edging Columbia University 61-54 in overtime.

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Town adds electric car charging stations

By Sara McGahan | February 15, 2015

The Town of Hanover installed two ChargePoint electric car charging stations in the Hanover parking garage on 7 Lebanon St. this past month in an effort to make the town more environmentally conscious, Hanover parking division supervisor Patrick O’Neill said.

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Proposed state legislation would raise College’s taxes

By Kelsey Flower | February 15, 2015

On Feb. 6, New Hampshire House of Representatives Rep. David Hess, R-Merrimack, proposed new legislation that would expand the state’s Business Enterprise Tax to include large charity organizations, such as hospitals and institutions of higher education including Dartmouth, and lower the tax rate.

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Predictions for the 2015 Oscars: “Boyhood” for Best Picture

By Andrew Kingsley | February 15, 2015

We are just six days away from the 87th Academy Awards on Feb. 22, 2015. They will be hosted by none other than Neil Patrick Harris, who has hosted numerous Tony and Emmy Award ceremonies. Here are my predictions of the major award winners for this year. Note: these are not my opinions of the ones that are most deserving. I’m just playing the Oscar game, which is as peculiar and unpredictable as the films themselves.

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